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Release Notes for Cisco Video Assurance Management Solution 3.1
Increasing the Heap Size Used by Netcool Impact to Handle High Event Loads
Documentation for VAMS Components
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Release Notes for Cisco Video Assurance Management Solution 3.1
Revised: June 28, 2011, OL-24868-01Contents
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New Features with Release 3.1
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Introduction
Cisco VAMS 3.1 provides service providers with a modular, end-to-end video assurance management architecture, including real-time, centralized monitoring of headends, hubs, core, distribution, regional, and aggregation networks for broadcast video services.
Cisco VAMS includes a service-aware dashboard that pinpoints and correlates alarms related to video service availability and quality from the headend or the transport network. Using Cisco VAMS, you can monitor and manage video services, such as linear broadcast and video on demand (VoD) based on MPEG-2 transmission streams (TS) and uncompressed flows.
See Solution Requirements for descriptions of the solution components and required software versions.
Cisco VAMS 3.1 uses Cisco Multicast Manager (CMM CMM 3.1.2) with patch 3.1.23.1.2 for multicast monitoring and troubleshooting functions, such as monitoring of VidMon devices, and the Cisco ROSA Copernicus Network Management System (NMS) for monitoring of video headend events.
Additionally, the Cisco VAMS 3.1 system architecture includes an interface between Cisco Info Center and CMM. This interface is provided by:
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This accomplishes two key objectives for Cisco VAMS 3.1. It provides:
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Cisco Info Center contains rules files that specify the rules that define multicast alerts from various sources, such as probes, routers, Cisco 7600 series routers, Cisco ASR 9000 aggregation series routers, Digital Content Managers (DCMs), and other network management systems. The rules files contain code that extracts the multicast group and source information from these alerts and provides the operator with a Launch CMM Multicast Trace option and a Launch CMM Tree Change report option.
By integrating CMM and the Cisco ROSA NMS with Cisco Info Center, you can view all the alarm conditions and data for service level correlation and analysis. Additionally, for CMM events, you can launch troubleshooting and diagnostic analysis directly from Cisco Info Center.
Cisco VAMS 3.1 supports several third-party video probes. CMM supports video probes in two ways:
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For a list of the video probes and element managers that you can use with CMM, and information on software and firmware versions, see Table 1.
Cisco VAMS 3.1 can be used with Cisco ANA 3.7 to build an abstracted network model through a set of virtual network elements (VNEs). Each VNE represents an element in the managed network.
See Figure 1 and Figure 2 for an overview of the Cisco VAMS components (the topologies shown in the figures are examples). Figure 1 shows Cisco VAMS in the video headend network, and Figure 2 shows Cisco VAMS in a video transport network.
Figure 1 Cisco Video Assurance Management Solution 3.1 Components for Video Headend Monitoring
The ROSA Copernicus NMS receives events either directly from the DCM, or, if the ROSA EMS is deployed in the headend network, from the ROSA EMS.
Figure 2 Cisco Video Assurance Management Solution 3.1 Components
New Features with Release 3.1
Cisco VAMS 3.1 provides the following new features and functionality:
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Solution Requirements
Table 1 lists the software and firmware requirements for the Cisco VAMS components.
Table 1 Requirements for VAMS Solution Components
Cisco VAMS
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Installation script
Active Network Abstraction (ANA)
3.7.2
ANA Gateway—Sun Fire V490, Solaris 101
ANA Unit—Sun Fire V480, Solaris 101
ANA Client—IBM or PC compatible work station, Windows 2000 or Windows XP1
Cisco Multicast Manager
3.1.2
Sun—Solaris 8, 9, or 10
Linux—Linux 4 or 5
ROSA Copernicus Element Management System
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The ROSA EMS is supported on the following operating systems:
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Digital Content Manager
DCM software V8.7
Model D9900 and D9901 with GbE interface card.
Cisco 7600 Series router
RLS8
Supervisor card: 7600-SUP720-3BXL with redundant SUP720-3BXL.
Line cards include the following Ethernet Services Plus (ES+) line cards: 76-ES+T-4TG,76-ES+T-40G, 7600-ES+4TG3C, 7600-ES+20G3C, and several other versions.
Cisco 7600 Series Route Switch Processors (RSPs) 720 with 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks include the RSP720-3C-GE and the RSP720-3CXL-10GE.
