A FOX61x NE allows up to 16 simultaneous management sessions. One session is always reserved for the session manager, the other 15 sessions can be used by other user classes in any distribution, but only one session of class “Session Manager” is allowed at a time. More than one simultaneous session of class “Manager” is thus accepted. It lies in the responsibility of the connected users to avoid configuration conflicts.

However the acceptance of multiple manager sessions is essential in order not to block service provisioning by FOXMAN-UN, i.e. FOXMAN-UN must be allowed to start a manager session to any NE at any time. The session manager has the authority to terminate all active sessions except his own.