Optical FTP Discovery Cartridge supports modeling of Optical Network devices in DWDM domain.

Optical FTP Discovery Cartridge uses FTP protocol to discover Optical Network Devices.

The Optical FTP Discovery Cartridge provides the following:

• Read and collect data from files provided using FTP/SFTP Protocol.

• Optical Network Device logical and physical structure modeling.

• Discrepancy detection and resolution on modeled data.

This cartridge produces both logical and physical device hierarchies that represent a discovered device. The logical hierarchy includes a logical device, child interfaces, subinterfaces (collectively called interfaces), and device interface configurations. The physical hierarchy includes physical device, equipment, equipment holders, and physical ports. This cartridge creates associations between the physical and logical hierarchies. The first association is at the device level, between the physical device and the logical device, and the second association is at the interface level between physical ports and Interfaces.

The cartridge discovers the following network entities:

• NetworkElement
• Sub_Rack (Shelf/Rack)
• Board (Card)
• Port (Generic / SFP)
• Logical Device
• Interface / Sub-Interface

This cartridge is designed for a standalone display of the model hierarchy in Network Integrity. The cartridge provides no integration with other products but may be extended. This cartridge is specifically designed for discovering Optical Network devices within the DWDM domain, and any attempt to discover other devices will result in a scan failure.

For Optical FTP Discovery, modeling of a device fails if it does not follow the FTP file structure properly. For more information about Optical FTP Discovery Input file structure, seeAbout Optical FTP Discovery Input File Structure.

In addition to a discovery action, this cartridge provides discrepancy detection and discrepancy resolution for integration with UIM.

Discrepancy detection provides the mechanism to allow a filtered comparison of logical and physical device trees between what is discovered and what is imported from UIM.

For more information about discrepancy detection actions and processors, see Network Integrity Developer's Guide.

The discrepancy resolution action enables the discovered logical and physical device trees to be created and updated in UIM.

This section provides information on dependencies that the Optical FTP Discovery cartridge has on other entities.

To review and extend the Optical FTP Discovery Cartridge, you must download the Oracle Communications Optical FTP Discovery Cartridge software from the Oracle software delivery web site: https://edelivery.oracle.com

The software contains the Optical FTP Discovery Cartridge ZIP file, which has the following structure:

• \UIM_Cartridge_Projects\

• \Network_Integrity_Cartridge_Projects\

• Optical-FTP-Discovery-Cartridge-R7.iar

See Design Studio Online Help and Oracle Communications Network Integrity Developer's Guide for information about opening files in Design Studio.

See Design Studio Help for information about building and deploying cartridges.