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- Page 1 IP Service Manager User Guide Infrastructure Client for ISM Provision Extreme Networks, Inc. 3585 Monroe Street Santa Clara, California 95051 (888) 257-3000 http://www.extremenetworks.com Published: April, 2002 Part number: 100121-00 rev 01...
- Page 2 SummitGbX, SummitRPS, and the Extreme Networks logo are trademarks of Extreme Networks, Inc., which may be registered or pending registration in certain jurisdictions. The Extreme Turbodrive logo is a service mark of Extreme Networks, which may be registered or pending registration in certain jurisdictions. Specifications are subject to change without notice.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Summary of Features How ISM Provision works Your Network Devices ISM Provision Server Device Communicators Network Infrastructure Manager Client IP Service Manager Client Starting IP Service Manager Overview Starting IP Service Manager Summary Steps Detailed Steps IP Service Manager User Guide... - Page 4 Overview Traffic Policies Policy Based Services Service Bundles Service Categories Key Information Service Library Tasks Add a Service Bundle Add a Policy Based Service Add an IP, TCP or UDP Traffic Policy Service Activation Overview IP Service Manager User Guide...
- Page 5 Add an IP Subscriber Add an IP Range Subscriber Add an IP Aggregation Point 5-12 Change Control Overview Jobs Change Control Tasks View Current Job Changes View Committed, Scheduled, or Saved Jobs Delete Scheduled or Saved Jobs Index IP Service Manager User Guide...
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Page 7: Preface
Introduction This guide provides the required information to manage customers and subscribers using Extreme Networks’ IP Service Manager (IPSM) client as the interface for Extreme Networks’ Infrastructure and Services Management Provision (ISM Provision). This guide is intended for use by network administrators who are responsible for configuring network equipment. -
Page 8: Terminology
Table 2: Text Conventions Convention Description This typeface indicates command syntax, or represents information Screen displays as it appears on the screen. This typeface indicates how you would type a particular command. Screen displays bold viii IP Service Manager User Guide... - Page 9 Words in italicized type Italics emphasize a point or denote new terms at the place where they are defined in the text. Italics are also used to denote variables, such as VLAN names, or user account names. IP Service Manager User Guide...
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Page 10: Related Publications
The publications related to this one are: • ISM Provision Installation Guide • Network Infrastructure Manager User Guide • ExtremeWare Software User Guide Documentation for Extreme Networks products is available on the World Wide Web at the following location: http://www.extremenetworks.com/ IP Service Manager User Guide... -
Page 11: Infrastructure And Services Management Provision Overview
Management Provision Overview Overview Extreme Networks’ Infrastructure and Services Management Provision (ISM Provision) is a tightly connected collection of components for delivering services to customers and for managing your network. ISM Provision allows you to easily extend services to your network users by defining and provisioning bundles of IP services. -
Page 12: Summary Of Features
• Version control for configurations and deployment module for system rollouts • Provides an abstraction model that simplifies and automates both infrastructure and subscriber provisioning life-cycles • Distributed device communication infrastructure for redundancy and scaling IP Service Manager User Guide... -
Page 13: How Ism Provision Works
Figure 1-1: ISM Provision Components ISM Provision consists of several different components: • ISM Provision Server • Device Communicators • Network Infrastructure Manager Client • IP Service Manager Client These components work together to manage another important component: IP Service Manager User Guide... -
Page 14: Your Network Devices
For example, in a network of 100 devices all managed with the same ISM Provision server, you might have five different device communicators, each talking with twenty devices. Any one managed device can only be managed by one device communicator, otherwise conflicts will occur. IP Service Manager User Guide... -
Page 15: Network Infrastructure Manager Client
VLAN and a single port in your network). IP Service Manager also allows you to configure service bundles (these correspond to QoS profiles) and policy based services (these correspond to access control lists) for these subscribers. IP Service Manager User Guide... - Page 16 Infrastructure and Services Management Provision Overview IP Service Manager User Guide...