Cisco ASR9000 series routers
IOS XR 4.0.1
Apply IOS-XR Software Maintenance Upgrade (SMU) asr9k-mcast-3.9.1.CSCtf69443-1.0.0 to all ASR 9000 routers.
Cisco uBR10K
12.2(33)SCB4
Cisco Catalyst 6500 switch
12.2(33)SXI
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Cisco Carrier Routing System-1 (CRS-1)
IOS-XR 4.0.1
Line cards include CRS-MSC, CRS1-SIP-800 (with SPA-8X1GE), 8-10GE
Cisco Catalyst 4948 switch (CAT 4948-10GE)
12.2(46)SG
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VAMS release 3.1 includes the following Cisco Info Center IBM Tivoli Netcool components:
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IneoQuest iVMS (IneoQuest NMS for IQ probes)
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IneoQuest video probes
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Sentry Engine Version: PDM (build 1460.84)
Sentry Database Version: 3.1.31
Sentry Configuration: TRANSPORTBridge Technologies video probes
VB Series
Version: 3.1.0-26, including the VB260 QAM probe.
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1 See the User Guide for Cisco Video Assurance Management Solution 2.0 at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/cisco_video_assurance_mgt_solution/2.0/user/guide/vams_20_user.html for detailed specifications.
2 Cisco VAMS 3.1 does not support carousel-related traps for the Mixed Signals Sentry 136.
ROSA NMS Requirements
Table 2 indicates the requirements for the computer used to run the ROSA NMS client.
Engineers, please verify the numbers below.
TBSM Requirements
Hardware Requirements
TBSM requires:
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The IBM Tivoli Service Manager (TBSM) console supports the IBM 1.5 Java Runtime Environment (JRE). TBSM 4.2.1 also supports Sun Microsystems JRE version 1.6.
TBSM 4.2.1 requires one of the following browsers:
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JRE level 1.6 or later is recommended.
Installation Notes
Installation of Cisco VAMS involves installation of its key components:
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For complete details of the VAMS 3.1 installation workflow, including procedures and references to installation documents, see the User Guide for Cisco Video Assurance Management Solution, 3.1, available online at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9518/products_user_guide_list.html .For details on the VAMS 3.1 installation workflow, consult with your Cisco Advanced Services representative.
Uninstall
You uninstall Cisco VAMS 3.1 by deleting the Cisco Info Center components The uninstallation procedure is described in the User Guide for Cisco Video Assurance Management Solution 3.1.
Important Notes
This section contains the following note:
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Increasing the Heap Size Used by Netcool Impact to Handle High Event Loads
By default, the allocated heap size for IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact is 1204 MB. If your VAMS installation has high event loads, you might receive alerts regarding Impact's heap size. For example, the following alert might appear:
Alert: Impact's Heap size is very close to Max Heap Size! Impact's Heap using 1707M out of 1200M, Free System Memory Available: 5499M, Impact requires at least: 1350M of memoryTo prevent this issue, we recommend that you increase Impact's maximum heap size to 3072 MB to handle the high event loads.
To increase the maximum heap size for Impact:
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bash-3.00# cd $NCHOME/eWAS/profiles/ImpactProfile/binStep 2
Figure 3 Increasing Maximum Heap Size Used by Impact
Open Caveats
Table 3 indicates the open caveats for Cisco VAMS 3.1.
Related Documentation
See the following sections for information on related documentation:
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Cisco VAMS 3.1 Documentation
In addition to the User Guide for Cisco Video Management Solution, 3.1, the Cisco VAMS documentation set comprises:
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Provides an overview of the solution features and architecture, installation and configuration instructions, and information on using the TBSM and Webtop interfaces to view events and troubleshoot events in the video network. This document is viewable online at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9518/products_user_guide_list.html
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Provides links to the documentation for the Cisco VAMS 3.1 component products and for related products. This document is available online at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9518/products_documentation_roadmaps_list.html
Documentation for VAMS Components
For links to the documentation for the VAMS product components, see the Documentation Guide for Cisco Video Management Solution, 3.1, viewable online at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9518/products_documentation_roadmaps_list.html
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:
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1 Single Pane of Glass—The ability to utilize multiple interconnected tools to monitor, diagnose, and troubleshoot network and video impairments from a single console.
