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This chapter describes the objectives, audience, organization, and conventions of the Cisco Media Gateway Manager for the Cisco MGX 8260 Media Gateway User Guide, and contains the following sections:
This guide is meant to be used by the following network experts:
This guide contains instructions for installing the software and configuring the Cisco MGX 8260 Media Gateway nodes.
This guide contains the following chapters:
"Cisco MGM Orientation", provides an overview of the applications and features.
"Cisco MGM Installation", describes how to install and test the product.
"Using the Management Interfaces", orients the user to the graphical interfaces.
"Security Management", introduces Cisco EMF and Cisco MGM user accounts, as well as SNMP community strings.
"Network Management", provides procedures for using the automatic discovery and sub-chassis synchronization for Cisco MGX 8260 Media Gateways.
"Fault and Performance Management", provides procedures for monitoring alarms and performance.
"Cisco MGX 8260 Node Management", summarizes the Cisco WebViewer configuration procedures.
The following Cisco publications contain additional information related to the operation of the Cisco Media Gateway Manager for the Cisco MGX 8260 Media Gateway User Guide.
| Documentation | Description |
Cisco Element Manager Framework User Guide DOC-7810791= | This book describes the element management framework on which the Cisco Media Gateway Manager is based. |
Cisco Voice CORBA Gateway for the MGX 8260 Media Gateway Developer Reference Guide DOC-7811706= | This book describes the CORBA/IDL interface for the Cisco Media Gateway Manager. |
Cisco MGX 8260 Command Line Interface Guide DOC-7810987= | This book describes how to configure MGX 8260 Media Gateways from the command line interface. |
Cisco WebViewer Guide DOC-7811012= | This book describes how to use the Cisco WebViewer tool. |
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