Highlights of the Converged Services Administrator

The Converged Services Administrator (CSA) is the graphical user interface that accompanies SwitchKit (see SwitchKit Features and Components). The CSA helps you with the administration and configuration of your Converged Services Platform (CSP). The CSA was introduced with SwitchKit Release 8.0 CI to replace the SwitchSight Administrator (SSA) which is a monitoring tool, not a configuration, maintenance and provisioning tool.

Features

The CSA is a real-time node configuration, maintenance, and administration application. It also lets you monitor the current state of your system in real-time. The states of all the connected nodes, components, and alarms are graphically displayed, enabling you to see activities on the system as they occur.

You can apply changes to the connected nodes with simple point-and-click operations. Through the CSA, system developers avoid low level, code-intensive channel and trunk group assignments and maintenance. Instead you can create and maintain trunk groups through the interface. You can trace and view channel status in real-time. You can take channels and trunk groups in and out of service without down time. You can examine detailed alarms and statistics without decoding log files.

This user guide describes the CSA interface and procedures that can be performed and includes screen shots of the application’s many dialog boxes that graphically show tasks that can be completed. In some cases, it may be necessary to consult the API developer’s guides for more information on the various options available in the fields shown in the dialog boxes. The CSA user’s guide explains the administrative steps you can perform using the CSA application. It contains all the information you need to get your CSA started. It also outlines and demonstrates all the features provided.