TL1 Manager is a full-fledged GUI application that can be used to query a TL1 device and get responses. It allows the user to view and operate on data available through a TL1 agent on a managed device thereby managing the device. Example: Telecom switch.
To start with the Manager, we can connect to any TL1 device and type any valid TL1 command in the input message field present in the right frame. Click send to send a TL1 message to the device and get responses. Responses can be seen in the response tab available in the right frame.
In order to enable a better view of the data available on the TL1 agent, a TL1 file is usually provided with the manager application. This TL1 file contains various request messages that can be used to query an agent.
5.1.1 Input Files
The TL1 Manager provides the capability to load and use multiple files having different set of input messages. The command code in the input message is the indication of what operation that has to be carried out on the agent side.
Two types of files can be loaded.
1. Text files consists of input messages in separate lines. They are displayed as a list. Any message from the list can be selected and send to the device.
2. tcs files ( TL1CommandSet ) consists of input messages in XML format loaded in to the tree structure. Only the syntax of the command code is taken from the tcs file. The values of other fields in the input message are taken from the data file. The default file is TL1DataSet.dat.
5.2 Overview of TL1 Manager GUI:
TL1Manager contains two GUI parts, one called TL1Agents View GUI shows about agents which are all currently running and another called TL1Manager GUI shows about sending and receiving responses from TL1Agent.
The TL1Agents View GUI contains text field through which manager can log in for authentication. It shows the Agents which are all running and their respective IP address.
TL1Agents View GUI is shown below:
The primary window of the TL1Manager is made up of two frames. The left frame contains the TL1 Tree and the List. The TL1 Tree is used to load the TL1 Input Messages in XML format and the List is used to load the TL1 Input Messages in the text format.
The right frame contains details about the selected TL1 Input Message and text area to display the response received from the agent.
TL1Manager view when text file is loaded into a tree is shown below:
