Automatically configured communication links

provides an autoconfiguration program that automatically makes the “add source” calls to set up the communication links between (1) the MPLS servers, themselves, (2) the MPLS servers and the
IP Availability Manager
sources, and (3) (optional) between the
MPLS Monitoring Server
and
. All a user needs to do is to start the MPLS servers.
During the start up of the MPLS servers, the autoconfiguration program reads a file named mpls-tma.conf to set up the following topology and status connections:
  • Connections for topology transfer:
    • From
      IP Availability Manager
      to the
      MPLS Topology Server
    • From the
      MPLS Topology Server
      to the
      MPLS Monitoring Server
    • From the
      MPLS Topology Server
      to the
      MPLS Analysis Server
  • Connections for status flow:
    • From
      IP Availability Manager
      to the
      MPLS Monitoring Server
    • From the
      MPLS Monitoring Server
      to the
      MPLS Analysis Server
    • (Optional) From
      to the
      MPLS Monitoring Server
      The autoconfiguration program identifies the
      IP Availability Manager
      and
      sources by reading the mpls.conf file, described in
      “Description of mpls.conf” on page 30
      .