HP Intelligent Management Center Licenses - Manual (Page 17)

Precautions
On the configuration summary page, you can configure to deploy the configuration to the devices
immediately. Otherwise, the links will appear only on the topology diagram, with the status being
Undeployed.
Using L2VPN Manager
The L2VPN Manager provides four functions: VPN devices, VPN resources, VPN deployment, and
automatic discovery.
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VPN Devices—VPN devices include PE devices and CE devices. CE devices include managed
CEs and non-managed CEs. The PEs and non-managed CEs can be directly imported from
the platform to the L2VPN manager. For non-managed CEs, however, you need to add them
to the L2VPN Manager manually.
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VPN Resources—The L2VPN Manager allows you to add VPNs manually or use the automatic
discovery function to construct VPNs automatically. VPN resources include VPN list and VC
list. On the VPN list page, you can add, delete, and audit a VPN, and view the detailed
information, audit information, and topology information of a VPN. On the AC list page, you
can query and delete ACs, and view the detailed information of a VC.
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VPN Deployment—VPN Deployment includes VPLS deployment, VLL deployment, PBB
deployment, undeployment, and deployment task management. You can deploy configuration
one by one or in a batch. The L2VPN Manager provides a simple, visual deployment operation
guide, which can release you from remembering bald command lines and reduce your
workload tremendously. After the deployment, you can view the deployment details (by clicking
the Details icon) to see the configuration commands deployed to the devices.
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Automatic Discovery—The L2VPN Manager can find the newly configured VPNs and AC links
on devices through the automatic discovery function and then add them to the L2VPN Manager
for management. The L2VPN Manager can discover the entire VPN network. No manual
interference is needed during automatic discovery.
VPN devices
VPN devices include PEs and CEs. A PE is a service provider edge device, which is the core of
VPN service processing in a network. A CE is an edge device of a VPN site network, representing
a customer subnet.
A device can be managed by the L2VPN Manager only after the device is added to the platform.
That is, the related device should be managed by the platform before it can be added to the L2VPN
Manager as a PE or CE resource. Each device can be imported as only one type of VPN device
at a time. VPN resources allows for such operations as querying, adding, deleting, and editing
managed devices.
Due to the deployment variety of CEs, some CEs cannot be managed. You can create non-managed
CEs in the L2VPN Manager to substitute the real CEs. A non-managed CE also represents a customer
site. Non-managed CEs help to represent the connectivity between PEs and actual customer sites
in the network topology.
PE devices
PEs are the most important device resources in the L2VPN Manager. The system discovers VPNs
and VPN links by obtaining information on PEs. VPLS VPN network deployment is also performed
on PEs.
You can import, query, synchronize, and delete PEs, and view detailed information about a PE.
The information displayed on a PE details page varies with the VPN type you selected during VPN
deployment. For example, if you have deployed a VLL VPN, the PE details page displays VLL
information.
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