User guide

CHAPTER
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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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Fault and Performance Management
Fault and performance management includes the following topics:
• Monitoring Alarms and Events, page 6-2
• Launching the Event Browser, page 6-5
• Viewing Cisco MGM Logs, page 6-5
• Registering Cisco MGX 8260 Traps, page 6-5
• Monitoring Alarms from the Cisco WebViewer, page 6-7
• Monitoring Performance from the Cisco WebViewer, page 6-8
Alarm Management
The Cisco MGM Alarm component, which is a customized component of the CEMF3.1 platform,
handles Cisco MGX 8260 Media Gateway alarms and events. Cisco MGM receives alarm and event
messages from managed objects and displays them in the Map Viewer and Event Browser. The Map
Viewer displays alarms on the topology view, and the event browser displays events in tabular form. The
tabular data includes severity, date, source, and other information.
Cisco MGM implements alarm features using SNMP trap messages. A configuration file maps SNMP
traps to Cisco MGM alarms. For more information, see the Cisco Element Management Framework User
Guide. Before Cisco MGM can process alarm information, you need to register the traps you want the
Cisco MGX 8260 Media Gateway to forward. You register traps using the Cisco WebViewer tool. You
can also view MGX 8260 alarms and events directly from the Cisco WebViewer.
Performance Management
The Cisco MGX 8260 Media Gateway reports performance information for DS1, E1, DS3, and SONET
lines. In addition, you can set performance thresholds and assign alarm severities that the nodes report.
You view this information using the Cisco WebViewer tool. For more information, see the “Cisco
WebViewer Sessions” section on page 3-4.
An optional product, the Cisco Voice CORBA Gateway, forwards Cisco MGX 8260 Media Gateway
performance information to higher-level managers.