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Содержание Nimbra 300 Series

Страница 1: ...Element Manager User s Manual Nimbra One Nimbra 300 series Nimbra 600 series NimOS GX4 0 3...

Страница 2: ...or the result to be obtained from using such specifications or information Net Insight AB shall not be responsible for any claims attributable to errors omissions or other inaccuracies in the specifi...

Страница 3: ...Overview 15 Connecting to the units 15 Required software 15 Command Line Interface 16 Web interface 16 Frequently used terms 17 Logging in using the Telnet connection 17 Terminal connection Nimbra 340...

Страница 4: ...and routing 48 DLE clients 48 DLE server 49 Multiple DLE servers 49 Configuration 49 Building networks with DLE 50 IP routing 52 Overview of Control Network 52 Setting up In band servers 53 Peering D...

Страница 5: ...interface configuration 90 Editing the OC 48 STM 16 X ADM Module 91 Editing the 2 x OC 12 STM 4 Trunk Module 94 Editing the OC 12 STM 4 Trunk Module DTM 622 Trunk Module 94 Editing the OC 3 STM 1 Trun...

Страница 6: ...Orginating Multicast Connection 159 Terminating Multicast Connection 162 Editing deleting Connections 163 Advanced settings 163 Channel Persistence 164 General 164 Persistence Configuration 165 Link C...

Страница 7: ...ling 178 Create a new scheduling entry 178 Automatic scheduling activities 179 Upgrading 181 General 181 Upgrade from GXa b c d to GXe f g h 181 Remote upgrade of Interface Modules 182 Reference 183 A...

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Страница 9: ...as element management software platform Support and assistance If you have any questions about how to use your equipment or software and if you do not find the solution to your problem in this manual...

Страница 10: ...ibes how ITS is used and how to create a video tunnel PDH tunnel or a Sonet SDH tunnel through the DTM network All connections describes Source routing what it is and how to configure it how to specif...

Страница 11: ...3 Terminal output and keyboard input Examples of text and commands appearing on a terminal screen are marked with a special font as follows Example of terminal text output Example of command optional...

Страница 12: ...d meets the demands of strict quality of service requirements for high bandwidth communications About the Nimbra One Nimbra One is a modular switch with hot swap support for one control module and up...

Страница 13: ...Element Manager User s Manual Nimbra OneSerie Product Overview 11 2006 Net Insight AB All rights reserved 8 x ASI Transport Access Module OC 3 STM 1 Access Module Figure 1 The Nimbra One...

Страница 14: ...media In addition the different products have got integrated ports on the chassis for DVB ASI interfaces 2 in 2 out 2 monitoring ports Nimbra 340 HD SDI interfaces 1 in 1 out 1 monitoring port Nimbra...

Страница 15: ...o and data applications Currently there is only one switch in this series the Nimbra 680 Nimbra 680 features 40 Gbps switching capacity redundant switch planes and control modules and has 12 slots for...

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Страница 17: ...al connection Connecting to the units Communication with the units is done either locally through a terminal connected directly to the unit or when the unit is in operation remotely over the in band m...

Страница 18: ...mation to be monitored or configured Refer to Figure 4 Figure 4 The web based user interface Alarm monitor Shows the number of alarms indicated and their severity Utility menu Gives access to the unit...

Страница 19: ...e all parameters and then set the administrative status to the configured value Local node Is also mentioned as source and originating node Remote node Is also mentioned as destination terminating and...

Страница 20: ...appears The only active menu item is Log in click on it to log in The Login page Figure 6 will appear Figure 6 The login page 4 Enter the user name in the Login field and then go to the Password fiel...

Страница 21: ...t is properly installed according to the relevant Installation and Maintenance Manual When following the quick start procedures do not change other parameters than the ones instructed Leave the other...

Страница 22: ...for the unit Opt DTM address Shows the DTM address of the node Man Type definitions Man mandatory Rec recommended Opt optional Set the System Parameters 1 Navigate to the Maintenance System page Figur...

Страница 23: ...ck address 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 is always shown in the list Figure 9 DTM address Note A change in the primary DTM address does not take effect until after the node has been restarted Set the DTM ro...

Страница 24: ...h or End node If a node is attached to the rest of the network using a single point to point link only then the node doesn t need a complete routing table The only routing entry that is necessary is a...

Страница 25: ...than the other enter a metric for the DTM interface 5 Select if the node should be a switch or an end node 6 Click OK 7 Save the new configuration Save the configuration 1 Navigate to web page Mainten...

