Cisco Mobile Wireless Transport Manager

Product Overview

Figure 1

Features

Basic Capabilities

• Provides an easy-to-use GUI client (Figure 2) and robust server processes that can be managed by a powerful command-line interface (CLI).

• Discovers the entire Cisco RAN Optimization network and displays each network element, neighboring equipment, and physical/logical connectivity in a network topology drawing that users can customize. Users can create custom views and subordinate views for grouping similar devices together, where each subordinate view has a state that is the aggregation of the states of the contained devices.

• Allows printing windows to a file or Postscript printer, as well as saving the topology map to a JPEG file.

• Provides integrated, online, context-sensitive help that can be customized to suit specific operational needs or languages.

• Based on client/server architecture, it supports Windows and Solaris clients and Solaris and Linux servers, and provides data access through a Web browser.

• Allows clients to connect to a server through the IP network; clients work across a VPN connection through a firewall that supports port forwarding or Network Address Translation (NAT), and through a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)¹ connection.

Figure 2

Event Monitoring

• Displays a real-time event list that supports acknowledgment, annotation, customized filtering, and field viewing that conform to ITU-T Q.733 standards (Figure 3).

• Receives native traps or HP OpenView traps from hardware devices in the Cisco RAN Optimization solution and uses Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) polling to identify the status of each managed device. Cisco MWTM uses easy-to-recognize, color-coded icons to report the status.

• Provides Web-based status monitoring, alarm viewing, sorting, filtering, archiving, online documentation, and client download.

• Provides external script execution on the server and sound playing on the client; both are customizable and triggered by events or alarms.

Figure 3

Performance Reporting

• Provides extensive Web-based accounting and network statistics reports for network efficiency and detailed interface-level statistics (Figure 4).

• Displays real-time data rate and usage line graphs.

• Supports options to configure collection intervals and record aging.

Figure 4

Third-Party Product Integration

• Receives SNMP traps and generates Cisco MWTM-specific traps for forwarding to external SNMP-based network management applications such as Cisco Info Center or MicroMuse NetCool.

• Java RMI and HTTP interfaces for extracting performance, alarm/event, and configuration information.

Security

• Multiple user-authentication methods supported - OS-based and standalone

• Password enforcement policies - aging, minimum length, and lockouts

• Audit trails and logging capabilities

• Optional SSL-based² encryption between client and server support

Carrier-Class Features

• Scalability - The Cisco MWTM supports large networks and has been verified to work with a network containing more than 2000 Cisco devices and 20 clients connected to the server.

• Security - The Cisco MWTM supports user authentication, multiple levels of user access, password-protected Web pages, activity logging for audit trails, and an optional package for encrypting all client/server communications data.

• Redundancy - Multiple Cisco MWTM servers can monitor the network simultaneously, providing data redundancy. Clients have server failure recognition and automatic failover capabilities.

• Availability - Cisco MWTM clients will automatically switch to a backup server when the primary server is not available (in network problems or hardware failures, for example).

Interoperability

Product Specifications

Table 1. Cisco Mobile Wireless Transport Manager Device Support

System Requirements

Table 2. Server System Requirements

Note: Hard disk space required is commensurate with the amount of performance data, inventory, and events being managed by MWTM. Please plan accordingly.

Table 3. Client Requirements

Ordering Information

Service and Support

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