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5.10 Manage CLI Users
Note: This option is available only to users in the Admin group.
This option is used to specify common CLI login-passwords for a set of devices. This data is then used during the discovery
process to log in on each device and save the username/password pair on a per-device basis.
Note: This function is part of the Discovery Panel.
5.11 Customer Cutover
5.11.1 Overview
This feature supports reassigning customers, each, from one port to another of the same interface type. Uses for this feature
include:
• Port failure
• Network reorganization
• Card upgrades
This feature is especially useful during ADSL and SHDSL card upgrades, where all the customers from one card can be
migrated to an upgraded card, such as going from an ADSL16 to an ADSL24 or 48.
Using the Port Management GUI, the user specifies a source port (or ports) on the source card and a destination port or
port(s) on the destination card. Once the source and destination port mix is determined the feature converts or cuts over
these one or more ports, ensuring that every parameter of the source port is set exactly the same on the destination port.
The NMS database and all related components will reflect the new changes. Because of this, cutover is essentially an
automated de-provisioning and re-provisioning process of ports with transferable parameter settings, i.e., where the only
changes are the iMAP device, slot, and port ids of the customer and all the other port parameter settings remain the same.
While this feature would usually involve moving a set of ports to an upgraded card type, there can be scenarios where the
user may choose to migrate one customer on one (i.e. bad) port to another port on the same card, or to a port on another
card in the same shelf, or to a port on a another card in another shelf.
Note: To use this feature successfully, the user must be sure to understand what cutover scenarios are supported. This is discussed
below.
5.11.2 Cutover Scenarios/Restrictions
This is an interactive feature, where the likely scenario involves a technician performing hardware changes (such as metallic
cutover) while the NMS user prepares the configuration changes. Once the hardware change is complete, the NMS user
invokes this feature to perform and test the configuration changes. Once testing completes, the NMS user can de-provision
the previous customer configurations and the technician can remove any hardware no longer needed.
Following are the general restrictions:
• Only provisioned ports can be selected for cutover.
• Using this feature involves interaction, and so cannot be scheduled or executed from a task.
• Cutover does not apply to interface types with non-transferable and/or context-sensitive parameter settings. Such
interface types are:
• CES ports, which depend on card IP configuration and PSPAN configuration
• NTE ports, which depend on PPP and DS1/DS0 configuration.
• POTS ports