Node Augmentation feature enables you to add a node between a set of nodes. If there are a set of circuits/services/tunnels between any two nodes, you can add another node without re-creating the circuits/services/tunnels that are already passing through the nodes.
The pre-requisites for node augmentation are as follows:
Rearrange and delete old trunks/packet trunks and disable auto-discovery/LLDP on the new node.
Provision the AUG mapping appropriately matching the adjacent configurations.
While augmenting, the ports on the node to add should not have any cross connects or VCG associations.
Perform the following steps to augment/insert a node:
Go to Topology menu and click Topology View option. Topology View window is displayed.
Click Network View (Nodes) tab and select the desired partition.
Select a TL between the nodes where the new node is desired to be augmented/inserted.
In case of aggregated link, double click the link between two nodes and then select the desired TL.
Go to Topology menu tab and click . The Augment Node / Node Insertion is displayed in a new browser window.
To select the node, do one of the following:
Select the Node check box and enter the IP address of the node to augment in the IP field.
Enter the node label in the IP field.
Click . All free ports on the node are listed.
Select two ports from the options and click Select pair. The first port is set as West port and the second as East port as shown in the following figure:
Click Augment Node.
NOTE: TJ5500 generates an alert message if the selected trunks do not have the same capacity.
. The Augment Node / Node Insertion is displayed in a new browser window.
. All free ports on the node are listed.