Cisco Systems XR 12000, 10720 User Manual

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Getting Started

This chapter describes the typical tasks you should complete to start using the Cisco 12000/10720
Router Manager application. See Figure 3-1 on page 3-2 for further details.

This chapter provides the following information:

• Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager Workflow

• Starting Cisco EMF and Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager

• Deployment

Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager Workflow

Figure 3-1 outlines the steps involved in installing, configuring and using the Cisco 12000/10720 Router

Manager application.

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Figure 3-1 Workflow for Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager

Install Cisco EMF

software

Install C12000/10720M

software

Start CEMF

Start a Cisco EMF

session

Deploy objects

Enter username

and password

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Chassis

Management

Perform Subchassis

discovery

Review deployment

and check for alarms

Module

Management

Fault

Management

Change

Management

Interface

Management

Layer 3 QoS

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Starting Cisco EMF and Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager

Starting Cisco EMF and Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager

The Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager application is viewed through the Cisco Element Management
Framework (Cisco EMF). It is important to understand how Cisco EMF works before you use the Cisco
12000/10720 Router Manager application (refer to the Cisco Element Management Framework User
Guide for further details). Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager automatically starts when you start a
Cisco EMF user session.

Note Each active Cisco EMF session uses a single Cisco EMF user license.

This section covers the following:

• Starting a Cisco EMF User Session

• Launchpad

• Quitting a Cisco EMF User Session

Starting a Cisco EMF User Session

Note Cisco EMF should already be running. When you try to invoke a Cisco EMF session, and

if you receive a message that Cisco EMF is not running, contact your system administrator,
or refer to the Cisco Element Management Framework User Guide for further details.

To start a Cisco EMF user session, proceed as follows:

Step 1 From the command line on the terminal window, enter <CEMF_ROOT>/bin/cemf session

Note <CEMF_ROOT> is the Cisco EMF installation root directory (for example,

/opt/CEMF).

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The Login window (see Figure 3-2) appears.

Figure 3-2 Login Window

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Step 2 Enter a valid user name and password.

Step 3 Click Ok to proceed.

When an unknown user name or password is entered, an error is displayed. Click Ok, then enter a valid
user name and password.

Note You have three attempts to enter a valid user name and password.After the third failed attempt

the session does not start and the Login window closes.

When a valid user name and the password are entered, the session starts and the Cisco EMF Launchpad
(see Figure 3-3) appears.

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Launchpad

Starting Cisco EMF and Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager

The icons displayed in the CEMF Manager and Event Manager panels on the Launchpad represent the
applications provided by this Cisco EMF installation. Extra icons may appear when additional packages
are installed. The icons (see Figure 3-3) represent the standard Cisco EMF tools.

Figure 3-3 Launchpad

Viewer icon - Launches MapViewer

Groups icon - Launches the Object Group Manager

Access icon - Launches Access Manager

Events icon - Launches the Query Editor and Event Browser

Discovery icon - Launches Auto Discovery

Launching an Application

From the Launchpad, click the desired icon. The application is launched. A “busy” icon and a message
in the status bar is displayed during launch. More than one instance of an application can be opened at
any time.

Note If an application is already open, it appears in the Windows list. Click Window and choose the

application you require from the drop down menu.

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PreFilter icon - Launches Pre Filtering Application

Event Grps icon - Launches Event Groups Application

Thresholds icon - Launches Thresholding Regimes Application

Notify icon - Launches Notification Profile Application

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Map Viewer (Viewer)

MapViewer allows complete flexibility in viewing, building, and monitoring your network using
graphical representations of network elements.

MapViewer is the primary entry point into the Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager. When the
MapViewer application is launched, a window appears corresponding to the highlighted map icon in the
hierarchy pane. You can easily monitor the status of all network elements or abstractions of elements
contained within the network and you can launch any of the additional applications on the Launchpad.

Refer to the Cisco Element Management Framework User Guide for further details on the MapViewer
application.

Groups

Object Group Manager allows you to organize network elements into object groups. An object group is
a collection of objects which are related in some way. They may all be the same type of equipment or all
belong to the same customer.

Object groups can be built manually or by building a query. Some Cisco EMF subsystems may also build
object groups which may be visible and usable by the Cisco EMF user.

Refer to the Cisco Element Management Framework User Guide for further details on the Object Group
Manager application.

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Access

User Access Control allows system administrators the opportunity to control the features of their system
that can be accessed by various levels of personnel. This is important for secure network management.

Refer to the Cisco Element Management Framework User Guide for further details on the User Access
Control application.

Event Browser (Events)

One of the most important aspects of Network Service Management is the ability to identify faults and
other events on the network and to take action to resolve them quickly and efficiently. For example, there
may be a power supply fault in a chassis which would require an engineer to be sent out to rectify the
fault. This fault is critical to the running of the network and would need prompt attention.

In Cisco EMF, when a condition (fault) occurs on a managed object in the network, the system is notified
immediately. Notification is shown as an event and can be viewed with the Event Browser (when
configured to do so).

Refer to the Cisco Element Management Framework User Guide Release 3.2 for further details on the
Event Browser application.

