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Cisco IP Solution Center, 3.0: MPLS VPN Management User Guide, 3.0
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Chapter 1 About Cisco IP Solution Center
Security Requirements for MPLS VPNs
• Layer 2 VPN Service
• MPLS VPN Service
• Inventory
• IPsec VPN Service
• FireWall Service
• NAT Service
• SLA
• Deployment Flow Engine
• Discovery
• Workflow
NBI Benefits
The benefits of the north-bound interface are as follows:
• Supports ISC services and inventory
• XML-based management interface
• Web-based
• Human-readable encoding
• Initial transport support is HTTP/SOAP
• API based on domain manager convergence API
API Approach
The API approach is as follows:
• Standards based encoding of management operations and payload.
• Layered approach combines need for rigor with flexibility (HTTP, SOAP, CIM Operations, Data
Model).
• Leverages XML technology and adds a management framework.
• Allows for polling-based management, event-based management, and synchronous, as well as
asynchronous services.
• Facilities for reliability: event numbering, tagging of requests.
• Facilities for security/RBAC.
• Standardized error semantics.
• Transport protocol agnostic.
Distributed Load Balancing
The major aspects of distributed load balancing in ISC are as follows:
• The Master server (which can be considered to be identical to the ISC Solaris workstation)
distributes jobs to processing servers via a sophisticated load-balancing algorithm.