Page 2 - Note; Field Descriptions for the New Group Dialog Box; Field
3-2 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.2 How Do I Build Groups? • Links—Physical or logical entities (for example, a fiber) between two physical points (for example,ports). Circuits are provisioned through links. • Network Maps—Geographic repr...
Page 3 - Chapter 8, “Managing Security”; CTM allows you to delete a single group or multiple groups.
3-3 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.2.3 Moving Groups Note A group cannot be pasted into the Discovered NEs or Deleted NEs group. Tip The drag-and-drop feature can also be used to copy groups. Hold down the Ctrl key and use the mouseto drag...
Page 4 - CTM contains one network partition by default.; In the Domain Explorer window, choose File > Subnetwork Explorer.; Enter the following information.
3-4 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.3 How Do I Build Network Partitions? 3.2.4.2 Deleting Multiple Groups Step 1 In the Domain Explorer tree, select the group to be deleted. Select multiple groups by pressing the Ctrlkey, then click each gr...
Page 5 - Field Descriptions for the Add New Network Partition Dialog Box; Field Descriptions for the Network Partition Properties Pane
3-5 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.3.2 Modifying Network Partitions Step 4 Click OK. The new network partition appears in the Subnetwork Explorer tree. 3.3.2 Modifying Network Partitions Step 1 In the Domain Explorer window, choose File &g...
Page 6 - Field Descriptions for the Add New Subnetwork Dialog Box
3-6 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.4 How Do I Build Subnetworks? Step 3 In the confirmation dialog box, click Yes. The network partition is removed from the SubnetworkExplorer tree. 3.4 How Do I Build Subnetworks? Subnetworks are sets of N...
Page 7 - In the Subnetwork Explorer tree, select the subnetwork to be moved.
3-7 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.4.2 Moving Subnetworks Note The Add New Subnetwork feature is not available for users with the Assign NEs property (Provisioner,Operator, and custom user profiles) because they cannot see the entire domai...
Page 8 - Stop and restart the inetd process.
3-8 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.5.1 Prerequisites for Adding NEs 3.5.1 Prerequisites for Adding NEs Before adding a new NE, you must enable the NE service for that NE. The NE service is enabled bydefault, but the service is not started ...
Page 9 - Cisco Edge Craft User
3-9 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.5.1 Prerequisites for Adding NEs Note To add an ONS 15302 or ONS 15305 NE to CTM, its SNMP Users table must contain the following row:0.0.0.0 public true where, public is the community string. In addition...
Page 10 - Community string: Same as on the GNE; GNE: Same as for SNMP v1; Only SNMP version 2c traps are supported.
3-10 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.5.1 Prerequisites for Adding NEs – Trap port: 162 – Version: v1 – Community string: Same as on the GNE Note If there is a direct connection from the ENE to GNE, it becomes the Relay A NE. If thereare int...
Page 11 - To add entries to the SNMP Community String table:; Chapter 4, “Maintaining; Field Descriptions for the SNMP Community String Table; Target
3-11 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.5.1 Prerequisites for Adding NEs To add entries to the SNMP Community String table: Step 1 In the Domain Explorer window, choose Administration > ONS 155XX >ONS 155XX SNMP Settings Table. The SNMP ...
Page 12 - Add the following commands to configure EDFA1:; Add the following commands to configure NE2:
3-12 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.5.1 Prerequisites for Adding NEs 3.5.1.4.3 Topology Setup Appropriate topology information must be configured on ONS 15501, ONS 15530, and ONS 15540 NEsfor automatic discovery of neighbors and discovery ...
Page 13 - You cannot launch CiscoView on ONS 15501 NEs.; Enter the following CLI commands:
3-13 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.5.1 Prerequisites for Adding NEs For NEs with OSC, additional configuration is required. Add patches between the Wave and OSC filterinterfaces. For example, if the Wave 0 interface is connected physicall...
