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Cisco ONS 15454

TL1 collection specifics for the Cisco ONS 15454: positional RTRV-MAP-NETWORK records, ENE terminology, and why this platform ships untested.

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Cisco ONS 15454

Read the overview and setup first. This page is only what an ONS 15454 does differently.

connect:
  protocol: tl1
  tl1Vendor: cisco-ons
  tl1Gateway: "on"

Templates: cisco/, SSH and telnet, shipped as untested-starter.

Cisco calls them ENEs

The elements behind a gateway are ENEs (End NEs) in Cisco’s documentation, where Ciena says RNEs. They are the same thing, and rConfig’s UI uses Ciena’s term: an ENE appears in the TL1 Gateway panel as an RNE.

Records are positional

RTRV-MAP-NETWORK is the only neighbour format of the three with no keywords at all:

< RTRV-MAP-NETWORK:::2;


   TID-000 26-09-12 19:54:13
M  2 COMPLD
   "172.20.222.225,TID-000,15454"
   "172.20.222.224,TID-001,15454"
   "172.20.222.223,TID-002,UNKNOWN"
;

Each record is "<IPADDR>,<NODENAME>,<PRODUCT>".

NODENAME is the TID. PRODUCT is the platform, and this is the one TL1 vendor that reports a real model per element rather than leaving rConfig to copy the gateway’s. Discovered ENEs carry their own model and their own IP.

The vendor documentation notes PRODUCT returns UNKNOWN for a node running a different software version. rConfig does not store that as a model; the element falls back to the gateway’s.

A gateway lists itself

The first record in the map is the gateway’s own. rConfig drops it, so the gateway is not reconciled as an element behind itself, which would create a duplicate device record that every other gateway then reports as missing.

tl1NeighbourCmd

Leave it unset and RTRV-MAP-NETWORK is used. Set it and rConfig sends exactly what you wrote, with one exception: a value beginning with RTRV-NBR is replaced with RTRV-MAP-NETWORK and a warning is logged. That was the shipped default before 8.4.0 and no node answers it, so honouring it means discovering nothing.

Verbs

RTRV-EQPT::ALL:100;        # shelf and slot inventory
RTRV-ALM-ALL::ALL:101;     # active alarms
RTRV-COND-ALL::ALL:102;    # standing conditions
RTRV-SW-VER:::103;         # software version

Prompt: <. Leave the device’s Main Prompt blank and rConfig uses it.

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