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Cisco EPN Manager uses the service discovery feature to automatically discover the circuits/VCs existing in the network and the circuits/VCs that are provisioned using the Provisioning Wizard. The service discovery feature is enabled by default. You can choose to disable this feature. If you disable service discovery, all the existing services in Cisco EPN Manager will be removed. You must restart the server to apply the changes.
To disable service discovery:
Step 1 | From the left side bar, choose , then choose . |
Step 2 | Uncheck the Enable Service Discovery check box. |
Step 3 | Restart Cisco EPN Manager to apply your changes. See Stop and Restart Cisco EPN Manager |
Circuit/VC Primary States— A circuit/VC's primary state conveys the most important state information for a circuit, in this order: Serviceability, Discovery, Alarm, Provisioning. It is normally shown in the first column in a table of circuits.
Circuit/VC Primary State |
Icon |
Serviceability |
Discovery |
Alarm |
Provisioning |
Missing |
— |
Missing |
— |
— |
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Down |
Down |
— |
— |
— |
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Critical |
— |
— |
Critical |
— |
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Major |
— |
— |
Major |
— |
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Minor |
— |
— |
Minor |
— |
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Partially Down |
Partial |
— |
— |
— |
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Admin Down |
Admin Down |
— |
— |
— |
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Partially Discovered |
— |
Partial |
— |
— |
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Failed |
— |
— |
— |
(Create, modify, delete) failed |
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In progress |
— |
— |
— |
(Create, modify, delete) in progress |
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Warning |
|
— |
Warning |
— |
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Up |
Up |
— |
— |
— |
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Auto Up |
Auto Up |
— |
— |
— |
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Info |
— |
— |
Info |
— |
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Cleared |
— |
— |
Cleared |
— |
Circuit/VC Serviceability States— A circuit/VC's serviceability state is a combination of the circuit/VC's admin and operational states. The admin state is shown because it impacts service operability and (for optical circuits) determines whether the Activate and Deactivate actions are available. The operational state is shown to quickly identify whether a service is working or not.
Circuit/VC Discovery States—A circuit/VC's discovery state represents the latest state and structure of a service and its components, as discovered from the network. Having a Discovered version means that the application is actually monitoring the service itself, e.g. it can define meaningful operational and performance data.
Circuit/VC Discovery State |
Icon |
Description |
Partial |
Circuit/VC partially discovered by CEPNM; not all of its expected entities have been discovered. |
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Full |
Circuit/VC fully discovered by CEPNM, so CEPNM can monitor the service and provide meaningful operational and performance data. |
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Missing |
Circuit/VC not yet discovered by CEPNM (though it may have been provisioned). |
Circuit/VC Provisioning States—A circuit/VC's provisioning state represents whether there is a provisioning intent for a circuit/VC and, if so, its status. If a reconciliation report has been generated, the state of the reconcile action is reflected.
Cisco EPN Manager provides a variety of ways that you can view circuits/VCs:
To view circuit/VC information for: |
See the procedures in: |
A specific circuit/VC in a topology map, in a Circuit/VC 360 view, or in a Circuit/VC Details page |
Get Quick Information About a Circuit/VC: Circuit/VC 360 View Get Comprehensive Information About a Circuit/VC: Circuit/VC Details Window |
A device |
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A device group in a topology map or in an expanded table |
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All of Cisco EPN Manager |
Cisco EPN Manager provides different ways to view details about a specific circuit/VC, depending on how much detail you need:
When working with circuits/VCs, it is very useful to see how a circuit/VC is deployed within the existing network topology. Cisco EPN Manager overlays the circuit/VC on an existing topology map, clearly indicating the endpoints and midpoints of the circuit/VC, the role of the endpoint (where relevant), and relevant fault information for the circuit/VC. This overlay functionality is available in the geo map as well as the topology map.
For CEM services that use the MPLS TE tunnels to traverse through the network, the underlying tunnel is also displayed in the topology map along with the CEM service overlay. For information about how to assign a MPLS TE tunnel for a CEM service, see Provision Circuit Emulation Services
To display an overlay of a circuit/VC on the network topology:
Step 1 | From the left sidebar, choose . |
Step 2 | Click the Device Groups button and select the required group. |
Step 3 | Go to the Circuits/VCs tab to see a list of the circuits/VCs associated with the selected group. |
Step 4 | Select the
circuit/VC you want to see on the map.