Страница 26: ...at the top of page Figure 14 will appear In the field type Restart When the system is re started the contact with the browser is lost After a short time less than a minute click on the reload button i...

Страница 27: ...us and configurations How to backup and modify configurations The start web page for maintenance is shown in Figure 15 below Figure 15 The maintenance web page The sub sections are System A subset of...

Страница 28: ...of the location of the unit Rec Name server The IP address of the DNS Domain Name Server server Translates the name to an IP address Rec NTP Server The IP address of the NTP Network Timing Protocol se...

Страница 29: ...re restarting Otherwise the parameter changes will be lost Refer to Configuration handling 1 Navigate to web page Maintenance System The System page Click on restart or halt system at the top of page...

Страница 30: ...parameters Note If the internal clock is set to a time or date in the future all user will automatically be logged out by the system Users The user menu lists the logged in users Users can be added a...

Страница 31: ...Major The major severity level indicates that a service affecting condition has developed and an urgent corrective action is required Minor The Minor severity level indicates the existence of a non s...

Страница 32: ...ile RAM memory When the unit is powered off and then powered on again it reverts to the latest backed up configuration In order not to risk losing the configuration when changes have been verified and...

Страница 33: ...list and restart The term active is used for the configuration among the valid ones with the lowest index number Backing up the current configuration 1 Navigate to the Maintenance Configurations page...

Страница 34: ...download the configuration A standard save dialog will appear Open the file and modify it To upload the new configuration please refer to section Uploading configurations 4 Click OK The Maintenance C...

Страница 35: ...clearing the Valid checkbox 4 If necessary repeat steps 2 and 3 to make other configurations inactive then restart Deleting configurations Note If the active configuration is deleted the entire syste...

Страница 36: ...34 Maintenance Element Manager User s Manual Nimbra OneSerie 2006 Net Insight AB All rights reserved New versions of the software can also be uploaded refer to section Uploading images...

Страница 37: ...tware Uploading images If a new image should be uploaded and there s already two images one of them must be deleted refer to section Deleting images To upload an image file to the unit use the followi...

Страница 38: ...me the unit restarts Name Shows the name of the image Version Shows the version of the software Swap images 2 Click on the Swap images button and the images are swapped Deleting images Note If the pri...

Страница 39: ...erface The start web page for status monitoring is shown as below Figure 33 The start web page for Status The sub sections are Alarms present the alarms in the unit Events present the events in the no...

Страница 40: ...shows the Active and Cleared alarms in lists and it shows the alarms in the lists as follows Cause Indicates the cause of alarm in plain text Sev Shows the severity of the alarm The following values...

Страница 41: ...her description of the different alarms see the Reference chapter section Alarms and Events Acknowledging an alarm The alarms remain in the Alarm monitor field at the top of the web page until the ala...

Страница 42: ...Events page The table shows the last events logged by the unit such as configuration changes alarms and other system related events as follows Id Index number of the event Sev Indication of the severi...

Страница 43: ...learing of one or more previously reported alarms Object The function in the unit that the event concerns Text Specification of the event Time Shows when the event occurred Syslog The Syslog page list...

Страница 44: ...following information is shown Power Fans Temperature states the temp of the unit Fan states which fan that is operating Power supply states which power supply that is operating Installed boards Pos...

Страница 45: ...trative status can be set to Up or OFF Operative status shows the operational status of the card Name shows the name of the board 2 Set the Administrative status to Up OFF using the drop down menu and...

Страница 46: ...the system A Physical entity or Physical component represents an identifiable physical resource within a managed system Typically physical entities are physical resources e g communications ports back...

Страница 47: ...ntory table lists Printer friendly format The format is presented in text only format System name the name of the node Location the location of the node Contact the contact person DTM address the dtm...

Страница 48: ...e could be stored only the primary image will be presented and that one is thus the same as the running Monitoring the logged in users This function is used to check if any other users are logged in t...

Страница 49: ...e network management stations either from a network management system such as Nimbra Vision or from a web browser or telnet session This traffic is routed via the gateway Typically only a limited numb...

Страница 50: ...When Ethernet packets are sent from one node to another within the segment the client will establish a channel to the remote node The remote node would establish a return channel for any reply This me...

Страница 51: ...ent of new channels between two clients Packets are also distributed in the same way if the channel from one client to the other client is not established Typically this would be during the period whe...

Страница 52: ...mbra 290 291 Maximum recommended number of DLE clients for one DLE server 16 16 16 When working as gateway maximum recommended number of nodes to route traffic for 255 255 255 Maximum recommended numb...

