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GL-2
Cisco MGX 8230 Edge Concentrator Installation and Configuration
Release 1.1.31, Part Number 78-11215-03 Rev. B0, May 2001
ComBus
The ComBus is the BPX’s internal messaging bus.
Community
In the context of SNMP, a relationship between an agent and a set of SNMP managers that
defines security characteristics. The community concept is a local one, defined at the agent.
The agent establishes one community for each desired combination of authentication, access
control, and proxy characteristics. Each community is given a unique (within this agent)
community name, and the management stations within that community are provided with and
must employ the community name in all get and set operations. The agent may establish a
number of communities, with overlapping management station membership.
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Enterprise MIB
A MIB module defined in the enterprise-specific portion of the Internet management space
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Feeder
A feeder is a small switch which acts as an extension shelf, typically with lower-bandwidth
interfaces, for a larger switch. The larger switch is referred to as the Routing Node for the
Feeder(s). The MGX 8230 acts as a feeder to the IGX 8400 series switch.
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IGX switch
The Cisco IGX 8400 series wide area switch designed to provide backbone for enterprise data,
voice, fax, and video applications. The Cisco IGX switch was formerly referred to as the Cisco
StrataCom IGX switch.
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Managed device
A device containing a network management agent implementation.
MGX 8230
An 7-slot chassis build with MGX 8850 style architecture that currently is used as a feeder shelf
for the IGX. Used as an IGX feeder, the MGX 8230 supports MGX 8850/MGX 8250 service
modules.
MIB
Management Information Base, a structured set of data variables, called objects, in which each
variable represents some resource to be managed.
MIB-II
Internet-standard MIB, RFC 1213
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