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1:1 and 1:n DS-48 Line Card Redundancy

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1:1 and 1:N DS-48 Line Card Redundancy

Finding Feature Information

Contents

Prerequisites for 1:1 and 1:N Line Card Redundancy

Restrictions for 1:1 and 1:N Line Card Redundancy

Information About 1:1 and 1:N Line Card Redundancy

How to Configure 1:1 and 1:N Line Card Redundancy

Configuring Primary and Secondary Line Cards for 1:1 and 1:N Redundancy

Prerequisites

Examples

Displaying Line Card Redundancy Information

Examples

Initiating a Line Card Switchover

Revertive Switchover

Virtual Interfaces

Deconfiguring Primary Line Cards

Restrictions

Deconfiguring Secondary Line Cards

Restrictions

Additional References

Related Documents

Standards

MIBs

RFCs

Technical Assistance

Command Reference

Feature Information for 1:1 and 1:N Line Card Redundancy

Glossary


1:1 and 1:N DS-48 Line Card Redundancy


First Published: January 8, 2009
Last Updated: March 20, 2009

The Cisco RF Gateway 10 (RFGW-10) Universal Edge Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (UEQAM) supports two types of DS-48 line card redundancy. The QAM line cards are protected with 1:1 and 1:N redundancy schemes. The internal Cisco RF Switch together with the Cisco RFGW-10 UEQAM provides a fully redundant system that enables cable operators to achieve Packet Cable system availability, minimized service disruptions, and simplified operations.

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Contents

Prerequisites for 1:1 and 1:N Line Card Redundancy

Restrictions for 1:1 and 1:N Line Card Redundancy

Information About 1:1 and 1:N Line Card Redundancy

How to Configure 1:1 and 1:N Line Card Redundancy

Additional References

Command Reference

Feature Information for 1:1 and 1:N Line Card Redundancy

Glossary

Prerequisites for 1:1 and 1:N Line Card Redundancy

Secondary QAM line cards must be in slots 11 and 12.

Line cards within a 1:N redundancy group must not overlap with line cards in another redundancy group.

Secondary line card in slot 11 must protect the lower-numbered group, and slot 12 must protect the higher-numbered slot group. For example, slot 11 must protect slots 3 to 6, configured within line card group 1, and slot 12 must protect slots 7 to 10, configured within line card group 2.

The secondary line card in slot 11 must have QAM slot 3 in its protect redundancy group.

Restrictions for 1:1 and 1:N Line Card Redundancy

You must configure the class command before adding members.

You must configure one or more primary line cards before adding a secondary line card.

The Cisco RFGW-10 UEQAM supports only the internal-switch redundancy type.

Information About 1:1 and 1:N Line Card Redundancy

The Cisco RFGW-10 supports up to two 1:1 and 1:N line card protection groups. 1:N redundancy means 1 for N backup (warm standby). Therefore, a single QAM line card can protect a maximum of nine other QAM line cards. 1:1 redundancy refers to a configuration where each line card has a dedicated backup line card in case of failure (hot standby).

How to Configure 1:1 and 1:N Line Card Redundancy

This section describes how to configure 1:1 and 1:N line card redundancy in the Cisco RFGW-10 UEQAM:

Configuring Primary and Secondary Line Cards for 1:1 and 1:N Redundancy

Displaying Line Card Redundancy Information

Initiating a Line Card Switchover

Deconfiguring Primary Line Cards

Deconfiguring Secondary Line Cards

Configuring Primary and Secondary Line Cards for 1:1 and 1:N Redundancy

This section describes how to configure the Primary and Secondary QAM line cards for 1:1 and 1:N redundancy schemes.

Prerequisites

The line card must be capable of performing the redundancy class (1:1 or 1:N) defined for the group.

The line card must be of the same type as the other line cards in the group.

The line card being added to the redundancy group must not overlap with another redundancy group.

The prerequisites for adding a secondary line card are:

The line card must be capable of performing the redundancy class (1:1 or 1:N) defined for the group.

The line card must be within the correct range of a secondary line card for its specified redundancy class (1:1 or 1:N).

The line card must be of the same type as the other primary line cards in the group.

The mandatory primary line cards for the redundancy group must be configured for that redundancy group.

