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This document contains the following sections:
Cisco Broadband Troubleshooter (Cisco BT) 1.0 is a GUI-based application that manages point-to-multipoint networks. Cisco BT enables you to quickly isolate provisioning problems and characterize upstream and downstream trouble patterns.
Cisco BT is a standalone application that runs on the Solaris workstation and has the following features:
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Note To be SNMP-enabled, make sure that the Cisco uBR7200 series router is running a Cisco IOS Release 11.3(X)NA or a later release. |
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Tip Use SNMP to read the Cisco IOS release, router name, and type of router. You can retrieve broadband modem device information by using the command-line interface (CLI) commands over Telnet sessions to the Cisco uBR7200 series router. |
Step 1 To enable Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) on the router, enter:
Router(config)# snmp-server community public RW
Step 2 Enable the password:
Router(config)# enable password <password>
Step 3 To configure the line password to enable Telnet, enter:
Router(config)# line vty 0 4
Router(config)# password <password>
Step 4 To configure the session timeout for all vty lines (because Telnet is used to communicate with the router), enter:
Router(config)# line vty 0 4
Router(config-line)# session-timeout 10
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Note Before installing Cisco BT, be sure to check the Readme file for additional information. |
Step 1 Insert the Cisco Broadband Troubleshooter CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive.
Step 2 Extract the files from the CD-ROM. Enter:
cp /cdrom/cdrom0/fla.tar /cbt
cd /cbt
tar xvf fla.tar
Step 3 Set up file permissions by using these commands:
chmod +x FlapListAnalyzerSetup.unix
./FlapListAnalyzerSetup.unix
Step 4 To start the application, enter:
./FlapListAnalyzer
Step 1 Exit Cisco BT.
Step 2 Remove or delete the files that you have installed.
An Administrator can perform the following tasks:
Users cannot add or delete routers, perform administrative tasks, or modify application settings.
To use Cisco BT, follow these procedures:
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Note Only an administrator can perform this procedure. |
To set up a user as the root administrator who can add users and manage devices, perform the following steps:
Step 1 Log in as admin with the default password, changeme.
Step 2 To change the password, click Task>User List.
Step 3 For additional users, click Task>User List to create a list that contains all valid end users who can access Cisco BT application.
Step 4 Enter the following user data:
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Note Only an administrator can perform this procedure. |
To add or delete the Cisco uBR7200 series routers that you want to manage, perform the following steps:
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Note To successfully manage routers, make sure that you enter the correct router passwords and enable SNMP on these routers. For routers authenticated by authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) servers, click the User Name and User Password field for more information. |
Step 1 To create a router list, choose Task>UBR List.
Step 2 Enter the IP address.
Step 3 Enter the SNMP read community strings configured on the router in the Community String (Read) filed. The default value is public. Verify that access lists, if configured in the router, allow for SNMP read access from your workstation.
Step 4 Enter the Domain Name System (DNS) name of the router. If the DNS name is not available, the IP address appears.
Step 5 (Optional) If you have configured a username on the router, enter the vty username .
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Note If login local is the authentication method on the router's vty lines, then you can find the username by entering the router's show config command. For AAA server authentication, enter your TACACS account name. |
Step 6 Enter the same user password as configured on the router.
For AAA server authentication, enter your TACACS password.
Step 7 Enter the same line password as the router if the router has a password configured on its vty lines.
This is the case when both the login name and a password are in the router configuration file under an entry such as line vty 0 4. Routers with no line passwords cannot be managed by Cisco BT.
Step 8 Enter enable password <password> or enable secret <password> as set up on the router.
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Tip You cannot manage the routers with no enable passwords with Cisco BT. |
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Note You cannot edit the IOS Version column, which indicates the Cisco IOS software image that is running on the router; the router type column, which indicates the model of the Cisco uBR7200 series router. |
You can perform the following troubleshooting tasks with Cisco BT:
This is a global summary report for each upstream port for each line card in the selected Cisco uBR7200 series router. The following data appears for each upstream port:
Cisco BT shows flapping modems in the following four problem categories on the Flap List Analysis screen:
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Note The categories are not exclusive, so one modem can appear in multiple lists. |
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Note When calculating the noise flaps per hour, the modem's flap rate calculation might not be accurate if the flap-list is cleared, if any of the flap-list counters are cleared by the router administrator, or if the modem goes out of the flap-list (due to aging) and back in again. |
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Note For wireless modems, power adjustments are not reported in this version. |
You can also view account information for a modem by clicking on LDAP information.
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Note If the flaplist analysis does not show any flapping modems, but the modems appear as part of the show cable flap list command on the router, then click Apply to obtain the Cisco IOS release information. |
Step 1 To perform a new capture of the flap list and modem data and to analyze the new data, click Capture and Analyze Flap List.
Step 2 Click Save to save the current set of captured data from the selected Cisco uBR7200 series router.
The save operation generates two files: flaplist.ip address of router and analysis.ip address of router.
You can view the raw output captured from the selected Cisco uBR7200 series router. Use this data to check on the various operating parameters, state, and flap counters reported by the router for each broadband modem on the Flap-list Details screen.
With Cisco BT, you can link broadband modem device information with subscriber information stored in an LDAP directory.
The LDAP server typically contains subscriber-specific information that is used when provisioning broadband modems. Cisco BT links the collected device information with the subscriber information by using the LDAP interface.
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Note Before accessing the provisioning database and displaying LDAP information, you must configure the LDAP server information using the LDAP Access screen from the Task menu. |
Step 1 Choose Task>LDAP Access.
Step 2 Enter the LDAP server name you want Cisco BT to use for retrieving LDAP information.
Step 3 Enter the LDAP server port number of the LDAP server.
Step 4 Enter the LDAP parent name; for example, o=xxx.com.
Step 5 Enter an LDAP username if the LDAP server supports the anonymous user; for example, uid=admin, ou=Administrators, ou=TopologyManagement, o=NetscapeRoot.
Step 6 (Optional) Enter the LDAP user password if the LDAP server supports the anonymous user.
Step 7 Click Apply to validate the LDAP parameters.
If the parameters are valid, the parameters are saved.
Step 1 To view LDAP information, go to the Flap List Analysis screen.
Step 2 Select a flapping modem.
Step 3 Click Display LDAP Information.
The LDAP Information window appears.
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Note If the LDAP information is stored in two nodes under the same LDAP parent, (for example, "ou=leases, o=xxx.com" and "ou=modems, o=xxx.com"), the attributes or values from both the nodes are combined. |
Step 4 Click OK.
With Cisco BT you can save the current data to time-stamped files, so that you can access and analyze the data. You can also load the previously saved data when necessary.
The following files appear after you save and load the data:
This file contains the output from the Cisco IOS commands used for the flap list analysis.
When you click Save, the appropriate file for the selected Cisco uBR7200 series router are added to the following sections of information. All these sections are delimited by the ^ character:
This file contains the output from the flap-list analysis report. When you click Save, the analysis.ip address of router file for the selected Cisco uBR7200 series router is added to the following sections of information:
Each upstream analysis and problem category detail section is preceded by { and followed by }. The various sections are delimited by a new line.
This file is not used by Cisco BT to restore the flap list analysis reports. This file is for reference only.
With Cisco BT you can save the current data to time-stamped files, so that you can access and analyze the data. You can also load the previously saved data when necessary.
Step 1 To save the current data to a file in the installed directory as tab-delimited ASCII files, click Save Analysis.
The output files are flaplist.ip address of router and analysis.ip address of router.
Step 2 (Optional) To load a previously saved file, click Load Analysis .
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