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  • Alcatel-Lucent ISA BoardETHERNET SWITCHING SYSTEM (ES16) | RELEASE 2.5CT OPERATORS GUIDE

    P/N 8DG15624AAAAISSUE 05

    FEBRUARY 2010

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    About this document

    Purpose ...................................................................................................................................................... xxi

    Reason for reissue ..................................................................................................................................... xxi

    Intended audience ...................................................................................................................................... xxiHow to use this document ........................................................................................................................ xxiiSafety information .................................................................................................................................... xxii

    Conventions used ..................................................................................................................................... xxiiiRelated documentation .............................................................................................................................xxivTraining ....................................................................................................................................................xxiv

    Document support .....................................................................................................................................xxv

    Technical support ......................................................................................................................................xxv

    How to order ..............................................................................................................................................xxvHow to comment .......................................................................................................................................xxv

    Packaging collection and recovery requirements ......................................................................................xxvRecycling/take-back/disposal of product ................................................................................................ xxvi

    1 Introduction

    ES16 System ............................................................................................................................................. 1-3MAC-Ethernet Technique ......................................................................................................................... 1-7

    MPLS Technique ....................................................................................................................................... 1-8

    Ethernet Applications .............................................................................................................................. 1-10

    MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum) Applications ............................................................................................ 1-20Ethernet Private Line (EPL), end to end implementation example ......................................................... 1-22E-Lan/E-VLan, end to end implementation example .............................................................................. 1-24E-VPL, end to end implementation example .......................................................................................... 1-27MPLS Applications ................................................................................................................................. 1-31

    Protocols .................................................................................................................................................. 1-43

    STP functionality (Spanning Tree Protocol) ........................................................................................... 1-55Virtual Concatenation and LCAS ............................................................................................................ 1-64GFP Packets Concatenation .................................................................................................................... 1-65

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    Loop-Back management ......................................................................................................................... 1-66System alarm management ..................................................................................................................... 1-67Auto-Negotiation management ............................................................................................................... 1-73

    Flow-Control management ..................................................................................................................... 1-74

    Port Mirroring management .................................................................................................................... 1-77

    Bridging Data Plane ................................................................................................................................ 1-79Link Aggregation management ............................................................................................................... 1-81

    Control Protocols management in a Transport Network ......................................................................... 1-87

    Redundancy features ............................................................................................................................... 1-90Ethernet OAM ......................................................................................................................................... 1-93Management software ............................................................................................................................. 1-95

    2 Software Product and Licence

    Software product and licenses description ................................................................................................ 2-2Software products, licenses and part numbers .......................................................................................... 2-3

    3 ES Software Installation

    Software Version ....................................................................................................................................... 3-2

    Start-up of the Personal Computer ............................................................................................................ 3-3

    Host Computer Configuration ................................................................................................................... 3-4

    Summary procedure for ES software installation ..................................................................................... 3-6ES-CT Installation procedure .................................................................................................................... 3-8NE-ES package installation procedure ................................................................................................... 3-26Software Uninstallation procedure .......................................................................................................... 3-31NE-ES software downloading ................................................................................................................. 3-34Start-Up of the ES Craft Terminal management software ...................................................................... 3-38

    4 Craft Terminal for ES Management

    Summary procedure for ES Management ................................................................................................. 4-4Main view ................................................................................................................................................. 4-5List of the menus options ........................................................................................................................ 4-14

    Supervision management ........................................................................................................................ 4-31

    Generic and common functions .............................................................................................................. 4-33Diagnosis and Alarms Configuration ...................................................................................................... 4-39MIB Management ................................................................................................................................... 4-53Transmission ........................................................................................................................................... 4-55

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    OAM ...................................................................................................................................................... 4-226Connection ............................................................................................................................................ 4-244

    Performance .......................................................................................................................................... 4-305

    5 Maintenance

    General trouble-shooting flow-chart for ISA-ES boards .......................................................................... 5-2Alarms, states and commands on ISA-ES board front cover .................................................................... 5-3Troubleshooting by means of the ES Craft Terminal ................................................................................ 5-4ISA-ES Units replacement ...................................................................................................................... 5-18Software Upgrading/Downgrading ......................................................................................................... 5-19

    A Technical support

    Technical assistance ................................................................................................................................. A-2

    Accessing and navigating the On-Line Customer Support (OLCS) web site .......................................... A-7Other technical support services ............................................................................................................ A-12

    GL Glossary

    Acronyms and Abbreviations .................................................................................................................GL-1Terms and Definitions ..........................................................................................................................GL-17

    IN Index

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    1 Introduction

    1-1 ISA-ES16 subsystem, protocol stacking ...................................................................................... 1-61-2 Network application for ISA-ES System ..................................................................................... 1-61-3 Bridge representation example and relevant FDB table ............................................................. 1-101-4 VLAN Bridge representation example and relevant FDB table ................................................. 1-111-5 Generic VLAN Classification-Identification-Aggregation (example) ....................................... 1-131-6 Stacked VLAN management (example) .................................................................................... 1-141-7 Transparent Mac/Virtual Port-to-Port XC OneStep" (Example) .............................................. 1-151-8 MAC Bridge distribution domain (example) ............................................................................. 1-161-9 Virtual Bridge distribution domain (example) ........................................................................... 1-161-10 Provider Bridge distribution domain (example) ......................................................................... 1-171-11 End-to-End ETS link Example ................................................................................................... 1-191-12 MEF-Network application for OMSN+ISA-ES System ............................................................ 1-21

