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- Service Management Architecture
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- Kenneth R. Rodemann
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- 1. Status of this Memo
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- This document is an Internet Draft. Internet Drafts are
- working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force
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- Internet Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of
- six months. Internet Drafts may be updated, replaced, or
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- 2. Abstract
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- This document presents the Service Management Architecture,
- an architectural framework for defining SNMP MIB modules for
- Customer Network Management (CNM) of network services over
- connection-oriented networks. The work is motivated by the
- fundamental differences in management views and
- functionality between a service provider and a service
- customer. Differences between service provider and service
- customer include whole-network vs. network-portion view,
- direct vs. indirect management, and physical vs. logical
- view. These fundamental differences suggest a difference in
- philosophy between Service Management and Device Management.
- Much work has been done and experience gained in writing
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- devices, but defining Service MIB modules is a relatively
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- 3. Introduction
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- This document presents the Service Management Architecture,
- an architectural framework for defining SNMP MIB modules for
- Customer Network Management (CNM) of network services over
- shared networks. Network providers offer a myriad of
- network services, such as X.25, SMDS, Frame Relay, and ATM.
- Some of these provide connection-oriented service, while
- others provide connectionless service. CNM services are
- becoming an important extension of these transport services
- to provide customers with a management window into their
- portion of the shared service. This document focuses on an
- SNMP-based architectural framework for CNM of
- connection-oriented network services.
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- The purpose of this work is to identify the notion of a
- Service MIB module, and to define an architectural framework
- for its definition that will permit easy extensibility and
- interoperability across various network services. In order
- to explore and understand how Service and Device management
- differ, consider the following fundamental differences in
- network management functionality between a network service
- provider and a service customer.
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- First, service providers are responsible for managing the
- entire shared network as a whole, while service customers
- only view and manage their individual portions of the shared
- service. Because they have a restricted view of the
- network, customers are unable to perform certain network
- management functions in the shared environment. For
- example, a customer which sets routes for optimized
- throughput of their own traffic may disrupt another
- customer's traffic. Only the service provider, with a
- complete view of the entire network, is in a position to
- determine routes that allow provisioned access to network
- resources for all customers.
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- A second fundamental difference in management functionality
- is that service providers manage the network internals
- directly, while customers manage their portion of the shared
- network indirectly. The service provider is responsible for
- the overall operation of the shared network, so any
- management control offered to customers must first be
- approved (perhaps manually) by the service provider before
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- Finally, while service providers see a physical view of the
- network, customers see a logical view. This logical view
- includes the customer's configuration of service access
- points (logical ports) and the virtual connections that run
- between these logical ports. The customer does not see the
- individual network switches along the paths of its virtual
- connections---setting up physical routes is a responsibility
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- These fundamental differences in network management
- functionality suggest that there is a wholly different
- philosophy between Service Management and Device Management.
- A Device MIB module allows for hands-on management of a
- physical entity. A Service MIB module provides to customers
- a logical view of the customer's portion of a shared network
- service by modeling the service, not the underlying
- implementation or devices. Much work has been done and
- experience gained in writing Device MIB modules for hands-on
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- 4. Service Architecture
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- A connection-oriented network service offered by a service
- provider can be viewed as a logical configuration of service
- access points (logical ports), access channels, and virtual
- connections (see Figure 1). Note that the term is used
- instead of 'interface' to distinguish between a service
- access point and a physical device access point.
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- +---------------------+
- | |
- ###@=====================@###
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- | =================== |
- | \|
- | @###
- | /|
- | =================== |
- |/ |
- ###@=====================@###
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- Where @ is a service access point (logical port)
- ### is an access channel
- === is a virtual connection through
- the service provider's network
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- Figure 1:
- Logical view of a connection-oriented network service,
- including service access points (logical ports),
- access channels, and virtual connections.
