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Cisco Integrated Storage System Enhanced Network Module Overview

System Application

Cisco Integrated Storage System Enhanced Network Module Overview

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Last Updated: April 26, 2010

The Cisco Integrated Storage System Module is an enhanced network module that provides additional local disk storage for archives within Cisco Integrated Services Routers (ISRs). The Cisco Integrated Storage System module is supported within the ISR only if there is a Cisco Video Management and Storage System module present in the same ISR. When seeking to increase its video storage capabilities, the Cisco Video Management and Storage System can be configured to connect to of one or more Cisco Integrated Storage System modules within the same ISR. It checks to see if the Cisco Integrated Storage System modules are configured as media devices and whether or not they are fully operational.

For internal and external video storage, the Cisco Video Management and Storage System supports following storage configuration options:

•Archiving only to the local disk of the Cisco Video Management and Storage System

•Archiving only to one Cisco Integrated Storage System modules, which must be located within the same ISR

•Archiving to the local disk and to one Cisco Integrated Storage System modules, which must be located within the same ISR

This guide supports features for version 2.2 and later versions of the Cisco Video Management and Storage network module. To view the product feature history, see the Release Notes for the Cisco Video Management and Storage System, which lists feature support for Cisco Integrated Storage System versions.

To provide one video management solution option, the Cisco Integrated Storage System network module can be used in conjunction with the Cisco Analog Video Gateway, which converts analog camera signals into IP-accessible endpoints, and the Cisco Video Management and Storage System, which uses the IP network infrastructure to manage live video, archived video, and video sample retrieval. For more information about configuring the Cisco Analog Video Gateway, see the Cisco Analog Video Gateway CLI Administrator Guide. For more information about configuring the Cisco Video Management and Storage System, see the Cisco Video Management and Storage System CLI Administrator Guide.

Use the command-line interface (CLI) to configure the Cisco Integrated Storage System software. This guide describes how to use the CLI to configure the software options of the Cisco Integrated Storage System module.

System Application

The Cisco Integrated Storage System software is a Linux-based application (see Open Source License Notice) that resides on an integrated services module that plugs into a host Cisco ISR that is running Cisco IOS software.

The Cisco Integrated Storage System module provides extended video storage with its own startup and run-time configurations and its own CLI, all of which are independent of the Cisco IOS configuration on the ISR. The Linux-based software of the module does not have its own console on its front panel but uses the internal virtual console from the host router.

Launch and configure the module through the router by means of a configuration session on the module (see "Opening and Closing a Network Module Session" section on page 10). After the session, the router CLI is displayed, and you can exit and clear the session.

This arrangement—host router plus integrated network storage module—provides a router-integrated application platform for accelerating data-intensive applications.

Applications typically involve:

•Video management and storage

•Analog video gateway

•Application-oriented networking

•Contact centers and interactive-voice-response applications

•Content caching and delivery

•Data and video storage

•Network analysis

•Voice-mail and auto-attendant applications