The nodes and links that participate in the selected circuit are highlighted in the overlay and the rest of the devices in the map appear disabled. The name of the selected circuit is displayed just below the topology toolbar. To clear the overlay, click the ‘x’ button to the right of the circuit name. For a description of the overlay icons, see the table below. |
Overlay Icon |
Definition |
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Source endpoint |
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Destination endpoint |
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EVC with local switching |
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Endpoint included by the user during creation of the circuit. |
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Endpoint excluded by the user during the creation of the circuit |
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Endpoint with some ports that were included during creation of the circuit and some that were excluded. This endpoint contains multiple ports that are participating in various routes of the circuit. |
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E-TREE EVC endpoint that has been designated as a root. |
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Selected endpoint. |
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Hub. If the hub and root are on the same device (VPLS scenario), the brown circle is combined with the root icon. |
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Link included during creation of the circuit. |
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Link excluded during creation of the circuit. |
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Link with some ports that were included during creation of the circuit and some that were excluded. This represents the aggregated link that contains multiple ports participating in various routes of the same circuit. |
The Circuit/VC 360 view provides at-a-glance information about a specific circuit/VC. From the Circuit/VC 360 view, you can access detailed information about the circuit/VC and perform the actions described in Actions You Can Perform from the Circuit/VC 360 View.
The Circuit/VC 360 view displays the circuit name, state, and general circuit/VC and performance information at the top of the view. More detailed information is provided in tabs in the lower part of the view.
Information Provided in Circuit/VC 360 View |
Description |
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General information |
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Performance data |
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Alarms |
Current alarms for the circuit/VC, including their severity, status, and the time they were generated. |
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Endpoints |
Devices and interfaces that serve as endpoints for this circuit/VC. |
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History |
The History tab lists all versions of the circuit, allowing you to view the changes that have occurred since the circuit/VC was discovered or first deployed. You can open the Circuit 360 view for any of the versions listed to see its endpoints, alarms, and so forth.
You can also view the configuration details for the circuit/VC's endpoints by doing the following:
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Related Circuits/VCs |
Additional circuits within the selected circuit. |
For EVCs, the following information is shown:
Jitter—Average jitter, in milliseconds, across all the endpoints of the circuit/VC.
For optical circuits, the performance data is shown based on the following circuit types:
In addition, the average, minimum, and maximum amount of output power received and transmitted from the circuit is shown for all optical circuit types.
To open the Circuit/VC 360 view for a particular circuit or VC:
Step 1 | Choose
. The network topology window opens. See Visualize the Network Topology for a description of the network topology window and its functionality. |
Step 2 | From the Network Toplogy page toolbar, click Device Groups.
The Device Groups pop-window opens. |
Step 3 | Locate and click the device group that the circuit or VC is associated with, then close the pop-up window. |
Step 4 | Click the Circuits/VCs tab. |
Step 5 | Locate the circuit or VC in the list and then click its i (information) icon. |
You can do the following from the Circuit/VC 360 view:
Choose Protected Path to reroute the traffic through the working path or protected path defined for the circuit. See Reroute a Circuit (Optical).
orThe Circuit/VC Details window provides additional details about a specific circuit/VC, including the attributes defined for the circuit/VC. The information shown in the displayed page varies depending on the type of circuit/VC. You can also perform certain actions from the Circuit/VC Details Window, for example, modify/delete the circuit/VC, create a new circuit/VC, run a performance test.
To access the Circuit/VC Details window, click on the circuit/VC name hyperlink in any of the circuit/VC tables. Alternatively, you can access the Circuit/VC details window from the Circuit/VC 360 view, as follows:
Step 1 | Access the Circuit/VC 360 view for the required circuit/VC. See Get Quick Information About a Circuit/VC: Circuit/VC 360 View. |
Step 2 | Choose View > Details. See Provision EVCs in a Carrier Ethernet Network and Provision Circuits in an Optical/DWDM Network for description of the attributes in the Circuit/VC details page. |
From the Circuit/VC Details window, you can do the following:
Use the Circuit History page to compare two versions of an optical circuit. From the Circuit History page, you can:
Get a simple visualization and integrated view of the events that occurred in the optical circuit.
