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Cisco Active Network Abstraction
Network Service Activation 1.0 Release Notes

Contents

New and Changed Information

Introduction

New Features in Cisco ANA NSA 1.0

Services Included in Cisco ANA NSA

Components Included in Cisco ANA NSA

Open Caveats in Cisco ANA NSA 1.0

Cisco ANA NSA Installation

Related Documentation

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request


Cisco Active Network Abstraction
Network Service Activation 1.0 Release Notes

Released: February 12, 2010, OL-20874-01
Last Revised: March 19, 2010

These release notes support the release of Cisco Active Network Abstraction Network Service Activation 1.0 (Cisco ANA NSA).

Note See Cisco.com for the most up-to-date version of the Cisco Active Network Abstraction Network Service Activation 1.0 Release Notes.

Contents

This document includes the following topics:

•New and Changed Information

•Introduction

•New Features in Cisco ANA NSA 1.0

•Open Caveats in Cisco ANA NSA 1.0

•Cisco ANA NSA Installation

•Related Documentation

•Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

New and Changed Information

Table 1 lists information that has been added or changed since the Cisco Active Network Abstraction Network Service Activation 1.0 Release Notes was last published online.

Table 1 New and Changed Release Notes Information

Date Released
Revision
Location

February 12, 2010

Initial release.

 

March 19, 2010

Added Catalyst 4500 Series caveat (CSCtf36962).

Open Caveats in Cisco ANA NSA 1.0


Introduction

Cisco ANA NSA is a Cisco Active Network Abstraction (Cisco ANA) service activation extension for users wanting to deploy Carrier Ethernet and Mobile Transport over Pseudowire (MToP) services using a service activation wizard launched from the Cisco ANA NetworkVision GUI. Cisco ANA NSA provides:

•A predefined collection of service activation wizards, workflows, and scripts that allow you to begin activating services on network elements right after Cisco ANA NSA is installed.

•The ability for service designers, network planners, and service integrators to customize the wizards and workflows to address service activation needs not covered by the delivered activation set.

Cisco ANA NSA provides a visual mechanism for end-to-end service activation on network elements. In addition, Cisco ANA NSA open APIs allow Cisco ANA NSA to be integrated with northbound provisioning systems. Cisco ANA NSA therefore provides a GUI-based service activation solution that can also be integrated into an existing operational support system (OSS) environment.

New Features in Cisco ANA NSA 1.0

New features provided in the Cisco ANA NSA 1.0 CD3 build are provided in the following sections:

•Services Included in Cisco ANA NSA

•Components Included in Cisco ANA NSA

Services Included in Cisco ANA NSA

Services provided in the Cisco ANA NSA 1.0 include:

•E-LAN VPLS Hub Service with ACL, MAC security, QoS - Cisco 7600 and Cisco ASR 9000

•E-LAN VPLS Neighbor - Cisco 7600 and Cisco ASR 9000

•E-LAN H-VPLS Hub Neighbor - Cisco 7600

•E-LAN H-VPLS Spoke with ACL, MAC security, QoS - Cisco 7600 and Cisco ASR 9000

•E-Line Point to Point Service - Cisco 7600 and Cisco ASR 9000

•E-Line Local Connect Service - Cisco 7600

•Multipoint EFP with ACL, MAC security, QoS - Cisco 7600 and Cisco ASR 9000

•Activate Access Node - Cisco ME 3400, Cisco 3750, and Cisco 4500

•Create Layer 2 ACL - Cisco 7600

•Layer 3 VPN Service - Cisco 7600

•QoS Creation - Cisco 7600 and Cisco ASR 9000

•MAC Security Addresses - Cisco 7600

•MToP TDM - Cisco 7600 and Cisco 2941

•MToP Pseudowire Clocking - Cisco 7600 and Cisco MWR 2940

•Clocking Synchronization - Cisco 7600 and Cisco MWR 2940

•MToP ATM - Cisco 7600, Cisco 2940 and Cisco MWR 2941

•Access QinQ support - Cisco ME 3400E

•Residential HSI Point to Multipoint - Cisco 7600

Components Included in Cisco ANA NSA

Components provided in the Cisco ANA NSA 1.0 build include:

•Wizard GUI.

•Wizards for supported services.

•Service Activation Listing.

•Service Modification Utilities (SMU).

•Service Deactivation (from service activation listing GUI).

•Cloning and grouping features.

•Summary page at the end of activation wizards.

•Installation/uninstallation.

