Operate and maintain
Documents under this category provide functional descriptions and procedures for configuring, operating, and maintaining 7450 ESS, 7750 SR, 7950 XRS, and VSR routers.
- Advanced Configuration Guides
- Basic System Configuration Guide
  This guide describes file system management, boot option file (BOF) configuration, basic system management configuration, node timing, and synchronization functions.
- BNG CUPS User Plane Function Guide
  This guide describes all aspects related to a Nokia SR OS BNG CUPS User Plane Function (UPF) in a BNG CUPS system.
- BNG CUPS MAG-c documentation
- BNG CUPS cMAG-c documentation
- Interface Configuration Guide
  This guide describes how to provision Input/Output Modules (IOMs), XMA Control Modules (XCMs), Media Dependent Adapters (MDAs), XRS Media Adapters (XMAs), connectors, and ports.
- Layer 2 Services and EVPN Guide
  This guide describes Layer 2 service and Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) functionality and provides examples to configure and implement Virtual Leased Lines (VLLs), Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS), Provider Backbone Bridging (PBB), and EVPN.
- Layer 3 Services Guide: IES and VPRN
  This guide describes Layer 3 service functionality and provides examples to configure and implement Internet Enhanced Services (IES) and Virtual Private Routed Network (VPRN) services.
- MD-CLI User Guide
  This guide provides information about how to use the MD-CLI.
- MPLS Guide
  This guide provides an overview of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP), and Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) and provides configuration examples.
- Multiservice ISA and ESA Guide
  This guide provides an overview of services provided by integrated service adapters and extended service appliances, such as Application Assurance, IPsec, ad insertion (ADI), and Network Address Translation (NAT), and provides configuration examples.
- Multicast Routing Protocols Guide
  This guide provides an overview of multicast routing concepts and provides configuration examples for Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP), Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD), Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM), Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP), Multipoint LDP, multicast extensions to BGP, and Multicast Connection Admission Control (MCAC).
- Quality of Service Guide
  This guide provides an overview of Quality of Service (QoS) policy management and provides configuration examples.
- Router Configuration Guide
  This guide describes logical IP routing interfaces and associated attributes such as IP addresses, as well as IP and MAC-based filtering, Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), and cflowd.
- Security Best Practices and Hardening Guide
- Segment Routing and PCE User Guide
  This guide provides an overview of segment routing features with MPLS (SR-MPLS) and IPv6 (SRv6) data path encapsulations and path computation element (PCE) features.
- Services Overview Guide
  This guide provides a general overview of functionality provided by the routers and describes how to configure service parameters such as Service Access Points (SAPs), Service Distribution Points (SDPs), customer information, and user services.
- System Management Guide
  This guide describes system security features, SNMP and NETCONF features, and event and accounting logs; the guide also covers basic tasks such as configuring management access filters, passwords, and user profiles.
- Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture Guide
  This guide describes the Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture (TPSDA) support and provides examples to configure and implement various protocols and services.
- Unicast Routing Protocols Guide
  This guide provides an overview of unicast routing concepts and provides configuration examples for Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Intermediate-system-to-intermediate-system (IS-IS), and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing protocols; also provides an overview of route policies and configuration examples.

Service creation process overview

The following figure shows the overall process to provision core and subscriber services.

Figure 1. Service creation and implementation flow

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