View the alarms associated with an event.
Compare the route changes in the circuit.
For example, consider that there is a restoration that has occurred in an optical circuit. Using the Circuit History page, you can:
View the list of changes that had occurred in the circuit.
If there is a protection switch action that had occurred in the circuit, you can click the i icon in the Type column to see the details of the event that has caused the protection switch action.
Click the i icon in the Time Stamp column to see the alarms that are associated with the event.
You can further compare the route changes between the active path and the path at the time of protection switch.
You can also choose to compare the route changes between the active path and the original path or between the original path and the path at the time of protection switch to view the difference in the participating nodes and take action on the affected nodes.
To view the history of an optical circuit:
Use the Device 360 view to see a list of all the circuits/VCs in which a specific device participates. This is useful when a specific device is having a problem and you want to see which services it will affect.
To view a list of circuits/VCs in which a device participates:
Step 1 | Click the required device in the network topology ( ). |
Step 2 | Click View 360 in the popup window. |
Step 3 | Go to the Circuit/VC tab in the Device 360 view to see a table listing the relevant circuits for that device. The table lists the circuit/VC name, the circuit/VC type, when it was created/modified, and the current status of the circuit/VC. |
Cisco EPN Manager displays discovered and provisioned circuits/VCs in the Circuits/VCs tab on the left side of the network topology window. The list of circuits/VCs is filtered according to the selected device group. You can get details about the circuit/VC by clicking on the circuit/VC name to launch the Circuit/VC Details window or by clicking the information icon and launching the Circuit/VC 360 view.
The Circuits/VCs tab lists discovered circuits/VCs and the latest version of circuits/VCs provisioned using Cisco EPN Manager . The circuits/VCs are sorted by primary state (default).
To view a list of circuits/VCs in the network topology window:
Step 1 | Choose in the left navigation pane. The network topology window opens. |
Step 2 | Click the Device Groups button and select the group of devices you want to show on the topology map. |
Step 3 | Go to the Circuits/VCs tab to see a list of circuits/VCs relevant to the selected device group. |
Step 4 | Select a circuit/VC to view an overlay of the circuit/VC in the network topology, meaning that the circuit/VC endpoints and path are shown on top of the physical topology. Click on the circuit name hyperlink to see circuit details or click on the information icon next to the circuit/VC name to open the Circuit/VC 360 view. |
Step 5 | To open a tabular view of the circuits/VCs in a separate window, click Circuit/VCs below the list of circuits/VCs. |
From the network topology window, you can open a table of circuits/VCs associated with the selected device group in a separate browser window. The table provides more information about each circuit/VC and is also sortable and searchable, enabling you to find information easily. This table is particularly useful for identifying the provisioning status of circuits/VCs, as well as their management status within Cisco EPN Manager . For an explanation of circuit/VC states (and their icons, see Circuit/VC States).
By default, the circuits/VCs table sorts the circuits/VCs by primary state. You can change how the table is sorted as required.
The expanded circuits/VCs table works together with the Network Topology window so that if you select a circuit/VC in the table, the circuit/VC will be represented graphically in the Network Topology window in the context of the topology map.
