Cisco Active Network Abstraction Customization User Guide, 3.6.4 - Preface [Cisco Active Network Abstraction]

Table Of Contents

Preface

Soft Properties Manager

Command Builder

Workflow Editor

BQL

Related Documentation

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

Preface

This manual describes the Cisco Cisco Active Network Abstraction (Cisco ANA) 3.6 Service Pack 4 customization suite and provides instructions for using them.

Table 1 presents the organization of this this manual.

Table 1 Manual Organization

Part

Chapter

Overview

Chapter 1, "Cisco ANA Overview"

Customizing Network Element Information Using the Soft Properties Manager

•Chapter 2, "Introducing the Cisco ANA Soft Properties Manager"

•Chapter 3, "Getting Started with the Soft Properties Manager"

•Chapter 4, "Soft Property Examples"

•Chapter 5, "Parsing Operators/Rules"

•Chapter 6, "Alarm Threshold Triggers"

•Chapter 7, "Regular Expressions"

Using the Workflow Editor to Create Task Workflows

•Chapter 8, "Introducing the Cisco ANA Workflow Editor"

•Chapter 9, "Working With the Cisco ANA Workflow Editor"

•Chapter 10, "Getting Started with the Workflow Editor"

•Chapter 11, "Managing Workflows"

•Chapter 12, "Customizing the Workflow Editor"

Managing and Deploying Configuration Changes Using the Command Builder

•Chapter 13, "Introducing the Command Builder"

•Chapter 14, "Getting Started with the Command Builder"

•Chapter 15, "Creating an Cisco ANA Macro Language Command: An Example"

•Chapter 16, "Running Command Scripts"

•Chapter 17, "Cisco ANA Macro Language"

•Chapter 18, "Bean Shell Commands"

Working with BQL

•Chapter 19, "Getting Started with BQL"

•Chapter 20, "Understanding IMO"

•Chapter 21, "IMO Specification"

•Chapter 22, "BQL Generic Commands"

•Chapter 23, "Encrypted SSL Sockets"

•Chapter 24, "Detailed BQL Errors Catalog and Examples"

•Chapter 25, "Best Practices for Integration BQL Parsing"

Soft Properties Manager

Audience

Soft Properties Manager 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 (Cisco ANA) platform.

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

Description

Networking, device properties

Knowledge of device property retrieval using Telnet and SSH or a SNMP MIB browser.

Data manipulation

Ability to write regular expressions and parse raw strings using basic parsing tools.

Cisco IMO Types

Understanding of the Cisco ANA information model so that they know where to locate and edit the soft property.

Command Builder

Audience

Command Builder is intended for use by programmers who want to write command scripts that are executed within the Cisco ANA activation framework.

Workflow Editor

Audience

Workflow Editor is intended for use by a system administrator.

BQL

Audience

BQL is intended for use by system architects and programmers who wish to access Cisco ANA and integrate it with northbound OSS applications. This part assumes that the reader is familiar with XML and with application programming.

Additional Information

This part should be accompanied by the IMO reference manual, IMO reference browser, or both for detailed IMO reference.

Related Documentation

Note We sometimes update the documentation after original publication. Therefore, you should also review the documentation on Cisco.com for any updates.

describes the additional documentation that is available.

Table 2 Related Documentation

Document Title

On Cisco.com at:

Cisco Active Network Abstraction Release Notes

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

Cisco Active Network Abstraction Documentation Guide

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

Cisco Active Network Abstraction Installation Guide

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

Cisco Active Network Abstraction User Guide

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

Cisco Active Network Abstraction Managing MPLS User Guide

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

Cisco Active Network Abstraction Technology Support and Information Model Reference Manual Guide

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

Cisco Active Network Abstraction Virtual Network Element Reference Guide

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

Cisco Active Network Abstraction Administrator Guide

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

Cisco Active Network Abstraction Error Messages

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

Cisco Active Network Abstraction Shell User Guide

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

Cisco Active Network Abstraction High Availability User Guide

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

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

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

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