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Oracle® Communications IP Service Activator User's Guide
Release 7.2
E35290-01
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Title and Copyright Information
Preface
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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
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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
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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
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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
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