To modify an IES using the topology view

Purpose

The topology view for a service provides a graphical representation of the various components and their interconnections. You can also use this view to add, modify, or just navigate to service components. This provides an alternative approach to performing these functions from the navigation tree view.

Working from the topology view can expedite the creation of the components, since many of the fields you would ordinarily have to set in the configuration forms will be automatically populated using this approach. The configuration forms can also be accessed directly at any time from this view by right-clicking a component. This allows quick access to conduct more detailed component configuration.

Steps
 
1 

Choose Manage→Service→Services from the NFM-P main menu. The Manage Services form opens.

2 

Choose an IES and click on Topology View. The Service Topology map opens.

The remainder of this procedure contains two sub-procedures describing the components that can be created and modified from the topology view. These include:

  • Creating a new site. Go to Step 3 .

  • Creating spoke SDP bindings. Go to Step 8 .

Adding a new site
 
3 

Right-click on any blank space in the service topology map. A contextual menu is displayed. Choose the Create IES Site option.

The Select Network Elements form appears.

4 

Select one or more sites to add to the service and click OK. The IES Site (Create) form for the new site is displayed. If you selected more than one site, the IES Site (Multiple Instances) (Create) form for the new sites is displayed.

5 

Click OK. The IES Site (Create) (or IES Site (Multiple Instances) (Create)) form closes and the new site (or sites) is displayed on the map.

6 

If you need to perform detailed configuration of site properties for the new site, right-click the site icon and choose Properties. The Site (Edit) form opens. See To configure an IES site for detailed site configuration information.

7 

Go to Step 8 if you need to create spoke SDP bindings or go to Step 15 to finish.

Creating spoke SDP bindings
 
8 

Select the sites you need to connect in the service topology map and right-click on any one of them. A contextual menu is displayed.

Note: When you create a spoke binding between two sites, the order in which you select them is important. The first site you select will become the source site and the second site will become the destination site. Therefore, it is not recommended that you do a marquee-select in the topology view, since you will not be sure of this hierarchy. Instead, select the sites individually, and hold down the Shift or Ctrl key after your first selection.

9 

Select Connect and choose the Create Spoke SDP Binding option.

The Spoke SDP Binding (Create) form is displayed.

Note: For this function, it is assumed that you clicked on the source site first and then held down the Shift or Ctrl key while right-clicking on the destination site to display the contextual menu.

10 

Enable the Auto-Select Transport Tunnel parameter.

11 

You can manually configure other parameters here if required, or click OK. One of the following will result:

  • If an available transport tunnel exists between the two sites, then the Spoke SDP Binding (Create) form closes and the new binding between the two sites is displayed in the topology view. See To create an L2 SDP spoke termination on an IES service for more detailed information on creating and configuring spoke SDP bindings, if required.

  • If an available transport tunnel does not exist between the two sites, then an error message is displayed to that affect. See Chapter 33, Service tunnels for information on how to create the required tunnel. Once the tunnel is created, you can repeat this sub-procedure.

12 

Assuming that the spoke SDP binding was successfully created in Step 11 , select the same two sites again in the topology view, although this time do so in the opposite order that you originally selected them. This will allow you to create a spoke binding for the return tunnel.

13 

Right-click on the second site you selected and choose the Create Spoke SDP Binding ... option. The Spoke SDP Binding (Create) form is displayed.

14 

You can manually configure other parameters here if required, or click OK. One of the following will result:

  • If an available transport tunnel exists between the two sites, then the Spoke SDP Binding (Create) form closes and the new return binding between the two sites is displayed in the topology view.

  • If an available transport tunnel does not exist between the two sites, then an error message is displayed to that affect. See Chapter 33, Service tunnels for information on how to create the required tunnel. Once the tunnel is created, you can repeat this sub-procedure.

15 

Close the Service Topology forms.

End of steps