The primary line card that should not be in a redundancy group must not be added to that redundancy group.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. enable

2. configure terminal

3. redundancy

4. linecard-group linecard-groupId internal-switch

5. class {1:1 | 1:N}

6. member slot slot primary

7. member slot slot secondary

8. exit

9. write memory

DETAILED STEPS

 
Command or Action
Purpose

Step 1 

enable
Example:

Router> enable

Enables privileged EXEC mode.

Enter your password if prompted.

Step 2 

configure terminal
Example:
Router# configure terminal

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 3 

redundancy
Example:

Router(config)# redundancy

Enters redundancy configuration mode.

Step 4 

linecard-group linecard-groupId internal-switch

Example:

Router(config-red)# linecard-group 1 internal-switch

Configures a link protection scheme for the redundancy group.

The no form of the command removes the line card redundancy group, and frees the associated linecard-groupId for future use.

The no linecard-group command succeeds only when you have not configured the slot members. If not, the system displays a message stating that the slot members have to be removed first will be displayed.

Step 5 

class {1:1 | 1:N}

Example:

Router(config-red)# class 1:N

Configures the redundancy class. Classes 1:1 and 1:N imply transmission switching from active line card to standby line card on switchover. Class 1:N with one Primary and one Secondary member is different from class 1:1. With class 1:1 configuration, hot redundancy is supported but with class 1:N configuration, warm redundancy is supported at best.

It is mandatory to configure the class before adding members to a redundancy group.

When you execute the no form of this command, the default class for the line card group's link protection scheme is used instead of the class that is currently configured.

Step 6 

member slot slot primary
Example:

Router(config-red)# member slot 3 primary

Configures a slot as Primary in a redundancy group.

Step 7 

member slot slot secondary
Example:

Router(config-red)# member slot 11 secondary

Configures a slot as Secondary. For a given line card redundancy group, you can specify one Secondary slot. Subsequent attempts are rejected with an error message.

Step 8 

exit
Example:

Router(config-red)# exit

Exits global and redundancy configuration modes and returns to privileged EXEC mode.

Step 9 

write memory
Example:
Router# write memory 

Saves your settings to the nonvolatile random access memory (NVRAM) to ensure that the system retains the settings after a power cycle.

Examples

The following example assigns member slots 7 and 12 as Primary and Secondary line cards respectively in the redundancy line card group 2 in the Cisco RFGW-10 UEQAM:

Router(config-red)# linecard-group 2 internal-switch
Router(config-red-lc)# class 1:1
Router(config-red-lc)# member slot 7 primary
Router(config-red-lc)# member slot 12 secondary

Displaying Line Card Redundancy Information

To display the redundancy status and other related information of a line card or a line card group, use the following command in user EXEC or privileged EXEC mode:

Router# show redundancy linecard {slot slot-number | all | group [linecard-groupID | all]}

Examples

The following is sample output for redundancy of line card group 2:

Router# show redundancy linecard group 2
Group Identifier: 2
Group Description: "line card group 2 created."
NON-revertive
Reserved Cardtype: 0x6011  24593
Group Redundancy Type: INTERNAL SWITCH
Group Redundancy Class: 1:1
Group Redundancy Configuration Type: LINECARD GROUP
Primary: 7
Secondary: 12

The following is sample output for redundancy of line card in slot 3:

Router# show redundancy linecard slot 3

 LC Group Number: 0
 LC Slot: 3 (idx=3)
 LC Card Type: 0x6011 , 24593
 LC Name: 3
 LC Mode: Primary
 LC Role: Active
 LC My State: Active
 LC Peer State: Stdby Warm

The following is sample output for redundancy of all line cards:

Router# show redundancy linecard all
Slot Subslot  LC     My         Peer       Peer     Peer                       
              Group  State      State      Slot     Subslot  Role     Mode     
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 3   -        0      Active     Stdby Warm 12       -        Active   Primary  
 5   -        0      Active     Stdby Warm 12       -        Active   Primary  
 7   -        0      Active     Stdby Warm 12       -        Active   Primary  
 12  -        0      -          -          Multiple None     Standby  Secondary 

At any given point in time, a 1:N Secondary Standby does not have a unique My State value. It has N values of My State with each value corresponding to one of the N primaries that it is protecting. Because all N My State values cannot be displayed simultaneously on the console for a 1:N Secondary Standby line card, a hyphen (-) is displayed instead. The My state for the 1:N Secondary Standby corresponding to a specific Primary it protects is indicated by that Primary line card's Peer State.

