CWM Feature Limitations

•In regard to the The Forced Deletion feature, note that it does not support XPVC connections. They cannot be force deleted. The feature removes only the unused connection descriptor from the workstation on which it is performed. Other gateway workstations continue to show the descriptor. To clear it completely, you must force delete the unused descriptor at each gateway workstation.

•Occasionally, when you move linked nodes around in the Topology screen, the link does not automatically follow the nodes. Then it looks like the link is not connected to the nodes. Either move the affected nodes around within the window or refresh the Topology screen. When the screen refreshes, the link automatically appears connected to the appropriate nodes again.

•Using the Group Nodes feature affects only your view of the networks. Other users, even those who log into your workstation, do not see the groups you have made.

•After a previously saved configuration file is loaded by using the CWM Config Save & Restore feature, the Tree View continues to show some ports that are not in the restored configuration file. Attempting to configure these ports results in an error. In this case, perform a manual node resync.

•When setting up VISM connections, the VPI value in the VPI/VCI Selector window is grayed out with the VISM card slot number. If VISM is sitting in a feeder node, the VPI value in the VPI/VCI selector is grayed out as zero.

•Ports on PXM45-based nodes which are associated to a trunk display as Trunk Ports, however, ports that are carrying signalling protocol information display as User Ports. Because they are carrying information, you cannot provision connections on these ports. Attempting to do so results in an error being displayed. Choose another port.

•Virtual Ports on BPX are displayed in the Tree View application under the physical Line section as physicalPort.virtualPort.

•The PNNI ports on the PXM1 card of an SES node are not displayed in the Tree View.

•The administrative state of the PNNI ports is not aggregated into the total administrative state of the port. The Inspector View application shows both the total administrative state of the port and the administrative state of the PNNI ports as two separate items.

•The Loss of Cell Delineation alarm on the AXSME, AXSM-XG, or MPSM-OC3 cards may not get propagated from the switch to the CWM. For the AXSM cards, a line or path alarm is present, but the MPSM-OC-3 card could have an LOCD alarm triggered without any line or path alarm that is present. The line would show in the CWM as clear, while it is actually in alarm.

•With MPSM-OC3 cards, after you replace an OC-3 back card with a DS3 back card or vice versa, you need to do a coldstart.

•Occasionally, WANDEST fails to install immediately after a CWM and Service Agent installation on a workstation running Solaris 9. This error message appears: “Informix is not in on-line mode.” The workaround is to install WANDEST by using the C shell (csh).

•In the Connection Manager, the Service Type field displays some nonapplicable service types for SPVCs; however, the CWM displays an error if you select one of these nonapplicable service types.

•If a valid network.conf file is not present, the CWM may not start properly and may cause a topod core dump.

•Because of a device limitation, an SCT greater than 255 cannot be associated with SCT manager.

•An SSC can be added to only one SSM or CWM at a time.

	Release Notes for the Cisco WAN Manager, Release 15.3.00 P1
28	OL-11190-01, Rev. C0

15.3.00P1 specifications

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