Search for	Example	Results
A single word	`cat`	Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats".
A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase.	`"cat food"` (quotation marks)	Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase.

Search for	Operator	Example
Two or more words in the same topic	`AND` `and` `+` (plus symbol) `&` (ampersand)	`cat AND dog` `"cat food"+milk` `"cat food"&"dog food"`
Either word in a topic	`OR` `or` `\|` (pipe)	`cat OR dog` `cat \| dog`
Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase	`NOT` `not` `!` (exclamation point)	`NOT cat` `! dog`
Topics that contain one string and do not contain another	`^` (caret)	`cat ^ mouse`
A combination of search types	`( )` parentheses	`cat + (dog \| mouse)` `cat \| dog + (! mouse)`

Network Node Manager i Software10.30

VRF Form

The VRF form provides details about the selected VRF, and VRF Lite participating to form an L3 VPN.

Use the VRF form for the following tasks:

Monitor the VRFs, MVRFs, or VRF Lites participating in the selected L3 VPN or MVPN. The MVRF and MVRF Status tabs appear in the VRF form only when multicast services are enabled in the selected VRF.
Check the PE Interfaces and CE interfaces tab to view the status and other attributes of the selected VRF.
Check the Incidents tab to view the cause of the change in the status.
Access an L3 VPN topology map view of the network.

Basic Attributes
Attribute	Description
Name	The name of a VRF or VRF Lite as configured on the PE router.
PE Node	The name of the router. The name can be hostname or IP address. The PE node is the Provider Edge router on the edge of the service provider's network that communicates with other provider devices and with customer devices. The selected VRF or MVRF is configured on the PE Node. PE node on VRF lite shows the VRF Lite router though it is named PE router. Click (the Lookup icon) to access the node details. For more information for the node, see NNMi Help.
Status	Overall status for the current VRF. Possible values are: No Status- The VRF is Not Managed. Normal - The operstatus of the VRF is Up, status is Normal. Unknown - The VRF is not reachable or not responding. Critical - The operstatus of the VRF is Down when the status of all the interfaces on the VRF is Down.
Management Mode	The NNM iSPI for MPLS supports management of VRFs. Possible values are: Managed – The selected VRF is managed. Not Managed – The selected VRF is not managed. To modify the Management Mode, select "Managed" or "Not Managed" respectively from the Management Mode list of the VRFform. Out of Service – A node is unavailable because it is out of service. NNMi does not update discovery information or monitor these nodes. This attribute is useful for notifying NNMi when a device is temporarily out of service. Out of Service is an NNMi supported mode. The NNM iSPI for MPLS does not allow users to store 'Out of Service' value from the Management Mode list. For more information, see the Help for NNMi; View the Management Mode for an Object in Your Network.
Management Type	Inheritance type for the selected VRF. An MPLS object inherits management mode of its container object. Management Type displays the type of container object from which the selected VRF has inherited the Management Mode. Possible values are: Node Inherited - The selected VRF inherits management mode from a node. VPN Inherited - The selected VRF inherits management mode from a node. Self - The selected VRF is Not Managed but it belongs to a Managed node, participating in a Managed VPN. You cannot change Management Type of an Not Managed VRF to Self if it is VPN Inherited. Regional Inherited- One of the VRF belonging to a VPN at Regional level is Not Managed. In addition, these VRFs are not affected by management changes made at the Global level. 'Regional Inherited' type is only applicable for a Global Manager. This is because a VRF Not Managed in a regional manager has a direct effect on the Global Manager. However, any VPN managed/not managed at Global level will not affect a VRF that is 'Regional Inherited' .
Description	The description value is obtained from the PE router during the discovery process.
RD	The numerical route distinguisher of the VRF. This value is stored on the PE router and is unique across the service provider's network. The unique value provides the accurate resolution of the overlapping IP address domains.
Multicast VRF	The selected VRF has permissions to transmit multicast data packets. The status of the flag is either true or false. This flag is only available for Cisco nodes. True is represented by .
VRF Lite Enabled	The selected VRF supports VRF Lite and Shadow routing. True is represented by .
IPv6 Enabled	The selected VRF supports IPv6. True is represented by
Hub VRF	The selected VRF is a Hub VRF. True is represented by
QA Probes	The selected VRF is configured to run tests from the iSPI Performance for Quality Assurance (QA). True is represented by
Configured Interfaces	The total number of interfaces configured on the selected VRF.
Discovered Interfaces	The number of interfaces on the selected VRF that are discovered by the NNM iSPI for MPLS. The rows on the PE Interfaces tab are same as the number of the discovered interfaces.
Create Time	The time when the VRFs was discovered.
Status Last Modified	The selected VRF is polled in the regular intervals and status change is recorded. Status Last Modified shows the date and time on which the status of the selected VRF was last set.
Mean Time Between Failure	Total time for which the selected VRF was last available divided by the total number of occurrences when the status of the VRF was down. For example, if the status of the selected VRF is Up at 10:00 AM and the status changes to Down at 10:20 AM. Again, the status of the VRF changes from Down to Up at 10:30 AM and is again Down at 10:40 AM. The status is changed from Down to UP at 10:50 AM. Therefore, the Time Between Failures is the total time when the selected VRF was available ( 50 minutes) by the total number of occurrences when the status was down (2) (MTBF = .50 minutes/ 2). When the iSPI Performance for Metrics is not installed, value is Not Computed.
Mean Time To Recovery	The time taken to restore the status of the selected VRF from Down to Up divided by the total number of occurrences when the status of the VRF was changed from Down to Up. When the iSPI Performance for Metrics is not installed, value is Not Computed.
L3 VPN	The selected VRF belongs to the specified L3 VPN. Access the L3 VPN form from (the Lookup icon).
VRF Peer	The VRF- VRF Lite relationship. When a PE VRF and a VRF Lite participating in the same VPN are discovered, they are termed as peers. For a VRF Lite object, when the VRF form is opened its corresponding PE VRF is shown as its peer. Similarly, when PE VRF is opened, the corresponding VRF Lite is shown as its peer. You can open a VRF peer by clicking on the VRF peer object. The VRF peer field remains blank if no VRF- VRF Lite relationship exists. You can open a VRF Peer by using (the Lookup icon). Look up shows a "Cannot perform operation" pop-up if you do not have access to the VRF peer.

