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About This Guide
Cisco Element Management Framework (Cisco EMF) is the new homogeneous element management layer of the Cisco Service Management (CSM) system. It comprises a highly scalable framework designed to support carrier-class element managers across Cisco's service-provider product lines. This flexible, modular model allows Service Providers to install the mix of Element Managers they need to support their dynamic businesses. It also enables rapid development and deployment of new Element Managers, permitting Service Providers to more rapidly introduce and manage new services.
Cisco EMF provides common interfaces and element management services to applications in the network and service management levels of CSM. Cisco's EcoSystem partners can also build third-party element management systems to provide element management support in mixed network environments.
Who Should Use This Book
This book is written as a technical resource for network managers and system administrators (the people responsible for managing the network) and for network analysts (those who configure it). It is assumed you have a basic understanding of network design, operation, and terminology, and you are familiar with your own network configurations. It is also assumed you have a basic familiarity with UNIX.
How This Guide Is Organized
This Guide is organized as follows:
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Related Information
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The Cisco Element Management Framework Event Manager User Guide book is a companion document to this book. This document provides technical information about the Cisco EMF Event Manager.
The following documents contain additional information which may help you more fully understand the material described in this manual:
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These documents are available on the Cisco document CD.
Conventions and Terminology
This section discusses conventions and terminology used throughout this book.
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The Cisco EMF software supports a three-button mouse. The buttons are configured as follows:
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This book uses this terminology throughout (even though it is possible for individual users to customize their devices to use the buttons in an alternative manner). In situations that allow more than one item to be selected from a list simultaneously, the following actions are supported:
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Names of on-screen elements that you click, or select (menu names and commands, and controls such as buttons, drop-down lists, and so on) are printed in bold font.
Bold font is also used for keywords, names of commands and menus, and names of keys on the keyboard.
Text displayed as on-screen examples is printed in courier font.
When set off from the main text, words and characters you should enter by the keyboard are printed in bold font. When the word or character string is enclosed in angle brackets (< and >), you should substitute your own character string for the example presented in the text.
For example, when you see: login: root
you should specify the string root at the login prompt. However, when you see: password: <rootpassword>
you should specify your own password in place of the character string <rootpassword>. The italic style is used to emphasize words, to introduce new terms, and for titles of printed publications (however, not titles of CD-ROMs or floppy disks).