Alcatel-Lucent 5650 manual Key Features, Proactive Control Plane Surveillance

Key Features

The Alcatel-Lucent 5650 CPAM routing topology map displays relationships between all reach- able routers in the administrative areas, including third party routers. This multi-vendor feature enables operators to unify control plane management under one manage- ment model and further simplifies multi-vendor, routed core management.

Proactive Control Plane Surveillance

The Alcatel-Lucent 5650 CPAM provides a number of mechanisms that monitor control plane health.

With proactive control plane surveillance, an alarm generated by the 5650 CPAM alerts operators that the routing plane is undergoing changes that exceed a configurable limit. Operators can navigate to a control plane topology map where all new or deleted IP routes are color coded to help them zero in on the routes affected by the routing updates [Figure 5].

The collected routing events can then be inspected for details about the changes that have occurred. In addition, operators can locate specific routes and LSPs that were affected by the changes and highlight the changes to discover whether the control plane behaved as expected.

The 5650 CPAM also enables specific source destination combinations to be actively monitored for routing changes using the MPLS tunnel and IP route monitoring feature. Should changes be detected, the 5650 CPAM records the new route, which can later be highlighted and compared to the previous (historical) routes.

Control Plane Visualization, Validation and Diagnosis

The Alcatel-Lucent 5650 CPAM graphically displays the entire control plane topology, including routers from third party vendors. It uses different colors for each administrative routing area and different icons to represent different router roles [Figure 6].

Figure 5. Color-Coded Route Changes From Baseline Figure 6. Multi-area OSPF Topology Display

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