Analysis Pane

For the VRF form, an Analysis Pane with VRF Summary and QA Probe Actions tab are displayed.

QA Probe Actions

You can setup a new probe or maintain (start or stop) a probe by using the Analysis Pane. From QA Probe Actions tab, you can also launch QA graphs.

Probe Setup
Probe Maintenance
Round Trip time
Ping Average RTT
Two Way Jitter
Percentage Packet Loss Two Way

You can click 'Click here' to launch each of these graphs.

For more information, see iSPI Performance for QA Online Help.

PE Interfaces Tab

The VRF form provides details about the selected VRF and VRF Lite.

The PE Interfaces tab provides details of the Provider Edge interfaces associated with the current VRF. Similarly, it provides details of the Provider Edge interfaces associated with the current VRF Lite. Use this table to determine the attributes of the interfaces as derived from NNMi. For more information, see NNMi Interface Form.

General Attributes
Attribute	Description
Status, IfName, IfAlias, IfType	The attributes listed in the PE interfaces tab are same as available in NNMi Interface form. For more information, see the Help for NNMi Interface Form.
Next hop IP	The IP address of the interface of the third-party service provider that is immediate next to the PE node.
Next hop AS	The name or AS number of the first service provider network encountered by the PE node.
PE-CE Protocol	The protocol followed for data transmission between the PE node and the CE node. If the PE interface has a corresponding VRF Lite peer, then PE-Vrf Lite router link is displayed here. This is because the VRF Lite router is also considered as a CE for that PE interface.