In the example, line card 12 (the 1:N Secondary Standby) is in Standby Warm state for all the three Primary line cards it protects. This is the steady state of this 1:N LCRED configuration. Before it reaches steady-state, the CLI display for the above command resembles the following sample output:

Slot Subslot  LC     My         Peer       Peer     Peer                       
              Group  State      State      Slot     Subslot  Role     Mode     
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 3   -        0      Active     Stdby Warm 12       -        Active   Primary  
 5   -        0      Active     Init       12       -        Active   Primary  
 7   -        0      Active     Stdby Cold 12       -        Active   Primary  
 12  -        0      -          -          Multiple None     Standby  Secondary 

In the previous sample output, the state of the Secondary Standby line card 12 is Standby Warm for Primary line card 3, Init for Primary line card 5, and Standby Cold for Primary line card 7.

These are legal transient states for a 1:N Secondary Standby line card.

Initiating a Line Card Switchover

To initiate a line card switchover, use the following command in privileged EXEC mode:

Router# redundancy linecard-group switchover from slot slot

If the standby line card is ready to switchover, then this command will cause a switch over from the active line card specified in the command to the current standby line card.

As this is a user-initiated switchover, the revertive timer is not triggered.

Revertive Switchover

On the Cisco RFGW-10 UEQAM, a Secondary line card is hosted only in specific slots. In a 1:N redundancy group, if a Primary active line card fails, the Secondary standby line card in that slot becomes active. After the failed Primary line card is repaired and becomes Standby Hot, a revertive timer is started. When a timeout occurs, the Primary line card becomes active and the Secondary line card reverts to standby to protect the N Primary line cards. The revertive switchover occurs even during the online insertion and removal (OIR) of the Primary line card.

For 1:N redundancy, until revertive switchover occurs, the Secondary line card protects only the affected Primary line card and the other Primary line cards are not protected.

The Revertive Switchover is enabled by default for a redundancy group having class 1:N.

It is important to distinguish between the revertive feature being enabled for a group and the revertive timer being turned on. The revertive timer can be off even when the revertive feature is enabled.

Router# show redundancy linecard group 0 
Group Identifier: 0  
Revertive, Revert Timer: OFF (300 sec) 
Reserved Cardtype: 0x6011 24593 
Group Redundancy Type: INTERNAL SWITCH 
Group Redundancy Class: 1:N 
Group Redundancy Configuration Type: LINECARD GROUP 
Primary: Slot 5 
Primary: Slot 7  
Secondary: Slot 12 

When the repaired or re-inserted Primary line card transitions to the Standby Hot state, the revertive timer is started. When the revertive timer times out, the Primary line card is active and the Secondary card is reset so that it becomes the standby to protect the N Primary line cards in the redundancy group.

Router# show redundancy linecard group 0 
Group Identifier: 0  
Revertive, Revert Timer: ON (300 sec) Remaining Time: 26 sec 
Reserved Cardtype: 0x6011 24593 
Group Redundancy Type: INTERNAL SWITCH 
Group Redundancy Class: 1:N 
Group Redundancy Configuration Type: LINECARD GROUP 
Primary: Slot 5 
Primary: Slot 7  
Secondary: Slot 12 

The revertive timer for a redundancy group is not triggered when the switchover is user-initiated using the redundancy linecard-group switchover from slot slot command. The revertive feature gets disabled when a user initiates a switchover.

Router# show redundancy linecard group 0 
Group Identifier: 0  
Revertive, Revert Timer: OFF (300 sec) 
Revertive feature is disabled due to user switchover request 
Reserved Cardtype: 0x6011 24593 
Group Redundancy Type: INTERNAL SWITCH 
Group Redundancy Class: 1:N 
Group Redundancy Configuration Type: LINECARD GROUP 
Primary: Slot 5  
Primary: Slot 7  
Secondary: Slot 12 

The default value of the Revertive Timer is 300 seconds, but you can specify the value using the following command:

Router(config-red-lc)# revertive [timeout in seconds]

In addition to this, if the revertive feature for a redundancy group has been disabled previously by the no revertive command, the above command will automatically enable the revertive feature for this redundancy group. The revertive feature is disabled by default for a redundancy group having class 1:1.

Handling Multiple Line Card Failures With the Revertive Feature

You can use the revertive feature for multiple Primary line card failures in a 1:N redundancy group. When the repaired or re-inserted Primary is Standby Hot, the revertive timer is triggered. When another Primary line card in that redundancy group fails, the timer is turned off to cause an immediate switchover so that the Secondary line card can take over for the other failed Primary line card.