To open an expanded and more detailed tabular list of circuits in a separate window:
Step 1 | Choose in the left navigation pane. The network topology window opens. |
Step 2 | Click the Device Groups button and select the group of devices you want to show on the topology map. |
Step 3 | Go to the Circuits/VCs tab to see a list of circuits/VCs relevant to the selected device group. |
Step 4 | Click the Circuit/VCs hyperlink below the list of circuits/VCs to open a separate window containing a list of circuits/VCs relevant to the selected device group. |
The Circuits/VCs & Network Interfaces page lists all of the circuits and VCs that Cisco EPN Manager is currently managing. From here, you can quickly locate a specific circuit or VC by filtering the list using basic criteria such as name, type, or customer. You can identify all of the circuits and VCs that have severe alarms or are in a specific state. (For a description of circuit and VC states (including primary states), see Circuit/VC States.) You can also perform circuit and VC management tasks and run performance tests. To use this page, do the following:
Note | After a device that is participating in a circuit or VC is removed from Cisco EPN Manager , the corresponding circuit or VC is still listed on the Circuits/VCs & Network Interfaces page. |
Step 1 | Choose |
Step 2 | Perform any of the following actions:
|
Note | When circuits/VCs are discovered, the system identifies whether they are optical, CE, or L3VPN circuits/VCs, but it cannot identify the exact type of CE circuit/VC. For example, CE circuits/VC will display EVC in the Type column but not the type of EVC, such as EPL, E-LAN, and so on. For optical, the exact type of circuit is displayed. |
You can do the following with discovered circuits/VCs:
Note | When circuits/VCs are discovered, the system identifies whether they are optical, CE, or L3VPN circuits/VCs, but it cannot identify the exact type of CE circuit/VC. For example, CE circuits/VC will display EVC in the Type column but not the type of EVC, such as EPL, E-LAN, and so on. For optical, the exact type of circuit is displayed. |
A circuit is classified as implicit if it is an underlying or "carrying" circuit of another circuit. For example, an OCHTRAIL circuit could be a carrying circuit (and implicit) for an OCHCC circuit. By default, all circuits are listed in the circuit lists. However, you can hide implicit circuits from the lists, if required. When implicit circuits are hidden, they will not be displayed in the circuit lists but you can see them in the Carrying Circuits tab of the Circuit 360 view.
To hide implicit circuits from the circuit lists:
Use the network topology Routes drop-down menu to display specific routes associated for a circuit in the circuit overlay. Cisco EPN Manager calculates the routes from the links within a service. You can also filter the overlay based on the selected routes.
Note | This feature is supported only on optical and CEM circuits. |
Step 1 | From the left sidebar, choose . | ||
Step 2 | From Device Groups list, select the required group. Cisco EPN Manager lists the circuits associated with the selected group in the Circuit/VCs tab. | ||
Step 3 | Click Circuit/VCs, and then select the circuit you want to display. | ||
Step 4 | From the
Routes drop-down list, choose the required route
type.
|
Discovered circuits need to be promoted before they can be modified or deleted. After being promoted, the circuit/VC's provisioning state changes to Promote Successful.
Note | Promotion is supported for Optical circuits and for basic EVCs that do not have additional configurations, such as CFM, LMI, QoS, OAM, G.8032, ICCP-SM. Promotion is supported if the underlying core is VPLS (for E-LAN and E-Tree EVCs). If a discovered circuit/VC cannot be promoted, it cannot be modified or deleted. |
To promote a discovered circuit/VC:
For successful promotion of L3VPN services, you must ensure that the route distinguisher for the L3VPN service is specified in the format rd device_ip:number.
For example:
vrf definition vdvvgfr420 rd 10.104.120.133:420 vpn id 36B:420 ! address-family...
Step 1 | From the left sidebar, choose . The network topology window opens. |
Step 2 | Click the Device Groups button and select the required group. |
Step 3 | Go to the Circuits/VCs tab and click the Circuits/VCs link to open an extended table of circuits/VCs in the selected group. |
Step 4 | Select the
discovered circuit/VC you want to promote.
To identify L3VPN services that are discovered from the device but not promoted, filter out L3VPN services that have the provisioning status 'None'. You can also identify discovered services using the Name field of the L3VPN service. The Name field for L3VPN services that are discovered are represented with the service's unique VLAN IDs. |
Step 5 | Click Modify. The Provisioning Wizard opens. |
Step 6 | For optical circuits, modify the circuit as required, then click Create. |
Step 7 | For EVCs, do the
following:
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Step 8 | For L3VPN
services, do the following:
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You can modify circuits/VCs that are in the following provisioning states: Defined, Deployed, Failed, or Discovered. For more information about the provisioning states, see Circuit/VC States.
Note | You cannot change the UNI or endpoint selections. If you want a different device to be an endpoint, you must delete the circuit/VC and create a new one. |
For E-LAN and E-TREE EVCs, you can add or delete endpoints (sites).
To modify a circuit/VC:
Step 1 | From the left
sidebar, choose
.
The network topology window opens. |
Step 2 | From the toolbar, click Device Groups and then select the required group. |
Step 3 | Click the Circuits/VCs tab and then click the radio button for the circuit or VC you want to modify. |
Step 4 | From the
Circuits/VCs pane toolbar, click the pencil
(Modify) icon.
