The Multicast Manager supports the following features: Light discoveryWhen light multicast discovery is in effect, the IP Availability Manager in the Multicast Manager deployment not only performs its traditional discovery of network elements, but it also creates a multicast topology collection set from the discovered network elements. Support for SNMP V3The Multicast Manager supports SNMP V1, 2C, and V3. PIMSgEntry reductionWhen PIMSgEntry reduction is in effect, the Multicast Manager operates as follows: Multicast traffic threshold settingsThe Multicast Manager allows users to set thresholds on traffic flowing in multicast groups that generate notifications when the traffic exceeds or drops below the threshold. Juniper multicast tree discovery using CLIThe Multicast Manager supports Juniper multicast tree discovery via the command line interface (CLI). The Multicast Manager supports Juniper devices only on Solaris and only via the CLI. Parent topic: Introduction
