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An Overview of Cisco Universal Gateway Manager
Withthe Cisco UniversalGatewayManager (Cisco UGM), you can configure and
manage the Cisco AS5300, AS5350, AS5400, AS5800, and AS5850 devices in
your network.
Cisco UGM provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for network information
and device management, including access to gatewaysfunctioning in the network.
This chapter contains the following topics:
• Deployment Scenarios for Cisco UGM, page 1-1
• Features in Cisco UGM, page 1-3
Deployment Scenarios for Cisco UGM
The Cisco UGM product consists of two main components:
• Cisco Element Management Framework (Cisco EMF) software
• Cisco UGM software which manages these Cisco devices:
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Cisco AS5300
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Cisco AS5800
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Each device provides ports through which users can access the network.
Cisco EMF is a client-serverenvironmentsupportingvariousdeploymentoptions.
The best configuration for you depends on the number of servers, clients, and
users in your network.
From the Cisco EMF client, you can access another Cisco EMF client or the Cisco
EMF server through a remote X-terminal. You do not need a Cisco EMF client
between your client and the Cisco EMF server, but doing so improves
performance for large or medium deployments.
Figure 1-1 Directly Accessing the Cisco EMF Server
X-Terminals CEMF clients
CEMF
traffic
CEMF server
Network elements
Custom applications OSS integration
TCP/IP
traffic
Management
LAN/WAN
SNMP/CLI
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Figure 1-2 Accessing the Cisco EMF Server Through a Client
Remote users X-Server
Features in Cisco UGM
Sun workstations,
X-Terminals or PCs
Application server
CEMF server
Features in Cisco UGM
Cisco UGM provides a powerful range of network management capabilities,
including support for network configuration, device and component management,
fault and performance management, and security.
Configuration
Cisco UGM provides various configuration services for the managed devices and
their components:
• Autodiscovery and manual deployment of managed devices and components
See Chapter 2, “Deploying, Discovering, and Exporting InventoryData with
Cisco UGM.”
• Software image downloads
See Chapter 4, “Managing Images and Scheduling Actions with Cisco
UGM.”
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• Configuration file management
See Chapter 3, “Configuring Devices with Cisco UGM.”
• Configlet support for incremental configuration changes
See Chapter 3, “Configuring Devices with Cisco UGM.”
• Menu-launched telnet sessions for CLI device management
Device and Component Management
Cisco UGM inventories and maintains a current record of network gateways and
their managed components. This inventory data can be exported in a flat file. See
Chapter 2, “Deploying, Discovering, and Exporting Inventory Data with Cisco
UGM.”
Managed network components include the following:
• Chassis
• Voice cards
• Modem cards
• Trunk cards
• Universal port
• Controller cards
• Router shelf controller cards
• Combination cards
Cisco UGM performs asynchronous database updates in response to network
equipment configuration and status changes.
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Fault Management
Cisco UGM provides device- and port-specific alarm frequency and severity
information. The fault management GUI supports point-and-click alarm
acknowledgement and clearing functions, and also enables trap forwarding. See
Chapter 8, “Managing Faults with Cisco UGM.”
With the Cisco EMF event browser interface, you can consolidate alarm viewing
and filtering, and view alarms and events on a color-coded topology map. Fault
management functions include:
• Alarm monitoring
• Alarm filtering
• Alarm clearing
• Alarm acknowledgement
• Alarm archive and history
• Alarm-based performance threshold alerts
• Trap registration and forwarding of traps to remote SNMP managers
Features in Cisco UGM
Performance Management
Cisco UGM collects performance information from each managed device and its
components. This information allows you to monitor the network by viewing and
graphing performance data associated with an object. See Chapter 7, “Managing
the Performance of Cisco UGM-Controlled Devices.”
CiscoView also provides additional gateway statistics, including AAA statistics
and both active and historical call statistics that complement the statistics
provided by Cisco UGM. Cisco UGM can be used to launch CiscoView if it is
available in the managed network.
Security
Cisco UGM supports role-based access to its management functions. You can
define user groups and assign users to these groups. This function also supports
control of administrative state variables for Cisco UGM resources. See Chapter 6,
“Managing Security on Cisco UGM.”
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