Patton electronic SmartNode 4110 Series manual Configuration concept overview

SmartWare Software Configuration Guide 2 • Configuration concepts

Introduction

This chapter introduces basic SmartWare configuration concepts. A good understanding of these concepts is vital for the configuration tasks explained in the remaining chapters of this guide.

Patton strongly recommends that you read through this chapter because it introduces the fundamental ideas behind the structure of the command line interface. Once you understand and know this structure, you will find it much more intuitive to navigate through the CLI and configure specific features.

This chapter includes the following sections:

•Contexts and gateways (see page 46)

•Interfaces, ports, and bindings (see page 47)

•Profiles and Use commands (see page 48)

Patton SmartNodes are multi-service network devices that offer high flexibility for the inter-working of circuit- switched and packet-routed networks and services. In order to consistently support a growing set of functions, protocols, and applications, SmartWare configuration is based on a number of abstract concepts that represent the various SmartWare components.

Gateway

NAPT

Profile

Context use command

ACL

Interfaces Profile

bind command

Circuit

Ports

		H.323 GW
		“h323”
			bind
	bind command	SIP GW	commands
		“sip”
		VoIP	use command
		Profile
	Service
Context	Policy
IP	Profile	Tone-	use
router
		set	commands
	use command	Profile
	bind command		bind command
	PVC
Ethernet	Serial

Figure 5. Configuration concept overview

Context

CS

switch

Telephone port

use command	VoIP
	Profile

useTone-

commands set Profile

bind command

Telephone port

Figure 5 shows the various elements of a complete SmartNode configuration. Each of these elements imple- ments one of the configuration concepts described in this chapter. The figure also shows the relationships and associations between the different elements. The relations are specified through bind (arrow) and use (bullet-

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