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Cisco 12000/10700 v3.1.1 Router Manager User Guide
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Chapter 1 Overview
Key Features of the Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager Software
• Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager deployment—Eases deployment of large networks by enabling
template-based element configuration, operations, administration, and maintenance
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Pre-deployment of chassis, GRP and line cards
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AutoDiscovery—Automatically discovers existing Cisco 12000/10720 routers
• Comprehensive fault management system—For chassis, line cards and interfaces
• Configuration Backup/Restore using RME—Uses Resource Manager Essentials to back up and save
the running configuration of a device and its modules so that if a hardware failure occurs, you can
restore configuration
• Configuration Editor—Uploads and saves the running configuration on a device after editing
• Configuration operations—Performs in bulk to numerous Cisco 12000/10720 routers
• Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager Management—Fault, Configuration, Accounting and
Performance (FCAP) Element Management of Cisco 12000 Series Routers using Cisco EMF
windows
• Interface profiles—Enables you to apply the same parameters to a large number of objects at one
time
• Layer 3 QoS support—Includes Committed Access Rate (CAR), Weighted Random Early Detection
(WRED), WRED ToFab and Modified Deficit Round Robin (MDRR)
• Line cards and interfaces—Supports various line cards and interfaces, such as packet-over-SONET
(POS), Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Digital Signal 3 (DS3), Dynamic Packet Transport
(DPT), Spatial Reuse Protocol (SRP) and Gigabit and Fast Ethernet
• Cisco IOS releases—Easily downloads new software releases from Cisco 12000/10720 Router
Manager onto devices using RME
• ATM Connections Management—Uploads existing PVCs and associated QoS profiles from any
device into the Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager and also manual deployment and management
of PVCs and SVCs
• Subchassis discovery—Determines the physical chassis contents, such as line cards and interfaces
• Rediscover Line Cards after online insertion or removal (OIR)
• BGP and OSPF Protocols Management—Configuration and Fault Management for BGP and OSPF
routing protocols and uploading BGP Address Family configurations
• Route Processor Redundancy (GRP and PRP) support for chassis management
• Complete support for IP Routing, TCP and UDP Status Management
• MPLS Management—Fault Management and Performance Management for MPLS Interfaces and
Sub-Interfaces, Fault Management for LDP Entities and MPLS Tunnels, Configuring MPLS and
VRF Traps
• VRF Management—Configuration of VRFs in the EM. Creation of VRFs in the device through EM
and Association of VRFs to Interfaces. Fault Management for VRFs
• VLAN Management—Configuration and performance monitoring of the VLAN sub-interfaces
• VLAN Synchronization—Uploads the existing VLAN information from the network into Cisco
12000/10720 Router Manager
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