    1-13 EPL application example ........................................................................................................... 1-23

    1-14 Example of E-Lan/E-VLan implementation (1: centralized LAN) ............................................ 1-251-15 Example of E-Lan/E-VLan implementation (2: distributed LAN) ............................................ 1-261-16 EVPL implementation example ................................................................................................. 1-291-17 MPLS-Network application for ISA-ES System ....................................................................... 1-31

    1-18 Generic MPLS aggregation scheme (Tunnelling) ...................................................................... 1-321-19 MPLS Tunnelling scheme example ........................................................................................... 1-341-20 MPLS Tunnelling over SONET/SDH Example ......................................................................... 1-40

    1-21 MPLS tunnelling over Ethernet structure ................................................................................... 1-42

    1-22 Ethernet Packet format ............................................................................................................... 1-43

    1-23 Ethernet packet and MAC frame format .................................................................................... 1-431-24 Ethernet Q-Tagged" MAC 802.3 frame format ........................................................................ 1-441-25 TCI Field format (802.1Q VLAN Tag) ...................................................................................... 1-441-26 Ethernet Stacked VLAN" frame format ................................................................................... 1-451-27 Ethernet frame format for MPLS over Ethernet" ..................................................................... 1-451-28 MPLS label format ..................................................................................................................... 1-45

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    1-29 GFP Framing (from G.7041/Y.1303) ......................................................................................... 1-461-30 Ethernet encapsulation into GFP frame (from G.7041/Y.1303) ................................................ 1-471-31 Ethernet/LAPS encapsulation (ITU-T X.86) ............................................................................. 1-471-32 Ethernet (and MPLS over Ethernet) Framing (Local Ethernet Port) ......................................... 1-481-33 Ethernet over SDH Framing (Remote Ethernet Port) ................................................................ 1-481-34 Ethernet over MPLS over SDH Framing (MPLS Port) ............................................................. 1-491-35 STP/RSTP BPDU Frame format ............................................................................................... 1-551-36 Spanning Tree function (STP) example ..................................................................................... 1-561-37 Some examples of Bridges and Ports roles in xSTP network .................................................... 1-571-38 PER-VLAN Spanning Tree example ......................................................................................... 1-581-39 PER-VLAN Spanning Tree - example of active topology ......................................................... 1-591-40 MSTP BPDU Frame format ....................................................................................................... 1-601-41 MSTP Network topology example ............................................................................................ 1-611-42 MSTP collapsed topology example ........................................................................................ 1-621-43 MSTP, VLAN differentiated routing example ........................................................................... 1-631-44 Virtual Concatenation (example) ............................................................................................... 1-641-45 GFP Packets Concatenation ....................................................................................................... 1-651-46 Internal & Line Loop Back scheme ........................................................................................... 1-661-47 CSF alarm management ............................................................................................................. 1-671-48 LLCF in Hub-Spoke network topology ..................................................................................... 1-681-49 LLCF propagation ...................................................................................................................... 1-691-50 VC-AIS alarm management ....................................................................................................... 1-701-51 Configure (remote) Ethernet Port: GFP: VC-AIS setting .......................................................... 1-721-52 Configure (local) Ethernet Port: MAU: Flow Control and ShutDown disabling ....................... 1-721-53 Flow Control scheme ................................................................................................................. 1-751-54 Configure (local) Ethernet Port: MAU: Flow Control setting ................................................... 1-761-55 Port Mirroring example .............................................................................................................. 1-781-56 Segregation application example ............................................................................................... 1-791-57 IGMP application example ........................................................................................................ 1-801-58 LACPDU Frame format ............................................................................................................. 1-841-59 Link Aggregation example ......................................................................................................... 1-851-60 Customer BPDU Selective Tunnelling capability ...................................................................... 1-881-61 EPS 1+1 protection .................................................................................................................... 1-90

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    1-62 Dual-homing BPDU STP - dual (PE) node ................................................................................ 1-911-63 Dual-homing BPDU (network) STP tunnel ............................................................................... 1-921-64 Dual-homing BPDU (local) STP tunnel .................................................................................... 1-921-65 Connectivity Fault Management ................................................................................................ 1-931-66 Protocol stack for ATM/MPLS/Ethernet over SDH management ............................................. 1-971-67 Example of management of an SDH network with SDH and ES traffic ................................... 1-981-68 OSI and IP addressing example ............................................................................................... 1-100

    2 Software Product and Licence

    2-1 Management Software, generic structure ..................................................................................... 2-2

    3 ES Software Installation

    3-1 Craft Terminal components versions ............................................................................................ 3-2

