A single FCS183-AEMS acts as the proxy agent for up to 9 Ventura line cards, 2 power supplies and the fan assembly are placed in the VS103 chassis.
The Ventura AEMS shelf element manager, FCS183-AEMS, provides a comprehensive set of status, control and alarm variables through a Web interface. The FCS183-AEMS is a powerful Linux based embedded management system that also supports SNMP and XML. It also acts as an agent for card upgrades capable of storing multiple images for each card in the VS103 or VS101 platforms and supplying these images under operator control.