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Nortel INM 4.1, INM Broadband 4.1 Release Note

Release Notes
Integrated Network Management Products
INM Broadband Release 4.1
Release Notes For Release 4.1
Document release: Issue 1.0 Date: November 1998
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Integrated Network Management Products
INM Broadband Release 4.1
Release Notes For Release 4.1
Document status: Issue 1.0 Date: November 1998
1998 Northern Telecom All rights reserved
Ethernet is a trademark of Xerox Corporation. HP is a trademark of Hewlett-Packard Co. NCD is a trademark of Network Computing Devices S/DMS AccessNode is a trademark of Northern Telecom. S/DMS TransportNode is a trademark of Northern Telecom. Tektronix is a trademark of Tektronix Corporation. UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. VT100 is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation of Maynard, Mass. X Window System is a trademark of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Publication history
November 1998
1.0 (Caroline Samson)
- Official release for INM 4.1 GA.
Table of Contents
About this document 7
Structure of the document 7 Audience 7
Summary of Features 9
Release Notes for INM 4.1 GUI 13
1. Installation 13
2. PM Threshold Provisioning 13
3. Protection Status and Control 14
4. Federated Networks 14
5. Partitioned Access 15
6. Configuration Management 15
7. AccessNode/AccessNode Express 16
8. Bridging 17
9. MOAs 17
10. Fault Management 18
11. Connection Management 18
12. OC-192 Release 5.0 WEB UI 20
13. Remote Inventory and Shelf Level Graphics 20
14. On Line Help 20
15. Trouble Ticketing 20
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Release Notes for INM 4.1 Building Blocks 21
1. Installation 21
2. Common issues to all Building Blocks. 21
3. AMGUI (Application Management GUI). 21
4. CORBA Gateway 22
5. SONET MOA 22
6. FMBB (Fault Management Building Block) 23
7. RMBB (Resource Management Building Block) 23
8. PMBB (Performance Management Building Block) 23
9. CMBB (Connection Management Building Block) 24
List of Terms 25
Appendix: Technical support and information 29
INM Customer Care: How to reach us 29
Critical Issues 29 Product Warranty 30
INM Product Services 30
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About this document
This document describes the INM Broadband Release 4.1 release notes (for the GUI and the Building Blocks) that the users should be aware of before using the software application.
The items that are listed in this document will be addressed in the upcoming releases of INM Broadband.
It is strongly recommended that users and administrators read all relevant User Guides prior to installing and using the product.
Structure of the document
This document is structured in a way to highlight the major considerations for each of the features introduced in this release (GUI as well as Building Blocks). The two main sections of the documentareentitled Release Notes for INM 4.1 GUI and Release Notes for INM 4.1 Building Blocks, and are divided into severalsubsectionscorrespondingtotheactualnewfeaturesintroducedin INM Broadband Release 4.1.
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Audience
This Release Notes document has been specifically prepared for the following audience:
INM 4.1 GUI section
• INM Broadband Software Administrators
• INM Broadband Users
INM 4.1 Building Blocks section
• INM Broadband CORBA Programmers
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Summary of Features
The new features offered by the Integrated Network Management Broadband Release 4.1 applications are summarized below.
• Protection Status and Control GUI and Contract Interfaces (CI) which provide GUI enhancements to support protection status display and protection control for linear systems (1:1, 1+1, 1:N), 2 fiber-ring systems (OC-12 and OC-48 BLSR), as well as OC-192 4-fiber rings. Protection control will provide the ability to issue high speed protection control and lockoutcommands from the Graphical Network Browser. This feature will also provide the open, standards-based Contract Interfaces using the CORBA Interface Definition Language (IDL) to perform high speed protection switch control on the topologies mentioned above.
• Linear and 1:N Traffic Display which provide GUI enhancements to support the traffic display for linear systems (1:1, 1+1, 1:N).
• OC48 Release 14 support (Connection Management Interface Enhancements) which provide enhancements to the Connection Management Building Block (CMBB) Contract Interface (CI) to support connection provisioning of concatenated STS-3c (Uni/Bi) and STS-12c (Uni/Bi) connections on OC-48 BLSR systems. Enhancements to termination inventory and information services are also provided in order to support OC-3 tributary cards on OC-48 Ring (BLSR) systems.
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• Drop and Continue on Protection (DCP) GUI and Contract Interface
provides support for the new DCP provisioning scheme to be used when provisioning uni-directional or bi-directional matched node connections on OC-12 TBM and OC-48 BLSR systems. Enhancements to the GUI support the selection of either the Drop and Continue on Working (DCW) or the DCP provisioning scheme for creating bi-directional or uni-directional matched node connections. As well, the editing of an existing uni-directional or bi-directional matched node connection from the DCW to the DCP scheme and vice versa is supported. Enhancements to the Connection Management Building Block (CMBB) Contract Interface (CI) providethe same DCP provisioning and editing capabilities through the open, standards based CI using the CORBA Interface Definition Language (IDL).
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• PM Threshold Provisioning GUI and ContractInterface provides the user the capability to get and set Performance Monitoring Threshold parameters from within the INM Broadband GUI and PMBB (Performance Management Building Block).
• OC3 Express Data Release 3.1 and 4.0 Contract Interfaces Support for Fault Management, Connection Management, Performance Monitoring, ResourceManagement.ThesupportforthenewEIMcardisprovided only through the INM Broadband GUI.
• OC192 Release 4 GUI and Contract Interfaces Support for Fault Management, Remote Inventory (including Shelf Level Graphics), Performance Monitoring and Connection Management (for 4 fiber BLSR systems).
• Facility Provisioning Contract Interface Enhancements which support additional attributes and additional facilities. This includes the support for optical facilities (OC3, OC12, OC48) and electrical facilities (DS1, DS3, STS1, STS3, STS12 and STS48 on OC3/OC12 TBM and OC48 Network Elements.
• GUI Enhancements will be provided to the Alarm Dialog which will be enhanced to permit resizing ofthe Dialog itselfas wellas different parts of it. In addition, new GUI technology will allow the rearranging, removing, restoring columns.
• Web User Interface for OC192 Support provides the user to login to the OC-192 Network Element (which supports the Web UI) and use the new Web Based NE User Interface that is being introduced in the TransportNode OC-192 Release 5.0.
• ResourceManagement Contract Interfaces provide the equivalent support and functionality existing in the INA Transport Release 2.0 by replacing the Configuration INADPE Contract Interfaces with the CORBAContract Interfaces (CI). The CORBA CIs will provide functionality for Network Element discovery/query, equipment inventory query, as well as Facility provisioning for OC3/OC12 TBM and OC48 systems.
• Integrated Fault Management provides integrated support for fault information across multi-domain, multi-vendor networks. The Fault Management Building Block (FMBB) provides open, standards based contract interfaces using CORBA IDL supporting alarm query and alarm notification functionality, as well as protection status and control.
• ExpressCX GUI Support of Fault Management,Performance Monitoring, Remote Inventory, Electronic Software Delivery, Remote Login, Shelf LevelGraphics and ConnectionManagement. Thesupport forthe Express CXNetwork Element is providedthrough the OC-3 Express MOARelease
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