CISCO GS7000 Node
The CISCO GS7000 Node four-port node is designed to enable broadband video network operators to easily scale services to meet customer demand and generate more bandwidth for more customers as the need for new services increases.
About
This connector was designed to monitor optical information and RF cable modem information for the node.
For most of the tables in the connector, a control is available to enable or disable polling.
Version Info
| Range | Description | DCF Integration | Cassandra Compliant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0.x | Initial version | No | No |
Product Info
| Range | Supported Firmware Version |
|---|---|
| 1.0.0.x | 4.7.0 Build 26 CxC 3.9.17 |
Installation and configuration
Creation
SNMP Main Connection
This connector uses a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) connection and requires the following input during element creation:
SNMP CONNECTION:
- IP address/host: The polling IP of the device.
SNMP Settings:
- IP port: The IP port of the device.
- Get community string: The community string used when reading values from the device, by default public.
- Set community string: The community string used when setting values on the device, by default private.
Usage
General
This page displays general parameters, such as Description, Hardware and Firmware Revision, Serial Number, Manufacturer, and Model.
Optical Control
This page contains the Optical Transmitter and Optical Receiver Control tables, where you can mount/unmount the transmitters and receivers, the Redundancy Control table, and the A/B Switch table, where you can configure the switches.
Optical Information
This page displays the Power, Current and Wavelength, as well as other parameters related to the Transmitters and Receivers.
RF Control
This page displays information about the RF Ports, including the Control Type, Level, Current and Control Level.
Device
This page displays general information about the physical device.
It also includes three page buttons to subpages with additional information: Event, Access and Physical.
Network
On this page, you can monitor information related to the network interfaces, such as the Packets, network Bandwidth, IP Addresses, etc.
The page also contains a number of page buttons: ICMP, IP, Dot 1, Dot 3, UDP, IP Datagram and Interface Extended.
Transponder
This page displays the Cable Modem status and CM Upstream Service Queue.
The page also contains a page button that opens the Cable Modem Information subpage. Note that it is possible that in some cases the information of the cable modem is displayed even if the protocol parameters are "Not initialized" because the transponder is a separate entity inside this device.
QOS
This page displays the Quality of Service table and downstream and upstream Service Flow.
Web Interface
This page displays the web interface of the device. Note that the client machine has to be able to access the device, as otherwise it will not be possible to open the web interface.