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Ciena Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) Adapter

General Information

The Ciena MCP adapter is an optical adapter that supports Layer 0, Layer 1, Layer 2 network discovery, service provisioning (Circuit E-Line, Packet E-Line, SDH-Line, OTN-Line, OCH Link), and statistics collection (ETH, Power) managed by the Ciena MCP, TAPI 2.1.3 interface.

Table 1.Table 1 Network Discovery Details of the Ciena MCP Adapter

Discovery and Visualization

Inventory

Topology

Services

PMs

Provisioning

Optical Devices (ROADM, ILAs, Transponders, OTN and Packet Devices)

Shelves, Cards, Physical Ports, Power Supplies, Fans

OTS, OMS, OCH, NMC, OTU, ODU, ETH, R Logical (IP), LAG,

E-Line, PW, LSP (MPLS-TP),

RON Use Case:

ZRP Channel Port, ZRP Media Port

OTN-Line,

Circuit E-Line, Packet E-Line,

SDH-Line, OCH Link (Wavelength),

ZRP Channel Link,

ZRP Media Link

RON Use Case:

Wavelength Service as Underlay for ZR/ZR+

ETH and Power

OTN-Line,

Circuit E-Line, Packet E-Line,

SDH-Line, OCH Link (Wavelength),

OCH-NC/NMC Link as part of IP Link (RON Solution), MPLS-Tunnel

Version Support

The following table lists the tested devices supported on the Ciena MCP adapter.

Table 2. Versions Supported by the Ciena MCP Adapter

MCP – TAPI 2.1.3	Tested Devices
v6.1, v6.2, v7.1, v7.2	6500, 51XX, 54XX, 81XX, 87XX

Discovery

Inventory

Table 3. Inventory Parameter Details for the Ciena MCP Adapter

Parameter	Optical Network Element	Card	Port	Shelf	FAN	Power Supply
access_identifier	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
card_type	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
desc	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
device	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
device_family	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
device_type	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
extra	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
equip_state	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
management_ip	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
model_number	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
name	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
parent	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
part_number	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
pluggability	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
provider	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
reachability_status	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
serial_number	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
software_version	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
vendor	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Ports

Table 4.Port Item Attributes for the Ciena MCP Adapter

Attribute

OTS

OMS

NMC

OCH

OTU

ODU

Optical Client

Router Aggregate

Router Logical

Router Physical

STM

STS

MPLS

ETH

UNI

Virtual UNI

admin_status

Yes

containing_service

Yes

desc

Yes

device

Yes

eth_port_type

Yes

expected_transmit_power_range

Yes

has_service_end_point_capability

Yes

ingress_bandwidth_profile

Yes

Is_loopback

Yes

is_management

Yes

lower_ports

Yes

name

Yes

non_primary_ips

Yes

oper_status

Yes

Odu_type

Yes

Otu_type

Yes

parent

Yes

primary_ip

Yes

physical_address

Yes

provider

Yes

selected_spectrum

Yes

sts_type

Yes

upper_ports

Yes

vlan

Yes

Links

Table 5.Link Item Attributes for the Ciena MCP Adapter

Attribute

OTS

OMS

NMC

OCH

ODU

OTU

Pseudo Wire

Router Aggregate

Router Logical

Router Physical

STM

STS

ETH

LSP

E-Line

desc

Yes

is_bidi

Yes

name

Yes

oper_status

Yes

path_group_type

Yes

port_a

Yes

port_b

Yes

protection_status

Yes

provider

Yes

role

Yes

speed_bps

Yes

Provisioning

Table 6.Provisioning Details for the Ciena MCP Adapter

Type	Is Supported	Additional Information
Circuit E-Line	Yes
OTN Line	Yes	Supported with ODUFlex flag and protection options
OCH	Yes
Packet E-Line	Yes	Assign service to specific MPLS-TP tunnel
OCH-NC (RON)	Yes	Only as part of IP Link (not separate provisioning)
SDH Line	Yes
Tunnel (MPLS-TP)	Yes

Statistics

Table 7.Optical Statistical Data Collected for the Ciena MCP Adapter

Type	Is Collected	Additional Information
PACKET_IN	Yes
PACKET_OUT	Yes
OCTET_IN	Yes
OCTET_OUT	Yes
JITTER_USEC	No
MIN_RTT_USEC	No
MAX_RTT_USEC	No
AVG_RTT_USEC	No
DELAY_USEC	No
ACTUAL_TX_POWER_DBM_DIVDED_BY_100	No
RX_POWER_DBM_DIVDED_BY_100	No
AVG_RX_POWER_DBM_SCALE_100	Yes	Not tested
AVG_TX_POWER_DBM_SCALE_100	No
MIN_TX_POWER_DBM_SCALE_100	Yes	Not tested
MIN_RX_POWER_DBM_SCALE_100	No
MAX_TX_POWER_DBM_SCALE_100	Yes	Not tested
MAX_RX_POWER_DBM_SCALE_100	No
MAX_POSTFEC_BER_SCALE_10E15	No
MIN_POSTFEC_BER_SCALE_10E15	No
AVG_POSTFEC_BER_SCALE_10E15	No
MAX_PREFEC_BER_SCALE_10E15	No
MIN_PREFEC_BER_SCALE_10E15	No
AVG_PREFEC_BER_SCALE_10E15	No
Q_FACTOR_SCALE_100	No
MAX_Q_FACTOR_SCALE_100	No
MIN_Q_FACTOR_SCALE_100	No
AVG_Q_FACTOR_SCALE_100	No
MIN_THRESHOLD_Q_FACTOR_SCALE_100	No
MAX_THRESHOLD_Q_FACTOR_SCALE_100	No
VALID_Q_FACTOR	No
Q_MARGIN_SCALE_100	No
MAX_Q_MARGIN_SCALE_100	No
MIN_Q_MARGIN_SCALE_100	No
AVG_Q_MARGIN_SCALE_100	No
MIN_THRESHOLD_Q_MARGIN_SCALE_100	No
MAX_THRESHOLD_Q_MARGIN_SCALE_100	No

Configuration

Table 8.Configuration Parameters for the Ciena MCP Adapter

Name	Description	Default	Range
Adapter Properties
Enabled	Whether to enable/disable the adapter.	False	DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL
Logging Level	The logging level at which the discovery cycle will be reported in the adapter’s log.	INFO
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://10.133.11.10
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
Stats Collection 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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Discovery

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Links

Provisioning

Statistics

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