Nortel Networks NN44470-100 manual System maintenance, Event logs, Backups

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MAS administration and security

System maintenance

It is good practice to perform routine maintenance tasks to avoid problems that can affect server performance or cause the server to fail. The MAS platform includes a number of useful tools and indicators to help you monitor your server performance quickly and easily. With these tools, you can perform regular maintenance routines.

Event logs

To ensure you are aware of service-affecting events so that you can take appropriate action, check your event logs daily. Investigate any unusual alarms or events, changes in alarm patterns, or inordinate alarm volumes.

Backups

To protect your site against data loss, maintain up-to-date backups. Ensure you have a full system backup scheduled at regular intervals, even on systems equipped with Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID). A full system backup is critical to prevent data loss if a system failure occurs, such as a disk drive failure or data corruption. Nortel also recommends that you perform a full system backup before you upgrade or install new software. You can schedule backups to run online while the system is still in service; however, Nortel recommends that you schedule backups for off-peak hours.

Nortel Media Application Server 6.0 for AS 5300

Fundamentals

NN44470-100 01.01 Standard

Release 6.0 03 June 2008

Copyright © 2008, Nortel Networks

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Contents Fundamentals Page Contents Nortel MAS Console New in this release FeaturesNavigation Other changesIntroduction Architecture and supported hardware and software MAS installationSystem architecture Network architectureVxml browser Session controllerSIP Multimedia Conductor Sipmc Multimedia ControllerMAS installation Multimedia Content StoreIVR media processor Ivrmp Conference media processorOptions for MAS application deployment Music On Hold Application deployment optionsAnnouncements Unified CommunicationsCo-resident deployment Maintenance ReleasesCo-resident Application Deployment including Meet Me Co-resident Application Deployment excluding Meet MeMAS commissioning Packaged application installation and licensingAS 5300 commissioning for MAS Packaged applicationsConfiguration data MAS clustersOperational state Persistent content storage Controller Peer Ring SIP signaling SIP propertiesSIP domains SIP trusted nodes SIP accountsSIP routes SIP proxy serversSIP registrar servers Media conferencingBasic conferencing algorithm Premium conferencing algorithmMixing different codecs Audio codecs Media settingsVideo codecs Digit relayConferencing Quality of ServiceQoS properties Property Description Continuous streaming Directory providerRSS provider RSS 2.0 sample document Access security setup MAS administration and securitySecurity Auditor SA User accountsApplication Administrator AA Remote Desktop ProtocolLogon banners Security tools Ipsec configurationFile system integrity and the fcheck tool Certificate managementService and configuration data backup Automatic and manual backupsService data Backup of configuration data Service data Content Store dataRestrictions System maintenance BackupsEvent logs MAS performance management MAS fault management Fault management architecturePolling management data Supported MIBs Snmp managementEvent logs SyslogField Description Security LogsMAS Console security logs AlarmsField Description Generic Counters & Gauges Nortel MAS ConsoleIP Interfaces Nortel MAS ConsoleMedia Settings SignalingAdvanced Settings LoggingDialog boxes Configuration propertiesTranslation properties Translation Properties dialog box SIP Domain Properties dialog box SIP domain propertiesSIP account properties SIP route properties SIP Trusted Nodes propertiesModify SIP Route dialog box Audio codec configuration Video codec configuration Video Codec Configuration dialog box Digit relay configuration Users properties User Properties dialog box Terminology Dual-tone multi-frequency Differentiated Services Code PointManagement Information Base Media Application ServerSession Description Protocol Redundant Array of Independent DisksSession Information Protocol Simple Network Management ProtocolUser Datagram Protocol Universal Resource IndicatorVideo codec Voice Extensible Markup LanguagePage Fundamentals