Nortel Networks NTNM13XKAB User Manual

NTNM13XKAB

INM Products

Integrated Network Management

Network Wide Backup & Restore Planning Guide

Standard Rel 1.0 July 1999
Update issue: 2 July 1999

What’s inside...

Network Wide Backup & Restore Description
Network Wide Backup & Restore Compatibilities
Network Wide Backup & Restore Engineering Considerations
Network Wide Backup & Restore Requirements
TCP/IP Network Requirements

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Jul y 199 9

Oficial release, for GA load, of Network Wide Backup & Restore Planning
Guide, Rel 1.0, update 0.2.

June 1999

Oficial release of Network Wide Backup & Restore Planning Guide, Rel 1.0,
update 0.1.

May 1999

Draft release for internal revie w of Network W ide Backup & Restore Planning
Guide, Rel 1.0.

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Network Wide Backup & Restore Description 1-1

Graphical User Interface (GUI) 1-2

Controller List 1-2
Controller List Filtering/Sorting 1-3
Refreshing View 1-4
User Preferences Tab 1-5
Print & Export Tab 1-6
History Tab 1-7
Recurring/Custom Storage Location 1-7
Details Window Description 1-8
Controllers Tab 1-8
Restore Tab 1-11
Restore Action 1-11
Recurring/Custom Storage Location 1-11
Stored Backup Window Description 1-11
Details Window description 1-12
Recurring Backup Tab 1-12
One Time Backup Tab 1-14

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Network Wide Backup & Restore Compatibilities 2-1

GUI compatibilities 2-1

Network Wide Backup & Restore Engineering Considerations 3-1

Network Wide Backup & Restore Engineering Rules 3-1
Engineering Capacities 3-1
Disk Space Requirements 3-1
Estimated Time to Backup an OPC 3-2
Estimated Time to Backup an NP 3-2
Additional Capacities 3-2

Network Wide Backup & Restore Requirements 4-1

Hardware Requirements 4-1
Operating System Requirements 4-1
First Time Installation 4-1

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TCP/IP Network Requirements 5-1

Ethernet 5-1
TCP/IP 5-2
LAN requirements 5-2
X.25 5-2
WAN requirements 5-3
Summary 5-4

List of terms 6-1

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This document describes the Network Wide Backup & Restore supported by
INM. Network Wide Backup & Restore is a software application that allows
customer to manage network wide controller backups, which can be used to
aid in network restoration after catastrophic hardware failure.

This software application provides the ability to centralize and automate
backup of Network Element database and Subnetwork Controller
configuration data onto an INM server.

Audience for this docum ent

This planning guide is for the following audience:

• strategic and current planners

• provisioners

• transmission standards engineers

• network administrators

References

This document references the following Nortel Networks technical
publications (NTP) and other documentation:

• INM Planning Guide, PG OC 98-15

• INM Installation and Administration User Guide, 450-3101-201

• Network Wide Backup & Restore User Guide, 450-3101-031

Technical support and information

Nortel Networks maintains Integrated Network Management (INM) support
centers in North America and the United Kingdom (UK). Based on the
location from which your account is managed, refer to one of the following
sections.

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Customer accounts managed in North America

INM Customer Care provides technical support for INM customer accounts
managed in North America. The support provided consists of emergency and
regular technical support and an INM Product Services suite of additional
support services.

Use one of the following telephone numbers to reach INM Customer Care.

Emergency technical support

You can reach emergency technical support personnel outside of the regular
technical support hours through an automatic paging system.

Nortel Networks provides emergency technical support for INM customers
who have purchased an optional, value-added service package. The service
package provides technical support outside of regular hours for critical issues
for the period covered by the service package.

If you are in Canada or the US

Call toll free: 1-877-684-6622 (1-877-NTINMCC)

If you are not in Canada or the US

Call: 1 (country code) 613-765-7766

Note: Access to regular technical support for all issues defined in the
service package is also available for the period covered by the service
package.

Issues considered critical include:

• issues that are now having an effect on, or have the potential to
immediately have an effect on, services carried by the managed nodes

• issues causing the loss of network visibility or loss of fault management
functionality to one or more of the managed nodes

Regular technical support

Nortel Networks provides regular technical support for INM customers who
have purchased an optional, value-added service package. Call INM Customer
Care:

• Monday to Friday

• 08:00 to 20:00 hrs

• eastern standard time (EST) or eastern daylight time (EDT)

Use the regular technical support to report and receive help for issues co v ered
by the product warranty, as described in your purchase agreement with Nortel
Networks.

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You can be charged a standard rate for service requests that Nortel Networks
considers to be outside the scope or period covered by the product warranty.
Y ou can purchase extended warranty cov erage and additional support services.
These optional, value-added service packages are part of the INM Product
Services suite.