    3-2 Initial presentation intermediate screen ...................................................................................... 3-93-3 Selecting installation procedure (1st step) ................................................................................... 3-93-4 Craft Terminal master setup, list of detected Components on the media ................................... 3-103-5 Selecting Craft Terminal components (1st step) ........................................................................ 3-113-6 Software License agreement ...................................................................................................... 3-123-7 Existing previous ES-CT version uninstall ................................................................................ 3-13

    3-8 Uninstall confirmation ............................................................................................................... 3-14

    3-9 Uninstall previous ES-CT version successfully completed ....................................................... 3-143-10 Choose destination folder for ES-CT installation ...................................................................... 3-153-11 Setup in progress, temporary windows sequence presentation .................................................. 3-163-12 Successive installation, temporary windows presentation ......................................................... 3-173-13 Installation procedure menu window (2nd step) ........................................................................ 3-183-14 Craft Terminal master setup, list of detected Components on the media ................................... 3-183-15 Selecting SNMPCT component ................................................................................................. 3-193-16 Existing different SNMPCT release to be uninstalled ............................................................... 3-203-17 Existing previous similar release to be maintained: REPAIR" ................................................ 3-213-18 SNMP CT Add On setup ............................................................................................................ 3-223-19 SNMPCT setup in progress temporary window ........................................................................ 3-233-20 Maintenance Finished ................................................................................................................ 3-243-21 SNMPCT installation completed ............................................................................................... 3-243-22 Selecting installation procedure (end step) ................................................................................ 3-253-23 Descriptor files administration ................................................................................................... 3-26

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    3-24 Software Package Administration-ES service specific .............................................................. 3-273-25 File-Browser for Software Package installation ........................................................................ 3-283-26 Software Package Administration - create Enhanced OMSN ................................................... 3-283-27 Software Package Administration - add ES service ................................................................... 3-293-28 Add/Remove Programs icon selection ....................................................................................... 3-313-29 Add/Remove Programs view ..................................................................................................... 3-323-30 Delete confirmation (example) .................................................................................................. 3-323-31 Delete completed (example) ...................................................................................................... 3-333-32 Download Initiate (example) ..................................................................................................... 3-343-33 Download confirmation box ...................................................................................................... 3-353-34 Download progress .................................................................................................................... 3-353-35 NE Software package activation (example) ............................................................................... 3-363-36 Activate SW package confirmation ........................................................................................... 3-363-37 SW package details .................................................................................................................... 3-373-38 1320CT software start-up .......................................................................................................... 3-38

    3-39 NES view example ..................................................................................................................... 3-393-40 ES view example ........................................................................................................................ 3-40

    3-41 Login dialog box ........................................................................................................................ 3-403-42 ISA USM starting ...................................................................................................................... 3-41

    4 Craft Terminal for ES Management

    4-1 Logon view .................................................................................................................................. 4-3

    4-2 Main view .................................................................................................................................... 4-7

    4-3 TREE area example ..................................................................................................................... 4-8

    4-4 Spontaneous information message example .............................................................................. 4-13

    4-5 Set Manager list ......................................................................................................................... 4-324-6 Configuration -> Options ........................................................................................................... 4-344-7 Configuration -> Options - Program (Full Window Mode" example) ..................................... 4-354-8 Configuration -> Options - Program (Tabbed Window Mode" example) ................................ 4-354-9 Views -> Search ......................................................................................................................... 4-374-10 Views -> Print ............................................................................................................................ 4-38

    4-11 ASAP Management dialog ........................................................................................................ 4-404-12 ASAP: Severities profile example ............................................................................................. 4-41

    4-13 ASAP: Set Alarm Severities (example) ..................................................................................... 4-45

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    4-14 Loop Back Management dialog ................................................................................................. 4-464-15 Alarms Surveillance (ISA Alarms" example) .......................................................................... 4-484-16 Log Retrieval: Event (Filter example) ........................................................................................ 4-504-17 Log Retrieval: Event (Report example) ..................................................................................... 4-504-18 Log Retrieval: Alarm (Filter example) ....................................................................................... 4-514-19 Log Retrieval: Alarm (Report example) .................................................................................... 4-514-20 MIB management -> Backup/Restore DB ................................................................................. 4-534-21 Backup info boxes ...................................................................................................................... 4-544-22 Backup/restore selection ........................................................................................................... 4-544-23 Configuration: ETS Traffic Descriptor (example) ..................................................................... 4-574-24 Create an ETS Traffic Descriptor (example) .............................................................................. 4-584-25 ETB Virtual/MAC Bridge Scheduling Mode ............................................................................. 4-634-26 Provider Bridge, 8P0D Scheduling Model ................................................................................. 4-644-27 Configuration: MPLS Traffic Descriptor (example) .................................................................. 4-674-28 Create an MPLS Traffic Descriptor (example) .......................................................................... 4-684-29 Configure ISA - System Info ..................................................................................................... 4-714-30 Configure ISA - Bridge Management ........................................................................................ 4-734-31 Configure ISA - MIB Default Value .......................................................................................... 4-74

