Chapter 6 Configuring the Cisco NI-1 DLSAM Equipment Module

Initial System Upload

Step 4 Run the following commands in succession to source the Server environment and start the CPC Server:

cd /opt/SY/Activator/Server/mng/utility

. syccpovdef SYnpt -sS

Initial System Upload

In order to provision services, the CPC database must have detailed knowledge of the managed subnetworks. Using a procedure called upload, objects are created within the CPC database that represent objects of the managed network.

Note The term upload does not refer to the creation of inter-network links because they are outside the scope of any single Equipment Module. For more information on adding inter-networking links, see the section titled “Adding Inter-Network Links (Topology) Information” in this chapter.

CPC supports the following types of upload:

fabric (nodes, DSL physical ports, WAN physical ports, WAN subtending ports, ATM logical ports)

Service (ATM cross connections)

fabric and Service (all)

For the Cisco 6100/6130 NI-1 Equipment Module you can upload many nodes at once (network upload) or an individual node at a time. CPC supports the following upload scenarios:

Given a network object, upload just the fabric elements for the nodes in that network.

Given a network object, upload just the Service elements for the nodes in that network.

Given a network object, upload all the fabric and Service elements for the nodes in that network.

Given a node object, upload just the fabric elements for that node.

Given a node object, upload just the Service elements for that node.

Given a node object, upload all fabric and Service elements for that node.

Note The upload function takes precedence over any Transactions that are running at the time of upload. If the upload function makes a change back to the fabric that affects a running Transaction (such as deleting a logical port that the Threader has decided to use) then this Transaction fails and must be restarted.

Network and node objects must be created in order to perform an Upload.

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