Page 14 - Prerequisites for Adding Cisco MGX Voice Gateway Devices; Caution; Community Strings Using the Domain Explorer
3-14 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.5.1 Prerequisites for Adding NEs • Create a username and password with appropriate privileges. • After configuring the NE, add a seed NE to CTM. CTM automatically discovers the interconnectedCRS-1 or XR ...
Page 15 - describes the various options involved in configuring SNMP.; In the Domain Explorer Hierarchy pane, select the node.; To change the SNMP get community strings for selected nodes:; Open a terminal window and SSH or Telnet to the switch.; SNMP Configuration Options; Option; SNMP access security
3-15 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.5.1 Prerequisites for Adding NEs To configure the SNMP community string, you must change the community strings on the devicesthrough the CLI. Table 3-6 describes the various options involved in configuri...
Page 16 - You will see output similar to the following example:
3-16 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.5.1 Prerequisites for Adding NEs where ro is the SNMP get community string and rw is the SNMP set only community string. Step 3 Enter the following command to configure the SNMP get community string: xxy...
Page 20 - Field Descriptions for the Add New NE Wizard; NE Addition Panel
3-20 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.5.2 Adding NEs h. Location name i. Subnetwork ID j. Network Partition ID Caution Make sure to specify the correct partition. If the wrong partition is specified, the new NE isnot added and an error messa...
Page 21 - Field Descriptions for the Add New NE Wizard (continued)
3-21 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.5.2 Adding NEs IP Address (for singleNE additions) Enter a unique IP address for the NE. It must be in the form ddd.ddd.ddd.ddd, where ddd is adecimal octet expressed as an integer between 0 and 255. The...
Page 23 - Copying an NE from One Group to Another; In the Domain Explorer tree, select the NE to be copied.; Moving an NE from One Group to Another; In the Domain Explorer tree, select the NE to be moved.
3-23 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.5.3 Copying an NE from One Group to Another 3.5.3 Copying an NE from One Group to Another Groups for multiple users can easily be created in CTM. Just copy the same NE into different groups. Step 1 In th...
Page 24 - Moving an NE from One Network Partition to Another; Automatically Grouping NEs in Subnetworks
3-24 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.5.5 Moving an NE from One Network Partition to Another 3.5.5 Moving an NE from One Network Partition to Another Caution CTM cannot manage circuits across network partitions. Make sure that all connected ...
Page 25 - Before deleting an NE, make sure to delete all links from the NE. See
3-25 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.5.7 Deleting NEs Step 3 Click Save. Note If a topological link is deleted while NEs are automatically grouped in subnetworks, CTM deletesisolated NEs, creates a new subnetwork, and moves the deleted NEs ...
Page 26 - For each NE that will be deleted:; or
3-26 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.5.7 Deleting NEs Note If a CTC-based NE is deleted and then DCC connectivity to the deleted NE is removed, CTM rediscoversthe deleted NE. If DCC connectivity is removed before deleting the NE, CTM does n...
Page 27 - In the Domain Explorer tree, select the NE that will be removed.; If any processes are still running, enter the following command:; Enter the following command to start the CTM server:
3-27 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.5.7 Deleting NEs Aside from using the Domain Explorer to remove an out-of-service NE from the database, you can alsouse the prune_ne.sh script. Note Shut down the CTM server and all CTM clients before ru...
Page 28 - Click the NE that will be restored.; CTM allows you to search for a specific NE in the network. See
3-28 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.5.8 Restoring a Deleted NE Note • Wait until all records associated with the NE are deleted from the database before adding the NEback again. • The amount of time it takes to prune NEs depends on the amo...
Page 30 - The layer rate is Physical.; Links Supported Between NEs at Compatible Layer Rates; NE Model
3-30 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.6.2 Overview of Supported Links Links between TXP_MR_2.5G, TXPP_MR_2.5G, MXP_2.5G_10G, TXP_MR_10G, 2.5G_DM,2.5G_DMP, TXP_MR_10E, MXP_MR_10E cards or DWDM cards are manually created and cannot beautomatic...