    4-32 ISA Properties (example) ........................................................................................................... 4-744-33 ISA-ES node: transmission application table ............................................................................. 4-754-34 Configure (local) Ethernet Port - Configuration ........................................................................ 4-804-35 Configure (local) Ethernet Port - MAU ..................................................................................... 4-834-36 Configure (local) Ethernet Port - L2 Control Frame .................................................................. 4-844-37 Configure (local) Ethernet Port - Port Mirroring ....................................................................... 4-854-38 Configure (local) Ethernet Port - Alarms ................................................................................... 4-864-39 List of Protocol Profile ............................................................................................................... 4-874-40 Create Protocol Profile ............................................................................................................... 4-88

    4-41 (Local) Ethernet Port Properties ................................................................................................. 4-894-42 Configure (remote) Ethernet Port - Configuration ..................................................................... 4-934-43 Configure (remote) Ethernet Port - GFP .................................................................................... 4-944-44 Configure (remote) Ethernet Port - L2 Control Frame .............................................................. 4-954-45 Configure (remote) Ethernet Port - Alarms ................................................................................ 4-964-46 Configure (remote) Ethernet Port - LAPS ................................................................................. 4-96

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    4-47 Rate Limiting Combination example (VC4 case) ...................................................................... 4-994-48 Virtual Concatenation Granularity example (MII, VC12 case) ............................................... 4-1004-49 Inconsistency error on Port Configuration ............................................................................... 4-1004-50 (Remote) Ethernet Port Properties ........................................................................................... 4-1014-51 Substitute Server Layer (from GFP to LAPS) ......................................................................... 4-1024-52 Substitute Server Layer (from LAPS to GFP) ......................................................................... 4-1024-53 Configure ACL ......................................................................................................................... 4-1044-54 ACL list setting ........................................................................................................................ 4-1064-55 ACL/ACE setting ..................................................................................................................... 4-1094-56 Port: ACL Properties ................................................................................................................ 4-1104-57 Port: Disassociate ACL ............................................................................................................ 4-1114-58 Create ETS InFlow ................................................................................................................... 4-1144-59 List of Color Profile ................................................................................................................. 4-1154-60 Create Color Profile ................................................................................................................. 4-1154-61 Create ETS OutFlow ................................................................................................................ 4-1184-62 Create VLAN Management ..................................................................................................... 4-1204-63 Create Provider InFlow ............................................................................................................ 4-1224-64 Provider Inflow: S-VID Filter .................................................................................................. 4-1234-65 Create Provider OutFlow ......................................................................................................... 4-1244-66 Delete ETS InFlow ................................................................................................................... 4-1264-67 Create ETH2ETS Classifier ..................................................................................................... 4-1294-68 Substitute Ethernet -> PPP ....................................................................................................... 4-1314-69 Substitute PPP -> Ethernet ....................................................................................................... 4-1324-70 Configure PPP Port .................................................................................................................. 4-1354-71 PPP Port Properties .................................................................................................................. 4-1364-72 Configure MPLS Port (Remote side) ....................................................................................... 4-1394-73 Configure MPLS Port (Local side, 1GbETH. i/f) .................................................................... 4-1404-74 Inconsistency error on MPLS Port Configuration ................................................................... 4-140

    4-75 MPLS Port Properties .............................................................................................................. 4-1414-76 Configure MPLS Port - Configuration (Multi Client Layer, over GFP) .................................. 4-1434-77 Configure MPLS Port - GFP (Multi Client Layer, over GFP) ................................................. 4-1444-78 Configure MPLS Port - Label Range (Multi Client Layer, over GFP) .................................... 4-1454-79 Configure MPLS Port - Alarm (Multi Client Layer, over GFP) .............................................. 4-146

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    4-80 MPLS InSegment Properties .................................................................................................... 4-147

    4-81 MPLS OutSegment Properties ................................................................................................. 4-1494-82 Create ETS InFlow (into Inner Tunnel) ................................................................................... 4-1504-83 Create ETS OutFlow (into Inner Tunnel) ................................................................................. 4-1514-84 Substitute Port Type (from ETS to ETB) ................................................................................. 4-1544-85 Substitute Port Type (from ETB to ETS) ................................................................................. 4-1544-86 Substitute Client Type (from ETS to Link Aggregator) ........................................................... 4-1544-87 VLAN Registration .................................................................................................................. 4-1564-88 Static VLAN Registration Management (Provider case) ......................................................... 4-1584-89 Configure Provider Bridge Port (PERVLANSTP" case) ....................................................... 4-1634-90 Configure Bridge Port (MSTP case) ........................................................................................ 4-1664-91 Configure MAC Bridge Port .................................................................................................... 4-1684-92 Port VLAN Identifier (PVID) association ............................................................................... 4-1694-93 Bridge Port: Default User Priority ........................................................................................... 4-1704-94 Bridge Port: Regenerated Priority List ..................................................................................... 4-1714-95 Bridge Port: STP-Per Bridge Management .............................................................................. 4-1744-96 Bridge Port: STP-Per Bridge Management (MSTI case) ......................................................... 4-1744-97 Bridge Port: STP-Per Port Management .................................................................................. 4-1774-98 BridgePort: STP-Per Port Management (MSTI case) .............................................................. 4-1774-99 Bridge Port: CIST: MST Region Management ........................................................................ 4-1794-100 Bridge Port: CIST: MST Region List ....................................................................................... 4-1794-101 Bridge Port: MSTI: MSTI Management .................................................................................. 4-1814-102 Bridge Port: MSTI: MSTID/VLAN Assignment ..................................................................... 4-1814-103 Bridge Port: MSTI: MSTID/VLAN List .................................................................................. 4-1814-104 Bridge Port Properties (Provider/MSTP case) ......................................................................... 4-1824-105 Show VLAN Info ..................................................................................................................... 4-1834-106 Queue (QoS) Management ....................................................................................................... 4-1864-107 QoS Management: Forwarding Class Number ........................................................................ 4-1864-108 QoS Management: Queue Number and weighting .................................................................. 4-1864-109 QoS Management: Queue Properties ....................................................................................... 4-1864-110 Queue (QoS) Properties ........................................................................................................... 4-1884-111 QoS Properties: Forwarding Class Mapping ............................................................................ 4-1884-112 QoS Properties: Queue Number List ........................................................................................ 4-189

