Cisco Systems 12000/10700 V3.1.1 manual Overview

Chapter 1 Overview

Key Features of the Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager Software

•Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager deployment—Eases deployment of large networks by enabling template-based element configuration, operations, administration, and maintenance

–Pre-deployment of chassis, GRP and line cards

–AutoDiscovery—Automatically discovers existing Cisco 12000/10720 routers

•Comprehensive fault management system—For chassis, line cards and interfaces

•Configuration Backup/Restore using RME—Uses Resource Manager Essentials to back up and save the running configuration of a device and its modules so that if a hardware failure occurs, you can restore configuration

•Configuration Editor—Uploads and saves the running configuration on a device after editing

•Configuration operations—Performs in bulk to numerous Cisco 12000/10720 routers

•Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager Management—Fault, Configuration, Accounting and Performance (FCAP) Element Management of Cisco 12000 Series Routers using Cisco EMF windows

•Interface profiles—Enables you to apply the same parameters to a large number of objects at one time

•Layer 3 QoS support—Includes Committed Access Rate (CAR), Weighted Random Early Detection (WRED), WRED ToFab and Modified Deficit Round Robin (MDRR)

•Line cards and interfaces—Supports various line cards and interfaces, such as packet-over-SONET (POS), Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Digital Signal 3 (DS3), Dynamic Packet Transport (DPT), Spatial Reuse Protocol (SRP) and Gigabit and Fast Ethernet

•Cisco IOS releases—Easily downloads new software releases from Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager onto devices using RME

•ATM Connections Management—Uploads existing PVCs and associated QoS profiles from any device into the Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager and also manual deployment and management of PVCs and SVCs

•Subchassis discovery—Determines the physical chassis contents, such as line cards and interfaces

•Rediscover Line Cards after online insertion or removal (OIR)

•BGP and OSPF Protocols Management—Configuration and Fault Management for BGP and OSPF routing protocols and uploading BGP Address Family configurations

•Route Processor Redundancy (GRP and PRP) support for chassis management

•Complete support for IP Routing, TCP and UDP Status Management

•MPLS Management—Fault Management and Performance Management for MPLS Interfaces and Sub-Interfaces, Fault Management for LDP Entities and MPLS Tunnels, Configuring MPLS and VRF Traps

•VRF Management—Configuration of VRFs in the EM. Creation of VRFs in the device through EM and Association of VRFs to Interfaces. Fault Management for VRFs

•VLAN Management—Configuration and performance monitoring of the VLAN sub-interfaces

•VLAN Synchronization—Uploads the existing VLAN information from the network into Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager

Cisco 12000/10700 v3.1.1 Router Manager User Guide

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