Table of Contents

Cisco 6400 SCM Software
Cisco 6400 SCM Documentation Set
Cisco 6400 SCM Key Features
Cisco 6400 Chassis Overview
Accessing Online Help

Introduction

The Service Connection Manager (SCM) product is a carrier class graphical user interface (GUI) based element management application that manages the Cisco 6400 DSL Access Concentrator. It is a tool for managing several Cisco 6400 elements, subscribers, and services. It provides simplified Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, and Security (FCAPS) management areas of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Layer 2 and 3 IP services through element and service management of the Cisco 6400 Universal Access Concentrator (UAC) hardware. It is based on the standard Cisco Element Management Framework (Cisco EMF) and installs as an add-on product on top of Cisco EMF.

The next-generation Internet access environment combines multiple forms of narrowband and broadband access with common core services and deployment. The rapid deployment of these complex access networks to serve millions of subscribers is known as Telephony Scale Data Networking (TSDN).

Cisco 6400 SCM Software

The Cisco 6400 SCM Element Manager software adds custom windows and modeling behavior to the standard Cisco Element Management Framework (Cisco EMF) system to manage the Cisco 6400 UAC hardware.

The Cisco 6400 SCM software:

• Helps you easily make network connections by eliminating the need to have Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and technical knowledge of Cisco IOS commands required to establish connections.

• Streamlines the deployment process for the Cisco 6400 UAC, and provides a service-oriented management view of the Cisco 6400 UAC's inbound and outbound connections.

You can install multiple Element Managers onto a single Cisco EMF server, allowing multidevice and multivendor management from a single system.

Note   This user guide describes the basic concepts and operating instructions for the Cisco 6400 SCM Element Manager. Refer to the Cisco Element Management Framework User Guide for further details on the Cisco EMF.

Cisco 6400 SCM Documentation Set

This guide is one part of the Cisco 6400 Service Connection Manager (SCM) documentation set. Figure 1-1 displays all of the guides in the Cisco 6400 SCM documentation set and the relationship between them.

The guides identified in Figure 1-1 are available online. See the "Cisco.com" section in the Preface for further details.

Cisco 6400 SCM Key Features

The following list describes features of the Cisco 6400 Service Connection Manager software:

• Supports the new NRP2 module. The second-generation node route processor allows aggregation and termination of large numbers of broadband subscribers while supporting Layer 3 services, such as policy routing and authentication. The NRP2 supports as many as 16,000 sessions as compared to the NRP. NRP2 provides increased bandwidth by supporting a 622-Mbps ATM interface to the OAM Loopback feature between a subscriber and a remote end.

• Provides support for SNMPv3 Proxy Forwarder protocol and corresponding new MIBs.

• Provides a capacity monitoring tool which helps you to closely control PVC memory allocation on the Cisco 6400 node switch processor (NSP).

• Requires minimal user knowledge of the underlying Cisco IOS system and SNMP commands.

• Creates and manages subscribers rather than Cisco 6400 sub-interfaces and PVCs.

• Creates and manages services.

• Supports configuration of QoS and service definitions in accordance with service provider policies and products.

• Reduces the opportunity for error in establishing service parameters through the use of profiles.

• Minimizes setup time and cost for each Cisco 6400 UAC.

• Minimizes connection installation time providing rapid service availability to new subscribers.

• Minimizes downtime through assurance tools for fault determination and proactive troubleshooting.

• Provides the capability to achieve Telephony Scale Data Networking (TSDN) deployments.

• Provides a Permanent Virtual Connection (PVC) capacity monitoring and management tool that allows you to monitor VPC and VCC allocation and maximize memory allocation limitations.

• You can perform the following functions:

  • View all Input Translation Table (ITT) usage, which includes blocks used, blocks available, and identity of the port to which the blocks are allocated.

  • Define Cisco 6400-based service profiles, which can be applied to services.

  • View alarms generated by the Cisco 6400 as color-coded icons on network maps.

  • Access FCAPS functionality (supported through SNMP) through tabbed windows within the Cisco 6400 SCM application.

  • Perform mass concurrent operations to any number of Cisco 6400 components (NSPs, NRPs, and NLCs), simplifying management of a large deployment of Cisco 6400s.

  • Access Cisco MIBs through element management functionality provided with the Cisco 6400 (for example, information from the DSL provisioning MIB).

  • Analyze historical information with Event Browser or Performance Manager.

  • Manually pre-provision the Cisco 6400 chassis node switch processor (NSP) module, node route processor module (NRP), and DS3/OC-3/OC-12 node line cards (NLC) in the management system before actual installation.

  • Use the auto-discovery feature to identify new Cisco 6400s and view their detailed hardware configuration after physical installation.

  • Use automatically constructed maps that represent the Cisco 6400 components.

  • Define Cisco 6400 subscriber quality of service (QoS) parameters, which are assigned to subscribers and used when connecting subscribers to services.

  • Configure the Cisco 6400 using service-oriented terms such as subscribers, services, and connections, eliminating the need to understand the underlying network fabric.

Cisco 6400 Chassis Overview

The Cisco 6400 Universal Access Concentrator (UAC) uses an 8-slot, modular chassis featuring half-height or full-height card and slot redundancy along with dual, fault-tolerant, load-sharing AC or DC power supplies. The central slots (slot 0A and 0B) in the Cisco 6400 UAC  are dedicated to redundant, field-replaceable node switch processor (NSP) modules. The NSP module supports:

• 5 Gbps shared memory and the fully nonblocking switch fabric.

• The feature card and high-performance Reduced Instruction Set (RISC) processor that provides the central intelligence for the device.

The remaining slots support up to eight hot-swappable carrier modules (CMs) for node line cards (NLCs) or node route processors (NRP and NRP2). NRPs, carrier modules, and half-height NLCs can be configured for redundant operation. As a result, you can have up to four redundant pairs of NRPs or any combination of NRPs and NRP2s and NLCs.

Note   In redundant configurations, NRPs must be paired with NRPs of the same type (NRP with an NRP and NRP2 with NRP2).

The NRPs are fully functional router modules capable of terminating PPP sessions uploaded from your OC-3, OC-12, or DS3 NLCs. The NSP supports a wide variety of desktop, backbone, and wide-area interfaces.

Accessing Online Help

You can access online help at any time when the Cisco Element Management Framework (Cisco EMF) Launchpad is active. You can launch online help directly from the Cisco EMF Launchpad main window or by clicking the Help button from any of the active applications.

When you launch online help from the Cisco EMF Launchpad main window, all of the main help topics display. Select the desired topic to have that topic's online help information displayed. At the end of each topic, a list of all other topics displays. When you want information about another topic, select the relevant topic.

When the Help button within an active application is clicked, the help topic relevant to the application is displayed. At the end of each topic, a list of all other topics are displayed. When you want information about another topic, select the relevant topic.

Posted: Tue May 29 10:33:24 PDT 2001
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