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    4-113 ISA: IGMP Snooping Management List .................................................................................. 4-1914-114 ISA: IGMP Snooping, VLAN association ............................................................................... 4-1924-115 Port: IGMP Services Management .......................................................................................... 4-1954-116 Port: IGMP Services Management: VLAN ID ........................................................................ 4-1954-117 Port: IGMP Services Properties List ........................................................................................ 4-1974-118 Port: IGMP Request Membership Group ................................................................................ 4-1984-119 Aggregator: Creation ............................................................................................................... 4-2014-120 Aggregator: Set Protocol List .................................................................................................. 4-201

    4-121 Aggregator: Configure Aggregator/Configuration ................................................................... 4-2054-122 Aggregator: Configure Aggregator/Information ...................................................................... 4-2064-123 Aggregator: Configure Aggregator/Alarm ............................................................................... 4-2064-124 Aggregator Properties .............................................................................................................. 4-207

    4-125 Delete Aggregator .................................................................................................................... 4-2084-126 Aggregation Port: Configure .................................................................................................... 4-2114-127 Aggregation Port: Set Actor Admin Key ................................................................................. 4-2114-128 Aggregation Port: Properties .................................................................................................... 4-212

    4-129 In Fiber In Band : Create ........................................................................................................ 4-2144-130 In Fiber In Band : Modify ....................................................................................................... 4-2154-131 In Fiber In Band : Delete ........................................................................................................ 4-2164-132 In Fiber In Band : Properties .................................................................................................... 4-2164-133 Configure Hub-Spoke ............................................................................................................. 4-2174-134 EFM Management: Configuration .......................................................................................... 4-220

    4-135 EFM Management: Statistics .................................................................................................. 4-2234-136 EFM Management: Alarms ..................................................................................................... 4-2244-137 EFM Management: Properties ................................................................................................ 4-2254-138 OAM: Configure Resources ..................................................................................................... 4-227

    4-139 OAM: Configure Resources: Create MD ................................................................................. 4-2284-140 OAM: Configure Resources: Delete MD ................................................................................. 4-2294-141 OAM: Configure Resources: MA Navigation ......................................................................... 4-2294-142 OAM: Configure: MA Navig.: Create MA .............................................................................. 4-230

    4-143 OAM: Configure: MA Navig.: Create: Vid ............................................................................ 4-2314-144 OAM: Configure: MA Navig.: MEP Navigation .................................................................... 4-231

    4-145 OAM: Configure: MA Navig.: MEP Navigation: Create MEP ............................................... 4-232

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    4-146 OAM: Configure: MA Navig.: MEP Navigation: Loop Back ................................................ 4-2334-147 OAM: Configure: MA Navig.: MEP Navigation: Link Trace ................................................ 4-234

