Table Of Contents
Preface
Audience
Conventions
Related Documentation
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Preface
This manual describes Cisco Active Network Abstraction (Cisco ANA) 3.6.6. Cisco ANA serves as an extensible integration platform for network and service management. At its core is a rich, open, vendor-neutral virtual network mediation model which supports the management of diverse multiservice and multivendor networks. Additionally, ANA provides the following mature NMS functionality:
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Network topology discovery and visualization.
•Element management, providing near real-time inventory.
•Fault management, event correlation, root cause analysis and troubleshooting.
•Network service support.
Beginning with Cisco ANA 3.6.6, the section on Cisco ANA integrity service is located in the Cisco Active Network Abstraction 3.6.6 Administrator User Guide.
Audience
The intended audience for this guide includes:
•Network viewers who monitor the network and perform basic (nonprivileged) system functions.
•Network operators who perform day-to-day operations such as creating business tags and maps, and managing alarms.
•Network configurators who activate services and configure network elements.
•System administrators who manage and configure users, network elements, the Cisco ANA system, and overall security.
•System managers or administrators who periodically review and manage the events list using Cisco ANA EventVision.
•Networking engineers who are interested in understanding how the Cisco ANA fault and root cause analysis mechanism works. These engineers should have networking knowledge at Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) level, and should have received Cisco ANA basic and administrative training.
Conventions
This document uses the following conventions:
Table 1 Conventions
Convention
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Description
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A string is a nonquoted set of characters. For example, when setting an SNMP community string to public, do not use quotation marks around the string, or the string will include the quotation marks.
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^ or Ctrl
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^ or Ctrl represents the Control key. For example, the key combination ^D or Ctrl-D means hold down the Control key while you press the D key. Alphabetic character keys are indicated in capital letters but are not case sensitive.
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< >
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Angle brackets show nonprinting characters, such as passwords.
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!
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An exclamation point at the beginning of a line indicates a comment line.
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[ ]
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Square brackets show optional elements.
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{}
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Braces group alternative, mutually exclusive elements that are part of a required choice.
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A vertical bar, also known as a pipe, separates alternative, mutually exclusive elements of a choice.
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boldface font
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Button names, commands, keywords, and menu items.
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Courier bold shows an example of text that you must enter.
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italic font
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Variables for which you supply values.
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italic screen font
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Variables you enter.
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Courier plain shows an example of information displayed on the screen.
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Option > Network Preferences
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Selecting a menu item.
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Related Documentation
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describes the additional documentation that is available.
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
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