User guide

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Cisco Media Gateway Manager for the Cisco MGX 8260 Media Gateway User Guide
Release 1.0, Part Number 78-11705-01, December 2000
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Cisco MGM Orientation
The Cisco Media Gateway Manager (Cisco MGM) can deploy, configure, and manage a group of Release
1.2 Cisco MGX 8260 Media Gateways in one or more Points of Presence (POP). This chapter contains
the following sections:
• Overview, page 1-1
• Management Features, page 1-2
• Cisco MGM Architecture, page 1-3
• Management Tasks by Interface, page 1-4
• Cisco WebViewer Features, page 1-5
Overview
Cisco MGM supports four of the five major OSI system management functional areas—fault,
configuration, performance, and security. Cisco MGM also conforms to the Telecommunications
Management Network (TMN) model, operating as an Element Management System (EMS) at the
element management layer. As such, Cisco MGM manages a subnetwork of homogenous network
elements.
Cisco MGM includes a graphical user interface that displays network information and supports device
management. This interface extends the capabilities of the Cisco Element Management Framework
(Cisco EMF) to include managing Cisco MGX 8260 Media Gateways. Cisco MGM includes links to two
management tools, the Cisco WebViewer and the Cisco MGX 8260 command line interface, from which
you configure individual nodes.
Network management layer applications can communicate with Cisco MGM through an optional
CORBA/IDL interface provided by the Cisco Voice CORBA Gateway (Cisco VCG). This gateway is a
separate product that extends the capabilities of the Cisco MGM product.