    4-148 OAM: Configure: MA Navig.: MEP Navigation: Details ....................................................... 4-2354-149 OAM: Configure: MA Navig.: Show All MEP ....................................................................... 4-2364-150 OAM: Configure: MA Navig.: MA-MEP List ID .................................................................. 4-2374-151 OAM: Configure: MA Navig.: Modify ................................................................................... 4-2374-152 OAM: Configure: MA Navig.: Modify: Show ........................................................................ 4-2384-153 OAM: Configure: MA Navig.: Details .................................................................................... 4-2384-154 OAM: Configure: MA Navig.: Delete .................................................................................... 4-2394-155 OAM: Properties Resources ..................................................................................................... 4-2394-156 OAM: Configure ...................................................................................................................... 4-2404-157 OAM: Properties ...................................................................................................................... 4-2414-158 OAM: Configure LoopBack ..................................................................................................... 4-2414-159 OAM: Configure Loop Back: Test List ................................................................................... 4-2424-160 OAM: Configure Loop Back: Test List: Modify ...................................................................... 4-2434-161 OAM: Loop Back Properties .................................................................................................... 4-2434-162 Filtering Data Base/Dynamic Filtering Database (Virtual Bridge case) .................................. 4-2464-163 Filtering Data Base/Static Unicast Filtering (Virtual Bridge case) .......................................... 4-2484-164 Filtering Data Base/Static Multicast Filtering (Virtual Bridge case) ....................................... 4-2494-165 Filtering Data Base/Dynamic Multicast Filtering (Virtual Bridge case) ................................. 4-2504-166 Filtering Data Base/Learned Mac Address Details .................................................................. 4-2504-167 Segregated Port Management ................................................................................................... 4-2514-168 Ethernet Port: Connection application table ............................................................................ 4-2534-169 Create ETS XC One Step" - Ethernet example ...................................................................... 4-2584-170 Topology Classification Properties (examples) ........................................................................ 4-2584-171 Protocol List ............................................................................................................................. 4-2594-172 Create ETS XC One Step" - ETS Virtual Switch example .................................................... 4-2604-173 Create ETS XC One Step" - MPLS Tunnel (TAIL) ............................................................... 4-2634-174 Create ETS XC One Step" ..................................................................................................... 4-2664-175 Error message on Create ETS XC One Step" ........................................................................ 4-2664-176 Topology for Create ETS XC One Step" (Provider) .............................................................. 4-2684-177 Create ETS XC One Step" (Provider, UNI-UNI) ................................................................... 4-2724-178 Create ETS XC One Step" (Provider, UNI-NNI) ................................................................... 4-273

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    4-179 Create ETS XC One Step" (Provider, NNI-UNI) .................................................................. 4-2754-180 SVID Filter ............................................................................................................................... 4-2754-181 Delete ETS XC One Step" (ETS & MPLS Tunnel) ............................................................... 4-2774-182 Delete ETS XC One Step" (MAC & Virtual) ........................................................................ 4-2794-183 Topology for Delete ETS XC One Step" (Provider) .............................................................. 4-2814-184 Delete ETS XC One Step" (Provider, UNI-UNI) .................................................................. 4-2814-185 Delete ETS XC One Step" (Provider, UNI-NNI) .................................................................. 4-2824-186 Delete ETS XC One Step" (Provider, NNI-UNI) .................................................................. 4-2834-187 ETS XC Properties ................................................................................................................... 4-2854-188 MPLS XC Properties ............................................................................................................... 4-288

    4-189 Create Outer Head Tunnel ....................................................................................................... 4-2924-190 Create Outer Transit Tunnel ..................................................................................................... 4-2944-191 Create Outer Tail Tunnel .......................................................................................................... 4-2954-192 Create Inner (Head") MPLS Tunnel ....................................................................................... 4-2994-193 Create Inner (Tail") MPLS Tunnel ......................................................................................... 4-2994-194 Outer MPLS Tunnel Properties ................................................................................................ 4-3014-195 Delete Outer MPLS Tunnel ..................................................................................................... 4-3014-196 Inner (Head) MPLS Tunnel Properties ................................................................................. 4-3034-197 Ethernet Port Configure Monitoring (example) ....................................................................... 4-3074-198 Ethernet Port Monitoring Properties (example) ....................................................................... 4-3094-199 InFlow Configure Monitoring (example) ................................................................................. 4-3104-200 InFlow Monitoring Properties (example) ................................................................................ 4-3124-201 OutFlow Configure Monitoring (example) .............................................................................. 4-3134-202 OutFlow Monitoring Properties (example) .............................................................................. 4-3154-203 PM data results (Port example) ................................................................................................ 4-3184-204 PM data results (InFlow example) ........................................................................................... 4-318

    5 Maintenance

    5-1 General Flow-chart for ISA-ES board troubleshooting ............................................................... 5-25-2 Alarms/statuses organization in the main-view ........................................................................... 5-55-3 TREE area example ................................................................................................................... 5-105-4 Example of EthernetPort Properties alarms ............................................................................... 5-115-5 Example of alarms reported in the resource information area A3" .......................................... 5-125-6 AlarmsSurveill.-Counter Summary" window (ISA Alarms" example) ................................. 5-14

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    1 Alcatel-Lucent ISA ES16 Documentation Set ............................................................................xxiv

    1 Introduction

    1-1 Ethernet over SDH layer stack ..................................................................................................... 1-7

    1-2 Ethernet over MPLS SDH layer stacking .................................................................................... 1-91-3 MPLS over ETHERNET layer stacking ...................................................................................... 1-91-4 L2 Control Protocols .................................................................................................................. 1-501-5 IEEE 802.3 Slow Protocols ........................................................................................................ 1-51

    2 Software Product and Licence

    2-1 Software product part number ...................................................................................................... 2-32-2 Software licenses part numbers ................................................................................................... 2-3

    3 ES Software Installation

    4 Craft Terminal for ES Management

    4-1 Alarms & Severities association in predefined ASAPs.............................................................. 4-434-2 Typical association between TD, UP and P-CoS (ETB ports MAC/Virtual Bridge .................. 4-634-3 Provider Bridge - Traffic Scheduling in 8P0D mode ................................................................ 4-644-4 Provider Bridge - Traffic Scheduling in 5P3D mode ................................................................ 4-654-5 Provider Bridge - Traffic Scheduling in 6P2D mode ................................................................ 4-664-6 Provider Bridge - Traffic Scheduling in 7P1D mode ................................................................ 4-664-7 Traffic Descriptor, Policing Mode and Color Profile for INFLOW resource: ......................... 4-1164-8 Prioritization for OUTFLOW resource with Stacked-VLAN Management" ......................... 4-120