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Page 17: Starting Ip Service Manager
To start IP Service Manager you must: 1 Launch the IPSM Client 2 Specify the ISM Provision Server 3 Enter your Provider Name 4 Enter a User Account Name 5 Enter the Password for the Account IP Service Manager User Guide... -
Page 18: Detailed Steps
Launch the IPSM client as you would launch other applications on your host. For example, Windows users can select Network Infrastructure Manager from the Start>Programs>Extreme Networks>ISM Provision>Applications menu. Solaris users can launch the ipsm executable file from the /opt/extreme/ismprov/bin directory by... - Page 19 In the User Account field, enter your user account name. 5 Enter the Password for the Account In the Password field, enter the account password. The account passwords are not saved and will need to be entered every session. IP Service Manager User Guide...
- Page 20 ISM Provision server. While it is connecting you will see messages similar to those in Figure 2-3. Figure 2-3: The IPSM Client Connecting to the ISM Provision Server Once the IPSM client is launched, you will see the Service Activation view. IP Service Manager User Guide...
- Page 21 Figure 2-4: IPSM Initial Screen When IPSM launches, the Service Activation view is initially displayed. You are now ready to use IPSM. See Chapter 3, IP Service Manager Overview, for more information about IP Service Manager. IP Service Manager User Guide...
- Page 22 Starting IP Service Manager IP Service Manager User Guide...
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Page 23: Ip Service Manager Overview
• Network partitionable for multiple Service Providers - restrictions to network resources • IP Subscriber, service and traffic policy abstractions to hide configuration complexity • Service template library for quick additions/modifications to a service or service bundle • Transaction-oriented service activation and change management IP Service Manager User Guide... -
Page 24: Ipsm Views
Selecting IPSM Views There are four ways to select a particular view. One way is to select the desired view from the icons near the upper right side of the IPSM client screen, as shown in IP Service Manager User Guide... - Page 25 Figure 3-3: Selecting an IPSM View Using the Menu A fourth way is to select the view from the named icons near the bottom of the IPSM client screen, just above the status line, as shown in Figure 3-4. IP Service Manager User Guide...
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Page 26: Service Activation View
The Service Activation view of IPSM allows you to manage subscribers, customers, and IP aggregation points. In IPSM, creating a subscriber creates a VLAN or sub-VLAN that contains one physical port on a network device. Service is provided to a subscriber IP Service Manager User Guide... -
Page 27: Service Library View
IPSM creates a QoS profile, and creating a policy based service creates an access list in the ISM Provision database. Once a service bundle is associated with a subscriber, the QoS profile and access lists are created on the device configurations in ISM Provision. IP Service Manager User Guide... -
Page 28: Change Control View
There are a number of icons visible from all of the IPSM views. When the function associated with an icon is available, the icon is in color. When the icon function is not available, the icon is greyed out. IP Service Manager User Guide... -
Page 29: Open Changes
Copy Select this icon to copy the currently selected object. Paste Select this icon to paste the previously copied object. Delete Select this icon to delete the currently selected object. IP Service Manager User Guide... -
Page 30: Verify Configuration
Select this icon to discard changes you have made in IPSM. Your changes will be removed and your view will be refreshed from the server. Help Select this icon to open a browser and display this document. IP Service Manager User Guide... -
Page 31: Service Library
This chapter also explains how to perform a number of tasks in the Service Library view of IPSM. The following tasks are documented in this section: • Add a Service Bundle • Add a Policy Based Service • Add an IP, TCP or UDP Traffic Policy IP Service Manager User Guide... -
Page 32: Traffic Policies
If there are no policy based services added to the service bundle, the service bundle sets the behavior for all of the traffic for a subscriber. IP Service Manager User Guide... -
Page 33: Service Categories
Service Library Tasks The following tasks are performed in the Service Library view of IP Service Manager: • Add a Service Bundle • Add a Policy Based Service • Add an IP, TCP or UDP Traffic Policy IP Service Manager User Guide... -
Page 34: Add A Service Bundle
To launch the Create Service Bundle wizard, select Edit>Add>Service Bundle from the menu, or right-click in the Service Bundles panel and select Add>Service Bundle from the pop-up menu. The Create Service Bundle wizard will appear (see Figure 4-1). IP Service Manager User Guide... - Page 35 Finish, but you still may need to configure other parameters before you have a valid configuration. Figure 4-2 shows the upper part of the Create Service Bundle wizard in more detail. IP Service Manager User Guide...