Страница 53: ...segment 192 168 100 32 27 192 168 100 34 35 36 67 68 192 168 100 1 192 168 100 65 Gateway c Gateway 2 3 192 168 1 1 Figure 46 Example of a network with three DLE segments built as a tree and one exter...

Страница 54: ...ination 0 0 0 0 with netmask 0 0 0 0 This entry will match all IP addresses The gateway shall be the IP address of the gateway on the DLE segment Node a Destination 0 0 0 0 Netmask 0 0 0 0 Gateway 192...

Страница 55: ...ations for the unit Setting up In band servers DLE servers use one single multicast channel for connecting to all peering DLE servers Each server is responsible for re establishing its originating mul...

Страница 56: ...s to re establish a channel Destinations to peering dle servers DLE servers on the same level used for multiple servers for redundancy and load balance Statistics presents statistics of dle servers Re...

Страница 57: ...clients An In band client must be configured on every node in the segment including the nodes with the In band server To set up the in band management keep the following information at hand Parameter...

Страница 58: ...onnection capacity The capacity between the server and the client 0 400 Mbps 1 slot Man Type definitions Man mandatory Rec recommended Opt optional Advanced refer to section Setting up In band servers...

Страница 59: ...section describes how to change the address of the physical and logical Ethernet interface and also how to change the netmask of the subnet Navigate to Control Networks IP interfaces web page Figure...

Страница 60: ...e routing entry Example sw042 flash root netstat rn Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 192 168 103 0 0 0 0 0 255 255 255 0 U 0 0 0 eth0 192 168 148 0 0 0 0...

Страница 61: ...ill appear Figure 57 Add IP route 3 Set the Administrative status to Up and enter the Destination IP address and the Netmask 4 Enter the IP address of the Gateway 5 Click OK The Routing configuration...

Страница 62: ...low the steps below 1 Enter the Control Networks IP Routing conf Edit page according to the previous section 2 Click on the route to be deleted The Edit IP Route page Figure 58 will appear 3 Click on...

Страница 63: ...ivacy key see below is not set then only authentication check is done e g security level is authNoPriv If set and the Privacy key is set then authentication check is done and the data is encrypted e g...

Страница 64: ...r for the management station 3 Click OK to add the new notification receiver The Control Networks SNMP configuration page will be loaded updated with the new notification receiver Editing or deleting...

Страница 65: ...the form on the SNMP page is internally represented and related to the LCD Please refer to section Access control and Advanced setup below for a description of the format on the LCD The default config...

Страница 66: ...be encoded for use in the LCD SNMP page internal data Setting up data on the SNMP page is equivalent to setting up data on the Access control configuration page This section describes how the equival...

Страница 67: ...ToGroupEntry usm root authUsers nonVolatile or when also entering privacy key secret usmUserEntry localSnmpID root usmHMACMD5AuthProtocol usmDESPrivProtocol nonVolatile public secret vacmSecurityToGro...

Страница 68: ...rprise MIB objects can start with enterprises as this represents 1 3 6 1 4 1 The following entry keywords are supported For full description on the meaning of the entry please refer to the description...

Страница 69: ...t one SNMPv3 user must be configured for the SNMP agent to send and receive SNMP messages using the SNMPv3 protocol SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c do not have users Instead they have community names see section D...

Страница 70: ...The password can be given in clear text or as an encrypted string To encrypt the password use the Auth Key Generator on the Edit Access Control page see Figure 62 Defining Community At least one SNMPv...

Страница 71: ...esented by a dash The bit mask is a series of zeros and ones where the zeros represent wildcards and the ones represent an exact match The bit mask is applied on the subtree where the first bit masks...

Страница 72: ...el is the minimal security level In order to gain access by this entry the security level in use must at least be the specified security level The value is noAuthNoPriv if no authentication shall be r...

Страница 73: ...ntry vacmSecurityToGroupEntry model principal group storage model defines if the security model for the entry The model is snmpv1 snmpv2c or usm principal is the user name for the security model USM s...

Страница 74: ...igure the interfaces present in the unit Addresses configure the DTM addresses of the unit Host names configure mapping between the host names and the DTM addresses Links show the state of the DTM lin...

Страница 75: ...l number of slots which can be used Free shows the number of unused for transmit slots TX slots show the used slots i e from this node to the peering node TX capacity column indicates the percentage o...

Страница 76: ...on Type Interface name The interface id written as dtmX Y where X is position of the card and Y position of the port Read only Oper status The operational status of the board Read only Transmit capaci...

