Ciena CN6500 Platform
The Ciena CN6500 Platform is an optical transport network device that supports multiple technologies ranging from Ethernet, WDM, OTN, CES, MPLS, SDH, and SONET to many other transport technologies.
This connector uses an SNMP connection to monitor Ciena CN6500 Platform devices.
About
Version Info
| Range | Description | DCF Integration | Cassandra Compliant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0.x | Initial version. Features interface data, equipment data, SNMP data, NMM topology, Nortel optical performance, and alarm data. | No | Yes |
| 1.0.1.x [SLC Main] | DCF | Yes | Yes |
Product Info
| Range | Supported Firmware |
|---|---|
| 1.0.0.x | 10.10Z.OF |
| 1.0.1.x | 10.10Z.OF |
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 (default: 161).
Read Community: The community string in order to read from the device.
Write Community: The community string in order to write in the device.
How to Use
Since this device supports a wide range of technologies, the data polling is based on two timers in order to provide more flexibility and more reliability to the connector communication. The polling configuration can be found on the Polling Configurations page. Each page also contains a refresh button that allows you to force the polling for every parameter and table on that page.
General
This page contains the general system data such as the System Description, System OID, System Up Time, System Contact, System Name, etc. It also contains the Polling Configuration page button.
Polling Configurations
The polling of the device is not enabled by default. To start the polling, you need to enable the polling state of the connector. For each page, select the polling configuration:
No polling: No data will be polled from device.
Slow polling: Polling will be based on the slow timer.
Fast polling: Polling will be based on the fast timer.
Shelf Equipment
On this page, you can find shelf-related data, including shelf identification parameters and the following tables:
Equipment Provision table: Contains information regarding the cards that are equipped on the device. You can configure the administrative state and check its status.
Inventory Table: Provides more detailed information for a card and allows you to send a cold or warm restart command to a given card.
Physical Entities
In the Physical Entities table, you can find the full description of every card and module equipped on the device. You can also set the admin state of a port.
Interfaces
This page provides information about every port present in the device. You can also set the administrative state of a port.
Interfaces Tree
This page provides a tree view of all interfaces. For each interface, performance information is displayed. The performance information is shown per performance type.
NMM Topology
The NMM (Nortel Management MIB) Topology page contains the data related to the Nortel Discovery Protocol.
The protocol can be deactivated with the NMM Topology status toggle button.
The Ethernet Multi Segment NMM Topology Table allows you to identify every NMM topology segment.
PM - Optical Power / Optical Loss / Code Violation / Failure Counts / Frames Statistics / Errored Seconds
These pages contain information regarding the optical power data (in dBm), optical loss data (in dBm), code violations data, failure counts data, frames statistics data, and errored seconds data for the device, respectively. On each of the pages, you can check this data for each measurement point enabled in the device. Trending is enabled on the Value column.
SNMP Data
This page allows you to analyze and configure SNMP data present on the equipment. The following page buttons are available: SNMP USM, SNMP View Based Data, SNMP Notify, SNMP Targets and SNMP Community.
Alarms
This page contains tables regarding alarm data: Active Alarm data and Cleared Alarm data.