Table Of Contents
Preface
Preliminary Knowledge Required for Using This Guide
Related Documentation
Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines
Preface
This Cisco ANA Customization Guide describes managing soft properties and Threshold Crossing Alarms (TCA). Soft properties enable the user to extend the set of supported properties for each Network Element (NE), by adding soft properties to the Virtual Network Elements (VNEs). These properties extend the Cisco IMO and are available through the client GUI as well as through the BQL API. Soft properties are retrieved from the NE using SNMP, or Telnet/SSH. In addition, alarm thresholding enables the user to constantly monitor selected properties and generate an alarm every time they cross a user-defined threshold or violate a condition.
This guide is intended for use by integrators and any other users who want to manage the soft properties and TCA alarms that are executed within the Cisco Active Network Abstraction (ANA) platform.
It includes the following chapters:
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Chapter 1, "Introducing the Cisco ANA Soft Properties Manager"—Describes the Cisco ANA Soft Properties Manager. In addition, it provides a brief explanation of the terms soft properties and alarm thresholds used throughout this guide.
•Chapter 2, "Getting Started"—Describes the Soft Properties Manager's working environment and how to access the Soft Properties Manager's tools. In addition, it describes how to create, edit and delete a soft property.
•Chapter 3, "Examples"—Provides several examples of creating a soft property from start to finish, including defining the TCA alarms and defining a soft property table.
•Appendix A, "Parsing Operators/Rules"—Describes the pre-defined text manipulation operators available for parsing raw device input and turning it into a soft property. In addition, an example of each operator is provided.
•Appendix B, "Alarm Threshold Triggers"—Describes the pre-defined alarm threshold triggers available for defining TCA alarms.
•Appendix C, "Regular Expressions"—Describes the package GNU RegExp containing regular expression consists of a character string, where some characters are given special meaning with regard to pattern matching.
Note Changes to the registry should only be carried out with the support of Cisco Professional Services.
Preliminary Knowledge Required for Using This Guide
The user of the Soft Properties Manager is required to have the following preliminary knowledge before using this tool:
Subject
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Description
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Networking, device properties
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Knowledge of device property retrieval using Telnet/SSH or a SNMP MIB browser.
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Data manipulation
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Ability to write regular expressions and parse raw strings using basic parsing tools.
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Cisco IMO Types
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Understanding of the Cisco ANA information model in order to know where to locate/edit the soft property.
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Related Documentation
For more detailed information, refer to the following publications:
•Cisco Active Network Abstraction Command Builder User Guide
•Cisco Active Network Abstraction NetworkVision User Guide
Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines
For information on obtaining documentation, obtaining support, providing documentation feedback, security guidelines, and also recommended aliases and general Cisco documents, 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
