Setting Up SAE Communities
You can configure the following for SAE communities:
- Define the members of an SAE community by adding the IP addresses of SAEs in the community to the virtual router object of the network device in the directory.
See Creating a Virtual Router for the CMTS Device with SDX Admin.
See Configuring the SAE Community Manager.
See Configuring the SAE to Manage PCMM Devices with SDX Configuration Editor.
Configuring the SAE Community Manager
You can configure the properties for an SAE community manager in the Ext. Interface tab of SDX Configuration Editor.
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Keepalive Interval [s]
- Interval between keepalive messages sent from the active SAE to the passive members of the community.
- Value—Number of seconds in the range 0-2147483647
- Default—30
- Property name—SAEFeature.PCMMCommunityManager.heartbeat
Number of Threads
- Number of threads that are allocated to manage the community.
- Value—Integer in the range 0-2147483647
- Guidelines—You generally do not need to change this property.
- Default—5
- Property name—SAEFeature.PCMMCommunityManager.num_threads
Acquire Timeout
- Amount of time an SAE waits for a remote member of the community when it is acquiring a distributed lock. To avoid race conditions when the SAE community is determining which SAE is the active SAE, the community manager has a distributed lock. When an SAE attempts to become the active SAE, it needs to acquire the distributed lock.
- Value—Number of seconds in the range 0-2147483647
- Guidelines—You generally do not need to change this property.
- Default—15
- Property name—SAEFeature.PCMMCommunityManager.acquire_timeout
Blackout Time