- Page 36 Add button to move your selection to the Current Selections panel. These policy based services will now be part of the service bundle you are creating. 6 Select Finish Select Finish to close the wizard. IP Service Manager User Guide...
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Page 37: Add A Policy Based Service
To launch the Create Policy Based Service wizard, select Edit>Add>Policy Based Service from the menu, or right-click in the Policy Based Service Bundles panel and select Add>Policy Based Service from the pop-up menu. The Create Policy Based Service wizard will appear (see Figure 4-3). IP Service Manager User Guide... - Page 38 For ingress rate limiting, the subscriber that you apply this service to must have a loopback port defined. 5 Add at least one traffic policy IP Service Manager User Guide...
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Page 39: Add An Ip, Tcp Or Udp Traffic Policy
“traffic policy” includes all three types, unless specifically called out. So a reference to the Create Traffic Policy wizard includes the Create IP Traffic Policy, Create TCP Traffic Policy, and Create UDP Traffic Policy wizards. Summary Steps. To add a traffic policy: IP Service Manager User Guide... - Page 40 Add>Traffic Policy from the pop-up menu. The Create Traffic Policy wizard will appear. Figure 4-5 shows the Create TCP Traffic Policy wizard. The UDP wizard looks almost identical, and the IP wizard does not have the port specification fields. 4-10 IP Service Manager User Guide...
- Page 41 5 For TCP and UDP, enter the source and destination ports For the Source Port Match field, choose Single Port or Range Of Ports from the drop-down list. IP Service Manager User Guide 4-11...
- Page 42 If you choose Range Of Ports, the wizard will change so you can specify the Start Source Port Number and the End Source Port Number (see Figure 4-7). Figure 4-7: Specifying a Range of Ports in a Traffic Policy 6 Select Finish Select Finish to close the wizard. 4-12 IP Service Manager User Guide...
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Page 43: Service Activation
This chapter also explains how to perform a number of tasks in the Service Activation view: • Add a Customer • Add an IP Subscriber • Add an IP Range Subscriber • Add an IP Aggregation Point IP Service Manager User Guide... -
Page 44: Subscriber
Each IP range subscriber is on its own sub-VLAN associated with the IP aggregation point, a super-VLAN. Service Activation Tasks The following tasks are performed in the Service Activation view of IP Service Manager: IP Service Manager User Guide... -
Page 45: Add A Customer
To launch the Create Customer wizard, you can either select the Edit>Add>Customer menu item, or right-click the mouse in the Customers panel of the Service Activation view and select Add>Customer from the pop-up menu (see Figure 5-1). IP Service Manager User Guide... - Page 46 All the other information is optional, however, you will eventually need to define either an IP subscriber or an IP range subscriber (see Figure 5-2). IP Service Manager User Guide...
- Page 47 IP Subscriber Table page and IP range subscribers on the IP Range Subscriber Table page. Click the plus sign (+) to launch the Create IP Subscriber or Create IP Range Subscriber wizard (see Figure 5-3). IP Service Manager User Guide...
- Page 48 Subscriber”, and “Add an IP Range Subscriber”. Once you’ve added the subscriber, select Finish to close the subscriber wizard. You can repeat the process to add more subscribers to the customer, or go to the next step, closing the Create Customer wizard. IP Service Manager User Guide...
