Ref: 11640166
Title: Up/Down Status on Unsupported Adapters
Date: 8/26/91

Copyright 3Com Corporation, 1991.  All rights reserved.

Two elements comprise the management of the desktop via ViewBuilder:
DME.DOS/DME.OS2 and NDIS 2.01-compliant drivers (also known as a "fatmac"
or "statmac" driver).  As of this writing, 3Com has NDIS 2.01-compliant
drivers for:

            EtherLink II            Etherlink16
            EtherLinkMC             3Server
            3Station

The NDIS 2.01 driver collects the statistics at the workstation, plus
provides access to the DME section of PROTOCOL.INI.  The DME driver is the
SNMP proxy agent that allows the ViewBuilder SNMP agent to "talk" to the
desktop client.

In theory, DME.DOS and DME.OS2 can be used with any NDIS-compliant adapter
driver.  This would allow ViewBuilder to discover the node and to poll the
node for up/down status and propagate color status to the corresponding map
icon.

Assumptions:  It is assumed that you are comfortable with process of
installing drivers manually on a workstation, plus the process of editing
PROTOCOL.INI.

Process:  Configuring an unsupported adapter for Desktop Management is a
simple process involving the addition of a single new file to the boot disk
and the editing of the CONFIG.SYS and PROTOCOL.INI files.

1.  Copy the file DME.DOS or DME.OS2 to the drivers directory on the
client boot disk.

2.  Edit the CONFIG.SYS file to add the DME.xxx driver.  Insert the line:

    DEVICE=drive:\<pathname>\DME.xxx

drive is the location of your boot source (A:, C:, etc.).
<pathname> is the path that leads to the location of the driver.
DME.xxx = the operating system specific version of the driver (DOS vs. OS2).

3.  Edit PROTOCOL.INI to append the following lines:

    [DME_NIF]
      DRIVERNAME = DME$
      BINDINGS = "adapter"
      USER_NAME = "field_1"
      NODE_NAME = "field_2"
      NODE_LOCATION = "field_3"
      PHONE_NUMBER = "field_4"
      NOTES = "field_5"
      NOTES = "field_6"
      NOTES = "field_7"

"adapter" is the appropriate entry for your adapter.

Enter information into "field_1" through "field_7" just as you would any
other ViewBuilder Desktop Management based PC.

4.  Reboot the client.  The client will be discovered by ViewBuilder
during its next normal discovery period.  To expedite the discovery process,
stop and restart the DISCOVERY SERVER and the DISCOVERY MANAGER on the
ViewBuilder network management station.

