Configuration Jobs

As part of its commissioning functionality, Legacy orchestrator allows you to configure Provider Connectivity Assurance devices that are in its inventory. You can configure devices by means of two entities that can be set up and executed in the ...

Here is an overview of how to set up and execute a configuration job: If you want to set up the job in dataset mode, import the datasets in Legacy orchestrator. For detailed procedures, see "Importing and Editing Datasets". If you want to use...

This procedure explains how to create a configuration job in GUI mode. It is also possible to do the following: Create a configuration template. See "Creating a Configuration Flow Template". Create a configuration job from dataset files...

You have a choice when it comes to selecting devices and setting the parameters for a configuration job: you can do it interactively or you can use data sets. The procedure in this section explains how to create a configuration job that will be ap...

To apply configuration jobs to devices, you must create a job executor. Then you run the executor and view the results of the execution. For the procedures, see: "Viewing List of Job Executors" "Starting a Job Executor" "Viewing the Status ...

Optionally, you can define schedulers that will run an executor once at a specific time or multiple times, instead of running it manually. Executor schedulers can be defined for job executors and for flow executors. When scheduling an executor, y...

This article explains the procedure necessary to delete a configuration job. To delete a configuration job from Legacy orchestrator Access the Commission ▶ Jobs page. The list of existing of jobs is displayed. Select a job in the...

You can back up the configuration of a managed element from Legacy orchestrator. If necessary, this backup can be restored on the managed element. For more information about configuration backups and how to restore them, see "Managing Backups of P...

A bandwidth regulator set is used to regulate traffic bandwidth based on the value of the following information for the incoming frames: PCP : p-bits in 802.1Q / 802.1Q-in-Q tags. IP Precedence : IP precedence bits in the IPv4 ToS byte or in...

You can set up a bandwidth regulator to regulate traffic. After a bandwidth regulator has been created, it can be applied to traffic policies. To set up a Bandwidth regulators configuration job Access the page Commission ▶ Jobs . S...

You can use a configuration job to configure various CFM IEEE 802.3ag settings. This job can be executed on: Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensors Second generation Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor Modules The configuration j...

You can use a job to configure various CFM ITU-T Y.1731 settings. Configuring a device with a CFM ITU-T Y.1731 job is very similar to configuring a device with a CFM IEEE 802.3ag job. The only difference when configuring for CFM ITU-T Y.1731...

This job is intended for Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensors (GT, LX, LT and so on). This job can be used to set a variety of CFM (Connectivity Fault Management) settings: Use the CFM General tab to set the DMM Test ID TLV State paramete...

You can execute CLI commands on a managed element (Sensor) using a configuration job. This is useful for executing commands that are not supported in other configuration job steps. A CLI configuration job simply includes the name of a CLI script. ...

A clocks configuration job allows you to set up a Time of Day (ToD) clock on a Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor Control. The job sets up a distributed clock that does not use PTP as its reference source. To set up a Clocks configuration jo...

A CoS profile is used to map an input frame to a Layer 2 class of service based on the conformance level (Green/Yellow) of the incoming traffic and on the value of the following information for the incoming frames: PCP : p-bits in 802.1Q / 802....

Delay Measurement Messages (DMM) are used to measure network delay and network delay variation. DMM measurements are part of the Service OAM functionality supported by Legacy orchestrator. You can enable DMM delay measurements on a Provider Connect...

You can use DHCP to automatically configure the IP parameters of a device. When a device uses DHCP, it can be configured to obtain its DNS settings via DHCP. If the device does not use DHCP, you can manually specify the address for each DNS ser...

You can use a device attributes configuration job to replace the credentials or label associated with a device. To set up a Device attributes configuration job Access the page Commission ▶ Jobs . Set all common configuration job se...

A Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor Control can be connected to a number of Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor Module and Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor SFP compute modules that serve as remote ports for the Assurance Sensor Contro...

You can upgrade the firmware of devices from Legacy orchestrator using a configuration job. You can stage the new firmware version on the Legacy orchestrator appliance before upgrading the firmware. "Managing Performance Element Firmware" for ...

Flowmeter is a high frequency bandwidth utilization meter that is available on the following Cisco products: Skylight element: FSX Skylight element: FS 1G Skylight element: FS 10G Note: Skylight element: FSX, FS 1G and FS 10G are EOL. ...

IPv4 filters can be used to loop back traffic or set up a traffic policy based on specific characteristics such as IPv4 Header settings, ICMP settings and VLAN settings. To set up an IPv4 filter job Access the page Commission ▶ Jobs . ...

IPv6 filters can be used to loop back traffic or set up a traffic policy based on specific characteristics such as IPv6Header settings, ICMP settings and VLAN settings. IPv6 filters are useful for configuring jobs applied to the Provider Connecti...

