Cisco Cisco Prime Optical 9.3 Technical References

Cisco Prime Optical 9.3 ML Provisioning Methodology

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Protection Support on ML-Series Cards

You can select IEEE 802.17 RPR ML1000 cards for protection in the Create Layer 2 Topology wizard >
Card Selection pane (see

To choose a working card, select any card in the Available Cards list and click Add Working.

To choose a protection card for a working card:

Select the working card.

Select the protection card from the Available Cards list.

Click Add Protect.

Note

Protection is supported only on ML1000 cards; a working ML1000 card can be protected only by another
ML1000 card.

Figure 5

Card Selection—Create Layer 2 Topology Wizard (IEEE 802.17 RPR)

After you select the protection, commands are issued on the active and protection ML1000 cards, as
follows:

•

MAC addresses are configured on both the active and protection cards for the IEEE RPR interface:

–

Active card protection configuration

interface RPR-IEEE0

mac-address MAC address of the interface

[MAC address range is from 0000.1111.1111

to 0000.9999.9999]

–

Protection card protection configuration

interface RPR-IEEE0