Cisco Active Network Abstraction User Guide, 3.7.1
Monitoring Carrier-Grade NAT Properties

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Monitoring Carrier Grade NAT Properties

User Roles Required to View Carrier Grade NAT Properties

Viewing Carrier Grade NAT Properties in Logical Inventory

Viewing Carrier Grade NAT Properties in Physical Inventory


Monitoring Carrier Grade NAT Properties


Carrier Grade NAT is a large-scale NAT, capable of providing private-IPv4-to-public-IPv4 translation in the order of millions of translations. Carrier Grade NAT can support several hundred thousand subscribers with the bandwidth throughput of at least 10Gb/s full-duplex. With IPv4 addresses reaching depletion, Carrier Grade NAT is vital in providing private IPv4 connectivity to the public IPv4 internet. In addition, Carrier Grade NAT is not limited to IPv4 NAT; it can also translate between IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

In Cisco ANA 3.7.1, Carrier Grade NAT is supported on Cisco CRS-1 routers containing a Cisco CRS-ADVSVC-PLIM card.

The following topics describe using Cisco ANA NetworkVision to view Carrier Grade NAT properties:

User Roles Required to View Carrier Grade NAT Properties

Viewing Carrier Grade NAT Properties in Logical Inventory

Viewing Carrier Grade NAT Properties in Physical Inventory

User Roles Required to View Carrier Grade NAT Properties

Table 13-1 identifies the roles that are required to view Carrier Grade NAT properties in Cisco ANA NetworkVision. Cisco ANA determines whether you are authorized to perform a task as follows:

For GUI-based tasks (tasks that do not affect devices), authorization is based on the default permission that is assigned to your user account.

For device-based tasks (tasks that do affect devices), authorization is based on the default permission that is assigned to your account. That is, whether the device is in one of your assigned scopes and whether you meet the minimum security level for that scope.

For more information on user authorization, see the Cisco Active Network Abstraction 3.7.1 Administrator Guide.

Table 13-1 Default Permission/Security Level Required for Viewing Carrier Grade NAT Properties 

Task
Viewer
Operator
OperatorPlus
Configurator
Administrator

Viewing Carrier Grade NAT properties

X

X

X

X

X


Viewing Carrier Grade NAT Properties in Logical Inventory

To view Carrier Grade NAT properties in logical inventory:


Step 1 In Cisco ANA NetworkVision, double-click the Cisco CRS-1 device configured for Carrier Grade NAT.

Step 2 In the inventory window, click Logical Inventory > Carrier Grade NAT.

The Carrier Grade NAT properties are displayed in logical inventory as shown in Figure 13-1.

Figure 13-1 Carrier Grade NAT in Logical Inventory

Table 13-2 describes the Carrier Grade NAT properties that are displayed.

Table 13-2 Carrier Grade NAT Properties in Logical Inventory 

Field
Description

CGN Name

Name of the Carrier Grade NAT service.

Preferred Location Tab

Preferred Location

Hyperlinked entry to the card in physical inventory.

Preferred Location (alias)

Location of module in clear text.

Location Type

Configured type of location: Active or Standby

Redundancy Status

Redundancy state: Online or Offline.

If the field is empty, it means the data was not collected from the device.

Service Infra Interface

Hyperlinked entry to the routing entity in logical inventory.

For more information about routing entities in logical inventory, see Viewing Routing Entities, page 17-22.

Address Pools Tab

Inside VRF

Hyperlinked entry to the inside VRF in logical inventory.

For more information about VRF properties in logical inventory, see Viewing VRF Properties, page 17-18.

Address Family

Type of IP address in this pool: IPv4 or IPv6.

Outside VRF

Hyperlinked entry to the outside VRF in logical inventory.

For more information about VRF properties in logical inventory, see Viewing VRF Properties, page 17-18.

Address Pool

Range of IP addresses that can be used for the service instance. If an end address is not specified, the entire range of 255 addresses is used for the address pool.

Associated Interfaces Tab

Interface

Hyperlinked entry to the associated entry in logical inventory:

For SVI service interfaces, hyperlinked entry to the routing entity in logical inventory.

For SVI service applications, hyperlinked entry to the VRF entity in logical inventory.

Statistics Tab

Statistics Name

Name of the statistic.

For statistic names and descriptions, see Table 13-3.

Statistics Value

Value of the statistic.


Table 13-3 Carrier Grade NAT Statistics in Logical Inventory 

Statistic Name
Description

Inside to outside drops port limit exceeded

Number of packets dropped because the port limit has been exceeded. The value is calculated from the time Carrier Grade NAT was configured and running on the card.

Inside to outside drops resource depletion

Number of packets that are dropped because no ports are available. The value is calculated from the time Carrier Grade NAT was configured and running on the card.

Inside to outside drops limit system reached

Number of packets that are dropped because the system limit has been exceeded. The value is calculated from the time Carrier Grade NAT was configured and running on the card.

Inside to outside forward rate

Number of packets forwarded from the inside to the outside in the last one second.

Outside to inside forward rate

Number of packets forwarded from the outside to the inside in the last one second.

Translations create rate

Number of translation entries created in the last one second.

Translations delete rate

Number of translation entries deleted in the last one second.



Viewing Carrier Grade NAT Properties in Physical Inventory

To view Carrier Grade NAT properties in physical inventory:


Step 1 In Cisco ANA NetworkVision, double-click the Cisco CRS-1 device configured for Carrier Grade NAT.

Step 2 To view Carrier Grade NAT properties configured on a specific interface, click Physical Inventory > chassis > shelf > slot > card > interface. See Table 17-13 for a description of the information displayed in the Subinterfaces table.

Step 3 To view Carrier Grade NAT properties configured on a Cisco CRS-ADVSVC-PLIM card, click Physical Inventory > chassis > shelf > slot > PLIM-card.

Figure 13-2 shows an example of Carrier Grade NAT properties in physical inventory.

Figure 13-2 Carrier Grade NAT Properties in Physical Inventory

The field CGN Service is displayed, and the entry is hyperlinked to the associated Carrier Grade NAT service in logical inventory.