The Provisioning Wizard opens and displays information for the selected circuit or VC. |
Step 5 | Edit the circuit or VC as required, and then redeploy it. See Provision EVCs in a Carrier Ethernet Network and Provision Circuits in an Optical/DWDM Network. |
You can activate an optical circuit to determine if the traffic is passing through it. You can activate circuits that are discovered and deployed in the network. Also, the admin status of the circuit must be Down.
Step 1 | From the left side bar, choose . | ||
Step 2 | Click the Device Groups button and select the device group within which the required circuit/VC was created. | ||
Step 3 | In the Circuits/VCs tab, locate the optical circuit that you want to activate and click the information icon to access its Circuit/VC 360 view. | ||
Step 4 | Choose
to enable the traffic to pass
through the optical circuit.
| ||
Step 5 | Redeploy the optical circuit. |
You can also choose to deactivate the optical circuit to stop the traffic passing through it. Ensure that the circuit is discovered and deployed in the network and the admin status of the circuit is Up. Click
.You can restore an optical circuit when it encounters multiple successive failures and reroute the failed circuit over a new route.
To restore an optical circuit:
Step 1 | From the left side bar, choose . | ||
Step 2 | Click the Device Groups button and select the device group that contains the failed optical circuit. | ||
Step 3 | In the Circuits/VCs tab, locate the failed optical circuit and click the information icon to access its Circuit/VC 360 view. | ||
Step 4 | Choose
Actions >
Restoration Actions >
Upgrade Restore
to upgrade the failed optical circuit to an active
route and delete the old route where the failure occurred.
|
You can also choose to revert the optical circuit to its original route when the route is recovered from the failure. Click Actions > Restoration Actions > Manual Revert.
You can reroute a circuit to its working path or protected path so that you can perform network maintenance activities without interrupting the service. The reroute operation is available for all WSON circuits that are provisioned or discovered in Cisco EPN Manager .
Note | The reroute operation is not available for circuits that has the restoration status as "Restored" or "Revertible". |
Step 1 | From the left side bar, choose . | ||
Step 2 | Click the Device Groups button and select the device group within which the required circuit/VC was created. | ||
Step 3 | In the Circuits/VCs tab, locate the optical circuit that you want to reroute and click the information icon to access its Circuit/VC 360 view. | ||
Step 4 | Choose
Protected Path to reroute the traffic through
the working path or protected path defined for the circuit.
or
|
Note | In this release, this functionality is supported for Carrier Ethernet VCs only. |
When you provision a circuit/VC using Cisco EPN Manager , the relevant CLI commands are configured on the devices participating in the circuit/VC. After a circuit/VC is provisioned using Cisco EPN Manager , the system discovers the provisioned circuit/VC from the network. In some cases, there might be differences between the provisioned CLI and the discovered CLI, for example, if a configuration change was made on a device after provisioning. Cisco EPN Manager allows you to compare the provisioned and discovered versions of a circuit/VC and generate a reconciliation report showing the differences. Based on the report, you can decide whether to keep the discovered version or revert back to the provisioned version. If you choose to keep the discovered version, the circuit/VC in the Cisco EPN Manager is synched with this version.
The comparison and reconciliation functionality is accessed from the circuit/VC tables.
The functionality is disabled if the circuit/VC discovery state is Missing or the provisioning state is None, In Progress, or Delete Succeeded.
To compare and reconcile a circuit/VC:
Step 1 | Open a table of circuits/VCs, either the full table of all circuits/VCs in the system (Inventory > Other > Circuits/VCs and Network Interfaces) or a list of circuits/VCs for a specific device group (Maps > Network Topology > Circuits/VCs tab > Circuits/VCs link). |
Step 2 | In the circuits/VCs table, locate and select the required circuit/VC. |
Step 3 | Choose
Actions
> Reconciliation Report.
A comparison report is displayed, showing the differences in provisioned and discovered attributes on specific devices in the circuit/VC. If there are no differences between the provisioned and discovered attributes, "No data available" is displayed in the report. |
Step 4 | After you have
reviewed the report, you can choose to save the discovered version to the
database as the current version of the circuit/VC or to revert back to the
provisioned version. At the top of the page, select the Provisioned or the
Discovered radio button and click
Reconcile.
