Cisco Cisco Transport Manager 9.0 Information Guide
Q&A
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Cisco Transport Manager 8.5
Server and Client
Q.
When is Cisco
®
Transport Manager 8.5 scheduled for first customer shipment?
A.
Cisco Transport Manager 8.5 first customer shipment is scheduled for December 14, 2007.
Q.
Are hard copy manuals shipped with Cisco Transport Manager 8.5?
A.
No, the Cisco Transport Manager 8.5 kit includes PDF documents on a CD that can also be
ordered online. Hard copy documents cannot be ordered anymore. Cisco Transport Manager
documentation is available:
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Online at
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/opticsw/ps2204/tsd_products_support_series_ho
me.html
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On the documentation CD-ROM included in the Cisco Transport Manager software kit
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On the documentation CD-ROM available on Cisco Marketplace at
http://www.cisco.com/go/marketplace
, order number OL-80-8920-01.
Q.
What are the major enhancements for Cisco Transport Manager 8.5?
A.
Table 1 lists new features for Cisco Transport Manager 8.5,
Table 1.
New Features in Cisco Transport Manager 8.5
Features
Description
Database
Cisco Transport Manager 8.5 requires Oracle 10g Standard Edition or Oracle 10g
Enterprise Edition (based on network size) database installations.
Enterprise Edition (based on network size) database installations.
Schedule inventory reports
Users can schedule export of the equipment inventory table contents to a flat file for all
devices for which inventory retrieval is supported.
devices for which inventory retrieval is supported.
Basic external authentication
Cisco Transport Manager supports basic external username and password authentication
through eTrust SiteMinder, a third-party application. Users with the appropriate privileges
can enable or disable external authentication.
through eTrust SiteMinder, a third-party application. Users with the appropriate privileges
can enable or disable external authentication.
For more information about Release 8.5, please refer to the Cisco Transport Manager 8.5 product
bulletin, available after first customer shipment at
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/opticsw/ps2204/prod_bulletins_list.html
Q.
Does the Cisco Transport Manager 8.5 Transaction Language One (TL1) Gateway
support all the network elements?
A.
No, it supports only elements with native TL1 protocol for communication with Cisco Transport
Manager. The following network elements have a native TL1 protocol:
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Cisco ONS 15216 Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier 2 (EDFA2), EDFA3, 100-GHz Optical
Add/Drop Multiplexer (OADM)
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Cisco ONS 15327 SONET Multiservice Platform
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Cisco ONS 15310-CL SONET Multiservice Platform
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Cisco ONS 15310-MA SONET Multiservice Platform
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Cisco ONS 15454 SONET Multiservice Platform