Table of Contents
- Title and Copyright Information
- Preface
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1
Using the Configuration GUI
- Overview of the Configuration GUI
- Running the Configuration GUI
- Components Configured by the Configuration GUI
- Managing Hosts with the Configuration GUI
- Enabling and Disabling Components
- Modifying Configuration Parameters
- Refreshing the Configuration Parameters
- Managing the Configuration GUI
- About Configuration Files
- Saving a Configuration
- Loading a Configuration
- Loading a Configuration onto Another Host
- Files Managed Through the Configuration GUI
- Enabling SSL for CORBA
- 2 Post-installation Administration Tasks
- 3 Starting and Stopping IP Service Activator
- 4 Setting Up Users and Menus
- 5 Backing Up and Restoring Data
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6
Monitoring and Managing IP Service Activator
- Setting the Component Manager Startup Delay Time
- Setting the Component Manager Shutdown Timeout Period
- IP Service Activator Process Names on Solaris/Linux
- Managing Validation on Policy Server Initialization
- Managing components
- Viewing and Understanding Error Messages
- Getting More Information About Error Messages
- Suppressing Error Messages
- Logging into IP Service Activator
- Configuration GUI Log Files
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Network Processor Logging
- Network Processor Log Files
- Setting Up Logging
- Checking Network Processor Logs
- Checking the Network Processor Cartridge Log
- Logging Levels
- Changing the Logging Level Filter
- Managing Log File Rollover
- Log Output
- Logging Properties
- LogReader
- Network Processor Database-related Log Files
- Setting the Archive Limit for Transactions
- Audit Trail
- Policy Server Performance Tuning
- About Transaction Status Monitoring
- Viewing the Current Status of IP Service Activator
- Auditing
- About Audit Templates
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7
Monitoring and Managing the Network Processor
- Network Processor
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Configuring the Network Processor
- Configuring Performance Characteristics of the Network Processor
- Configuring Queue Priority at Network Processor Startup
- Creating or Editing a Cartridge Registry File
- Registering Cartridges with Registry.xml
- Customization File Entries
- Using Activation Retry
- Configuring Time Delays for the Network Processor
- Configuring Memory Limits for Network Processor Cache
- Configuring Prefix List Ranges for Cisco Devices
- Deleting Address Family Unicast Commands from Cisco Devices
- Setting the “alias ip-vrf" Command for Cisco VPNs
- Setting the “alias exec" Command
- Adding the “unmanaged RIP redistribution" Command for Juniper VPNs
- Configuring the Network Processor to Accept Exact Names on a Huawei Device
- Command Delivery Modes
- Synchronization and Recovery Strategies and Tasks
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Cartridge capabilities management
- Capabilities and the Registry
- Capabilities File Structure
- Device Capabilities
- Interface Capabilities
- SAP Capabilities
- Inbound and Outbound Capabilities
- Capabilities and Options
- Default Capabilities Generation
- Initial Capabilities Configuration
- Modifying and Creating Capabilities Files
- Enabling, Disabling, or Modifying a Capabilities Definition
- Adding a New Interface Type to an Interface Capabilities Definition
- Modifying Capabilities for a Specific Vendor Device Type or OS Version
- Capabilities Dialogue Messages
- Re-initializing Capabilities for a Device or Interface
- Assigning unsupported capabilities to a device or cartridge
- Capabilities reference
- Capabilities classifications
- Capability value pairs
- 8 Managing the IP Service Activator Database
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9
Troubleshooting IP Service Activator
- Running Troubleshooting Scripts
- Communication Errors with the Database
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Component Errors
- Component Will Not Restart
- GUI Cannot Connect to Server
- GUI Hangs When Running Multiple Interfaces on Same Machine
- Client Cannot Connect to Server
- Component Manager Fails on Start-up
- Component Does Not Restart
- Investigating a User Interface Error on Windows
- Insufficient Privilege to Stop the Component Manager or Naming Service
- Transactions
- Log Files
- Discovering Manually Created Subinterfaces on Juniper M-series Devices
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Troubleshooting the Network Processor
- Viewing Debug Logs
- Network Processor Cannot Find a Cartridge
- Turning Off the Offline Maintenance Mode Warning
- Setting Severity of Fault “Re-issue commands operation failed"
- Recovering from Rollback Failure
- Network Processor Does Not Start
- If Concrete Rules Are Not Created for Abstract Rules
- Running Troubleshooting Scripts
- WebLogic Patch Update Errors
- Effects of Component Failures
- Component Distribution and Communication
- Software Failure
- Hardware Failure
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10
Improving IP Service Activator Performance
- Performance Considerations
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Tuning Techniques
- Deploying on Solaris
- Re-ordering IP Service Activator Component Initiation
- Reducing the Number of Stored Transactions
- Reducing the Impact of Discovery Actions on the IP Service Activator GUI
- Apply Policies at the Highest Granularity Possible
- Reducing the Component Manager Shutdown Timeout
- Increasing the ORB TCP Timeout Threshold
- Tuning the Network Processor