Building Cable, TrunkCable and Network Connections.
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Issue/Introduction
This document describes what order Smarts uses to build a connection. How smarts builds a connection and each protocol Smarts uses to build the connections.
Environment
SMARTS 10.1.x
Resolution
Each of the protocol listed below is evaluated for the data Smarts receives through SNMP queries during discovery. It starts with the first protocol on the list - CDP, and works through each one, building and making adjustments as it gathers more data from each protocol. Each subsequent protocol overwrites, if it contradicts, or adds to the data of the proceeding protocol. For example, if the Bridge protocol is probed for a device and it contradicts the CDP information probed, the bridge data is used as it is considered more authoritative.
1. Build Cisco CDP connection.
2. Build bridge connection
3. Build STP connection
4. Build LLDP connection
5. Build WAN link connection
6. Build ATMPeer Connection
7. Build IPSec tunnel Connection
8. Build UserDefined Connection.
Each connection depends on the respective protocols configured on the device which in turn gets populated on the MIBs Smarts probes.
And the subsequent connection probes can overwrite the connections that were created by the former probes.
Explanation of each connection:
Cisco CDP connection:
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a. Relies on the CDP protocol running on the Cisco based devices.
b. Before building this connection, we check if the bridge relationship also holds good between the ports we intend to create the connection.
c. When customer sets the CiscoOnlyNetwork to TRUE, then we bypass the point b (which avoids checking the existence of bridge relationship).
d. Following are the oids we make primarily use in identifying the CDP neighbors.
cdpCacheAddressOID {".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.23.1.2.1.1.4"}
cdpCacheDeviceIdOID {".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.23.1.2.1.1.6"}
cdpCacheDevicePortOID {".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.23.1.2.1.1.7"}
For IPV6
portChannelIfIndexOID {".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.5.1.18.1.1.10"}
cdpCacheAddressTypeOID {".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.23.1.2.1.1.3"}
cdpCacheAddressOID {".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.23.1.2.1.1.4"}
cdpCacheDeviceIdOID {".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.23.1.2.1.1.6"}
cdpCacheDevicePortOID {".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.23.1.2.1.1.7"}
cdpCachePlatformOID {".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.23.1.2.1.1.8"}
cdpCacheDuplexOID {".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.23.1.2.1.1.12"}
cdpGlobalDeviceIdOID {".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.23.1.3.4"}
Bridge Connection:
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a. Bridge connection is made through the bridge protocol which is by default enabled at the device end.
b. When a data packet is sent between the layer2 devices, then a MAC will be bridged by the respective ports/interfaces hosted by the connected devices. This is basic bridging concept.
c. There is no flag to control this probe being called or not. By default this probe will be executed for all the devices.
d. Following are list of OIDs we are looking for:
dot1dBaseBridgeAddressOID = ".1.3.6.1.2.1.17.1.1";
dot1dBasePortIfIndexOID = ".1.3.6.1.2.1.17.1.4.1.2";
dot1dTpFdbAddressOID = ".1.3.6.1.2.1.17.4.3.1.1";
dot1dTpFdbPortOID = ".1.3.6.1.2.1.17.4.3.1.2";
STP connection:
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a. STP connection is based on the spanning tree protocol that is enabled at the connected network devices.
b. This is basically to avoid loop of data packets being sent among the connected devise.
c. SMARTS identify such devices that are taking part in the STP and created STP nodes in the topology.
d. Following are the list of OIDs being used to create the STP connection:
dot1dStpDesignatedRootOID = ".1.3.6.1.2.1.17.2.5";
dot1dStpRootPortOID = ".1.3.6.1.2.1.17.2.7";
dot1dStpPortStateOID = ".1.3.6.1.2.1.17.2.15.1.3";
dot1dStpPortPriorityOID = ".1.3.6.1.2.1.17.2.15.1.2";
dot1dStpPortDesignatedBridgeOID = ".1.3.6.1.2.1.17.2.15.1.8";
dot1dStpPortDesignatedPortOID = ".1.3.6.1.2.1.17.2.15.1.9";
e. There is a flag to control the creation of STP nodes i.e. STPTrunkEnabled. By setting this flag, the connections will not be created using this protocol.
LLDP (Link Layer Discovery protocol) connection:
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a. This is a vendor-neutral link layer protocol similar to CDP but this can be enabled in all the devices that is hosting a IEEE 802 local area network.
b. This protocol identifies the directly connected neighbor and populates them in the following OIDs.
localChassisOID {".1.0.8802.1.1.2.1.3.2"}
localSystemNameOID {".1.0.8802.1.1.2.1.3.3"}
localSystemDescOID {".1.0.8802.1.1.2.1.3.4"}
localPortOID {".1.0.8802.1.1.2.1.3.7.1.3" }
localPortDescOID {".1.0.8802.1.1.2.1.3.7.1.4" }
remoteChassisOID {".1.0.8802.1.1.2.1.4.1.1.5" }
remotePortOID {".1.0.8802.1.1.2.1.4.1.1.7" }
remotePortDescOID {".1.0.8802.1.1.2.1.4.1.1.8" }
remoteSystemNameOID {".1.0.8802.1.1.2.1.4.1.1.9" }
remoteSystemDescOID {".1.0.8802.1.1.2.1.4.1.1.10"}
remoteManAddrIfOID {".1.0.8802.1.1.2.1.4.2.1.4" }
c. There is no any flag as such to control whether or not to call this driver. This driver is by default executed for all the devices if the neighbor probe is certified to probe LLDP mibs.
WAN link connection:
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a. There is no specific OID this looks for to create this connection.
b. Create network connection based on IP network.
c. If IP network is only connected to two IPs, and the two IPs are on different routers, and two IPs are configured on Serial/FrameRelay interface, we make the connection.
d. This is basically between the Interfaces that is hosted by a router.
e. There is no specific flag that is controlled to invoke this driver.
ATMPeer Connection:
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a. This is also similar to the WAN link connection; but instead this builds connection between the ATM configured interfaces.
b. There is no specific flag that is controlled to invoke this driver.
c. There is no specific OID this looks for to create this connection.
IPSec tunnel Connection:
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a. This is to build connection between the IPsec interfaces.
b. Following are the list of OIDs which are used to identify the IPSEC and tunnel interfaces:
cipSecTunLocalAddrOID {".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.171.1.3.2.1.4"}
cipSecTunRemoteAddrOID {".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.171.1.3.2.1.5"}
cikeTunLocalAddrOID {".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.171.1.2.3.1.4"}
cikeTunRemoteAddrOID {".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.171.1.2.3.1.8"}
cipSecTunIkeTunnelIndexOID {".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.171.1.3.2.1.2"}
c. This is controlled by a flag EnableIPSecDiscovery. Once the IPsec tunnels are discovered then SMARTS creates the tunnel connection.
UserDefined Connection:
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a. This is a user specific connections.
b. user-defined-connections.conf is used to specify manually between which ports/interfaces the connection has to be formed.
c. There is no flag to control this driver.
d. There is no any specific OID essential for this connection to be created. SMARTS just relies the information present in the user-defined-connections.conf to build the connection.
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