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- The service provider manages the internals of the network
- (switch and trunk acquisition/placement, virtual connection
- provisioning/routing, internal fault detection/correction,
- etc.), so the service customer need not be concerned with
- such aspects. Instead, the service customer views and
- indirectly manages the components in its logical view of the
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- A customer may subscribe to the services of more than one
- service provider, with end-to-end virtual connections that
- span multiple service providers' networks. These
- multi-segment virtual connections can be viewed as a
- concatenation of individual service-provider views (see
- Figure 2).
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- +---------+ +---------+ +---------+
- | Service | | Service | | Service |
- | Provider| | Provider| | Provider|
- ------+ | A | | B | | C | +------
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- Cust |###@=========@###@=========@###@=========@###| Cust
- | | | | | | | |
- ------+ | | | | | | +------
- +---------+ +---------+ +---------+
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- Figure 2:
- Logical view of a customer's end-to-end
- virtual connection that spans across
- multiple service providers' networks.
- The end-to-end view is a concatenation
- of individual service-provider views.
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- The next section discusses the Service Management
- Architecture, modeled upon the service architecture just
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- We previously discussed fundamental differences in network
- management functionality between a service provider and a
- service customer. These fundamental differences led to a
- distinction between a Device MIB module and a Service MIB
- module. A Service MIB module models the offered service, so
- we now apply the preceding Service Architecture to derive a
- generic Service MIB Module Architecture.
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- There exist two views of virtual connections within the
- Service Architecture: service-provider views and customer
- end-to-end views. Service-provider views consist of
- single-segment virtual connections established through a
- single service provider's network. Customer end-to-end
- views consist of multi-segment end-to-end virtual
- connections that span across multiple service providers'
- networks. This end-to-end view represents a multi-segment
- virtual connection as a concatenation of individual
- service-provider segments. We first consider the
- service-provider view, then briefly outline the customer
- end-to-end view.
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- 5.1 Service-Provider View
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- The Service Architecture identifies three types of service
- objects within the service-provider view: service access
- points (logical ports), access channels, and virtual
- connections. A customer's logical configuration of service
- objects can be defined in generic terms, regardless of the
- underlying datalink protocol (X.25, Frame Relay, ATM, etc.)
- of the service offering. Defining the configuration in such
- a protocol-independent fashion will give to customers a
- consistent end-to-end view of interworking services.
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- 5.1.1 Logical Port Table Structure
- This document follows the recommendations of the Internet
- Draft, "Evolution of the Interfaces Group of MIB-II" [1],
- which proposes that each layer in an interface's protocol
- stack have its own entry in the Interfaces Table, and the
- hierarchical relationships between interface layers are
- given in the new ifStack Table. Because the access channel
- is layered "below" the logical port, the logical port and
- the access channel each have their own ifTable entry and
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- Consider the example given in Figure 3 of a typical Frame
- Relay interface stack. This interface stack is represented
- by two entries in the ifTable, one for the physical layer
- (DS1) and one for the Frame Relay layer. The ifStackTable
- gives the layering relationship between these two ifTable
- entries. Of course, there may be other layers involved; for
- example, a Frame Relay service may run over an ATM service,
- which itself runs over a physical layer. Note that since the
- Frame Relay service is modeled as a single entity, each
- logical port's ifIndex value is unique within the service
- provider's offering.
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- ifIndex ifType
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- | : | | | |
- | : | | | |
- | 50 |......| XX (FR Network Service) | ....... |
- | : | | | |
- | 74 |......| 18 (DS1) | ....... |
- | : | | | |
- | : | | | |
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- ifStackHigherLayer ifStackLowerLayer
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- | : | : |
- | 50 | 74 |
- | : | : |
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- Example Interfaces and ifStack Table entries for
- a Frame Relay Network Service over DS1.
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- The ifTable contains entries for logical ports of various
- service protocols (for example, Frame Relay logical ports
- and ATM logical ports). Each of these network services are
- described in a protocol-specific MIB module that contains a
- logical port table indexed by the ifIndex of the associated
- ports. The ifSpecific variable of a logical port's
- Interfaces Table entry points to the associated
- protocol-specific logical port table. That table, in turn,
- may contain pointers to other protocol-specific tables, such
- as a link management table.
