About this Guide

This preface defines the Security Gateway, the organization of this guide and its document conventions.

Cisco Virtualized Packet Core Distributed Instance (VPC-DI) consists of a fully distributed network of multiple virtual machines (VMs) Grouped to form a single StarOS instance, with VMs performing management, input/output (I/O), and packet processing. The VMs run on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) servers. This Guide describes how to configure and administer the various components of the VPC-DI instance.

To complete the SecGW configuration process you must also have at hand the following user documentation:

  • VPC-DI System Administration Guide

  • IPSec Reference

Conventions Used

The following tables describe the conventions used throughout this documentation.

Notice Type Description

Information Note

Provides information about important features or instructions.

Caution

Alerts you of potential damage to a program, device, or system.

Warning

Alerts you of potential personal injury or fatality. May also alert you of potential electrical hazards.

Typeface Conventions Description

Text represented as a screen display

This typeface represents displays that appear on your terminal screen, for example:

Login:

Text represented as commands

This typeface represents commands that you enter, for example:

show ip access-list

This document always gives the full form of a command in lowercase letters. Commands are not case sensitive.

Text represented as a command variable

This typeface represents a variable that is part of a command, for example:

show card slot_number

slot_number is a variable representing the desired chassis slot number.

Text represented as menu or sub-menu names

This typeface represents menus and sub-menus that you access within a software application, for example:

Click the File menu, then click New

Documents and Resources

Related Common Documentation

The most up-to-date information for this product is available in the Release Notes provided with each product release.

The following user documents are available:

  • CommandLine InterfaceReference

  • IPSec Reference

  • AAA InterfaceAdministrationand Reference

  • GTPPInterfaceAdministrationand Reference

  • ReleaseChangeReference

  • SNMP MIB Reference

  • Statistics and Counters Reference

  • Thresholding Configuration Guide

  • Product-specificand feature-specificAdministrationguides

Obtaining Cisco VPC-DI Documentation

The most current Cisco documentation is available on the following website:

   http://www.cisco.com/cisco/web/psa/default.html

Use the following path selectios to access the VPC-DI docuemntation.

Contacting Customer Support

Use the information in this section to contact customer support.

Refer to the support area of http://www.cisco.com for up-to-date product documentation or to submit a service request. A valid username and password are required to access this site. Please contact your Cisco sales or service representative for additional information.