This chapter provides an overview of the Oracle Communications Network Integrity Cisco Router and Switch UIM Integration cartridge.
The Cisco Router and Switch UIM Integration cartridge is an extension of the Network Integrity Cisco Router and Switch SNMP cartridge, and provides Cisco-specific functionality, including:
Generic management information bean (MIB) MIB-II logical discovery and modeling
Cisco logical discovery and modeling of Frame Relay, asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), and virtual local area network (VLAN) media configurations
Cisco physical discovery and modeling
This cartridge produces both logical and physical device hierarchies that represent a discovered device. The logical hierarchy includes a logical device, child interfaces, subinterfaces (collectively called interfaces), and device interface configurations. The physical hierarchy includes physical device, equipment, equipment holders, and physical ports. In addition, this cartridge creates associations between the physical and logical hierarchies. The first association is at the device level, between the physical device and the logical device, and the second association is at the interface level between physical ports and Interfaces. See Network Integrity Cisco Router and Switch SNMP Cartridge Guide for more information about the discovery action.
The Cisco Router and Switch UIM Integration cartridge also enables you to discover devices based on their CPU utilization by setting a threshold value (in percentage) in the Discover Enhanced Cisco SNMP discovery scan. See "Creating a Discover Enhanced Cisco SNMP Discovery Scan" for more information. See Network Integrity Cisco Router and Switch SNMP Cartridge Guide for more information about the CPU utilization-enabled discovery.
In addition to a discovery action, this cartridge provides discrepancy detection, discrepancy resolution, and import actions for integration with Unified Inventory Management.
The import action allows a logical and physical device tree in Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management (UIM) to be imported to Network Integrity to compare objects with what is discovered.
Discrepancy detection provides the mechanism to allow a filtered comparison of logical and physical device trees between what is discovered and what is imported from UIM.
For more information about discrepancy detection actions and processors, see Network Integrity Developer's Guide.
The discrepancy resolution action enables the discovered logical and physical device trees to be created and updated in UIM.
This section provides information on dependencies that the Cisco Router and Switch UIM Integration cartridge has on other entities.
For the Cisco Router and Switch UIM Integration cartridge to work at run time:
You must deploy the Address_Handlers and Cisco_SNMP cartridges to Network Integrity
UIM must be installed and be accessible to Network Integrity
The following components must be deployed to UIM:
ora_ni_uim_cisco_device_sample
ora_ni_uim_ocim
ora_ni_uim_device
UIM Integration web service
To load this cartridge into Oracle Communications Design Studio, the following cartridges are required:
Address_Handlers
Cisco_Model
Cisco_SNMP_Cartridge
MIB_II_SNMP_Cartridge
NetworkIntegritySDK
ora_ni_uim_cisco_device_sample
ora_ni_uim_device
ora_ni_uim_ocim
ora_uim_model
UIM_Integration_Cartridge
To review and extend the Cisco Router and Switch UIM Integration cartridge, download the Oracle Communications Cisco Router and Switch UIM Integration cartridge software from the Oracle software delivery web site:
The software contains the Cisco UIM Integration cartridge ZIP file, which has the following structure:
\UIM_Cartridge_Projects\
\Network_Integrity_Cartridge_Projects\
\SNMP_MIBs\
The UIM_Cartridge_Projects and Network_Integrity_Cartridge_Projects folders contain the extensible Design Studio files.
See the Design Studio Help and Network Integrity Developer's Guide for information about opening files in Design Studio.