Table Of Contents
Cisco Active Network Abstraction Documentation Guide, 3.6
Product Documentation Set
Getting Started with Cisco ANA
Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines
Cisco Active Network Abstraction Documentation Guide, 3.6
Cisco Active Network Abstraction (ANA) 3.6 is a follow-on release to Cisco ANA 3.5.2. All the Cisco ANA applications and components are distributed on one product DVD. The User Documentation is supplied on a separate DVD.
The entire documentation set for Cisco Active Network Abstraction 3.6 can also be accessed at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6776/tsd_products_support_series_home.html
From here you can navigate to any documentation for Cisco ANA 3.6 you will need.
This guide includes the following sections:
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Product Documentation Set
• Getting Started with Cisco ANA
• Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines
Product Documentation Set
The following documents comprise the Cisco ANA 3.6 documentation set:
•Release Notes—Describes the features and caveats for Cisco ANA 3.6.
•Installation Guides
–Cisco Active Network Abstraction Installation Guide, 3.6
•User Guides
–Cisco Active Network Abstraction NetworkVision User's Guide, 3.6
–Cisco Active Network Abstraction EventVision User's Guide, 3.6
–Cisco Active Network Abstraction Managing MPLS User's Guide, 3.6
–Cisco Active Network Abstraction Fault Management Guide, 3.6
•Administrator Guides
–Cisco Active Network Abstraction Administrator's Guide, 3.6
–Cisco Active Network Abstraction Error Messages, 3.6
–Cisco Active Network Abstraction Shell User's Guide, 3.6
–Cisco Active Network Abstraction High Availability User's Guide, 3.6
•Developer Guides
–Cisco Active Network Abstraction Customization User's Guide, 3.6
–Cisco Active Network Abstraction Command Builder User's Guide, 3.6
–Cisco Active Network Abstraction Workflow User's Guide, 3.6
–Cisco Active Network Abstraction BQL User's Guide, 3.6
Note All documentation might be upgraded.
Getting Started with Cisco ANA
This section explains how to get started using Cisco ANA 3.6.
To learn about Cisco ANA assurance capabilities and how to use Cisco ANA applications for network operation please read through:
•Cisco Active Network Abstraction NetworkVision User Guide, 3.6—Describes Cisco NetworkVision and its use in network based environments.
•Cisco Active Network Abstraction Fault Management User Guide, 3.6—Describes the Cisco ANA event processing and parsing mechanisms. This guide describes the the correlation engine in Cisco ANA, and lists the supported service alarms and system events.
•Cisco Active Network Abstraction EventVision User Guide, 3.6—Describes the events that are logged in the Cisco ANA Gateway, and how they can be viewed.
•Cisco Active Network Abstraction MPLS User Guide, 3.6—Describes the tools included in NetworkVision used to monitor network-based environments, specifically MPLS networks. It describes logical inventory information specific to MPLS, fault management, service impact analysis, MPLS-TE, and multipath tracing.
To learn about installation, configuration, and deployment of the Cisco ANA servers read through:
•Cisco Active Network Abstraction Installation Guide, 3.6—Describes the typical installation of Cisco ANA.
•Cisco Active Network Abstraction Administrator Guide, 3.6—Describes the structure and features of the Cisco ANA system including polling groups. Cisco ANA Manage is the GUI client application designed to simplify and facilitate Cisco ANA administration.
•Cisco Active Network Abstraction Error Messages, 3.6—Provides a list of system-detected errors supported by Cisco ANA and viewable in Cisco ANA EventVision.
•Cisco Active Network Abstraction High Availability User Guide, 3.6—Describes the high availability (redundancy) and protection options available in the Cisco ANA system.
•Cisco Active Network Abstraction Shell User Guide, 3.6—Describes implementation guidelines of the Cisco ANA interface, basic command behavior, and the various commands supported by the Cisco ANA.
To learn how to use Cisco ANA Customization suite (Command Builder, Soft Properties, and Workflows) read through:
•Cisco Active Network Abstraction Customization User Guide, 3.6—Describes managing soft properties and Threshold Crossing Alarms (TCA).
•Cisco Active Network Abstraction Command Builder User Guide, 3.6—Describes managing command scripts. Command scripts enable the user to execute a programmable sequence of SNMP or Telnet command lines.
•Cisco Active Network Abstraction Workflow User Guide, 3.6—Describes how to create, run, manage, and view workflows using the Cisco ANA Workflow Editor, Cisco ANA Manage and Cisco ANA EventVision.
To learn about Cisco ANA API and integration of Cisco ANA with other OSSs through the Cisco ANA integration tools and northbound APIs read through:
•Cisco Active Network Abstraction BQL User Guide, 3.6—Describes the basic functions and concepts of the Broadband Query Language and Information Model Objects, and provides basic BQL code examples.
Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines
For information on obtaining documentation, obtaining support, providing documentation feedback, security guidelines, and also recommended aliases and general Cisco documents, see the monthly What's New in Cisco Product Documentation, which also lists all new and revised Cisco technical documentation, at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html