Discovery

Discovery allow you to examine the network for IP and SNMP devices and create a managed object for
each new device discovered. Auto-discovery can be opened from the Launchpad window or from a pop
up menu available on selected objects.

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Refer to the Cisco Element Management Framework User Guide Release 3.2 for further details on the
Auto-discovery application.

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Notification Profiles

An important aspect of a monitoring system which captures and reacts to events on the network is when
and how a network operator is informed of these events. The Event Manager uses notifications for this.
For example, when the temperature of a line card rises 10 degrees above normal an e-mail might be sent
to the network operator warning of a potential problem and a minor event might be generated if the
temperature does not fall to within ten degrees of normal within twenty minutes.

Notification profiles are collections of notifications. Each notification profile has a name and description
and can be accessed by all Event Manager users. Each includes a list of notifications, and is run
following a trigger, which could be an event entering an event group, or a threshold breach in a
thresholding regime. For example, when the first event is received by an event group a notification
profile may be triggered which causes a sound to occur which alerts the operator. As well as audible
alerts, a notification could be set up to display on screen, or to trigger an external notification such as an
e-mail.

Refer to the Cisco Element Management Framework User Guide Release 3.2 for further details on the
Notification Profiles application.

Thresholding Regimes

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Event Groups

A Thresholding Regime is a set of threshold conditions for specified object attributes which, when
breached, causes one or more notification profiles to be run. The Thresholding Regime defines which
attributes should be polled and on what period, and defines the thresholding conditions. The
Thresholding Regime specifies object groups which contain the objects whose attributes will be polled.

Refer to the Cisco Element Management Framework User Guide Release 3.2 for further details on the
Thresholding Regimes application.

Event Groups allows you to organize network elements into event groups, and also view the status of
these groups as scoreboards. Users can create, delete and modify event groups and scoreboards. Event
groups are available to all users.

Event groups can be any combination of objects derived from the managed object class. These groups
are set up using queries which can be configured to match your requirements. For example, you could
choose to monitor a particular device, specify a time period, and choose to look at events which are
warnings or critical. You define a query so that the event group only includes the events which meet the
criteria you define. As soon as the group is created it starts monitoring against the criteria specified in
the event query setup. Event groups created in the Event Groups application are persistent, they are not
cleared when the application is closed.

The Event Groups application also enables you to view the events associated with an event group in a
scoreboard format. This displays the overall status of the event group as a pie chart, with the associated
severity color coding. A scoreboard also shows the total number of events which have entered the event
group and the highest severity of the events in the group. An icon is displayed when a running
notification has been set up for the event group.

Event Groups is opened from the Launchpad.

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Refer to the Cisco Element Management Framework User Guide Release 3.2 for further details on the
Event Groups application.

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PreFilter

Event pre-filtering allows any event generated by the network which matches the criteria established in
the filter to be “filtered out”, and thus not saved into the database.

Pre-filtering offers you the capability to eliminate unwanted or undesired events from entering the
management system altogether. Pre-filtering is managed through the PreFilter application or from the
Event Browser. The PreFilter application is launched via the PreFilter icon on the Launchpad.

The PreFilter manager window displays, listing each of the pre-filters established, in the order in which
they are to be processed (from top to bottom).

Refer to the Cisco Element Management Framework User Guide Release 3.2 for further details on the
PreFilter application.

Quitting a Cisco EMF User Session

To quit the current Cisco EMF session, proceed as follows:

Step 1 Choose File > Quit. You see the question Do you wish to quit the Cisco EMF Manager System?.

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Step 2 Click Ye s to quit the session (all active applications are closed and the session terminates) or click No

Deployment

to return to the current Cisco EMF session.

The first step toward managing a Cisco 12000/10720 Router is to deploy or pre-deploy the physical
objects that you want to manage. Deploying a physical object creates a representative object in
Cisco EMF and as a result, makes the Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager application aware of the
physical object’s presence.

Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager objects can be discovered automatically or deployed manually. For
example, to deploy a chassis, you can use auto discovery or you can manually deploy the chassis. If you
wish to deploy objects under the chassis, you can use subchassis discovery or manually deploy each
object (interfaces are automatically created when you deploy each line card).

If all or most of your chassis objects are physically present and if you have a large amount of objects to
deploy, you might want to automate these processes by using auto discovery. For example, if Cisco
12000/10720 Router Manager is installed into an existing network of Cisco 12000/10720 Routers, auto
discovery can dramatically reduce the amount of operator input required. If you only want to deploy a
few objects or if many of your objects are not yet physically present, you might want to deploy manually.

Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager objects can be manually pre-deployed before the hardware arrives
on-site. See “Pre-deployment” section on page 3-58 for further details.

The following supporting modules can be deployed using subchassis discovery only, no manual
deployment is available for these modules:

• AC or DC power supply card

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• Fan tray module

• Blower module

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Tip WRED (Weighted Random Early Detection) and CAR (Committed Access Rate) objects

Deployment

You can also deploy either of the following logical objects:

• SVC—See “Deploying an SVC Object” section on page 12-22

• PVC—See “Deploying a PVC Object” section on page 12-18

• VLAN Domain, VLAN and VLAN sub-interface—See “Deploying VLAN objects” section on

page 13-4

are not created using the deployment wizard. For details on creating these objects manually,
see Chapter 11, “Layer 3 QoS.”

