Specifications

SPECTRUM Software Release Notice (SSRN)
For SPECTRUM 6.6 with Service Pack 5 CD release
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connection through an MPLS enabled infrastructure. A Path model will
provide a logical representation of many physical elements, such as
devices, interfaces and links. The second modeling paradigm is the
“LSP” model, which represents the logical data path through the MPLS
infrastructure. An LSP model will consist of the primary and N
secondary paths required to traverse the MPLS infrastructure.
SPECTRUM MPLS Manager will discover these logical layer models when
discovering and modeling the physical devices.
Mulitcast Manager
• SPECTRUM’s Multicast Manager is designed to provide management for
multicast traffic within your network environment. This includes the
identification and monitoring of all multicast groups, sources, receivers
and other critical resources like rendezvous point routers. Multicast
Manager discovers and models Cisco devices that support multicast.
Once these devices have been discovered, Multicast Manager provides
several views which allow you to monitor the connectivity of these
multicast elements. These views offer details relating to multicast
groups, sources, receivers, routers, and rendezvous points and their
relationships to each other. The information provided in these views
makes troubleshooting multicast related outages much more efficient.
You can pinpoint a problem quickly because you can determine the
group a receiver belongs to, the rendezvous point of the group, the
source for the group, the routers and interfaces a group uses, and the
configuration and bandwidth limits of these interfaces. Based on this
information, you can prioritize your troubleshooting efforts should
multiple problems occur. Multicast Manager is accessed through the
SPECTRUM Web Operator interface.