ANNOUNCE: Scotty-2.1.0 based on Tcl7.5/Tk4.1

Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@cs.utwente.nl)
Tue, 11 Jun 1996 17:22:27 +0200


This is the announcement of Scotty version 2.1.0. Scotty is the name
of a package which includes two components:

Tnm
The Tnm Tcl extension allows to access network management
information. The list of supported protocols includes SNMP,
ICMP, HTTP, NTP, DNS, selected SUN RPCs.

Tkined
The Tkined network editor provides a framework for an
extensible network management platform. Extensions are written
in Tcl based on the Tnm extension.

Availability:

Scotty version 2.1.0 is available via anonymous ftp:

ftp://ftp.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/pub/local/tkined/scotty-2.1.0.tar.gz

Additional information is available on the World Wide Web at:

http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/nm/scotty/

There is also a Tkined/Scotty mailing list for questions,
announcements and discussions. To subscribe, send a message to:

tkined-request@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de

Changes since version 2.0.2:

* Converted to a dynamic loadable extension based on Tcl7.5/Tk4.1.
* Tkined 1.4.0 is now included in the scotty distribution.
* Revised documentation (split into several man-pages).
* General code cleanup to conform to the Tcl coding style.
* Command line arguments compatible with tclsh.
* Stricter argument checking to avoid ambiguities.
* Bug fixes, performance improvements, memory leaks plugged.
* SNMP: Support for SNMPv2C (RFC 1901-1908) and SNMPv2U (RFC1910).
* SNMP: Added -window and -delay options to solve flow control problems.
* SNMP: New command: "$s scalars <scalarlist> <arrayName>"
* SNMP: Improved processing of set requests.
* MIB: Parser converts TRAP-TYPE definitions into trap OIDs.
* MIB: New commands: "mib module <label>", "mib macro <label>".
* MIB: Support for globally unique labels (SNMPv2-MIB!sysDescr).
* Sunrpc: New command option to query pcnfs print server.
* Job: Aligned command syntax with other commands.

Removed features since versions 2.0.2:

* Support for SNMPv2CLASSIC removed.
* The "rpc" command has been removed temporarily.
* Removed the getclock/getdate commands and the tcp command.
* Removed the scwish program.

Please read the changes files for a more complete list of changes and
potential incompatibilities.

Juergen

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Juergen Schoenwaelder schoenw@cs.utwente.nl http://www.cs.utwente.nl/~schoenw
Computer Science Department, University of Twente,   (Fax: +31-53-489-3247)
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