The Deployment section covers the following areas:

• Deployment Process Outline

• Manually Deploying a Generic Site Object

• IP Auto Discovery of the Cisco Chassis

• Manually Deploying a Cisco 12000/10720 Chassis

• Commissioning and Subchassis Discovery

• Manually Deploying Modules—Includes deploying line cards for 12000 Series router chassis

and10720 chassis

• Pre-deployment

Deployment Process Outline

Producing a manageable Cisco 12000/10720 Router chassis in Cisco EMF is a three-stage process (see

Figure 3-4).

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Figure 3-4 Deployment Process Workflow

Stage 1: Manually

deploy a generic object

Stage 2: Chassis
level deployment

Stage 3: Sub-chassis

Sub-chassis objects

OR

level deployment

Sub-chassis

Discovery

Optional

Manually deploy

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IP Auto-discovery of

Cisco 12000/10720

series chassis

Manual deployment of

the Cisco 12000/10720

series chassis

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The first deployment stage is to manually deploy a Generic (Site) object. A Site object can be looked

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upon as a container object where you can deploy further objects that represent the
Cisco 12000/10720 Router chassis, line cards and interfaces contained within the chassis. See

“Manually Deploying a Generic Site Object” section on page 3-10 for further details.

2. The second deployment stage is at the chassis level. The Cisco 12000/10720 Router chassis can be

auto discovered or manually deployed. See “IP Auto Discovery of the Cisco Chassis” section on

page 3-19 or the “Manually Deploying a Cisco 12000/10720 Chassis” section on page 3-20 for

further details.

Note You can pre-deploy objects (that is, manually predeploy objects) before the Cisco hardware

arrives on-site. See “Pre-deployment” section on page 3-58 for further details.

3. The third deployment stage is at subchassis level. This involves either subchassis discovery or

deploying subchassis objects (modules) manually. See “Commissioning and Subchassis Discovery”

section on page 3-26 or the “Manually Deploying Modules” section on page 3-30 for further details.

Manually Deploying a Generic Site Object

Generic objects are non-technology specific objects. When deploying a generic object, the information
you are prompted to provide differs according to the type and number of generic objects you are
deploying.

Table 3 -1 displays a list of generic objects that can be deployed using Cisco 12000/10720 Router

Manager.

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Table 3-1 Generic Object Deployment Templates

Object to be Deployed

Deployment Templates Available

Generic Bay

IP Device

Region

SNMP Agent

SNMP MIB-2 Agent

SNMP Proxied Device

Site

This section provided an example that shows how to deploy a Site object. The deployment process differs
slightly for other types of generic object.

To deploy a Generic (Site) object, proceed as follows:

Step 1 Place the cursor over a relevant object to determine the objects you can deploy from. In this example we

will deploy a Site object from the Physical view.

Step 2 Click and hold down the right mouse button.

Step 3 Choose Deployment>Deploy Generic Objects....

Figure 3-5 Deploying a Site Object

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The Deployment Wizard - Templates window appears (see Figure 3-6) displaying a list of available
generic object deployment profiles. Deployment profiles are templates that prompt you for the
appropriate information required to deploy the selected object successfully.

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Figure 3-6 Deployment Wizard - Templates Window

Step 4

Select the generic object that you wish to deploy from the list supplied. In this example (shown in

Figure 3-6) shows the deployment profile for a Site object is selected. The Deployment Wizard steps

through a series of windows that prompt you for the information required to deploy the Site object.

Step 5 Click Forward.

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The Deployment Wizard - Object Parameters window appears (see Figure 3-7).

Figure 3-7 Deployment Wizard - Object Parameters Window (1 of 2)

Step 6 Enter the number of Sites required. A single site was entered in this example.

Step 7 Click Forward.

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Figure 3-8 Deployment Wizard - Object Parameters Window (2 of 2)

Step 8

Step 9 Click Forward.

Enter a Site name. Each Site must have a unique name. In this example the site is called Site-srp.

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The Deployment Wizard - Views window appears.

Figure 3-9 Deployment Wizard—Views Window

Step 10

Click Select, to select a physical view.

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The Object Selector Window appears.

Figure 3-10 Object Selector

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Step 12 Click Apply. The Deployment Wizard - Views window re-appears with the selection displayed.

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Figure 3-11 Deployment Wizard—Views Window

Step 13 Click Forward.

Note You are prompted to repeat Steps 8 to 13 if you are deploying more than one Site.

The Deployment - Wizard Summary window appears. The Summary window provides details of the
object you are about to deploy.

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Figure 3-12 Deployment Wizard—Summary Window

Step 14

Click Finish (when the Deployment Summary information is correct) to complete deployment and close
the Deployment Wizard - Summary window. The new Site object (that is, Site-srp) is created and
displayed in the Map Viewer window.

Figure 3-13 Example Showing the Newly Deployed Site-srp Object

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