Cisco Systems NI-1 Working with Service Element Profiles, Creating a Service Element Profile

Chapter 6 Configuring the Cisco NI-1 DLSAM Equipment Module

Working with Service Element Profiles

Working with Service Element Profiles

Service element profiles provide you with access to the Cisco-specific attributes for a particular Service element. There is a corresponding Service element profile for each Service element type that the node supports. Default profiles provide the initial (default) attribute values for the corresponding object class whenever such a new object is created.

For a given Service element, more than one profile may be defined. However, for a given object, only one profile may be associated at any one time.

Since profiles themselves are objects which you can create and modify, they provide a means to store and name commonly used sets of attributes and provide a reliable shorthand method of configuring any number of new objects. A profile has most of the same attributes as the corresponding object class. Some attributes of the object class are not included in the profile because they are expected to be unique for each object. For example, an object’s name is not a profile attribute.

The attributes of a profile are referred to as initial value attributes because they are used to assign the initial values to the corresponding object. Once a new object has been created based on a profile, changes to profile attribute values do not cause any changes to the corresponding object. The only time the profile attributes affect the object is when you create a new object or when you reassign an existing object to the same or different profile.

For the Cisco 6100/6130 NI-1 Equipment Module, you can create Service element profiles for the following supported Service Elements:

•DSL Physical Ports

•ATM Logical Ports

•ATM-ATM Cross Connections

This section details the generic procedure for creating, modifying, and deleting Service element profiles, and then provides the specific configurable attributes for each Service element profile for this Equipment Module.

If you provide values for these attributes and also provide values in other places when you are creating a service (either during service creation or in a Service Object profile) the threader will override the values based on the following scale of priorities:

1.Service Object Viewer—All information provided in the Service object Subset Viewer is used by CPC.

2.Service object profile—CPC will only use the information provided in the Service object profile for values that are either not available or not specified in the Service object Subset Viewer.

3.Service element profile—CPC uses values from the Service element profile for all attributes that are not present or not specified in the Service object profile or the Service object Subset Viewer.

Creating a Service Element Profile

	To create a Service element profile, complete the following steps:
Step 1	From the Root Tree Viewer choose Equipment Module > Cisco NI1 DSLAM Equipment Module >
	Cisco NI1 DSLAM Node > Cisco NI1 DSLAM ATM-ATM Cross-Connect Profile.
Step 2	Click the Object Viewer button on the toolbar.
Step 3	Enter the attribute values under the appropriate tabs. Refer to the attribute tables in this section for
	attribute information.
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