Configuring the ETM® System
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Configuring the ETM
®
System
If you have completed the procedures in previous chapters, you are ready to
configure the ETM
®
System components. When you have finished the
configuration procedures in this chapter, the ETM System will be ready to
monitor and protect the voice network.
The following terms are used in these instructions:
An
Appliance
is a chassis that contains one or more
Cards
. In the ETM
System, each Appliance is represented by an
Appliance
object in the
Performance Manager tree pane.
Appliance
objects group Cards
according to the Appliance in which they are contained.
Cards
contain one or more interfaces to the telco spans; these interfaces
are referred to as
Spans
in the ETM System.
Spans
provide the interface that connects the Appliance to a physical
span entering a PBX on a customer's premises.
Switches
represent the PBX from which the Appliances are monitoring
calls. Each PBX is represented by a
Switch
object in the Performance
Manager tree pane. Switches are used to configure SMDR, NFAS, and
SS7 Groups, define Protected Extensions, and to associate the AAA
Service with its local Spans.
Configuration of the ETM System consists of the following steps, explained
in detail in the procedures that follow:
1.
Start the Management Server and connect to it with the ETM System
Console that you will use to complete configuration, typically the local
one. The Performance Manager is launched from within the ETM
System Console.
2.
Authorize the Cards in the Appliances to connect to the Management
Server.
3.
Name each Card and complete network- and security-related Card
configuration.
Overview of
Terms
System
Configuration
Steps
