Cisco Active Network Abstraction

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Cisco Active Network Abstraction 3.6.7 Documentation Guide

Product Documentation Set

Getting Started with Cisco ANA

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

Cisco Active Network Abstraction 3.6.7 Documentation Guide

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Cisco Active Network Abstraction 3.6.7 (Cisco ANA 3.6.7) is a follow-on release to the following Cisco ANA releases:

•Cisco ANA 3.6

•Cisco ANA 3.6.1

•Cisco ANA 3.6.2

•Cisco ANA 3.6.3

•Cisco ANA 3.6.4

•Cisco ANA 3.6.5

•Cisco ANA 3.6.6

All the Cisco ANA applications and components are distributed on one product DVD.

The documentation set is divided into two portions. One portion is the user documentation, which is available on the product DVD. It can also be accessed at:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6776/tsd_products_support_series_home.html

The other portion is the integration developer documentation, which is available only from the Cisco Developer Community website. It can be accessed at:

http://developer.cisco.com/web/cdc/tech/networkmgt

This guide includes the following sections:

•Product Documentation Set

•Getting Started with Cisco ANA

•Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

Product Documentation Set

The following documents comprise the Cisco ANA 3.6.7 documentation set:

•Cisco Active Network Abstraction 3.6.7 Release Notes

•Cisco Active Network Abstraction 3.6.7 Installation Guide

•Cisco Active Network Abstraction 3.6.7 User Guide

•Cisco Active Network Abstraction 3.6.7 Customization User Guide

•Cisco Active Network Abstraction 3.6.7 Technology Support and Information Model Reference Manual

•Cisco Active Network Abstraction 3.6.7 VNE Reference Guide

•Cisco Active Network Abstraction 3.6.7 Administrator Guide

•Cisco Active Network Abstraction Integration Developer Guide

Getting Started with Cisco ANA

This section explains how to get started using Cisco ANA 3.6.7.

To learn about Cisco ANA assurance capabilities and how to use Cisco ANA applications for network operation please read through:

•Cisco Active Network Abstraction 3.6.7 User Guide—Describes Cisco NetworkVision, EventVision, and their use in network-based environments. This guide also:

–Includes fault management information, such as event processing and parsing mechanisms.

–Describes the correlation engine in Cisco ANA.

–Lists the supported service alarms and system events.

–Lists the system-detected errors supported by Cisco ANA and viewable in Cisco ANA EventVision.

–Includes information specific to monitoring MPLS, Carrier Ethernet, 6VPE, and Mobile Transport over Packet (MToP) services.

•Cisco Active Network Abstraction 3.6.7 Technology Support and Information Model Reference Manual—Outlines the level of functionality that Cisco ANA provides for each supported technology.

•Cisco Active Network Abstraction 3.6.7 VNE Reference Guide—Lists the devices, software versions, topologies, modules, events, and technologies that are supported on the VNEs provided with Cisco ANA 3.6.7.

To learn about installation and deployment of the Cisco ANA servers read through:

•Cisco Active Network Abstraction 3.6.7 Installation Guide—Describes the typical installation of Cisco ANA.

•Cisco Active Network Abstraction 3.6.7 Release Notes—Describes the contents of Cisco ANA 3.6.7, including new features, fixed caveats, and known caveats or other restrictions.

To learn about deployment of the Cisco ANA servers read through:

•Cisco Active Network Abstraction 3.6.7 Administrator Guide—Describes the structure and features of the Cisco ANA system including polling groups and protection options available in Cisco ANA. This guide describes how to use Cisco ANA Manage, the GUI client application designed to simplify and facilitate Cisco ANA administration.

To learn how to customize Cisco ANA capabilities to meet the needs of your network, read through the Cisco Active Network Abstraction 3.6.7 Customization User Guide. This describes:

•Managing soft properties and Threshold Crossing Alarms (TCA).

•Managing Command Builder command scripts, which enable you to execute a programmable sequence of SNMP or Telnet command lines.

•Creating, running, managing, and viewing workflows using the Cisco ANA Workflow Editor (which you can access from Cisco ANA Manage and Cisco ANA EventVision).

•Using the Cisco ANA shell interface and the supported commands for VNE, surveillance, and provisioning.

•Using the Drools rules engine.

To learn how to integrate Cisco ANA with other OSSs using the Cisco ANA integration tools and northbound APIs, read through the Cisco Active Network Abstraction Integration Developer Guide. This describes:

•The Broadband Query Language (BQL) and Information Model Objects (IMO), and their functions.

•Using BQL and IMOs to process notifications, retrieve inventory, manage tickets, manage AVMs, manage VNEs, and receive SNMP notifications.

•BQL error catalog and examples, and best practices for BQL integration parsing.

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

For information on obtaining documentation, submitting a service request, and gathering additional information, see the monthly What's New in Cisco Product Documentation, which also lists all new and revised Cisco technical documentation, at:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html

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