In a single configuration job, you can define one or more interfaces to be configured on a managed element (Sensor). An interface can be of several types: standard IPv4 and IPv6, bridge and VLAN. For each interface, you can define up to five IP ...

Layer 2 filters can be used to loop back traffic or set up a traffic policy based on specific characteristics such as Ethernet header settings, VLAN settings and DSCP for Layer 2 filters. To set up an L2 filter Job Access the page Commiss...

Layer 1 to 4 loopbacks (MAC address, IP address and port swap frame reflection) enable remote QoS testing of Ethernet, IP and triple-play services. You can set up a configuration job to set up loopbacks on Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor Mo...

Using the Metadata Configuration Job, you can import and edit metadata CLI for the VCE and the local interface on Assurance Sensor Control. To get started, you must obtain metadata for every value of each VCE and Interface. For every key-value pair,...

A Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor Control can be connected to a number of Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor Modules and Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor SFP modules that act as remote ports for the sensor: control. These Assurance ...

The system date and time can be set automatically using either an NTP server or a PTP server. A unit can also act as an NTP server if you select the Enable NTP server option. To set up an NTP-PTP configuration job Access the page Commis...

The PAA (Protocol Analysis Application) is a hardware-assisted active-measurement function that computes Layer-2 or Layer 3 (IPv4 UDP and IPv6 UDP) network delay (latency), delay variation (jitter), packet loss and continuity checks. Two units wit...

You can use a configuration job to set up the collection of performance metrics on managed elements. Note: You can also set up the collection of metrics data manually for individual elements in Legacy orchestrator. For more information, see "...

From Legacy orchestrator, you can configure users on devices. Those users will belong to a user group that has a particular set of permissions. The Permission groups configuration job allows to define the permissions for user groups on devices. You ...

You can set up different elements (filters, bandwidth regulators, CoS profiles and bandwidth regulator sets) and assign them to a traffic policy, thereby defining the new service and its attributes. To set up a Policies Job Access the page...

A port CoS mapping is used to control the class of service assigned to the outer VLAN tag of input frames on which a dual VLAN tag action (e.g. push-push or push-replace) was applied in the unit. There is one configurable port CoS mapping for each p...

You can use a Port configuration job to configure the parameters for physical ports on devices. To set up a Ports Job Access the page Commission ▶ Jobs . Set all common configuration job settings, as described in "Creating Configur...

You can use a Rehoming configuration job to move a Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor Module from one Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor Control to another. To set up a Rehoming Job Access the page Commission ▶ Jobs . Click ...

You can use configuration jobs to set up managed element side of the SNMP connection between managed elements (Sensors) and Legacy orchestrator. Legacy orchestrator must also be configured to receive SNMP messages from the elements that it manages...

In addition to configuring the SNMP agent on managed elements (Sensors), as explained in "Setting Up an SNMP Agent Configuration Job", managed elements must be configured to send their SNMP trap messages to another system known as the SNMP trap rec...

A Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor Control can function as a reflector for various types of performance measurement sessions: 2xOneWay - IPv4 (encapsulation types: GRE, ICMP, RTP, SCTP, UDP, TCP) Echo - IPv4 and IPv6 (encapsulation types...

SyncE takes the clock signal from the selected clock reference port and transmits it to all other ports. You also have the option to define a Secondary Clock Source on another physical port. To set up a SyncE configuration job Access the p...

You can set the system date and time of a managed element using a configuration job. To set up the System Time Job Access the page Commission ▶ Jobs . Set all common configuration job settings, as described in "Creating Configuratio...

You can set up a configuration job to configure Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensors to generate TWAMP sessions. To set up a TWAMP Generator configuration job Access the page Commission ▶ Jobs . Set all common configuration job s...

You can use the TWAMP Reflector configuration step to define a configuration job that does one of the following tasks: Configure a Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor to act as a TWAMP reflector Configure Provider Connectivity Assurance Sen...

The VLAN level for each traffic port on a device must be configured to be used with one or two VLAN tags in the VLAN filters. When the VLAN level setting is configured as Outer (default), the VLAN filter is matched against the outer VLAN of inco...

The Users configuration job allows you to configure user accounts on devices. In order to create users, one or more user permission group must already exist on the device. You can also create permission group using a configuration job. See "Setting ...

You can use a configuration job to define VID sets for each traffic stream on a device to classify the incoming traffic before sending it to the service creation function. A VID set consists of one or more VLANs grouped as a logical entity. To se...

A Virtual Connection Endpoint (VCE) is an NFV-based interface that can be defined on the following Cisco devices: Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensors (GT, LX and LT models) For detailed information about VCE parameters for a particular mo...

The Virtual Connection Access ( VCA ) functionality is used to define the end-to-end connectivity between two ports of an Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor or Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor Module. A VCA is composed of one or more...