INM Product Services

A full suite of optional, value-added services and service packages is available
for purchase through the INM Product Services suite.

The services include:

• extended product warranty support

• advanced technical support

• installation planning and support

• on-site installation

• technical training

• software upgrades

• extended HP warranty

• network planning and integration consultation

• Network Management System Audits and Performance Reports

Contact your Nortel Networks representative for more information about the
INM Product Services suite.

Customer accounts managed in the United Kingdom

The Nortel Networks Service Desk provides technical support for INM
customer accounts managed in the UK. You can reach the Service Desk from
Monday to Friday between 08:30 and 17:00 (UK local time) using the
following FAX or telephone numbers:

If you are in the United Kingdom

Freephone: 0800 626 881

Telephone: [phone]

FAX: [phone]

If you are not in the United Kingdom

Telephone: [phone]

FAX: [phone]

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EMC conformance

This product/product family complies with the provisions of
the Low Voltage Directive 73/23/EEC, and with the essential
protection requirements of the EMC Directive 89/336/EEC as
amended by 92/31/EEC, when it is properly installed and
maintained and when it is used for the purposes for which it is
intended.

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Network Wide Backup & Restore
Description 1-

Network Wide Backup & R estore centralizes controller backup administration
and storage by allowing all backup related activities to be managed at the INM
platform.

The Network Wide Backup & Restore Release 1.0 features are listed below:

• Administration and Maintenance of all controller backups from 1 common
graphical user interface on the INM platform.

• A centralized disk oriented storage solution for maintaining backups that
is more reliable than remote tape archives. There is no longer a need to
travel to remote controllers to collect backup tape archives.

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• Ability to set the bandwidth consumption for the transfer of the remote
backup to INM on an individual controller basis (OPCs only).

• Ability to schedule both recurring and one time backups on an individual
controller basis.

• Ability to specify the storage disk used on an individual controller basis.

• Ability to maintain a specif ied number of backups before overwriting older
backups (FIFO - First In, First Out)

• Ability to “
stable, and a certain backup has been tested, the customer might not want
to have that backup overwritten by other scheduled backups. All other
backups for that controller would continue to run, b ut w ould not o v erwrite
this version. This would st ill allow for backups of some minor pro visioning
changes which might occur.

• Ability to support 2 levels of users: NOCADM for making schedule
changes and READ ONL Y for all others. Each installation of INM Backup
& Restore can concurrently support a maximum of 1 NOCADM UI.

• Ability to initiate a restore, which transfers archived files back to the
remote controller.

• Ability to support 150 controllers from each INM Backup & Restore
installation where a controller can be an OPC, NP, or an EC1 MOA.

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” a specified backup. If a controller’ s configuration is v ery

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• Ability to print summaries of controllers being managed in both a readable,
and comma separated value format.

Graphical User Interface (GUI)

The Network Wide Backup & Restore application is launched as a separate
process from the GNB’s Configuration menu.

Controller List

This window contains information that the Backup & Restore application
possesses about the controllers (refer to Figure 1-1). This controller list is used
as the source of information for many of the tabs (History, Controllers,
Restore, Recurring Backup, One Time Backup). The information that it
contains is listed in Table 1-1.

Table 1-1
Controller information

Column Description

Name contains the name of the particular controller
IP Address contains the IP address of the controller
Port contains the Port of the controller (if any)
State contains the state of the controller with respect to Backup & Restore
Ctrl Type indicates the type of the controller
Recurring Backup indicates the date and time of the next recurring backup (if any)
One-Time Backup indicates the date and time of the scheduled one-time backup (if any)

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Controller List window

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Controller List Filtering/Sorting

This feature allows users to customize the controller list according to the
options that are chosen.

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The list is filtered by selecting the checkboxes that appear at the top of the
controller list. The default is “ All”, b y de-selecting all and sele cting the desired
controllers, a list of controllers that fall into those contraints will be displayed.
For example, if OPC and NPC were selected, then the controller list will
display the controllers of type OPC and type NPC, complying to the
constraints. It is possible to f ilter the table a controller type that does not appear
as a checkbox, this is done through the “Other” checkbox and the selectable
drop down window that appears.

The list is sorted by clicking on the column heading that you wish to be sorted.
Sorting can be done in ascending or descending order. To sort in ascending
order merely click on the column heading in which you want to use as your
key , to sort in descending order click on the heading again. Sorting can be done
on any of the 7 columns found in the controller list window in the same
fashion.

Refreshing View

The view that is displayed is a static vie w, correct to the time that is displayed,
therefore to obtain a newer instance of the controller list and information you
must click on the “Refresh” button. This will import a new instance of the
controller list, correct to the date and time displayed on “Last Refresh” line.

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