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This chapter introduces the Cisco WAN Service Administrator (WSA), gives a brief overview, describes the entities managed by WSA, and explains how to start the WSA Explorer Client:
WSA is a highly featured service management application for WAN multiservice networks that streamlines the deployment process among different groups within an organization. The benefits include:
WSA protects the user from many of the complexities of network layer provisioning by giving the user a business level view of the network, relating network customer ownership to ports and connections.
WSA also supports implementation specific network labeling, administrative regions and service class labels through the use of connection parameter templates. This greatly eases the task of understanding a network.
Refer to Cisco WAN Service Administrator Installation and Control System Configuration for system requirements information.
WSA consists of the following four main elements:
WSA manages the following physical entities, refer to Chapter 3, "Manipulating WSA Physical Entities":
WSA manages the following logical entities, refer to Chapter 4, "Manipulating WSA Logical Entities":
WSA manages the following network entities, refer to Chapter 5, "Manipulating WSA Network Entities":
These entities relate to each other, as shown in Figure 1-1, "WSA Entity Relationships".
As demonstrated by Figure 1-1, "WSA Entity Relationships", Customer Ports are the central and hence most significant entity in WSA. They are the lowest level of logical entity and link the three entity types together---logical, physical, and network.
To launch the WSA Explorer Client, select WSA Explorer from the Cisco WSA 1.1 start menu, as shown in Figure 1-2, "Launching WSA Explorer".
When the login dialog appears, as shown in Figure 1-3, "Login Dialog", enter you user name and password as supplied to you by your local WSA administrator.
Posted: Fri Apr 23 14:11:22 PDT 1999
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