SP2000 System Access

You can access the SP2000 remotely using the

• Web-based User Interface (Web UI)
• Menu-based user interface (Menu UI)
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

• Transaction Language 1 (TL1) port and TL1 commands

Remote access to the SP2000 is only possible after you have executed the initial configuration process and configured the IP addresses on the Management and Routing CPUs/VMs. For more information about the initial configuration process and system access, refer to the appropriate document in the Installation Guides.

If you want to use the Web user interface (Web UI) to configure and provision the system, access to this interface is limited to a Web browser using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer (HTTPS). If you attempt to use HTTP for system access, you are redirected to use HTTPS. Using this protocol for system access provides protection from eavesdroppers and man-in-the-middle attacks. Before you can log onto the system, a Certificate of Authority (CA) notification is displayed to ensure that you are, indeed, logging onto the SP2000 (refer to Configuring Signed Certificates from a Certificate Authority).

For information about logging onto the system using the TL1 port and TL1 commands, refer to the appropriate section in the TL1 Reference Guide.

The SP2000 Operation, Administration, and Maintenance configuration is largely agnostic of the chassis where the carrier card that hosts the Advanced Mezzanine Cards (AMCs) resides. The Web UI displays thedual carriercard set-up that is present on the chassis.

Access to the carrier cards is through the CPU bond0 and bond0.1 Ethernet interfaces (see the following table).

No physical cabling connections are required to the CPUs.

Carrier Cards Ethernet Configuration

The IEMS/GVM user interfaces are used to connect to the carrier cards through the Operation and Administration high-availability IP (OAM HA IP) address. The carrier cards function in an active/standby mode. When the high-availability IP address is invoked, the customer is seamlessly connected to the active carrier card (see the following figure).

System Access Web Interface (Example)

View the IP Addresses on a Carrier Card

Start

1. From the Web UI Main Menu, click IP Networking.
2. Click Management Network.

Web-based and Text-based User Interfaces

The SP2000 supports a customized Linux-based operating system, a Web-based user interface (Web UI), and a text-based user interface (Menu UI). For more information about the Web UI or Menu UI, refer to the appropriate sections in the Web UI and Menu UI Guide.

Supported Web Browsers

This release of the SP2000 supports the following Web browsers:

Accessing the Web UI

Before you can start the Web UI, make sure that you

• have installed the SP2000 (refer to appropriate chapter in the Installation Guides)

• have connected the local console (refer to appropriate chapter in the Installation Guides understand the SP2000 IP networking configuration (refer to SP2000 Networking Configuration)

• are familiar with the SP2000 Web UI (refer to Web UI and Menu UI Guide)

• are familiar with the User Profiles and Privileges feature (refer to SP2000 User Profiles and Privileges)

• are familiar with the RADIUS feature (refer to RADIUS)

• are familiar with SP2000 password management (refer to DSC Password Management)     

• have the required password

For information about logging on as a tl1 user, refer to the appropriate section in the TL1 Reference Guide.

Accessing the Custom Application Mode Configuration

After you can access the Web UI, using the Custom Application you can create a redirect button to access any Web-enabled application, such as Google as shown in the following procedure.

To use the Custom Application Mode Configuration

1. From the Main Menu, click Custom.
   
   
   

2. Enter the required information in the text boxes (in this example, the information for Google and the required Link Address).
   
   

3. Click Save. The Google button appears under the Application Menu.
    

4. Click Google.

To log onto the Web UI (using IE)

To refresh Firefox

To log onto the Web UI (using Firefox)

To log onto the Web UI (using Chrome)

To log off the Web UI

1. From any screen in the Web UI click Logout.

Accessing the Menu UI

Before you can start the Menu UI, make sure that you

• have installed the SP2000

• have connected the local console

• understand the SP2000 IP networking configuration

  Note

  For more information about the preceding items, refer to the appropriate sections in the Installation Guides

• are familiar with the SP2000 Menu UI

  Note

  For more information about the SP2000 Menu UI, refer to the appropriate sections in the Web UI and Menu UI Guide

• completed the procedures in the DSC Password Management section using the Web UI

To log onto the Menu UI

1. Start an SSH session on the SP2000.
    
2. Log onto the Management and Routing CPU.
   
   
3. Enter the required user ID and password.
   
   
4. Enter the following at the Linux prompt:

# startmenu

Simple Network Management Protocol

The SP2000 is equipped with a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent that can connect with up to ten SNMP managers, or network management systems.

SNMP is part of the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) protocol suite. The SNMP is an application layer protocol that defines how management information between network devices is exchanged. The SNMP provides a means to monitor and control network devices.

An SNMP-managed network consists of the following three key components:

• managed network devices such as the SP2000
• SNMP Agents such as individual processes within the SP2000
• SNMP Manager that monitors and controls managed devices

An SNMPManagercan manage and monitor a network device using

• traps which are unsolicited alarms from SNMP Agents that notify the system of significant events
• user interaction that allows you to actively view, add, delete, and modify attributes and events on the managed device. You can also use the Command Line Interface (CLI), Web UI, or TL1 to perform these tasks.

The SP2000 agents support Management Information Bases (MIBs) for monitoring various SP2000 devices, entities, and alarms, and includes a circular buffer to record (up to 2048) instances of the alarms. The default value is 1000. To set this value as required, refer to Configuring the Trap Log. The MIB contains the performance and alarm data collected from the SS7 network.

For more information about SNMP, refer to Configuring SNMP.

Transaction Language 1

Transaction Language 1 (TL1) is a Man-Machine Language (MML) widely used in the telecommunications industry for the management of network elements. A computer terminal configured with any operating system capable of establishing a Telnet session is used to communicate with a network element using TL1 commands. TL1 commands are ASCII-based instructions that are entered by an operator at a computer terminal and sent to a network element. The network element sends back a response based on the instructions.

The SP2000 supports a customized Linux-based operating system and TL1 command capabilities. The TL1 commands are used to manage software application elements and parameters for this product.

For more information about TL1, refer to the appropriate chapter in the TL1 Reference Guide.