Re: [Testbed-admins] query regarding MIB compatibility with the experiment switch

Thanks a lot for your kind feedback.I was searching for the OIDs that are used in the code.I found a lot and will try to substitute them. Now I am thinking another point. We will use only one experimental switch for the 1st phase of our implementation. So as there are not more than one experimental switch, will VTP & stacking will be used? My understanding was those 2 MIB i.e. 'CISCO-VTP-MIB', and 'CISCO-STACK-MIB' is used for communicating/integration among the switches. So if we do not have more than one experimental switch, should it harm building our testbed if that N5000 experimental switch do not have those 2 MIBs i.e. 'CISCO-VTP-MIB', and 'CISCO-STACK-MIB'

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Robert P Ricci <ricci@cs.utah.edu> wrote:

If it does not support the VTP-MIB and STACK-MIB, then significant
"porting" will likely be required to support it. This will mostly
consist of finding which OIDs the new switch uses to implement the
functionality we get from the VTP-MIB and STACK-MIB, and changing the
snmpit code to use them. In some cases, it might be simple OID
substition, but some cases could be more complicated - I don't know the
N5000 switches at all.

Thus spake Mohammed Azad on Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 05:30:56PM -0500:

> Hello All,We are going to build our own emulab testbed here at LSU. I was
> trying to make sure whether our switch for experiment would be compatible or
> not.
>
> We will use Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch for our testbed as experiment
> (data) switch.In the document
> http://users.emulab.net/trac/emulab/wiki/HWRecommend I found that :
> " we expect that Cisco switches supporting the 'CISCO-VTP-MIB', and the
> 'CISCO-STACK-MIB' or 'CISCO-VLAN-MEMBERSHIP-MIB' are likely to 'just work' "
> And to find the list of MIBs that are available in N5000 switch, I went
> through the document
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus5000/sw/mib/reference/NX5000_MIBRef.pdf
> and
> found that it only have CISCO-VLAN-MEMBERSHIP-MIB. N5000 series switch do
> not have CISCO-VTP-MIB', and 'CISCO-STACK-MIB'.
>
> So, I am confused about - should cisco N5000 switch will be compatible to
> build the emulab testbed? It would be great to have your kind advice.
>
> Wishing you all a very good day.
>
> Azad

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