Cisco Cisco Media Gateway Controller Node Manager 2.8 (1) Release Notes

The Cisco MNM is an element management system (EMS) for the Cisco PGW 2200 Softswitch node, a 
call control node based on the Cisco PGW 2200 Softswitch. The Cisco MNM provides basic 
management of the Cisco PGW 2200 Softswitch node devices, including fault, configuration 
(Cisco VSPT), performance, and user security management. 

The Cisco MNM helps you manage the following components:

Cisco PGW 2200 Softswitch 

Cisco ITP-L

Cisco Integrated ITP-L

Cisco LAN Switch (Cisco Catalyst 2900, 5500, and 6509 only)

Cisco BAMS

Cisco HSI

At a minimum, you need the following hardware and software to install and run Cisco MNM: 

Sun platforms in the UltraSPARC and T2000/T5220 families

Sun platforms based on SUN Fire 240 and Sun Netra 240

Sun Netra T2000 and Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000

Sun Netra T5220 and Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220

Minimum 4 GB of RAM

8 GB (or greater) of swap

Sun Solaris 10 operating system

Latest patches recommended

Open Windows with the Common Desktop Environment (CDE)

Properly configured drives that are 36 GB or larger. The database drives should be configured with 
raw partitions for the Sun UltraSPARC platforms, and with RAID0 for the Sun T5220 platforms in 
order to get the best performance. 

The tmpfs file system must be mounted to /tmp for maximum performance. 

The following are additional requirements if Cisco MNM coexists with CiscoView 6.1.8 on the 
Solaris 10 operating system:

Version must be the November 2006 release or higher, and the minimum recommended cluster patch 
levels are those cluster patches released April 17, 2007.