Configuring the IOM and Card Slot

The 7705 SAR card slot ID is always 1 and the card type for the IOM is always iom-sar.

On the 7705 SAR-8 Shelf V2 and 7705 SAR-18, the CSM, which can only be installed in slot A or B of the chassis, does not need to be provisioned. However, the IOM, which is virtualized in the 7705 SAR software, must be activated before the adapter cards, ports, and SCADA bridges can be preprovisioned and configured. The IOM is activated by designating it a card slot ID and card type. This enables the chassis slots to accept the adapter cards.

Note: On the 7705 SAR-8 Shelf V2, the CSM is called the CSMv2; both terms are used interchangeably in these guides. The CSMv2 supports bandwidth of 10 Gb/s, 2.5 Gb/s and 1 Gb/s in the first two adapter card slots and 2.5 Gb/s and 1 Gb/s in the remaining four adapter card slots.

The 7705 SAR-M, 7705 SAR-H, 7705 SAR-Hc, 7705 SAR-A, 7705 SAR-Ax, 7705 SAR-Wx, and 7705 SAR-X have a fixed physical configuration and each router uses only one control and switching functional block, which is referred to on the CLI as CSM A. The CSM and IOM do not need to be provisioned in order to provision the interface at the adapter card level.

The slot ID (1) is used as part of the adapter card and port identifier on the CLI.