How to Access the SBC

The primary interfaces used to access the 

are the Embedded Management Application (EMA) GUI, EMA in Platform Mode GUI, Command Line Interface (CLI) and BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) GUI and REpresentational State Transfer Configuration Application Processing Interface ().

EMA

The EMA provides a comprehensive method to provision, maintain and administer the

platform from any Web browser. This is the most frequently used access method. For more details, refer to the EMA User Guide.

For login details, refer to Logging Into EMA.

EMA in Platform Mode

The EMA in Platform Mode provides current status of the platform, application software version information and system information. The EMA in Platform Mode is also used to start, stop and restart the application as well as reboot the host. The EMA in Platform Mode supports upgrading the operating system and application. Additional features include a web interface for generic troubleshooting activities, security and remote access management.

For more information, refer to Logging into EMA in Platform Mode.

Command Line Interface

Command Line Interface (CLI) is the traditional method to configure systems from any machine with network access using a secure shell (SSH) client terminal emulator).

For login details, refer to Logging Into CLI.

Baseboard Management Controller

The Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) supports the following functions:

• View basic system information
• Change mouse mode
• Configure BMC and EMA in Platform Mode network settings
• Add, edit or remove users
• Configure NTP settings
• View or change SSL certificate
• Perform remote control settings
• Update BMC firmware and reboot BMC
• Switch to EMA in Platform Mode
• Integrated Lights Out Management (LOM)

For login details, refer to Logging Into the BMC

RESTCONF API

s provide access to RESTCONF API which is a simple, stateless architecture style (not a protocol) that uses the HTTP/HTTPS method ( such as GET, PUT, POST, DELETE) to retrieve the management information from the database. The main advantage is its simple interfaces and can be modified while the application is running.

RESTCONF has the following properties:

• Stateless: No client context is stored on the server. A request from the client will contain all the necessary information required to process the request.

• Client-Server model: In a client-server model, clients are associated with the user interface, and the servers manage data storage behind the interface. This allows a separation between the client and server.

• Cacheable: Improvement in scalability and performance when the client caches responses.
• Language–independent:
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  uses open standards. Any language may be used to access the API ( C++, Java, etc. ) resources via URI paths.

To use a

, your application makes HTTPs requests and parses the responses. Currently, the only supported response format is XML. The methods used by developers are standard HTTP methods such as GET, PUT, POST, PATCH and DELETE. 

For access details, refer to Accessing RESTCONF API.

SOAP API

SOAP APIs provide access to Simple Object Access (SOAP) API which is protocol specification used to exchange structured information in the implementation of web services. It uses XML information set for its message format, and usually relies on other application layer protocols, such as Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), for message negotiation and transmission. The advantage of using SOAP is that it is very versatile and uses different transport protocols. The standard stacks use HTTP as a transport protocol.

The SBC SOAP API supports the following requests for each managed object:

• CREATE – creates a managed object in the SBC.
• UPDATE – updates a managed object in the SBC.
• DELETE – deletes a managed object in the SBC.
• SHOW– retrieves managed object details from SBC.
• User defined operations – For example, manual switchover of the SBC.

The 

application maps each SOAP request to the corresponding RESTCONF request towards the SBC. In network configurations where is deployed, is also used to configure SBC Core using SOAP API for SBC. This interface supports provisioning as well the operations exposed by the yang models. For details, refer to the document "SBC SOAP API reference".

For access details, refer to Accessing SOAP API.

RAMP SBC Configuration Manager

If your network includes the 

platform, and the SBC is added as a managed node or is part of a managed cluster, you can access a web-based management interface from the EMS. The SBC Configuration Manager application provides GUI configuration and management options similar to what the EMA GUI provides. The SBC Configuration Manager is accessible under Node Management by navigating to the Node Inventory, Registration and Other Functions window (Network > Node Management > Function Manager) and selecting the Configure function for a node.  The SBC Configuration Manager is also accessible under Cluster Management by navigating to the Configurations tab for a cluster (Network > Cluster Management > Manage VNFs > Configurations) and clicking on the Edit Configure option. Refer to   documentation for more information on node and cluster management.