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• Entire frame—Prints or exports the entire CTC window including the graphical view of the card,
node, or network. This option is available for all windows.
• Tabbed view—Prints or exports the lower half of the CTC window containing tabs and data. The
printout includes the selected tab (on top) and the data shown in the tab window. For example, if you
print the History window tabbed view, you print only history items appearing in the window. This
option is available for all windows.
• Table Contents—Prints CTC data in table format without graphical representations of shelves,
cards, or tabs. This option does not apply to all windows; refer to the print task in the
Cisco ONS 15310-MA SDH Procedure Guide for specifics.
• The Table Contents option prints all the data contained in a table with the same column headings.
For example, if you print the History window Table Contents view, you print all data included in the
table whether or not items appear in the window.
4.7 Using the CTC Launcher Application to Manage Multiple ONS Nodes
The CTC Launcher application is an executable file, StartCTC.exe, that is provided on Software
Release 9.1 and 9.2 CDs for Cisco ONS products. You can use CTC Launcher to log into multiple ONS
nodes that are running CTC Software Release 3.3 or higher, without using a web browser.
CTC Launcher provides two connection options. The first option is used to connect to ONS network
elements (NEs) that have an IP connection to the CTC computer. The second option is used to connect
to ONS NEs that reside behind third party, OSI-based gateway network elements (GNEs). For this
option, CTC Launcher creates a TL1 tunnel to transport the TCP traffic through the OSI-based GNE.
The TL1 tunnel transports the TCP traffic to and from ONS end network elements (ENEs) through the
OSI-based GNE. TL1 tunnels are similar to the existing static IP-over-CLNS tunnels, GRE and Cisco IP,
that can be created at ONS NEs using CTC. (Refer to the Cisco ONS product documentation for
information about static IP-over-CLNS tunnels.) However, unlike the static IP-over-CLNS tunnels, TL1
tunnels require no provisioning at the ONS ENE, the third-party GNE, or DCN routers. All provisioning
occurs at the CTC computer when the CTC Launcher is started.
Figure 4-7 shows examples of two static IP-over-CLNS tunnels. A static Cisco IP tunnel is created from
ENE 1 through other vendor GNE 1 to a DCN router, and a static GRE tunnel is created from ONS ENE 2
to the other vender, GNE 2. For both static tunnels, provisioning is required on the ONS ENEs. In
addition, a Cisco IP tunnel must be provisioned on the DCN router and a GRE tunnel provisioned on
GNE 2.