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About This Guide

Objective

This Cisco VPN Solutions Center: MPLS Solution User Reference manual provides details about the
Cisco Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions Center: MPLS Solution, to be referred to as MPLS VPN
Solution.

Who Should Use This Book

This book is written as a resource for experienced users and administrators who use MPLS VPN. It
provides details about how to implement the functionality of MPLS VPN Solution.

It is assumed that you have a basic understanding of network design, operation, and terminology, and
that you are familiar with your own network configurations. It is also assumed that you have a basic
familiarity with UNIX.

How This Book Is Organized

This manual is organized as follows:

• Chapter 1, “Getting Started,” provides an overview of the MPLS VPN Solution product and the

system setup necessary to run it.

• Chapter 2, “WatchDog Commands,” provides the description, syntax, and arguments for the

commands for WatchDog, a background daemon process that is automatically installed as part of
the installation procedure for MPLS VPN Solution.

• Chapter 3, “VPN Console,” provides an overview of the VPN Console and the organization of: the

menu task bar items; the left pane, the hierarchy pane; and the right pane, the data pane.

• Chapter 4, “VPN Console: File Menu,” provides an explanation of the options under the File menu:

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Repository Administration

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Watch Dog

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• Chapter 5, “VPN Console: Find Menu,” provides an explanation of the options under the Find

• Chapter 6, “VPN Console: Setup Menu,” provides an explanation of the options under the Setup

• Chapter 7, “VPN Console: Provisioning Menu,” provides an explanation of the options under the

menu:

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Find Network

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Find VPN Provider

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Find Provider Region

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Find VPN Customer

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Find Customer Site

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Find VPN

menu:

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Create Targets From Router Configurations

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New Provider Administrative Domain

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New VPN Customer

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New VPN Definition

Provisioning menu:

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Add VPN Service to CE

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Deploy Service Requests

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View Deployment Log

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Export Service Request Configlets

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List All New Service Requests

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List All Service Requests

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Purge Closed Requests from Database

• Chapter 8, “VPN Console: Auditing Menu,” provides an explanation of the options under the

Auditing menu:

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Generate Service Request Audit Reports

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View Latest Audit Reports

• Chapter 9, “VPN Console: Monitoring Menu,” provides an explanation of the options under the

Monitoring menu task bar:

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Collect Router Configuration Files

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Collect VPN Accounting Data

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Collect VPN Routing Information

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Configure Traps

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Interface Statistics

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Poll a Router’s CAR MIB

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Provision SLA Definitions and Collect SLA Data

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View Accounting Reports

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View CAR MIB Report

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View Data Report

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