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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

Chapter 1 Cisco MGM Orientation

Management Features

Cisco MGM implements fault, configuration, performance, and security features.

Fault Management

Using Cisco MGM, you can monitor the network for faults and clear alarms. The system handles alarms

and events as follows:

• Displays alarm and events on a color-coded topology map.

• Forwards traps to remote SNMP managers.

• Optionally, propagates alarms to higher-level managers. This feature requires the Cisco Voice

CORBA Gateway option.

Using the Cisco WebViewer tool, you can view threshold-based alarms, gather performance statistics,

perform line diagnostic tests, and configure email or pager alerts for alarms. You launch the Cisco

WebViewer application directly from Cisco MGM.

Configuration Management

Cisco MGM provides the following configuration management features:

• Topology views of network elements

• Automatic discovery of Cisco MGX 8260 Media Gateways

• Synchronization of Cisco MGM objects with subchassis components

• Multichassis download of software images

• Configuration of SNMPv1 community strings

• Menu-launched WebViewer or telnet sessions for web-based or CLI device management

An optional extension, the Cisco Voice CORBA Gateway, provides a programmatic interface from which

higher-level managers can fully configure and monitor the Cisco MGX 8260 Media Gateways.

Performance Management

Cisco MGM supports performance management as follows:

• Menu-launched WebViewer tool

This tool displays performance statistics and real-time counters for all DS1, DS3, and SONET lines.

Also, you can adjust the counter thresholds to refine performance collection criteria.

• Cisco Voice CORBA Gateway (optional)

This interface propagates performance statistics to higher-level managers. On request, Cisco MGM

retrieves performance statistics from the Cisco MGX 8260 Media Gateways, packages the statistics

in a bulk file, and forwards it to the manager.