Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Related Documents
• Documentation Accessibility

1 Introduction

• Overview of IP Service Activator
  • Service Modules
  • Flexible Multi-Vendor Support
  • Device Discovery and Management
  • Policy-Based Management
  • Intelligent Data Modeling
  • OSS Integration Capabilities
  • Event Handler
  • Flexible Activation Extensibility
  • Scalability
  • IPv6 Support
• Distributed Architecture
• Core Components
  • Policy Server and Database
    • Naming Service
    • System Logger
    • Database
  • Proxy Agent and Device Drivers
  • Network Processor and Cartridges
  • Web Services API
  • Component Manager
  • User Interfaces
  • Service Modules
    • Common Module
    • MPLS LSP Module
    • InfoVista Integration Module
    • Configuration Template Module

2 IP Service Activator Features

• Network Discovery and Representation
  • The Discovery Process
  • Access and Authentication
  • Device and Interface Capabilities
  • The Topology Model
  • Mapping the Network
    • Map Views
    • Manual Mapping
    • Automatic Mapping
• Device Management and Integrity
  • Communicating with the Device
  • Modeling Device Configuration
  • Ensuring Consistency and Integrity
    • Polling, Failure, and Recovery
    • Co-existence with Manual Configuration
    • Logging and Reporting
• Managing Data
  • The Knowledge Store
    • The External Object Model
  • Transaction-based Processing
    • Defining Transactions
    • Timing of Transactions
    • Transaction Workflows
  • Security Access
    • User Authentication
    • User and Group Permissions
    • Object Ownership and Permissions

3 Transactions

• About Transactions
• Transaction Workflows
  • The One-stage Commit Model
  • The Two-stage Commit Model
• Local and Common Object Models
  • The Transaction Store
• Working with Transactions
  • Checking the Origin of a Transaction
  • Selecting Transactions
• Transaction Processing: Data Flow
• Concretes
  • Searching for Concrete Objects
  • Abstract and Concrete Policy Elements
    • Abstract and Concrete Rules
    • Rule Status
  • Concrete Activation Status
    • Turning Off and On the Concrete Audit State Feature
    • If Concretes are not Created as Expected

4 VPN and Connectivity Services

• Layer 3 MPLS VPNs (RFC 4364)
  • Key Concepts
    • MPLS
    • Roles of Routers
    • BGP
    • Site and Route Distinguishers
    • VPN-IPv4 and IPv6 Addresses
    • VRF Tables and Route Targets
    • Routing Protocols in the VPN
  • VRF Tables
    • VRF Table Names
    • VRF Re-use and Reduction
    • RD Number Formats
    • RT Number Formats
    • VPN Topologies
    • RDs per VPN
    • VRF Route Limit
    • Co-existence with Predefined VRF Tables
    • Predefined Export Maps
  • PE-PE Routing -iBGP
    • iBGP Peering Optional
    • Load Balancing
    • PE-PE Community Attributes
    • MD5 Authentication
  • PE-CE Configuration
    • PE-CE Protocols
    • Route Redistribution
  • eBGP Configuration
  • IPsec
• Layer 2 MPLS VPNs (Martini)
  • Implementation Scenarios
    • Layer 2 Martini VPNs on Routers and MPLS-enabled Switching Devices
  • Creating a Layer 2 Martini VPN in IP Service Activator
• Layer 2 MPLS Label Switched Paths
  • Supported Services
• Layer 2 Transparent LAN Services
  • Key Concepts
    • VC-LSPs
    • Transport LSPs
    • 802.1Q
    • Mapping Frames to the TLS
  • IP Service Activator's TLS Implementation
    • Port-based TLS
    • Port-and-VLAN-based TLS
• Metro Ethernet Virtual LAN (VLAN) Services
  • VLAN Options
• Dedicated Internet Access
• Layer 3 Multicast Services
  • IP Multicast Services
  • VPN Multicast Services
• Alcatel HTML Generation

5 Policy-based Services

• Key Policy Configuration Concepts
  • About Policy Elements
    • Policy Rules
    • Per Hop Behavior Groups
    • SLA Measurement and Collector Parameters
    • Driver Scripts
  • About Policy Targets
    • Policy Roles
    • Inheritance
• Configuring QoS Policies
  • Classifying Traffic
  • Marking Traffic
    • DiffServ Codepoint
    • IP Precedence
    • MPLS Experimental Bits
  • Shaping and Queuing Traffic
    • Traffic Shaping
    • Queuing Mechanisms
  • Policing Traffic
  • Modular QoS CLI
• Configuring Access Control Policies

6 Extending IP Service Activator

• About the Configuration Template Module

7 Integration Features

• The Web Service
• The OSS Integration Manager
  • About the OIM Command Set
  • About the External Object Model
  • Transaction Monitoring Functions
  • Other Uses of OIM
• Fault and Event Reporting
  • About Subscriptions
  • Collecting and Filtering
  • Delivery Methods
    • SNMP Trap Reporting
    • CORBA Interface
    • Micromuse Netcool Integration
• The OSS Java Development Library
• Ready-to-Use Integrations
  • SLA Monitoring
    • Types of Measurements Supported
    • Integration Architecture
  • Integration with InfoVista
    • Key Components
    • Integration Files
  • Web Services and Reference Implementation
    • Reference Implementation
  • Fault Management