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- There are a number of other ifTable variables that may apply
- to the network service logical port. When defining a
- protocol-specific MIB module, that module definition should
- define the proper use for each of these ifTable variables.
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- Figure 4 shows an example table structure for a Frame Relay
- logical port. In the figure, the Interfaces Table entry for
- the port contains a pointer to the logical port's
- Frame Relay-specific table. This entry in turn contains a
- pointer to the proper link management MIB table for that
- logical port.
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- 5.1.2 Virtual Connection Table Structure
- Virtual connections are logical data transport connections
- between a pair of logical ports. Within the Service
- Management Architecture, the MIB table structure for virtual
- connection tables is similar to the structure for logical
- ports. All virtual connections, regardless of protocol
- type, are placed in a protocol-independent VC table, and
- each entry in the VC table contains a pointer to the
- associated entry in a protocol-specific virtual connection
- table. Note that this pointer points to an actual *entry*
- in the protocol-specific table, not just the top of the
- table. This is necessary because the protocol-specific VC
- table may be indexed differently than the
- protocol-independent VC table.
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- The protocol-independent VC table contains two entries for
- each virtual connection---one entry for each endpoint of the
- VC. Each endpoint is separately identified and indexed by a
- tuple (logical port ifIndex, VC id), where the VC id is a
- logical identifier unique to the associated logical port.
- This VC id is assigned by the service provider as it sees
- fit. The service provider *may* map the VC id directly to
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- Table logical port table table
- +-----------------+ +-----------------+ +------------+
- | ifIndex=50 | -->| portIndex=50 | -->| lmIndex=50 |
- |-----------------| | |-----------------| | |------------|
- | . | | | : | | | : |
- | : | | | : | | | : |
- |-----------------| | |-----------------| | +------------+
- | ifType=XX | | | associated | |
- |(FR Network Srv) | | | link mgmt OID -+--
- |-----------------| | |-----------------|
- | . | | | : |
- | : | | | : |
- |-----------------| | +-----------------+
- | ifSpecific OID -+--
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- Example Service Management Architecture table
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- the addressing scheme used in the underlying protocol (e.g.,
- DLCI for Frame Relay), but this is not necessary.
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- The set of variables contained in a given row in the VC
- table describe the virtual connection's attributes as viewed
- from the endpoint identified by the row's indexing tuple
- (see Figure 5). To correlate the opposite endpoints of a
- given virtual connection, each endpoint row in the VC table
- references the other end's row via two variables that
- contain the remote end's logical port ifIndex and VC id.
- Variables associated with the remote end of a given table
- entry can be retrieved by indexing the VC table on the
- values of remote logical port ifIndex and remote VC id.
- Thus, the complete set of attributes for a virtual
- connection are contained in the aggregation of that
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- ingress ---> | | <---- ingress
- if1| VC1 VC1 |if2
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- egress <---- I | ----> egress
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- local local remote remote
- ifIndex VC id ifIndex VC id In vars Out vars
- +---------------+---------------+---+-------+---+-------+
- | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |...| |...| |
- | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |...| |...| |
- | : | : | | | | | | |
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- Endpoint views for protocol-independent virtual
- connection table, and the associated table entries.
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- Note that the protocol-independent virtual connection table
- described above does not yet exist as a part of MIB II. We
- therefore propose that a Virtual Connection Group defining a
- new table called vcTable be added to the ifMIBObjects MIB
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- + local logical port ifIndex
- + local VC id
- + remote logical port ifIndex
- + remote VC id
- + VC status info
- + Ingress Octets
- + Ingress Packets
- + Egress Octets
- + Egress Packets
- + reference to (OID of) protocol-specific virtual
- connection MIB entry
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- The vcTable contains an OID that points to associated
- entries in protocol-specific tables. To allow for management
- of interworking service objects, the reverse references must
- also be in place, i.e., references from the
- protocol-specific tables to entries in the vcTable. These
- backward references may be either OIDs or indexes into
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- Figure 6 shows how to use vcTable with an associated
- protocol-specific virtual connection table.
