You should configure the D6 discovery protocol for each Logical Edge Device (LED). When the LED is set to active, the D6 discovery protocol establishes a connection with the ERM and sends out the below information to the ERM:

• Streaming Zone—The streaming zone within which the LED operates. You must configure a streaming zone.

• Component Name—The name of the LED for the ERM to associate the subsequent update messages. You must configure a component name.

• Vendor Specific String—Contains the vendor and mode names. When using PME encryption, the D6 vendor-string must be changed to something other than “Cisco”, for example, vendor-string “CBR8”. For PowerKEY encryption, the vendor-string is an optional configuration and the default value is “Cisco CBR8k”.

Edge inputs are configured under the LED or the Virtual Carrier Groups (VCG) associated to the LEDs. For each edge input, the following information is sent to the ERM:

• IP Address—As configured under LED or VCG associated to the LED.

• Port—As configured for each input port.

• Max Bandwidth—As configured under the input group of D6 configuration. The defaults value is 20 Gbps.

• Group name—As configured under the input group of D6 configuration. The default value is the LED name if the input port is configured under LED or the VCG name if the input port is configured under VCG

For every QAM (RF channel) configured under the LED through VCG, the following information is sent to the ERM:

• Route—Route state as Reachable, if a QAM is added, Withdrawn, if a QAM is removed.

• QAM Group Name—As configured for the VCG name.

• QAM Name—Streaming zone.tsid (for example, 1234.100). Streaming zone is configured under D6 and TSID is configured under VCG for every QAM.

• Total Bandwidth— Total bandwidth of the QAM.

• QAM Parameters:

  • Frequency—Center frequency of this carrier

  • Interleaver

  • Modulation Mode

  • TSID

  • Annex—A/B

  • Channel Width - 6 MHz/8 MHz

• UDP Map—This is sent only for the table-based session configurations. A table of the UDP port for each MPEG program number is sent out through this.

• Output Port—The configured VCG ID is sent out as the Output Port ID.

The configuration updates are sent to the ERM through different update messages. D6 also exchanges the keep alive messages periodically to retain the TCP connection with the ERM.

Before You Begin

To configure the D6 discovery protocol for table-based LEDs, complete the following procedure:

 configure terminal 
cable video 
logical-edge-device device name [id number] 
protocol  table-based 
no active 
discovery-protocol d6 
mgmt-ip ip address 
streaming-zone name 
component-name name 
d6-server ip address [port] 
d6-server fqdn domain-name [port] 
exit 
active 

To configure the D6 discovery protocol for GQI LEDs, complete the following procedure:

configure terminal 
cable video 
logical-edge-device device name [id number] 
protocol gqi 
no active 
discovery-protocol d6 
streaming-zone name 
component-name name 
d6-server ip address [port] 
d6-server fqdn domain-name [port] 
exit 
active 

The optional D6 discovery protocol configuration parameters are:

• Vendor string—Vendor specific string for the ERM to identify the vendor. Contains the vendor and the model name. The default value is "Cisco CBR8k"

• Timeout value—Time to wait for the connection in socket call. The default value is 10 seconds.

• Hold time value —This value decides the interval of the keepalive message exchange between the client and the server. The default value is 30 seconds.

• Input group—Each virtual edge input (VEI) IP address under the LED can be assigned an input group name and the maximum bandwidth that is used to send traffic to it. Also, each VCG associated to LED can have a group name and bandwidth. D6 protocol uses this name for all the VEI IP addresses under the VCG. This information is used in the D6 messages when advertising the edge inputs to the D6 server. If these parameters are not configured for the group name, then the LED name for VEI IP addresses under the LED or the VCG name for the VEI IP addresses under the VCG is used. For bandwidth, the default value is 20 Gbps.

Repeat this command for each VEI IP address and VCG under the LED.

Before You Begin

• Ensure that the VEI IP addresses are configured under the LED.

• Ensure that the VCGs are associated to the LED.

To configure the D6 discovery protocol optional parameters, complete the following procedure:

configure terminal 
cable video 
logical-edge-device device name [id number] 
protocol  table-based 
no active 
discovery-protocol d6 
vendor-string <string> 
timeout seconds 
holdtime seconds 
input-group vcg id <id> group-name <name>[ bandwidth <mbps>] 
input-group led vei-ip <ip> group-name <name>[ bandwidth <mbps>] 
exit 
active