Contents

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Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility

1 IP Service Activator Setup: Overview

• Customizing IP Service Activator
• Installing IP Service Activator
• Configuring IP Service Activator
• Setting Up System and Domain Information
• Setting Up Roles
• Discovering the Network
• Mapping the Network
• Setting Up VPN Services
• Setting Up Basic Policy Data
• Setting Up Policies
• Setting Up SLA Monitoring
• Transactions in IP Service Activator

2 The IP Service Activator Client

• Introduction
• Running IP Service Activator for the First Time
• User Access Levels and the Client
• IP Service Activator Windows
  • The Domain Management Windows
  • Panes in the Domain Management Window
    • Hierarchy Pane and Tabs
    • Details Pane
    • Ancestry Pane
    • Current Faults Pane
    • Current Faults Message Content
    • Statistics Summary Pane
    • Status Bar
    • Palette
    • Tabs in the Domain Management Window
  • The Global Setup Window
• How IP Service Activator Models the System
  • Modeling the Network, Services, and Policies
  • Inheritance Between Objects
  • Working with Objects
    • Selecting Objects
    • Creating New Objects
    • Viewing and Editing Object Properties
    • Resizing an Object's Properties Dialog Box
    • Data Validation in a Properties Dialog Box
    • Viewing an Object's Configuration
    • Linking Objects
    • Unlinking Objects: Deleting Links
    • Deleting Objects
• Organizing Objects into User-defined Folders
• Navigation
• About the Toolbar
  • Synchronizing Panes
  • Using the Navigation Icons
  • Changing Views
• Changing the Appearance of the Client
  • Hiding and Showing Windows and Window Elements
  • Changing the Size and Position of a Pane
  • Changing the Hierarchy Pane's Tab Position and Style
• Searching IP Service Activator
  • Conducting a Text-based Search
  • Searching Committed Transactions
• Printing

3 Defining and Applying Roles

• About Roles
• System and User-defined Roles
  • Viewing the Roles Defined in IP Service Activator
  • System-defined Roles
  • User-defined Roles
    • Deleting User-defined Roles
• Assigning a Role to a Policy Target
  • Assigning Roles

4 Setting Up Domain Information

• Setting Up Domains
  • Manual Configuration with Manual Config Field set to Delete
    • Device Driver Handling of Manually Configured Objects when Delete Selected
    • Network Processor Handling of Manually Configured Objects when Delete Selected
  • Setting the Default Loopback ID Value for Discovery
• Setting Up Proxy Agent Assignment
  • Assigning a Proxy Agent to a Domain
  • Setting Up Proxy Agents for Automatic Assignment
    • Working in multi-proxy environments
• Loading Policy Configuration Data
• Opening the Domain

5 Discovering and Setting Up the Network

• Introduction to the Discovery Process
  • Discovering the Network
  • Assigning Devices to Proxy Agents
  • Assigning Roles to Devices and Interfaces
  • Setting Up Device Security Parameters
  • Discovery Capabilities
  • BGP Autonomous System Discovery
• Before Running Device Discovery
  • Setting Up the Domain Details
    • Public Domains
    • Private Domains
    • MPLS VPN Domains
  • Setting Up Proxy Agents for Automatic Assignment
  • Defining How IP Addresses are Used
  • Setting Up Roles
• Customizing Discovery Using AutoDiscovery.cfg
  • Enterprise
  • Subinterface
  • Sublayer
  • Vlan and Vlanport
  • Main
  • Ignore
  • Ifname and Ifdesc
  • Icmp
  • Persistent
  • Volatile
  • Rename
  • AtmVcInterfaceSource
  • Host and Device
  • Controller
  • Order of Evaluation
• Running Device Discovery
  • Setting Up the Discovery Parameters
    • Discovering One or More Specific Devices
    • Discovering the Local Segment
  • Defining the SNMP Options for Discovery
  • Defining Default Security Options for Discovery
    • Access Styles
    • Cartridge Support for Access Styles
  • The Discovery Process
    • Monitoring the Discovery Process
    • Automatic Mapping
    • Stopping the Discovery Process
• The ERX Discovery Module
• After Discovery is Complete
  • Ensuring Devices Are Assigned Roles
  • Ensuring Devices Are Assigned to Proxy Agents
  • Setting Specific IP Addresses for Device Management
  • Setting Manual Configuration Detection
  • Setting Specific Security Settings
  • Managing Devices
  • Retaining or Removing IP Service Activator Configuration
  • Discovering a New Device Type
    • Reducing the Number of Listed Device Types
  • Managing Configuration Thresholding
    • About Configuration Thresholding
    • Setting the Configuration Threshold
    • What Happens When the Threshold is Exceeded
    • Recovering from an Exceeded Threshold
    • Configuration Thresholding Notes
  • Setting up Configuration Thresholding
    • Setting the Configuration Thresholding Regex Match Expression
• Creating Virtual Devices and Interfaces
• Maintaining the Network Topology
  • Refreshing the Entire Domain
  • Rediscovering Individual Devices
  • Deleting Missing Interfaces
    • If the Interface is Deleted
  • Setting Up Discovery to Run Automatically

6 Representing and Mapping Objects

• How Objects are Represented
  • Alternative Device Views
    • Status Context View
    • Policy Context View
    • Object Labels
  • Network Segments
  • VLAN Representation
    • VLAN Representation on a CatOS Device
    • VLAN Representation on an MSFC (IOS) Device
  • Juniper E-series virtual router representation
• Creating and Viewing a Topology Map
  • The Map Toolbar
  • Creating the Map Manually
  • Creating the Map Automatically
  • Setting Automatic Layout Parameters
• Guidelines for Working with Maps
  • Recalculating a Map Layout
  • Selecting and Laying Out Objects on a Map
  • Configuring the Palette
  • Displaying a Background Image
  • Changing the Scale of the Map
• Creating Subsidiary Networks and Maps
• Creating Additional Map Views

7 Checking Device Status and Capabilities

• Viewing the Status of a Device or Interface
• Viewing a List of Interfaces on a Device
• Checking Capabilities
  • Device-level Capability Categories
  • Interface-level Capability Categories
  • Refetching Device Capabilities
• Modifying Device/Interface Capabilities
  • Code Sample

8 Working with Transactions

• Creating Transactions: The Current Transaction
• Committing Transactions
• Saving Transactions
• Scheduling Transactions
• Merging or Previewing Transactions
• Unmerging or Rolling Back Transactions
• Discarding the Current Transaction
• Deleting Transactions
• Managing Transactions
  • Running in Confirmed Transaction Mode
  • Searching Committed Transactions
  • Exporting Transactions
  • Viewing a List of Transactions
  • Viewing Transaction Details
    • Transaction State
  • Checking the Origin of Transactions
  • Selecting Transactions
  • Provisioning Status
  • Status of Concretes within a Transaction
  • Enabling Transaction Status Monitoring