    5 Maintenance

    5-1 Alarms colors and Severity association ....................................................................................... 5-75-2 Colors of the Management States when in abnormal" condition (alarmed) .............................. 5-75-3 Severity Alarms Synthesis indications ......................................................................................... 5-85-4 Domain Alarm Synthesis indication ............................................................................................ 5-85-5 Management States Control Panel ............................................................................................... 5-95-6 Alarms Surveillance information general description ................................................................ 5-16

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    A Technical support

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    About this document

    Purpose

    This document provides general information and operational procedures common to all Alcatel-Lucent ISA Board ES16 performing ES16 functions (Alcatel-Lucent ISA ES16).

    Reason for reissue

    This document is the fourth issue of Release 2.5.

    History

    Intended audience

    This Operator Handbook is intended primarily for telecommunications technicians and communications network providers.

    It is a common handbook for several equipment of different productreleases using ES16 product. The use of this handbook is indicated in the list of the Technical Handbook of the Network Element, as listed in Table 1, (pg. 1-xxiv). This handbook is not applied to a specific Network Element productrelease; being the document dedicated to a set of equipment, screens are inserted as "example" and can be extracted from any of the referred

    Issue Date Reason

    01 September 2008 First validated issue of this guide

    02 October 2008 SW features alignment

    03 April 2009 13352 DTTs modification request (Port Mirroring sector: (p. 4-85)

    04 October 2009 Re-structuring to OneDoc and incorporation of features (Dual homing and Customer BPDU tunneling)

    05 February 2010 General upgrading and incorporation of features.34733 DTTs modification request (Ethernet Port -> Configure ACL / ACE management (p. 4-107)).

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    equipment. Handbooks relevant to software applications (typically the Operator's Handbooks) are not modified unless the new software "version" distributed to Customers implies man-machine interface changes or in case of slight modifications not affecting the understanding of the explained procedures.

    How to use this document

    This manual is divided into several chapters and it is useful to the trained operator or system administrator.

    Safety information

    This information contains hazard statements for your safety. Hazard statements are given at points where risks of damage to personnel, equipment, and operation may exist. Failure to follow the directions in a hazard statement may result in serious consequences.

    Safety precautions

    Adhere to the following safety precautions: Electrostatic discharge (ESD)You must be properly grounded when making contact with the Alcatel-Lucent ISA Board ES16 frame and handling circuit packs, disk drives, and tapes. Wrist strap ground cords should be routinely tested for the minimum 1-megohm resistance. Plug-in storage

    Circuit packs should be stored in static-safe packaging or in a grounded cabinet.

    Admonishments

    To avoid hazardous conditions, observe the following admonishments:

    DANGER

    Possibility of personal injury.CAUTION

    Possibility of service interruption.WARNING

    Possibility of equipment damage.

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    Conventions used

    The following typographical conventions are used in this guide:

    For the remainder of this document, Alcatel-Lucent ISA ES16 is used in place of Alcatel-Lucent ISA Board ES16 in most cases.

    Appearance Description

    italicized text File and directory names Emphasized information Titles of publications A value that the user supplies

    italicized bold text Emphasized information A value that the user supplies

    GUI reference or key name Text that is displayed in a graphical user interface or in a hardware label

    The name of a key on the keyboard

    input text Command names and text that the user types or selects as input to a system

    output text Text that a system displays or prints

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    Related documentation

    This Handbook is always supplied with Technical Handbook and CT Operator's Handbook dedicated to the specific Network Element. Each manual has its own Part number.

    Example of Equipment 1660SM Rel. 4.5.The following table provide additional information about the Alcatel-Lucent ISA Board :

    Table 1 Alcatel-Lucent ISA ES16 Documentation Set

    Training

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    DocumentNumber Document Title

    3AL 79551 AAAA 1320CT-Basic Operator Handbook

    AS Operator's Handbook

    ELB Operator's Handbook

    OMSN-Operator Handbook

    Alcatel-Lucent 1640FOX Operator Handbook

    Alcatel-Lucent 1650SMC Operator Handbook

    Alcatel-Lucent 1660SM Operator Handbook

    OMSN-Technical Handbooks

    Alcatel-Lucent 1640FOX Technical Handbooks

    Alcatel-Lucent 1650SMC Technical Handbooks

    Alcatel-Lucent 1660SM Technical Handbooks

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    1 Introduction

    Overview

    This chapter describes the main features of the graphical interface for the ISA-ES Operator and provides a general overview of the system architecture.

    All the manuals describe menus, but not necessarily all the options of these menus. When a menu option is not detailed in a manual, the information is given in another manual.