Open Caveats in Cisco ANA NSA 1.0

•CSCtf36962

Symptom    Cisco ANA NSA 1.0 activation scripts run successfully on the Catalyst 4506, but will not run on the Catalyst 4507R-E.

Conditions   This behavior occurs when running Cisco ANA NSA 1.0 activation scripts on the Catalyst 4507R-E.

Workaround   Add a new cisco-catalyst-4500-series-redundant section to the site-ps.xml in the Cisco ANA registry:

Step 1 Log into the Cisco ANA gateway and navigate to the registry.

Note For information about the Cisco ANA registry, see "Working with the Registry," in the Cisco Active Network Abstraction Administrator Guide, 3.7.

Step 2 Copy the registry site-ps.xml file to a local drive.

Step 3 Open the downloaded site-ps.xml file with a text editor. (The text editor should be able to display numbered lines.)

Step 4 Navigate to the cisco-catalyst-4000-series section, shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1 Cisco Catalyst 4000 Series Section in site-ps.xml

Step 5 Copy the entire cisco-catalyst-4000-series section and paste it directly underneath it. In other words, copy Lines 40 through 69, create a new Line 70, then paste the section on Line 70.

Step 6 Change the key of the copied section cisco-catalyst-4000-series to cisco-catalyst-4500-series-redundant.

Step 7 Save the file.

Step 8 Upload the revised site.ps.xml file to the server.

•CSCte54172

Symptom    Cisco ANA NSA 1.0 is installed as an add-on component to Cisco ANA 3.7. It overrides the default Cisco ANA workflow purging behavior and implements specialized handling for Cisco ANA NSA workflows. Because of an issue with the workflow query interface, the automatic purging does not work. Both Cisco ANA NSA and non-Cisco ANA NSA workflows persist in the system indefinitely.

Conditions   This behavior occurs when Cisco ANA NSA 1.0 is installed on Cisco ANA 3.7.

Workaround   Delete workflows manually using Cisco ANA Manage:

Step 1 Start the Cisco ANA Manage.

Step 2 From the navigation panel on the left, select Workflow Engine >Workflows.

All workflows in the system are displayed on the right.

Step 3 Delete the workflows you want to remove by selecting them and choosing Delete from the right-click menu.

Tip To delete a block of workflows, you can click the first workflow in the block, press Shift, click the last workflow, then right-click to delete.

The Cisco ANA NSA workflow purging typically targets the following workflows for deletion:

•Non-Cisco ANA NSA workflows.

•Aborted Cisco ANA NSA workflows.

•The pair of add/remove Cisco ANA NSA workflows.

Step 4 To identify Non-Cisco ANA NSA workflows, from Cisco ANA Manage, filter the workflows for workflows NOT containing "NSA_'.

Step 5 To identify aborted Cisco ANA NSA workflows:

a. Filter the workflows for workflows containing "NSA_".

b. Sort the column by "state" to identify aborted workflows.

Step 6 To identify the pair of add/remove Cisco ANA NSA workflows:

a. Launch Cisco ANA NetworkVision,

b. From the Activation menu, choose Service Activations.

c. Sort the column by "Co ID".

Entries that do not have a value of "" are the paired add/remove workflows. The ID of these workflows can be used to identify the workflow to delete using Cisco ANA Manage.

Further Problem Description

The AVM 66 log file (66.out) will contain the following message: 

ERROR [01 19 2010 13:40:34.114 PST] - RemoteTransportConnectorAgent.handleExecuteMessage - 
Failed to execute local service workflow method:getWorkflows

      com.sheer.system.os.err.OSServiceInvocationException: OS: FATAL! Could not invoke 
system call, reason: argument type mismatch

         ...

ERROR [01 19 2010 13:42:12.357 PST] - Throwable.printStackTrace - >>>>>>>>SOut: 
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: argument type mismatch

Cisco ANA NSA Installation

The following installation steps should be followed in sequence.

1. Install Cisco ANA 3.7. For installation instructions, see the Cisco Active Network Abstraction 3.7 Installation Guide.

2. Install Cisco ANA NSA 1.0. For installation instructions, see the Cisco Active Network Abstraction Network Service Activation 1.0 Installation Guide.

Note You do not need to install any Cisco ANA NSA patches. If patches need to be installed at a later time, this document will be revised and the patch installation instructions will be provided.

Related Documentation

Cisco Active Network Abstraction Network Service Activation 1.0 User Guide

Cisco Active Network Abstraction Network Service Activation 1.0 Installation Guide

Cisco Active Network Abstraction Network Service Activation 1.0 Customation Guide

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