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- vcTable VC table
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- | local ifIndex | -->| proto-spec |
- |-----------------| | | VC table |
- | local VC id | | | indexes |
- |-----------------| | |------------|
- | : | | | : |
- | : | | | : |
- |-----------------| | |------------|
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- | VC entry OID -+-- | back ref |
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- The following shows an example scenario of the relationship
- between ifTable, vcTable, and their associated
- protocol-specific tables. The example also demonstrates how
- the Service Management Architecture provides a consistent
- management view of a service provider's interworking
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- Figure 7 gives the configuration of a customer with 5
- logical ports, 3 of which are Frame Relay logical ports
- (lp1, lp2, lp3) and 2 are ATM logical ports (lp4, lp5). Of
- the customer's 4 virtual connections, 2 are pure Frame Relay
- connections, 1 is a pure ATM connection, and 1 is an
- interworking connection between Frame Relay and ATM. The
- customer accesses the service via two different types of
- access channels, DS1 and DS3.
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- DS1 ###@=====================@### DS1
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- | @### DS3
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- Example customer configuration of an interworking
- service offered by a service provider. lp<n> is
- a logical port with ifIndex <n>, and VC<n> is a
- VC endpoint with VC id <n> on the associated
- logical port. FR/ATM are the logical port-specific
- datalink protocols and DS1/DS3 are the specific
- physical layers.
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- port) associated with this service provider's network, as
- shown in Figure 8. The vcTable has 8 entries (one entry for
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- | 2 |...| XX (FR) |...| *FR Lport table |
- | 3 |...| XX (FR) |...| *FR Lport table |
- | 4 |...| YY (ATM) |...| *ATM Lport table |
- | 5 |...| YY (ATM) |...| *ATM Lport table |
- | 6 |...| 18 (DS1) |...| *DS1 table |
- | 7 |...| 18 (DS1) |...| *DS1 table |
- | 8 |...| 30 (DS3) |...| *DS3 table |
- | 9 |...| 30 (DS3) |...| *DS3 table |
- | 10 |...| 30 (DS3) |...| *DS3 table |
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- Higher Lower ifIndex
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- | 1 | 6 | | 1 | ...... |
- | 2 | 7 | | 2 | ...... |
- | 3 | 8 | | 3 | ...... |
- | 4 | 9 | +------------------------+
- | 5 | 10 |
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- ifIndex
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- | 5 | ...... |
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- between related tables. First, consider the references for
- the logical port-related tables. The forward reference
- (ifSpecific in ifTable) points to the top of the
- protocol-specific logical port table for the associated
- logical port. The protocol-specific logical port entry has
- the same index (ifIndex) as the ifTable entry. The backward
- reference for the logical port-related tables is
- implicit---the associated ifTable entry for a given
- protocol-specific entry is found by indexing the ifTable
- using the value of Lport ifIndex.
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- Next, consider the references for the virtual
- connection-related tables. The forward reference within
- vcTable points to the actual entry within the proper
- protocol-specific VC table for the associated endpoint of
- the virtual connection. This reference must point to the
- actual entry, not the top, of the associated
- protocol-specific VC table because the protocol-specific
- VC table may be indexed differently than vcTable. For the
- backward references, the example shows two possible methods.
- The FR-specific VC table gives the vcTable's VC id, so the
- associated vcTable entry is found by indexing on
- (local ifIndex, vcTable VC id). The ATM-specific VC table
- gives an OID pointer back to the associated vcTable entry.
- Both protocol-specific VC tables also indicate if a virtual
- connection is an interworking connection---with a DLCI value
- of -1 for the Frame Relay module, and an interworking flag
- value of 1 for the ATM module.
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- Finally, consider how to use these references to find the
- remote end of the interworking virtual connection. From the
- Frame Relay side:
- The index into the FR-specific VC table is (3, 200).