Virtual Interfaces

The Virtual Interface model for 1:N redundancy establishes the relationship between the physical interfaces (both primary and secondary) and the virtual interfaces. In a 1:N redundancy group, every Primary physical interface has only one virtual interface corresponding to it, whereas a Secondary physical interface corresponds to N virtual interfaces.

For line cards configured as part of a redundancy group, all the configurations are associated with the virtual interface rather than with the physical interface.

The virtual interface has the same slot, port, and channel as the corresponding Primary physical interface. The name of the virtual interface is derived by adding a "-red" suffix to the name of the corresponding Primary physical interface.

For example, if the Primary physical interface is named "Qam5/1," the corresponding virtual interface is named "Qam-red5/1."

For two line cards (in slots 3 and 11) that are not part of a redundancy group, the output of the show running-config command will display the physical interfaces of both the line cards as:

interface Qam3/1 
interface Qam3/1.1 
interface Qam3/1.2 
interface Qam3/1.3 
interface Qam3/1.4 
... 
... 
interface Qam11/1 
interface Qam11/1.1 
interface Qam11/1.2 
interface Qam11/1.3 
interface Qam11/1.4 
... 
... 

When the line card in slot 3 is added as a Primary member and the line card in slot 11 is added as a Secondary member of a redundancy group, the output of the show running-config command will display the virtual interfaces (with a "-red" suffix) for this redundancy group as:

interface Qam-red3/1 
interface Qam-red3/1.1 
interface Qam-red3/1.2 
interface Qam-red3/1.3 
interface Qam-red3/1.4 
....
.... 

Note The Primary and Secondary physical interfaces (Qam3/1, Qam11/1, and their subinterfaces) will not be shown in the redundancy configuration.


Even after a switchover from slot 3 to slot 11, the same virtual interfaces (having the slot, port, and channel as the Primary physical interface) are displayed by the show running-config command. Subsequently, if a revertive switchover occurs and slot 3 becomes active again, the same virtual interfaces will be displayed for this group. Hence, all the configurations are associated with the virtual interface.

The physical and virtual interface-related information can also be obtained from the output of the show ip interface brief command.

Deconfiguring Primary Line Cards

This section describes how to deconfigure Primary QAM line cards.

Restrictions

A mandatory Primary line card cannot be removed from the redundancy group.

You cannot delete the last Primary member without deleting the Secondary member. Hence, if there are four Primary members in a group, you can delete three out of four with the Secondary present. But to delete the last Primary member, you have to delete the Secondary member first. For example, if the Secondary is slot 11, then slot 3 will be the last member to be deleted and it can be deleted only after the Secondary slot 11 is deleted.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. enable

2. configure terminal

3. redundancy

4. linecard-group linecard-groupId internal-switch

5. no member slot slot primary

6. exit

7. write memory

DETAILED STEPS

 
Command or Action
Purpose

Step 1 

enable
Example:

Router> enable

Enables privileged EXEC mode.

Enter your password if prompted.

Step 2 

configure terminal
Example:

Router# configure terminal

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 3 

redundancy
Example:

Router(config)# redundancy

Enters redundancy configuration mode.

Step 4 

linecard-group linecard-groupId internal-switch

Example:

Router(config-red)# linecard-group 1 internal-switch

Configures a link protection scheme for the redundancy group.

To remove the line card redundancy group and free the associated linecard-groupId for future use, use the no form of the command.

The no linecard-group command succeeds only when there are no slot members configured. If not, the system displays a message that the slot members have to be removed first.

Step 5 

no member slot slot primary
Example:

Router(config-red)# no member slot 3 primary

Deconfigures the Primary line card from the redundancy group.

Step 6 

exit
Example:

Router(config-red)# exit

Exits global and redundancy configuration modes and returns to privileged EXEC mode.

Step 7 

write memory
Example:
Router# write memory 

Saves your settings to the nonvolatile random access memory (NVRAM) to ensure that the system retains the settings after a power cycle.

Deconfiguring Secondary Line Cards

This section describes how to deconfigure Secondary QAM line cards.

Restrictions

The Secondary line card member should be deleted before the last Primary member is deleted from the redundancy group.

