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Product Overview
The Cisco® Media Processing category, which includes the Cisco Media Experience Engine Family of products, is a new class of devices designed to expand the reach and usefulness of video as a collaboration and communications tool. As a part of the Cisco any-to-any vision for network-based media processing, the Cisco Media Experience Engine Family provides a suite of media adaptation and customization features that allow Cisco and our partners and systems integrators to develop a broad range of media-oriented applications.
The Cisco Media Experience Engine (MXE) 5600 is a modular media-processing platform that combines advanced media-processing features with high performance and scalability to extend the reach of collaboration.
The Cisco MXE 5600 Shelf Manager Module (Figure 1) monitors and controls the low-level aspects of the cards, modules, and other field replaceable units in the Cisco MXE 5600 chassis. These functions include temperature monitoring, fan-speed control, alarm I/O, and power management.
You can configure the shelf manager modules in a redundant pair for high availability. When configured in a redundant pair, the modules are fully hot-swappable, helping ensure no system interruption in case one module requires service. The modules are fitted at the top front of the Cisco MXE 5600 chassis, allowing installation and removal without disturbing the network cabling.
Figure 1. Cisco MXE 5600 Shelf Manager Module
Features and Benefits
The Cisco MXE 5600 Shelf Manager Module provides full system health and status monitoring and reporting capabilities for the Cisco MXE 5600. The module is used to configure, control, and monitor the Cisco MXE 5600 hardware. It recognizes various conditions that can arise in the system (such as faults, alarms, module insertions or extractions, temperature, or power supply excursions) and takes appropriate action to diagnose, isolate, report, and recover from them.
The Cisco MXE 5600 Shelf Manager Module delivers a comprehensive set of features to address the needs of the most demanding data-center deployments.
• Continuous system operation:
– Active and standby shelf manager modules
– Segmented and redundant out-of-band provisioning and management paths
– Virtualization of the management plane
– Integrated diagnostics
• Superior operational efficiency
– System status LEDs for simplified operations
– Dedicated out-of-band management processor for "lights-out" management
Note: Product features are subject to change. An updated data sheet showing actual features will be released after first customer shipment.
Table 1 lists the features and benefits of the Cisco MXE 5600 Shelf Manager Module.
Table 1. Features and Benefits of Cisco MXE 5600 Shelf Manager Module
Cisco MXE 5600 Shelf Manager Module
The Cisco MXE 5600 Shelf Manager Module communicates with outside entities via Remote Management and Control Protocol (RMCP), HTTP, and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) over an Ethernet network, while communicating with components inside the Cisco MXE 5600 through the Intelligent Platform Management Bus (IPMB).
A series of LEDs at the top of the chassis and on each module provides a clear indication of the status of the major system components. These LEDs report the power supply, fan, fabric, supervisor, and media-processing module status. Additional alarm relay outputs are provided for major, minor, critical, and power alarms.
You can install two shelf manager modules in a redundant configuration in a Cisco MXE 5600 system for high availability with active standby redundancy, where one shelf manager module is operationally active and the standby device serves as a hot backup.
Product Specifications
Table 2 lists the specifications for the Cisco MXE 5600 Shelf Manager Module.
Table 2. Product Specifications
Software Requirements
The Cisco MXE 5600 Shelf Manager Module is supported in the Cisco MXE Media Processing Platform Software Release 1.0.
Warranty Information
For warranty information about the Cisco MXE 5600 Shelf Manager Module, please visit the Product Warranties page at Cisco.com.
Ordering Information
The Cisco Media Experience Engine (MXE) 5600 is targeted to be orderable by early 2010.
Cisco Services
Cisco and our partners provide a broad portfolio of intelligent, personalized services and support that can help you realize the full value of your video investment, increase business agility and network availability. This portfolio of services drives business transformation through a network-based collaboration platform that enables business to collaborate anywhere, anytime. For more information about these services, visit: http://www.cisco.com/go/services/digitalmedia.
For More Information
For more information about the Cisco MXE 5600, visit http://www.cisco.com/go/mxe or contact your local Cisco account representative.