    This chapter provides information on the following topics: ES16 System (p. 1-3) MAC-Ethernet Technique (p. 1-7) MPLS Technique (p. 1-8) Ethernet Applications (p. 1-10)

    Example of end-to-end ETS link creation (none Bridge case) (p. 1-17) MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum) Applications (p. 1-20) Ethernet Private Line (EPL), end to end implementation example (p. 1-22) E-Lan/E-VLan, end to end implementation example (p. 1-24) E-VPL, end to end implementation example (p. 1-27) MPLS Applications (p. 1-31)

    MPLS Tunnel: Labelling and Bandwidth Matching (p. 1-32) Example of MPLS over SDH Tunnelling creation (p. 1-34) Example of MPLS over Ethernet Tunnelling creation (p. 1-40)

    Protocols (p. 1-43) Data frames (p. 1-43) Protocol list (p. 1-50)

    STP functionality (Spanning Tree Protocol) (p. 1-55) Virtual Concatenation and LCAS (p. 1-64) GFP Packets Concatenation (p. 1-65)

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    Loop-Back management (p. 1-66) System alarm management (p. 1-67)

    CSF alarm management (p. 1-67) LLCF (Link Loss Carry Forward) in Hub-and-Spoke (p. 1-68) VC-AIS alarm management (p. 1-70)

    Auto-Negotiation management (p. 1-73) Flow-Control management (p. 1-74) Port Mirroring management (p. 1-77) Bridging Data Plane (p. 1-79)

    Segregated Ports management (p. 1-79) IGMP Snooping management (p. 1-79) IGMP Snooping management (p. 1-79)

    Link Aggregation management (p. 1-81) Link Aggregation, implementation example (p. 1-85)

    Control Protocols management in a Transport Network (p. 1-87) Selective Tunnelling (p. 1-87) Dual-homing (p. 1-88)

    Redundancy features (p. 1-90) EPS 1+1 management (p. 1-90) Dual-homing (via selective BPDU tunnelling) (p. 1-91)

    Ethernet OAM (p. 1-93) Connectivity Fault Management (p. 1-93)

    Control Protocols management in a Transport Network (p. 1-87) Ethernet over SDH Management (p. 1-97) ES-CT main management menus (p. 1-101)

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    The Alcatel-Lucent ISA-ES16 (Integrated Services Adapter-Ethernet Switching) is a system operating at layer 2 of the ISO-OSI stack by means of the MAC protocol and/or the MPLS protocol.

    By virtue of the MAC layer processing, it acts as an Ethernet Switch (or bridge), used to interconnect and route Ethernet data flows transiting on the afferent LAN's. The LAN's may be local or remote, where remote LAN's are linked using the existing SDH physical backbone, by means of the EOS (Ethernet Over SDH/SONET) procedure.By virtue of the MPLS layer processing, it acts as a Label Switch Router (LSR), used to route ethernet data flows, inserting them, and if possible aggregating, into virtual tunnels (LSP, Label Switched Path) marked by labels; the MPLS tunnels are then laid on SDH containers by means of the EOS encapsulation (Ethernet over MPLS over SDH).The Alcatel-Lucent ES16 system can manage packets data streams transported over local" Ethernet FE or GbE (Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet) and remotized" ethernet over GFP/SDH or LAPS/SDH.

    It has an SDH equivalent capacity of: 16 VC4 (on 1660SM-10Gb), 8 VC4 (on 1660SM-EnhSlot and 1662SMC), 4 VC4 (on 1660SM and 1650SMC).Its maximum packets throughput is 4.4 Gb/s, of which 2.4 Gb/s are for remote ports and the remaining for local ones.

    It is accessed by 14 Fast Ethernet Local ports, or 4 Giga Ethernet Local port, and 64 Remote ports; local ports are located on independent access modules.

    The Fast Ethernet and Giga Ethernet local ports are alternative between them.

    The Ethernet Bridge (ETB) function may be automatically carried out by means of the MAC autolearning" (also called MAC Bridge") procedure (802.1D Rec.), or by means of manual engineered" cross-connections. The MAC-Bridge representation is schematically illustrated in Figure 1-3, (pg. 1-10), see also Figure 1-8, (pg. 1-16).ES system can act also as a Virtual Bridge" (802.1Q Rec.) or as a Provider Bridge" (802.1ad/D1.3 Rec.) managing the VLAN (user tag) and S-VLAN (provider tag) fields of the MAC frame (also called VLAN-tagged MAC frames"); in this way it can further support the SLA with differentiated CoS.

    The use of VLAN permits the aggregation of many users over a single virtual circuit, also if they are not physically tied on the same physical segment, and can communicate each other as if they were on the same LAN. In this way, users may also move from a segment to another without changing their physical address.

    The Virtual Bridge representation is schematically illustrated in Figure 1-4, (pg. 1-11). See also Figure 1-9, (pg. 1-16).

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    A Provider Bridge application is illustrated in Figure 1-10, (pg. 1-17).Some generic examples about VLAN and S-VLAN utilization are reported in Figure 1-5, (pg. 1-13) and Figure 1-6, (pg. 1-14). For more details about VLAN/LLC refer to IEEE 802.1Q standard. Furthermore it accomplishes the functions requested by the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP, RSTP,