You cannot delete an Active Secondary member unless the Primary member it is protecting is fully Standby and ready to take over.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. enable

2. configure terminal

3. redundancy

4. linecard-group linecard-groupId internal-switch

5. no member slot slot secondary

6. exit

7. write memory

DETAILED STEPS

 
Command or Action
Purpose

Step 1 

enable
Example:

Router> enable

Enables privileged EXEC mode.

Enter your password if prompted.

Step 2 

configure terminal
Example:

Router# configure terminal

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 3 

redundancy
Example:

Router(config)# redundancy

Enters redundancy configuration mode.

Step 4 

linecard-group linecard-groupId internal-switch

Example:

Router(config-red)# linecard-group 1 internal-switch

Configures a link protection scheme for the redundancy group.

To remove the line card redundancy group and free the associated linecard-groupId for future use, use the no form of the command.

The no linecard-group command succeeds only when there are no slot members configured. If not, the system displays a message that the slot members have to be removed first.

Step 5 

no member slot slot secondary
Example:

Router(config-red)# no member slot 11 secondary

Deconfigures the Secondary line card from the redundancy group.

Step 6 

exit
Example:

Router(config-red)# exit

Exits global and redundancy configuration modes and returns to privileged EXEC mode.

Step 7 

write memory
Example:
Router# write memory 

Saves your settings to the nonvolatile random access memory (NVRAM) to ensure that the system retains the settings after a power cycle.

Additional References

The following sections provide references related to the 1:1 and 1:N Line Card Redundancy feature.

Related Documents

Related Topic
Document Title

Cisco RFGW-10 commands

Cisco RF Gateway 10 Command Reference

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/cable/rf_gateway/command/reference/RFGW-10_Book.html

New Software Features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(44)SQ

Cisco RF Gateway 10 New Features List

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/cable/rf_gateway/feature/list/rfgw10_featlist.html


Standards

Standard
Title

No new or modified standards are supported by this feature, and support for existing standards has not been modified by this feature.


MIBs

MIB
MIBs Link

DOCS-IF-MCMTS-MIB

To locate and download MIBs for selected platforms, Cisco IOS releases, and feature sets, use Cisco MIB Locator found at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/go/mibs


RFCs

RFC
Title

No new or modified RFCs are supported by this feature, and support for existing RFCs has not been modified by this feature.


Technical Assistance

Description
Link

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http://www.cisco.com/techsupport


Command Reference

The following commands are introduced or modified in the feature or features documented in this module. For information about these commands, see the Cisco RF Gateway 10 Command Reference at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/cable/rf_gateway/command/reference/RFGW-10_Book.html. For information about all Cisco IOS commands, use the Command Lookup Tool at http://tools.cisco.com/Support/CLILookup or the Cisco IOS Master Command List, All Releases, at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/mcl/allreleasemcl/all_book.html.

redundancy

linecard-group linecard-groupId internal-switch

class {1:1 | 1:N}

[no] member slot slot primary

[no] member slot slot secondary

show redundancy linecard {slot slot-number | all | group [linecard-groupID | all]}

redundancy linecard-group switchover from slot slot

revertive [timeout in seconds]

Feature Information for 1:1 and 1:N Line Card Redundancy

Table 1 lists the release history for this feature.

Not all commands may be available in your Cisco IOS software release. For release information about a specific command, see the command reference documentation.

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Note Table 1 lists only the Cisco IOS software release that introduced support for a given feature in a given Cisco IOS software release train. Unless noted otherwise, subsequent releases of that Cisco IOS software release train also support that feature.


Table 1 Feature Information for 1:1 and 1:N Line Card Redundancy 

Feature Name
Releases
Feature Information

1:1 and 1:N Line Card Redundancy

12.2(44)SQ

This feature was introduced in the Cisco IOS Release 12.2(44)SQ to support the Cisco RF Gateway 10.

The following commands were introduced or modified:

redundancy

linecard-group linecard-groupId internal-switch

class {1:1 | 1:N}

[no] member slot slot primary

[no] member slot slot secondary

show redundancy linecard {slot slot-number | all | group [linecard-groupID | all]}

redundancy linecard-group switchover from slot slot

revertive [timeout in seconds]


Glossary

LCRED—Line Card Redundancy

NVRAM—Nonvolatile Random Access Memory

OIR—Online Insertion and Removal

UEQAM—Universal Edge Quadrature Amplitude Modulation. A network element, which receives MPEG-TS frames over a network interface such as Ethernet, and modulates them onto QAM carriers for use on an HFC plant.