Values under Next hop IP, Next hop AS, and PE-CE Protocol will be visible only when the Inter-Provider VPN feature is on for the iSPI for MPLS. For more information, see Troubleshooting the iSPI for MPLS.

Analysis Pane

Information shown in the Analysis Pane of PE Interface tab is inherited from the Network Node Manager i-Software (NNMi). For more information, see About the Analysis Pane in NNMi Online Help.

CE Interfaces Tab

The VRF Form provides details about the selected VRF or VRF Lite. The Customer Edge (CE) Interface tab provides details of all the CE interfaces associated with the selected CE node in the current VRF or VRF Lite.

Basic Attributes
Attribute	Description
Status, IfName, IfAlias	The attributes listed in the CE Interface tab are same as available in NNMi Interface form. For more information, see the Help for NNMi Interface Form.
CE Node	The name of the CE node where the CE interface is configured.
Next hop IP	The IP address of the interface of the third-party service provider that is immediate next to the CE node.
AS Path	The associated path which connects the CE node with the PE node. AS Path is a comma separated string of AS Names or AS Numbers of the service providers encountered between the CE node and PE node.
PE IfName	The name of the associated PE interface.
PE Node	The name of the PE node where the PE interface is configured. PE node on VRF Lite shows the VRF Lite router though it is named PE router

Values under Next hop IP and As Path will be visible only when the Inter-Provider VPN feature is on for iSPI for MPLS VPN. For more information, see Troubleshooting the iSPI for MPLS.

Analysis Pane

Information shown in the Analysis Pane of CE Interfaces tab is inherited from the Network Node Manager i-Software (NNMi). For more information, see About the Analysis Pane in NNMi Online Help.

Neighbor VRFs Tab

The VRF form provides details about the selected VRF.

The Neighbor VRF tab lists the VRF neighbors of the selected VRF. A VRF neighbor is a VRF configured on a remote PE router that exports at least one route target imported by the selected VRF. If an RT belongs to more than one VRF, then all the VRFs are grouped by the named L3 VPN.

Basic Attributes
Attributes	Description
Neighbor VRFs	Table view of the neighbor VRFs associated with the current VPN. Use this table to determine all neighbor VRFs. The attributes listed in the tab are same as available in VRF form. For more information, see VRF Form.

Analysis Pane

Information shown in the Analysis Pane of Neighbor VRFs tab is same as available in the VRF form. For more information, see VRF form.

Route Targets Tab

The VRF Form provides details about the selected VRF. The Route Targets (RT) tab provides details about the attributes of the RTs participating in the VRF.

Each VRF includes a list of import and export route targets that identify the VRFs grouping to form an MPLS L3 VPN on the network. The NNM iSPI for MPLS reads the route targets from the import (routing information received from the target VPN) and export (routing information sent to the target VPN) list. This list helps to identify the VRF neighbors. These relationships determine the routes through the network. Configure the RTs to group the VRFs to form an MPLS L3 VPN from the MPLS Configuration workspace. The following options are available from the MPLS Configuration workspace:

Add a new RT
Edit the existing RT
Delete the RT

Whenever you update the list of RTs, the NNM iSPI for MPLS discovers the route targets and forms the new L3 VPNs to keep your topology up-to-date. For more information, see Configuring the NNM iSPI for MPLS.

Basic Attributes
Attribute	Description
Route Target	The list of RTs (imported and exported) for the selected VRF. Example, 100:20, 100:10
Imported	The selected RT that is imported for the selected VRF. True is represented by .
Exported	The selected RT that is exported for the selected VRF. True is represented by .
Excluded	The selected RT that is ignored for the selected VRF.

Analysis Pane

Analysis Pane is not implemented for the Route Targets tab.

