9.461 Newtec-MCX7000-Protection

This page describes the Newtec-MCX7000-Protection device driver and its device window. The Newtec-MCX7000-Protection device driver monitors and controls one TS redundancy protection configured in a Newtec MCX7000 Multi-carrier Satellite Gateway.

Multiple instances of the device may be configured in the sat-nms M&C to handle all TS redundancies of the gateway. All devices referring to the same physical device must be configured at the same device thread / interface to ensure that SNMP requests to the device do not overlap.

The 'protection' configuration parameter is used to select which of the defined TS redundancies in the Gateway this particular sat-nms device shall control. The driver is prepared to support up to 6 redundancies on a single Newtec MCX7000 Multi-carrier Satellite Gateway.

The current position can be changed manually only by setting the protection to MANUAL and change the priority position afterwards. There are two protection modes available:

• Non-revertive: Switches only in case of a fault of the selected path.
• Revertive: Switches back to priority path when operational.

Device window pages

The following table shows which device window pages are available with this individual device type. Tool-bar functions not mentioned here are described at the general description of device windows .

• --- The device monitoring and control parameters.
• --- The faults page.
• --- The device info page.
• --- The maintenance page. The configuration parameters described below are set at this page.

Configuration parameters

At the maintenance page of the device window there are a couple of configuration parameters which must be set to make the software talk to the device.

• parameter --- description

• address --- The SNMP address specification for the device. The full address specification consists of the following fields:aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd:pppp read-community write-community

  • aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd --- The IP address of the device in 'dotted quad' notation. This field is mandatory.
  • pppp --- The IP port number where the device accepts SNMP requests. The port number may be omitted, the driver uses the standard port 161 in this case.
  • read-community --- The SNMP read community name. This must match the read community expected by the device.
  • write-community --- The SNMP write community name. This must match the write community expected by the device. The write community name may be omitted, the driver uses the read community name for both, read and write in this case. If both community names are missing, the driver uses 'public' as a default for read and write community.

• protection --- Selects the ts redundancy in the gateway to control.

Variables defined by this device driver