SDX 6.4.x Getting Started Guide > SDX Components > SDX Management Tools

SDX Management Tools

This section describes the SDX management tools.

Admission Control Plug-In Administration Application

You can use Admission Control Plug-In administration application to monitor ACP and reorganize the backup directory. You can view information about:

• ACP configuration
• The status of ACPs in the redundancy configuration
• Subscriber sessions and congestion points in the edge networks that ACP manages
• Services and congestion points in the backbone network that ACP manages
• Subscribers and congestion points obtained through an external application

The SDX application library includes ACP and Admission Control Plug-In administration application.

JPS Administration Application

You can use the JPS Administration Web application to:

• View information about the current state of the Juniper Policy Server, including network connections and recent performance statistics
• Configure and view the current Juniper Policy Server configuration

The Juniper Policy Server is used in a PCMM environment.

NIC Web Admin

You can use NIC Web Admin to:

• View and manage hosts. You can view NIC hosts for the configuration and the agents and resolvers that each NIC host supports. You can also view the operational status (up or down) and redundancy status (active or passive) of NIC hosts, and can to shut down NIC hosts.
• View configuration for a redundant NIC component, redundancy communities, and monitors for the NIC configuration.
• View the NIC configuration for realms and the associated transitions and resolvers.
• Simulate NIC resolutions.

Policy Web Admin

You can use Policy Web Admin to connect to a directory and search for:

• QoS profiles configured on a JUNOSe router
• QoS profiles in a policy group
• Policy groups that contain a particular QoS profile
• JUNOSe routers that have a QoS profile configured
• Policy groups supported on a router
• Routers that can be supported by a policy group—Provides a list of routers that contain QoS profiles that are also in the specified policy group

Figure 7 shows a sample page in the Policy Web Admin.

Figure 7: Sample Policy Web Admin Page

Prepaid Account Administration Application

You can use the Prepaid Account Administration application to manage prepaid accounts. From Prepaid Account Administration, you can:

• View or update information about current accounts
• Create new accounts
• Clear expired accounts

The SDX application library includes Prepaid Account Administration application.

SAE Web Admin

You can use SAE Web Admin to manage and monitor the SAE. From SAE Web Admin, you can:

• Search for and display information currently stored in an SAE's memory, such as active policies, subscriber sessions, services, COPS servers, router interfaces, and logged-in subscribers
• Display SNMP information for the SAE
• Display and manually reload the SAE's configuration data
• Test portals without a router or a client PC
• Debug subscriber or interface classifiers and the domain name parser

Figure 8 is a sample page from SAE Web Admin.

Figure 8: Sample SAE Web Admin Page

SNMP Agent

The SNMP agent monitors system performance and availability, system resources, and SDX processes that are running on the system. The agent obtains information from traps through SNMP and SAE Web Admin. The SNMP agent is preconfigured to monitor SDX processes, such as those associated with infrastructure components (DirX, Interlink RADIUS, and OpenLDAP). Additionally, it provides detailed monitoring and configuration of SDX server components such as the residential and enterprise portals, the SAE, NIC hosts, the policy engine, and the Workflow application.

The master agent determines the SNMP version that supports integration with other network management systems. The SDX SNMP agent runs as a subagent to an installed master agent using the Agent Extensibility (AgentX) protocol. The SDX SNMP agent cannot act as a master agent.

Traffic Mirroring Administration Application

You can use the Traffic Mirroring Administration application to manage the mirroring of subscriber traffic. When traffic-mirroring services are activated in an SDX-managed environment, you can:

• Specify the subscriber whose traffic is be mirrored and the IP addresses of the traffic to be mirrored
• Manage currently active mirroring tasks
• Manage pending actions

The SDX application library includes the Traffic Mirroring Administration application.

VTA Configuration Manager

You can use the VTA Configuration Manager to configure the VTA. You can use it to configure event handlers, events, actions, and processors. You can also use it to configure identifiers for subscribers and sessions and to set up logging for the VTA. VTA Configuration Manager lets you store your configurations in local files or in a directory.