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Page 49: Add An Ip Subscriber
VLAN on the device, see the ExtremeWare Software User Guide. Summary Steps. To add an IP subscriber: 1 Launch the Create IP Subscriber wizard 2 Enter the subscriber name 3 Enter the IP address and subnet mask IP Service Manager User Guide... - Page 50 Customers panel and select Add>IP Subscriber from the pop-up menu. The Create IP Subscriber wizard will appear (see Figure 5-5). Figure 5-5: Create IP Subscriber Wizard 2 Enter the subscriber name IP Service Manager User Guide...
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Page 51: Add An Ip Range Subscriber
IP range subscriber that you create with an IP aggregation point. For more information about how the IP range subscriber parameters affect the operation of the created sub-VLAN on the device, and for more information on sub-VLANs, IP Service Manager User Guide... - Page 52 To launch the Create IP Range Subscriber wizard, select Edit>Add>IP Subscriber from the menu, or right-click a customer entry in the Customers panel and select Add>IP Subscriber from the pop-up menu. The Create IP Range Subscriber wizard will appear (see Figure 5-6). 5-10 IP Service Manager User Guide...
- Page 53 Every IP range subscriber must eventually be associated with an IP aggregation point. The IP aggregation point can be on the same device as the IP range subscriber or it will be automatically setup if it is one IP Service Manager User Guide 5-11...
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Page 54: Add An Ip Aggregation Point
Summary Steps. To create an IP aggregation point: 1 Launch the Create IP Aggregation Point wizard 2 Enter the IP network address and netmask 3 Select the device 4 Select Finish to close the wizard 5-12 IP Service Manager User Guide... - Page 55 This is the key information for the IP aggregation point. If device access has been defined in Network Infrastructure Manager, then the IP aggregation point IP address must come from the allowable pool of addresses. 3 Select the device IP Service Manager User Guide 5-13...
- Page 56 IP range subscribers to use this IP aggregation point. You cannot modify any of the IP aggregation point parameters once it is created. 5-14 IP Service Manager User Guide...
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Page 57: Change Control
ISM Provision server as a single entity called a job. A job may consist of a single change to one device parameter or the addition of hundreds of configuration objects, but it is IP Service Manager User Guide... -
Page 58: Change Control Tasks
ISM Provision server, you would view the current job changes. You will view the changes in the Current Job Changes tab of the Change Control view of IPSM. Steps. To view the current job changes: IP Service Manager User Guide... - Page 59 3 Select individual objects to view details (if any) For some objects, more details are listed in the Selected Details panel. Click on the object, and selected details are displayed in the panel (see Figure 6-1). Figure 6-1: Current Job Changes IP Service Manager User Guide...
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Page 60: View Committed, Scheduled, Or Saved Jobs
To view a committed, scheduled, or saved job: 1 Select the Committed, Scheduled, or Saved Jobs tab in the Change Control view From the Change Control view, select the tab for the job you want to view (see Figure 6-2). IP Service Manager User Guide... - Page 61 Change Control Tasks Figure 6-2: Committed Jobs Tab 2 Select the job to review by clicking on the job name 3 Select the Review button Once you select the Review button, the Details For Job window opens. IP Service Manager User Guide...
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Page 62: Delete Scheduled Or Saved Jobs
If you have access to the Network Infrastructure Manager client, there is a configuration versioning facility. You would probably want to create a configuration version if you think you might want to later remove a job you were planning to commit. IP Service Manager User Guide... - Page 63 3 Select Delete to confirm, Cancel otherwise When you selected the Delete button in step 2, a Delete Job window appears to confirm your choice. Select the Delete button on the window to delete the job. IP Service Manager User Guide...
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Page 65: Index
Preface viii ISM Provision Server text, Preface viii ISM Provision server create customer IP aggregation point 5-12 IP range subscriber IP subscriber policy based service service bundle traffic policy customer key information add, create IP Service Manager User Guide... - Page 66 Service Activation view 4-1, 5-1 service bundles start subscriber subscribers super-VLAN traffic policies traffic policy add, create user account IPSM client view jobs ii - I IP Service Manager User Guide NDEX...