Page 31 - Unmanaged NEs; Supported NE Links; DCU; Links Supported Between NEs at Compatible Layer Rates (continued)
3-31 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.6.2 Overview of Supported Links ONS 15600 SONET ONS 15600 SDH ONS 15216 ONS 15302 ONS 15305 ONS 15310 ONS 15327 ONS 15454 ONS 15600 ONS 15800 ONS 15801 ONS 15808 CRS-1 CRS-1 ONS 15327 ONS 15454 SONET ONS...
Page 32 - PoS
3-32 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.6.2 Overview of Supported Links ONS 15305 STM-1 X X STM-4 X X STM-16 X X ONS 15310 PoS X CTX (OC-3 port) X X CTX (OC-12 port) X X ONS 15327 OC-3/STM-1 X X OC-12/STM-4 X X OC-48/STM-16 X X E10/100-4 X G10...
Page 34 - Open the Link Table using one of the following methods:
3-34 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.6.3 Viewing the Link Table 3.6.3 Viewing the Link Table The Link table shows information about each link attribute. Use the Link table to view, modify, anddelete links. You can open the Link table for th...
Page 35 - Field Descriptions for the Link Table
3-35 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.6.3 Viewing the Link Table Table 3-10 describes the fields in Link table. Table 3-10 Field Descriptions for the Link Table Field Description Link Alarm Severity Highest severity alarm associated with the...
Page 36 - Field Descriptions for the Link Table (continued)
3-36 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.6.3 Viewing the Link Table Is Link Valid Validity of the link. Values are Valid or Invalid. For autodiscovered links, the value is Valid if boththe terminating NEs are in service and the NEs are able to ...
Page 37 - Field Descriptions for the Link Table Filter Dialog Box
3-37 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.6.4 Filtering the Link Table 3.6.4 Filtering the Link Table Step 1 In the Link table, choose File > Filter. The Filter dialog box opens. Step 2 Specify the filter parameters described in Table 3-11 . ...
Page 40 - Field Descriptions for the Create Link Wizard; Link Attributes Panel
3-40 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.6.6 Creating Links Note A PTP can be associated with only one bidirectional link or two unidirectional links ata particular layer rate for all NEs except Not Managed/Other Vendor NEs. For NotManaged/Othe...
Page 41 - Field Descriptions for the Create Link Wizard (continued)
3-41 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.6.6 Creating Links Direction Specify whether the link is unidirectional or bidirectional. For the ONS 15501, ONS 15800, ONS 15801,and ONS 15808, only unidirectional links are available. Provision Type Sp...
Page 42 - Summary of Link Color; Link Type
3-42 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.6.7 Modifying Links Note • Once the links are created, each link will have a different color notation depending on the alarmstatus of the PTP on which the link is created. Links between Not Managed/Other...
Page 43 - Field Descriptions for the Modify Link Wizard
3-43 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.6.7 Modifying Links Note Table 3-14 describes the fields in the Modify Link wizard. Step 1 Open the Modify Link wizard using one of the following methods: • In the Link table, select a link and choose Ed...
Page 44 - Click OK in the confirmation dialog box.; For multiple link deletion, complete the following substeps:; Link Summary Panel; Link Summary; Field Descriptions for the Modify Link Wizard (continued)
3-44 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.6.8 Deleting Links 3.6.8 Deleting Links You can delete one or multiple links from the Link table. You can delete a single link from the NetworkMap. Step 1 In the Link table, select one or multiple links ...
Page 45 - 0 Filtering the Link Utilization Table; Field Descriptions for the Link Utilization Table; Column
3-45 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.6.10 Filtering the Link Utilization Table Depending on the number of provisioned circuits, the consumed bandwidth is totaled. Circuits such asVAP/LAP and virtual tributary (VT) tunnel are preprovisioned ...
