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PacketStar
™
Access Concentrator 60 User Guide
, Issue 1
Release 6.3.0
Chapter 3 System Features
Network Management
c. Hybrid connection, which connects the main router Access
Concentrator system directly to the end system Access Concentrator
system through ATM PVC connections.
These ATM PVC connections can be sent through several Access
Concentrator systems to reach the end system Access Concentrator
systems. The main router Access Concentrator system is connected to the
NMS computer through an Ethernet LAN.
In-band Management
SVCs
Release 6.2 added the option of in-band management with switched virtual
circuits (SVC). Previously, a PSAX device or a network management system
computer could only be set up to manage one or more access concentrator
systems over an ATM wide area network with PVC connections. Now, using
the host access concentrator system, you can find the IP addresses of remote
PSAX systems and, with those addresses, create the SVC connections. This
provides fault-tolerant in-band management, taking advantage of SVC’s call
setup and automatic rerouting functions.
Phase 2, available through Release 6.3.0, gives the complete PSAX product
line ATM ARP Server functions.
The Access Concentrator system software features a standard SNMP agent
that allows any standard SNMP network management system, including
those based on systems such as HP OpenView and SunNet Manager, to
perform all management functions.
In conjunction with the visual indicators displayed on the front panels of the
individual modules, the system offers a full complement of SNMP trap
messages that alert the user to faults in the AC 60 system. Usage-based
messages collected on the CPU module allow a service provider to collect cell
counts for traffic and performance monitoring, and for fault detection.
The SNMP MIB provides an extensive series of configuration management
and provisioning features that allow the user to prepare the various
components for supporting services.
AQueView
™ Element
Management System
The
AQueView™
element management system (EMS) software is a graphic
user interface (GUI)-based element management tool that is used to
provision the
PacketStar™
PSAX Access Concentrator systems; it enables a
network of PSAX products to be managed and provisioned with easy-to-use
windows from a single location. The
AQueView™
EMS also provides
centralized configuration, fault, performance, accounting, and security
management of PSAX systems.
With Release 6.2.3, the
PacketStar
™
PSAX Access Concentrator product line
(the PSAX 2300, PSAX 1250, PSAX 20, and AC 60 PSAX Access
Concentrators) has been upgraded with the initial integration of Navis
software with the
AQueView
™
element management system Client/Server
application.
Navis Integration,
Phase 1
Customers deploying any of the Lucent Technologies PSAX central office or
customer’s premises products with Lucent core ATM and frame relay
switches (CBX 500, GX 550, B-STDX 8000/9000, and others) can now run
the
AQueView
™
element management system (EMS) Client/Server software