Cisco ASR 5000 Series Installation And Administration Guide

External Storage System Overview
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Cisco ASR 5000 Series External Storage Server Installation and Administration Guide ▄
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System Requirements
The requirements described in this section must be met in order to ensure proper operation of the ESS system.
ASR 5000 System Requirements
The following configurations must be implemented, as described in Configuring Enhanced Charging Services chapter
of the Enhanced Charging Services Administration Guide:
 ECS must be configured for generating billing records.
 An administrator or config-administrator account that is enabled for FTP must be configured.
 SSH keys must be generated.
 The SFTP subsystem must be enabled.
ESS System Requirements
Important: System requirement recommendation is dependent of different parameters including xDR generation,
compression, deployment scenario, etc. Contact your sales representative for system requirements specific to your ESS
deployment.
Minimum System Recommendations for Stand-alone Deployment of L-ESS
 OpenSSL must be installed
 Sun Microsystems Netra™ T5220 server
 1 x 1.2GHz 8 core UltraSPARC T2 processor with 8GB RAM
 2 x 146GB SAS hard drives
 Internal CDROM drive
 AC or DC power supplies depending on your application
 PCI-based video card or Keyboard-Video-Mouse (KVM) card (optional)
 Quad Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
Important: It is recommended that you have separate interfaces (in IPMP) for mediation
device and chassis. Also, for given IPMP, the two interfaces should be on different cards.
 Operating Environment:
 Sun Solaris 9 with Solaris Patch dated January 25, 2005
 Sun Solaris 10 with Solaris Patch number 137137-09 dated on or after July 16, 2007 to Nov 2008.
 PSMON (installed through ESS installation script)
 Perl 5.8.5 (installed through ESS installation script)

Cisco ASR 5000 Series Specifications

General

Brand	Cisco
Model	ASR 5000 Series
Category	Network Router
Language	English