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Cisco WAN Manager User’s Guide
Version 10.5, Part Number 78-12945-01 Rev. D0, August 2003
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Cisco WAN Manager Overview
Cisco WAN Manager (CWM), a sui te of WAN multiservice managem ent applications, prov ides powerful
fault, configuration, and performance mana gement functionality for WAN multiservice switches. CW M
also provides robust statistics coll ect io n, storing the information in an Inf or mi x S Q L d at ab as e a nd
allowing simple integration of this data into existing network management and operations systems.
Element and network mana gement functions are provi ded by the CWM system, which can manage Cisco
BPX® 8600 and Cisco IGX™ 8400 series wide-area switches, th e Cisco BPX SES PNNI Contr oller, and
Cisco MGX™ 8220, Cisco MGX™ 8230, Cisco MGX™ 8250, and both Rele ase 1 and Release 2 Cisco
MGX™ 8850 devices seamlessly. CWM provides open interfaces for higher level service management
systems.
The CWM desktop graphical user i nt er fa ce ( GU I ) prov id es t he following applications that are fo u nd
under the Apps pull down menu of the CWM Topology Main Window:
•Connection Manager
•Network Browser
•Service Class Template Manager
•Statistics Collection Manager
•Security Manager
•Summary Report
•Wingz Report
•Cisco View
CWM provides these functions in an open management environment. CWM runs on Release 2.7 of
Solaris and integrates with Rele ase 6 .1 0 o f HP OpenView.

CWM Release 10 Applications

Connection Manager

The Connection Mana ger provides the networ k manager the ability to add, modify, and delete end-to-end
connections. The Connection Manage r provides a series of forms-based screens to add, mod ify, or delete
connections. You select the desired connection end-points and configure the connection type and class