Page 46 - The Network Map consists of three areas:; Payload Type; SONET
3-46 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.7 How Do I Use Network Maps? 3.7 How Do I Use Network Maps? The Network Map is organized into a multilevel hierarchy that corresponds to the structure of theDomain Explorer and Subnetwork Explorer trees....
Page 47 - Zoom In—Changes the magnification of the nodes by zooming in.
3-47 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.7.1 Customizing a Network Map Step 2 Use the Edit menu in the Network Map window to customize the Network Map. Edit menu optionsinclude: • Enable Drag—Enables the drag-and-drop functionality. • Enable Of...
Page 48 - Adjusting the Zoom Level or Pan Position
3-48 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.7.2 Viewing a Node in the Network Map c. In the Domain Management area, click the Truncate Network Map Node Name First Charactersor Truncate Network Map Node Name End Characters radio button. d. Click Sa...
Page 49 - Modifying a Node Icon or a Map Background Image; The size of the map file should not exceed 100 KB.
3-49 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.7.4 Modifying a Node Icon or a Map Background Image 3.7.4 Modifying a Node Icon or a Map Background Image Network map backgrounds are provided by default as part of CTM, and are used to display ageograph...
Page 50 - Revert to Default is only available for nodes under subgroups.
3-50 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.7.5 Saving Changes to the Network Map find an icon in an unexpected position, the object most likely was never positioned manually and savedand was therefore positioned automatically. To fix the icon loc...
Page 52 - Field Descriptions for the Discovery Information Table
3-52 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.8.3 Rediscovering ONS 155xx, CRS-1, and XR 12000 NEs all types of discovery: periodic rediscovery, user-requested rediscovery, and update-triggered discovery.To view the table, choose Configuration > ...
Page 55 - Chapter 7, “Provisioning Services and Connections.”; SSM Generation 1 Message Set; Message
3-55 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.9.1 Discovering NEs 3.9.1 Discovering NEs The network discovery service in CTM collects information from individual NEs, discovers new NEsadded to the network, and computes network-level information, suc...
Page 56 - SSM Generation 2 Message Set
3-56 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.10.1 Synchronization Settings for the ONS 15310, ONS 15327, ONS 15454 SONET, and ONS 15600 SONET Note Alarms relating to PM collection indicate that the load on the system is high. Reduce the load on the...
Page 57 - Sync Messaging—Check to enable SSM.; In the Reference List subtab, complete the following information:
3-57 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.10.1 Synchronization Settings for the ONS 15310, ONS 15327, ONS 15454 SONET, and ONS 15600 SONET • Quality of RES—If the timing source supports the reserved S1 byte, set the timing quality here.(Most tim...
Page 60 - SDH SSM Message Set
3-60 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.10.2 Synchronization Settings for the ONS 15454 SDH and ONS 15600 SDH 3.10.2 Synchronization Settings for the ONS 15454 SDH and ONS 15600 SDH SSM communicates information about the quality of the timing ...
Page 61 - Cable Type (Applicable to the ONS 15600 SDH)—Choose 75 ohm or 120 ohm.
3-61 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.10.2 Synchronization Settings for the ONS 15454 SDH and ONS 15600 SDH • Revertive—If checked, the NE reverts to a primary reference source after the conditions that causedit to switch to a secondary timi...
Page 66 - Testing NE Connectivity; Method
3-66 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.12 How Do I Test Connectivity for Optical and Routing Devices? 3.11.1.4 Creating a Manual Clock Source To create a manual clock source: Step 1 In the Domain Explorer, right-click the PNNI node from the H...
Page 67 - In the Domain Explorer tree, select the NE to ping.; In the Domain Explorer tree, select an NE.; Click OK in the dialog box.
3-67 Cisco Transport Manager Release 6.0 User Guide 78-16845-01 Chapter 3 Building the Network 3.12.1 Pinging an NE 3.12.1 Pinging an NE Step 1 In the Domain Explorer tree, select the NE to ping. Step 2 Choose Fault > Ping NE. The ping results include round-trip time and packet loss statistics. S...