Страница 77: ...l reappear with the new interface listed 6 If required back up the configuration changes refer to chapter Maintenance section Configuration handling Addresses This chapter describes how to configure t...

Страница 78: ...addresses page will reappear with the new address listed in the table 3 Back up the configuration changes refer to chapter Maintenance section Configuration handling and then restart the node refer t...

Страница 79: ...very node all the nodes in the network must know all the host names Adding a host 1 Navigate to the DTM Host names page and click on the Add Entry button The Add page Figure 72 will appear Figure 72 A...

Страница 80: ...that have already been established The hostname table is only consulted when a channel is established Links The Links page shows the DTM links that the node is connected to The page can be used to che...

Страница 81: ...ocal node address and the one below is the remote node In Figure 74 a link is formed from the local interface dtm2 1 with interface MAC address 00 10 5B 00 04 B5 to node iov065 and the interface MAC a...

Страница 82: ...ic routing with static routing since this can lead to errors that are hard to track down Static routing To use static routing it is necessary to configure each node in the network with information on...

Страница 83: ...atch the destination address This gives the node a list of a number of different nexthops that it should try to reach the destination via Note If there are several routing entries with different prefi...

Страница 84: ...te id States the id of this routing entry Administrative status The Administrative status for this routing entry Down means that the route is ignored Up means that the routing entry shall be used Type...

Страница 85: ...edited The Route page Figure 79 will appear Figure 79 Edit route page Via this page it is possible to temporarily disable the route by setting the Administrative status to Down change the prefix or d...

Страница 86: ...path that passes through the least number of links In some circumstances the operator might have a different opinion on what the lowest cost path is It is then possible to classify some links or switc...

Страница 87: ...this node End node In this case the node will get a default route listing all the available peers as possible next hops with no particular preference This can be useful if a node has two peers for red...

Страница 88: ...he end nodes as end node in Dynamic routing config and adding a link prefix route in the switch s1 n3 n2 n1 X 17 01 X 17 03 X 17 02 Figure 84 Routing entries Nodes n1 n2 and n3 are configured as end n...

Страница 89: ...ged Click Apply or OK Deleting a dynamic routing entry To delete a routing entry access the DTM Routing web page Click on the address of the route to be deleted Set the Administrative status drop down...

Страница 90: ...nal clock priority Sets the priority of the external clock attached to this node External clock admin status Sets the external clock to active when status is set to up if signal is present Down forces...

Страница 91: ...n Perf Monitor Trunk Modules Nimbra One There are several different trunk modules Some of the cards are turnable and some are available in type A and B versions The recommendation is to use A for the...

Страница 92: ...ps 1 Gbps Optical Trunk Module SH 1 000 Mbps 1 Gbps Optical Trunk Module LH 1 000 Mbps Nimbra 360 has also got integrated SDH SONET trunk interfaces on the base unit One interface type is installed am...

Страница 93: ...tion please refer to section 1 Navigate to the Trunks Interface menu to enter the list of the trunks Select the trunk that should be configured or inspected by clicking on the Name of the trunk Figure...

Страница 94: ...t may require other value than the default 00 Sonet 10 SDH POH C2 byte Path over head C2 Unspecified Type of network eg ATM Signal failure filter period Delay time for 1 1 so the nodes will not switch...

Страница 95: ...rk interface Remote defect indication path RDI P Remote defect indication path RDI P defect detected by downstream SONET SDH network interface Payload mismatch PLM Payload mismatch Degraded signal DEG...

Страница 96: ...ed enable the alarms for the service by uncheck the Suppress alarms for All When marked all alarms are suppressed AIS Alarm indication signal is suppressed RDI Remote defect indicator Default is that...

Страница 97: ...nal detected on SONET SDH network interface no light in the fiber Los of frame LOF Loss of frame Unable to align SONET SDH frame no light in the fiber Los of pointer LOP Loss of pointer No pointer for...

Страница 98: ...96 Trunks Element Manager User s Manual Nimbra OneSerie 2006 Net Insight AB All rights reserved All Figure 91 Edit the Trunk parameters OC 12 STM 4 Module...

Страница 99: ...ansmitting bit clock for the interface from local oscillator interface or from the bit clock received from the remote node loop This shouldn t be confused with the 8 kHz frame clock H1 SS bits Differe...

Страница 100: ...emote defect indication path RDI P Remote defect indication path RDI P defect detected by downstream SONET SDH network interface Payload mismatch PLM Payload mismatch Degraded signal DEG Degraded sign...

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