If you chose Provisioned, the circuit/VC will be redeployed and the attribute values of the original provisioned circuit/VC will be configured on the devices. If you chose Discovered, the discovered circuit/VC will be stored in the database and this version will replace the original provisioned version. The provisioning status will indicate whether or not the reconcile action was successful. |
Step 5 | If the system requires your input in order to complete the reconciliation, the Provisioning Wizard is launched. Fill in the required information and redeploy the circuit/VC. |
You can initiate a protection switch action on an optical circuit to switch over the traffic from one path to another path. For example, the traffic in an optical circuit is flowing through a working path and the working path is damaged. You can initiate a protection switch action on this circuit to switch over the traffic from the working path to the protected path.
Note | You can initiate protection switch actions only on optical circuits in which the 1+1 or 1+1+R protection type is enabled. For more information about the protection types, see Circuit Section Reference for OTN Circuit Types. |
To initiate a protection switch action:
Step 1 | From the left sidebar, choose . |
Step 2 | Click Device Groups, and then select the location in which the required circuit/VC was created. |
Step 3 | Close the Device Groups popup window. |
Step 4 | In the Network Topology window, click Circuits/VCs. |
Step 5 | On the Circuits/VCs tab, locate the required circuit/VC and click the i icon next to the circuit/VC name. The Circuit/VC 360 view appears in a separate popup window. |
Step 6 | Choose , and then choose the required protection switch action. |
The following table provides a detailed description of each of the protection switch actions.
Protection Switch Action | Description | Applicable when: |
Force On Working |
Configures the working path to carry traffic over the network. |
The current state of the protection switch action is 'Manual On Protect' or 'Manual On Working'. |
Manual On Protect |
Switches the traffic manually from the working to the protected path. |
There is no protection switch action initiated on the circuit. |
Clear |
Clears the protection switch state on the circuit. |
The current state of the protection switch action is not 'Lockout On Working'. |
Exercise |
Checks if an ODU subcontroller is ready for a protection switch. |
There is no protection switch action initiated on the circuit. |
Manual On Working |
Switches the traffic manually from the protected path to the working path. |
There is no protection switch action initiated on the circuit. |
Lockout On Working |
Configures an ODUk subcontroller as a locked out resource in the ODU subcontroller group. Locks the circuit so that its traffic cannot be switched to the working path. |
The current state of the protection switch action is not 'Lockout On Working'. |
Clear Lock out |
Clears the 'Lockout On Working' switch state for the circuit. |
The current state of the protection switch action is 'Lockout On Working'. |
Status |
Displays the details of ODU subcontroller group and the protection switch state specified in the AID. |
Available for all protected optical circuits. |
Force On Protect |
Configures the protected path to carry traffic over the network. |
The current state of the protection switch action is 'Manual On Protect' or 'Manual On Working'. |
You can choose to either delete or force delete a circuit/VC.
You can delete circuits/VCs that are in the following provisioning states: Create/Modify Succeeded or Create/Modify/Delete Failed.
You can force delete circuits/VCs that are in the Delete Failed provisioning state. When you force delete a circuit/VC, it is removed from the Cisco EPN Manager database. The circuit/VC will not appear in the circuit/VC tables.
Caution | However, the force delete option may not remove the configurations from all the devices participating in the circuit/VC. You may need to manually clean up the devices. |
Note | The force delete option is not available for optical circuits. |
To delete or force delete a circuit/VC:
Step 1 | From the left
sidebar, choose
.
The network topology window opens. | ||
Step 2 | From the toolbar, click Device Groups and then select the required group. | ||
Step 3 | Click the Circuits/VCs tab and then click the radio button for the circuit or VC you want to delete. | ||
Step 4 | From the Circuits/VCs pane toolbar, do one of the following: | ||
Step 5 | Click Next to go to the Service Details page. | ||
Step 6 | In the Deploy
area, specify what you expect the delete operation to accomplish:
| ||
Step 7 | In the Deployment Action field: | ||
Step 8 | Click
Submit.
A confirmation message is displayed when the deployment is complete. |
You can delete L3VPN services that were originally created using Cisco EPN Manager . L3VPN services that were only discovered but not created using Cisco EPN Manager cannot be deleted.