- The remote DLCI for this entry is -1, indicating that
- this is an interworking virtual connection. The
- backward reference uses the values of local ifIndex=3
- and vcTable VC id=2, so indexing the vcTable on (3, 2),
- we find the remote end is remote ifIndex=4 and
- remote VC id=1 (4, 1). Now indexing the vcTable on
- (4, 1), we find that this entry points to the first
- entry in the ATM-specific table, which is the proper
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- OID of
- table local local remote remote proto-specific
- entry ifIndex VC id ifIndex VC id VC table
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- 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |...| *FR VC entry 1 |
- 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 |...| *FR VC entry 2 |
- 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |...| *FR VC entry 3 |
- 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 |...| *FR VC entry 4 |
- 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 |...| *FR VC entry 5 |
- 6 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 |...| *ATM VC entry 1 |
- 7 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 |...| *ATM VC entry 2 |
- 8 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 |...| *ATM VC entry 3 |
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- FR-SPECIFIC VC TABLE
- (indexed on local ifIndex/local DLCI)
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- table local local vcTable remote remote
- entry ifIndex DLCI VC id ifIndex DLCI
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- 1 | 1 | 100 | 1 | 2 | 200 |
- 2 | 1 | 110 | 2 | 3 | 110 |
- 3 | 2 | 200 | 1 | 1 | 100 |
- 4 | 3 | 110 | 1 | 1 | 110 |
- 5 | 3 | 200 | 2 | 4 | -1 |
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- ATM-SPECIFIC VC TABLE
- (indexed on local ifIndex/local VPI/local VCI)
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- OID of
- table local local local vcTable I/W remote remote remote
- entry ifIndex VPI VCI entry flag ifIndex VPI VCI
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- 1 | 4 | 100 | 10 | *entry 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
- 2 | 4 | 110 | 10 | *entry 7 | 0 | 5 | 100 | 20 |
- 3 | 5 | 100 | 20 | *entry 8 | 0 | 4 | 110 | 10 |
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- The index into the ATM-specific VC table is
- (4, 100, 10). The I/W flag for this entry is 1,
- indicating that this is an interworking virtual
- connection. The backward-reference OID for this entry
- points to the sixth entry in vcTable. We find the
- remote end for the sixth vcTable entry is
- remote ifIndex=3 and remote VC id=2 (3, 2). Now
- indexing the vcTable on (3, 2), we find that this entry
- points to the fifth entry in the FR-specific table,
- which is the proper protocol-specific entry for the
- remote end of the virtual connection.
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- The customer end-to-end view provides the correlating
- information to view end-to-end virtual connections that span
- through multiple service providers' networks. This
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- for defining Service MIB modules. The work is motivated by
- the fundamental differences in management views and
- functionality between a service provider and a service
- customer. Differences between service provider and service
- customer include whole-network vs. network-portion view,
- direct vs. indirect management, and physical vs. logical
- view. These fundamental differences suggest a difference in
- philosophy between Service Management and Device Management.
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- shared network service as a logical configuration of logical
- ports, access channels, and virtual connections. A service
- customer indirectly manages the components within its
- logical view, not the internals of the shared network.
- Virtual connections that span across multiple service
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- Management Architecture presents two views of virtual
- connections: service-provider views and customer end-to-end
- views. Service-provider views consist of single-segment
- virtual connections established through a single service
- provider's network, while customer end-to-end views consist
- of multi-segment end-to-end virtual connections that span
- across multiple service providers' networks.
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- than it does the customer end-to-end view. The
- service-provider view consists of ifTable and a new vcTable
- for defining configuration, with references to
- protocol-specific MIB modules. This structure provides a
- clean Service Management Architecture that promotes
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- Interfaces Group of MIB-II", Internet Draft, Interfaces
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- Kenneth R. Rodemann
- AT&T Bell Laboratories
- Room 1F-435A
- 101 Crawfords Corner Road
- PO Box 3030
- Holmdel, NJ 07733-3030
- 908-949-6229
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- 2. Abstract............................................ 2
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- 5. Service Management Architecture..................... 7
- 5.1 Service-Provider View.......................... 7
- 5.1.1 Logical Port Table Structure 7
- 5.1.2 Virtual Connection Table Structure 9
- 5.1.3 Example 13
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