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Ciena MCP Adapter

General information

Controller name: MCP Adapter

Vendor: Cisco

Controller version: v6.1, v6.2, v7.1, v7.2, v8.0, v8.1, v8.2

HCO version: 10.0

Adapter version:

Adapter release date:

Use cases

· Inventory discovery - Yes

· Topology discovery - Yes

· Service underlay discovery (LSP, tunnels) - Yes

· Service discovery - Yes

· Assurance - Yes

· Service provisioning – Yes

· RON - Yes

Discovery

Inventory

Details	Support	Additional information
Device types	6500, 51XX, 54XX, 81XX, 87XX
Shelf	Yes
Cards	Yes
Ports	Yes
Fans	Yes
Power	Yes
Pluggable transceivers	Yes
Notifications	Yes
Protocol	RESTCONF
Data Model	TAPI

Topology

Details	Support	Additional information
Link layers	OTS, OMS, NMC, OCH, OTU, ODU, ETH, RLogical, E Line, PW, LSP, LAG	Ports (OTS, OMS, NMC, OCH, OTU, ODU, ETH, RLogical, RPhysical, MPLS-TP, UNI, VUNI) Multilayer path view for OCH connection over RLS devices
Cross links	Yes
Cross domain links	No
Notifications	Yes
Protocol	RESTCONF
Data Model	TAPI

Service underlay

Details	Support	Additional information
Link layers	No
Cross domain links	No
Notifications	No
Protocol	NA
Data Model	NA

Services

Details	Support	Additional information
Service types	Circuit-E-Line, Packet-E-Line, Wavelength, OTN-Line, SDH-Line, Mpls-TP Tunnels	Packet E-Line · EPL · EVPL regular · EVPL Q-in-Q (Only Brownfield Discovery) Circuit Eline · ODUFix · ODUFlex
Service underlay	No
Cross domain services	No
Notifications	Yes
Protocol	RESTCONF
Data Model	TAPI

Assurance

Details	Support	Additional information
Performance Measurement (PM) types	Yes	PACKET_IN PACKET_OUT OCTET_IN OCTET_OUT AVG_RX_POWER_DBM_SCALE_100 MIN_TX_POWER_DBM_SCALE_100 MAX_TX_POWER_DBM_SCALE_100
Resource types	No	Include here LSPs and services
Live PMs	Yes
PM collection method	RESTCONF

Provisioning

Service type

Creation / Deletion

Modification

Brownfield

Circuit E-Line

OTN Line

OCH

Packet E-Line

OCH-NC (RON)

SDH Line

Yes

Yes (With existing TP tunnel as underlay)

Yes

Yes (Bandwidth)

Yes (CIR Modification for Greenfield Service)

Yes

Known Limitations:

For Packet Eline Service Modification, the Ciena MCP Controller assigns a different value for CIR, than that specified in the modification request. This causes the modification to fail as the application expects that the exact value should have been set.

Protocol	RESTCONF
Data Model	TAPI

Configuration

Configuration Parameters for the Ciena MCP Adapter:

Name	Description	Default	Range
Enabled	Whether to enable/disable the adapter.	False
Logging Level	The logging level at which the discovery cycle will be reported in the adapter’s log.	Info	Critical, Error, Warning, Info, Debug
Adapter Properties
Provisioning Timeout [sec]	The provisioning timeout in seconds.	150	[90: ]
Polling Cycle [sec]	Poll every X seconds.	3600	[90: ]
Connection Timeout [sec]	The connection timeout.	120
Max run time for a single discovery cycle[sec]	The maximum time for a discovery cycle. To prevent endless cycles which may put the adapter into a deadlock.	600	[30: ]
Minimal interval time between data updates [sec]	The minimum time between data updates. This is the period, for example 30 seconds, during which notifications are stored in the local adapter cache, after which discovery runs on the cache. If this is set to 0 seconds (default) the discovery runs immediately.	0	[0: ]
Save persistor request to disk?	Whether to save the persistor request to disk.	false
Service Delegation	Allows ownership of existing services for service deletion. When enabled, the adapter discovers controller connectivity-service entries for "brownfield" services (those created outside of Cisco Crosswork Network Controller). The Service Manager application recognizes these entries created by the adapter and adds them to the Point-to-Point table (in Service Manager). Users can then delete these "brownfield" services using Service Manager (even though they were created outside of Cisco Crosswork Network Controller).	false
Connection Properties
Host (including protocol, port, and URI prefix)	(http\|https)://<server>[:<port>] For example: https://10.1.2.3
Credentials	Credentials are defined in the “Credentials” tab of the Device Manager.		HTTP credentials
MCP API version	The MCP API version.	V5	[V5, V6]
Filter out non Ciena-devices	Whether or not to filter out non-Ciena devices.	false
Statistics Configuration
Enabled	Whether to enable/disable statistics collection.	true
Stats Interval Polling [sec]	Poll for statistics every X seconds.	900	[300: ]
Concurrent Devices Stats Collection	The number of concurrent devices to collect statistics from.	10	[1:30]
Notifications Configuration
Enabled	Should the notifications listener be initialized or not?	true

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