Technical Information
Functionality |
Additional Information |
| General | |
| FCAPS Management Principles based on TMN | ITU-T: M.3400 |
| NMS-DB | DTMF: Common Information Model (CIM) |
| Technology Independent Topology Model | ITU-T: G.809 |
| Alarm Model | ITU-T: M.3100 |
| Comprehensive APIs (e.g. for multi-vendor device integration) | |
| Backup/Restore of the EMS/NMS database and operator-defined configuration. | |
| Network Services | |
| L3 MPLS | |
| - Switched L3 MPLS | IETF: draft-ietf-mpls-arch-06 (NMS view, CLI configuration) |
| - LDP | IETF: RFC 5036 (CLI configuration) |
| L3 MPLS VPN | |
| - BGP 4 | IETF: RFC 1657 (CLI configuration) |
| - OSPF | IETF: RFC 4750 (CLI configuration) |
| - MPLS VPN | IETF: draft-ietf-ppvpn-mpls-vpn-mib-03 (NMS view, CLI configuration) |
Management-Layer |
Functionality |
| FCAPS Functionality | |
| Fault Management | Customizable trap/event processing (filtering, suppression, intelligent correlation and propagation) |
| Alarm synchronization (supporting ALARM-MIB and proprietary MIBs) | |
| Configuration Management | Configuration templates and provisioning scripts |
| Network-wide display and configuration of supported technologies (NMS level) | |
| Configuration via SNMP or Telnet | |
| CSV import and export of offline configuration data | |
| Accounting Management | In the sense of IETF: collection and aggregation of measured values with subsequent storage in the NMS-DB |
| Performance Management | Collection and evaluation of SLA relevant performance data (e.g. real-time view into which devices are overloaded, “ciiAttemptToExceedMaxSequence” in an LSP) |
| Distributed multi-tier architecture in the Polling Engine to provide more scalability and reliability | |
| Customizable aggregation policies | |
| Multi-level thresholding and hysteresis | |
| Export of performance data for postprocessing (CSV) | |
| Intuitive and graphical performance management reports | |
| Inventory Management, Auto-Discovery | Automatic discovery of network elements, their interfaces, their topology |
| Scheduled or manually triggered sychronisation of inventory-data and current alarms. | |
| Graphical topology representation: both the topology of a network element and the topology of a network structure such as a VLAN are stored and displayed | |
| Storage of complete device and component information (entity MIB based) across the network | |
| Can also be integrated with any third party inventory management system (NB Interface) | |
| Security Management | Users and passwords can be defined, if necessary; RADIUS can be used for this activity |
| Access control can be exercised by defining properties for groups and assigning users to these groups | |
| Fine grained and extensible authorization including support for users, groups/roles and operations | |
| Secure communication based on SSL and secure RMI | |
| Support for firewalls between server and clients | |
| Detailed audit logs detailing operations by user by device (User activity log) | |
| Management by Profiles | |
| Implementation of Network Scenarios | e.g. configuration of a VLAN or a L3 MPLS VPN |
| Standardized South Bound Interfaces | |
| SNMP V1, V2c, V3 TL1 Telnet/CLI XML-based interfaces (e.g. NETCONF) Corba |
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| Standardized North Bound Interfaces | |
| XML-based interfaes (e.g. SPML, SOAP, MTOSI) SNMP V1, V2c, V3 TL1 JMX |
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| Architecture | |
| N-tier architecture with server support for storing, scheduling, auditing etc. High availability solution (e.g. hot-standby with database replication) |
System Features
| Application servers | JBoss |
| Web servers | Tomcat |
| Choice of clients |
Java application client |
| Web Browsers | Internet Explorer 8 or higher Mozilla FireFox 3.5 or higher Other browsers on demand |
| Java Runtime Environments (JRE) | JRE 1.6 or higher (All Editions) |
| JDK | JDK 1.5 or higher (All Editions) |
| XML Parsers | Any JAXP 1.4 compliant parser |
| Language support | JDK 1.6 Internationalization API |
