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General

Users

Description

Glossary

General

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The Cisco ANA shell comprises the following main components which require command-line management:

•Cisco ANA shell client.

•Unit process and VNE.

All these components should support the same interface behavior.

Users

Two types of users are expected to use the Cisco ANA shell interface:

•Network Operators—Responsible for network operation tasks such as surveillance and provisioning.

•Cisco Technicians—Responsible for low-level system maintenance, debugging, and fine-tuning.

Description

The Cisco ANA shell serves as the front-end of the system and provides services to the end-user. It unifies the operations of all the system components and requires the following services to be supported by the system components:

Component	Services Required from the Component
Gateway	All required surveillance and provisioning commands should be supported by the gateway
AVM	Should support management operations at AVM level, such as starting a new AVM.
VNE	Should support VNE management operations, such as starting and stopping VNEs.

Glossary

This section defines the different types of parameters that can be used as arguments in the Cisco ANA shell commands. All the parameters of the commands are strings in one of the formats provided in this document.

Type	string
Description	List of characters. If the string is not quoted, it must not contain white spaces. If the string contains white spaces, it must be quoted. To use quotes inside a string, escape them with a backslash.
Format
Example	user1 " the string \"string\""
Remark	How to deal with strings with white spaces?

Type	name
Description	The same as string. Used for clarity, for example as device name.
Format
Example	user1

Type	integer
Description	A string representing an integer.
Format
Example	352

Type	VC
Description	Identifier of an ATM VC.
Format	<Integer>["/"<Integer>] Both integers must be at the range specified by ATM.
Example	1/102

Type	ip (=IPAddress)
Description	IP address.
Format	X.X.X.X
Example	192.168.1.2

Type	filename
Description	A valid filename on the operating system on which the client is running.
Format	String
Example	path1.snc /export/home/sheer1.3/Main/path2.snc

Type	Date
Description	String representing date and time.
Format	UNIX date format in the default C location.
Example	Mon Jul 22 16:56:25 IDT 2002