Verilink SCM (880-503300-001) Product Manual - Manual (Page 12)

SCM Overview
1-2 Verilink SCM
Network Node
Management
A major feature of the SCM is that a local SCM Craft interface
session can access up to 30 other nodes in an AS3000 network. You
can manage elements in those nodes as if each were in your local
node, through sessions that the Craft interface establishes to SCM
modules in the network. These sessions communicate via inband
management channels connecting a network of AS3000 nodes.
Inband management channels can be configured to use a portion of
the network circuit overhead between nodes.
Features Summary
The SCM is purely a management module. No network service or
end-user application equipment can be connected to it. SCM tasks
and features include:
• Administrative functions
• Configuration of all application modules in a network of local
and remote AS3000 nodes
• Circuit management and bandwidth management—real-time
circuit building/routing support including drop-and-insert and
bypass
• Alarm management with up to four trap hosts
• Performance monitoring and management
• Diagnostics and troubleshooting
• Security management using four levels of password access
protection
Features Detail
Major features of the SCM include:
Automatic
Discovery and
Restoral
When initially plugged into its node, the SCM automatically
“discovers” the elements in the node. In restoral mode, a new
application module that replaces a previously-configured like
module in the same slot is automatically reconfigured by the SCM
from the SCM database. This restoral process also detects
backplane circuits that included the replaced or cleared module.
In restoral mode, an unconfigured module is downloaded with a
complete configuration from the SCM nodemaster database.