QA Probes Tab

The VRF form provides details about the selected VRF. The QA Probes tab provides details of the tests configured for the selected VRF. VRF-enabled QA Probes listed in this tab are only for the VRFs that participate in the iSPI for MPLS network. For more information, see NNMiSPI Performance for QA.

The QA Probes tab will not be displayed if the NNM iSPI for MPLS is not integrated with the NNM iSPI Performance for QA.

General Attributes
Attribute	Description
Status	Status of the VRF. Possible values are: No Status Normal Disabled Unknown Warning Minor Major Critical
Test Name	Name of the selected probe.
Service Type	The type of the discovered QA probe. The NNM iSPI for MPLS recognizes the following QA probe types: UDP Echo ICMP Echo UDP TCP Connect Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
Source	Name of the source VRF.
Destination	Name of the destination VRF.
RTT (ms)	The round-trip time used by QA probe for the selected VRF.
Packet Loss	The delay variance for a data packet to reach the destination node.
Jitter	The percentage of packets that failed to arrive at the destination node.
Polled Time	Last recorded time when a QA probe was polled.
Category	Type of probe selected. Possible values are: PE-PE (VRF-VRF, where both the VRFs belong to the same VPN) CE-CE PE-CE CE-PE CE-Unknown

Analysis Pane

For the QA Probes Tab, the Analysis Pane shows information about Quality Analysis (QA) probes. You can maintain (start or stop) a probe by using the Analysis Pane. In addition, you can launch QA graphs by using QA Probe Actions tab. Following are the QA graphs that can be launched from iSPI for MPLS:

Probe Setup
Probe Maintenance
Round Trip time
Ping Average RTT
Two Way Jitter
Percentage Packet Loss Two Way

You can click 'Click here' to launch each of these graphs.

For more information, see iSPI Performance for QA Online Help.

MVRF Tab

The VRF form provides details about the selected MVRF. The Multicast VRF (MVRF) tab lists the details of the MVRFs and Data MDTs participating to form an MVPN.

MVRF Details
Attribute	Description
Default MDT, Data MDT Range, Data MDT Threshold, Multicast Tunnel IF, Status, Status Last Modified	The attributes listed are same as available in the MVRF tab. For more information about the attributes, see MVPN Form: MVRF Tab.
MVPN	The selected MVRF participates in the named MVPN.

Analysis Pane

Information shows in the Analysis Pane of MVRF is same as available in the VRF form. For more information, see VRF Form.

Upstream MDTs Tab

The VRF form provides details about the selected VRF and MVRF. The Upstream MDT tab lists the MDT flow details starting from the selected VRF. The selected VRF on the PE router is the source to send all the multicast flows.

MDT Attributes
Attribute	Description
MDT Attributes	The attributes listed in the VRF Form are same as available in MVPN form. For more information, see MVPN form: MDT Tab.

Analysis Pane

Analysis Pane is not implemented for the Upstream MDTs tab.

Downstream MDTs Tab

The VRF form provides details about the selected MVRF. The Downstream MDT tab provides the MDT flow details received by the selected VRF. The selected VRF on the PE router receives all the multicast flows.

MDT Attributes
Attribute	Description
MDT Attributes	The attributes listed in the VRF Form are same as available in MVPN form. For more information, see MVPN form: MDT Tab.

The list of senders is displayed in the Analysis Pane. Click a sender from the table,to draw a path from the receiver to the selected router.

Analysis Pane

Analysis Pane is not implemented for Downstream MDTs tab.

You can use the Analysis pane to launch a reverse path from the receiver to a provider source. The following tabular information is displayed in Analysis Pane:

Provider Source- The IP address of the provider source.
Provider Group - The group IP address of the provider source.
Customer Source - The IP address of the source which receives the multicast flows.
Customer Group - The group IP address used to encapsulate the multicast flows of the customer.
Multicast Reverse Path View - URL to launch the Reverse Path View.

For more information, see Multicast Reverse Path View.