To delete an L3VPN service:
Step 1 | In the left sidebar, choose . | ||
Step 2 | In the Circuits/VCs panel, click the Circuit/VCs link to display all services in Cisco EPN Manager . | ||
Step 3 | Select the service that you want to delete. You can type the service's name in the Name filter to filter out the required L3VPN service and click the X (Delete) icon. | ||
Step 4 | Alternately, from the
Circuits/VCs pane toolbar, choose the service
you want to delete and click the X (Delete) icon.
The Provisioning Wizard opens and displays information for the selected circuit or VC. | ||
Step 5 | Click the delete
icon.
The L3VPN Provisioning wizard displays the VRFs, endpoints, and other details associated with the selected L3VPN. | ||
Step 6 | Select Submit to preview the configuration that is to be pushed on the device. | ||
Step 7 | Review the
configuration and click
Deploy to confirm.
The selected L3VPN service is deleted from the device.
| ||
Step 8 | To verify that the selected L3VPN was deleted from the device, view the complete list of L3VPN services from the Circuits/VCs list. |
You can delete L3VPN service endpoints for L3VPN services created using Cisco EPN Manager . Endpoints associated with L3VPN services that are discovered but not created using Cisco EPN Manager cannot be deleted.
To delete an L3VPN service endpoint:
Step 1 | In the left sidebar, choose . |
Step 2 | In the Circuits/VCs panel, click the Circuit/VCs link to display all services in Cisco EPN Manager . |
Step 3 | Select the service that you want to delete. You can type the service's name in the Name filter to filter out the required L3VPN service. |
Step 4 | Click the
pencilModify
icon.
The L3VPN Provisioning wizard displays the VRFs, endpoints, and other details associated with the selected L3VPN. |
Step 5 | Choose Delete Endpoint and click Next. |
Step 6 | Choose the IP endpoints that must be deassociated from the selected L3VPN service. For single endpoint VRFs, deleting the endpoints turns the VRF ineffective and the VRF then acts as a dangling VRF. To associate newer endpoints with this ineffective VRF, you need to further edit the VRF's attributes. |
Step 7 | Click Next to preview the configuration that will be pushed to the device. |
Step 8 | Review the
configuration and click
Deploy to confirm and deploy your changes to the
device.
The selected L3VPN service endpoint is deleted from the device. |
Note | You cannot delete an MPLS TE service if it is being used by a CEM service or a Carrier Ethernet circuit/VC. |
Step 1 | From the left sidebar, choose . |
Step 2 | Click Device Groups, and then select the location in which the required circuit/VC was created. |
Step 3 | Close the Device Groups popup window. |
Step 4 | In the Network Topology window, click Circuits/VCs. |
Step 5 | In the Circuits/VCs tab, click the Circuits/VCs hyperlink located below the list of circuits/VCs. |
Step 6 | In the displayed table of circuits/VCs, select the MPLS TE service that you want to delete. |
Step 7 | Click the delete icon to open the Provisioning Wizard and display information for the selected MPLS TE service. |
Step 8 | From the Deployment Action drop-down list, choose one of the following option: |
Step 9 | Click Submit. |
Cisco EPN Manager displays a confirmation message when the deployment is complete.
Cisco EPN Manager provides a table of interfaces that have been provisioned as network interfaces (UNIs or ENNIs) so that you can view details for and manage network interfaces independently of provisioned circuits/VCs. The table provides information about each network interface, including its identifying information, the device it belongs to, the actual interface on the device, and the number of services in which the network interface is currently participating.
You can edit a network interface by clicking the Edit button. This launches the wizard where you can make changes to the network interfaces as required. Keep in mind that if the network interface is associated with multiple services, your edit operation will affect all of those services.
You can delete a network interface as long as it is not participating in any circuits.
From the Network Interfaces table, you can delete a UNI/ENNI if it is not currently participating in any circuits.
To delete a network interface:
Step 1 | In the left sidebar, choose . |
Step 2 | Click the Device Groups button and select the required group. |
Step 3 | In the Circuits/VCs tab, click the Network Interfaces hyperlink to display the Network Interfaces table. |
Step 4 | Select the network interface you want to delete and click the Delete button. If the network interface is participating in one or more circuits/VCs, the Delete button will be disabled. In the No. of Circuits/VCs column, you can see the number of circuits/VCs in which the network interface is included. |