Status Tab

The VRF Form provides details about the selected VRF. You can use the Status tab to view the status summary the selected VRF.

Overall Status Table
Attribute	Description
Status	Overall status for the current VRF. Possible values are: No Status - The status of a VRF is 'No Status' when: The VRF is newly created and not polled. When a VRF is not mapped to any interface and hence, not polled. Normal - The operstatus of the VRF is Up. Unknown - The VRF is not reachable or not responding. Critical - The operstatus of the VRF is Down.
Last Modified	Date and time on which the status was last set.

Status History
Attribute	Description
Status History	List of last thirty status updates for the selected VRF. For more information, see NNMi Status tab.
Time Stamp	Time when the selected VRF was last modified.

Analysis Pane

Analysis Pane is not implemented for the Status tab.

MVRF Status Tab

The VRF form provides details about the selected VRF. The MVRF Status tab is useful for obtaining a quick summary of the selected MVRF status. The MVRF tab only appears if the selected VRF is configured with MVRF capabilities.

Overall Status Table
Attribute	Description
Status	Overall status of an MVRF. The status of the MVRF is derived from the status of the VRF which is polled at the regular intervals. In addition, the MVRF status is also calculated based on the status of Multicast Tunnel interface (MTI) and the status of the PIM neighbors. Possible values are: Normal - The status of the VRF is Normal and MTI is Up, status of the MVRF is Normal. Unknown - The status of the VRF is Unknown and MTI is Up, status of the MVRF is Unknown. Critical - The status of the VRF is Unknown, the status of MTI is Down, or both, status of the MVRF is Critical.
Last Modified	Date and time on which the status was last set.

Status History
Attribute	Description
Status History	List of last thirty status updates for the selected MVRF. For more information, see NNMi Status tab.

Analysis Pane

Analysis Pane is not implemented for the MVRF Status tab.

Conclusions Tab

The VRF form provides details about the selected VRF. The Conclusions tab shows the results of the overall derived status. You can view a quick summary of the status and problem description for the selected VRF.

Conclusions Table
Attributes	Description
Status	The status of the selected VRF is dependent on the status of the interface on the selected VRF. For more information, see VRF Form: Status tab.
Time Stamp	The Time Stamp data is the time when the status of the VRF is last set.
Conclusion	The conclusion is set by the Causal Engine after the status calculation. Possible conclusions are: MplsVRFDown MplsVRFUp MplsVRFUnknown Example: The conclusion MplsVRFDown sends an MplsVRFDown incident.

Analysis Pane

Analysis Pane is not implemented for the Conclusions tab.

Incidents Tab

The VRF form provides details about the selected VRF. The Incidents tab provides details about the problem description for the selected VRF.

Incidents Table
Attribute	Description
Incidents Attributes	The attributes listed in the incidents tab are same as available in NNMi Incidents form. For more information for the attributes, see the Help for NNMi Incidents Form.

Analysis Pane

Information shown in the Analysis Pane of Incidents tab is inherited from the Network Node Manager i-Software (NNMi). For more information, see About the Analysis Pane in NNMi Online Help.

Custom Attributes

The VRF form provides details about the selected VRF. Custom Attributes tab displays the set of name-value pairs of custom attributes associated with VRFs. You can set Custom Attributes using the webservice calls.

Custom Attributes
Attribute	Description
Name Attributes	Name of the Custom Attribute defined in the web services.
Value	Value assigned to the Custom Attribute in the web services.

Analysis Pane

Analysis Pane is not implemented for the Custom Attributes tab.

Registration Tab

The VRF form provides details about the selected VRF. Registration tab shows details about when a selected VRF was created and when the status was last modified.

Registration Table
Attribute	Description
Create Time	Date and time on which the selected VRF was created.
Status Last Modified	Status Last Modified shows the date and time on which the status of the selected VRF was last modified.

Analysis Pane

Analysis Pane is not implemented for the Registration tab.

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