Nortel INM 3.1 Instruction Manual

Release Notes
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Integrated Network Management Products
INM Broadband
Release Notes For Release 3.1
Document release: issue 1.0
Date: November 1997

INM Release 3.1 Release Notes Issue 1.0
Integrated Network Management Products
INM Broadband
Release Notes For Release 3.1
1997 Northern Telecom
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Document status: Issue 1.0
Date: November 1997

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Publication history
November 20, 1997
1.0 (Jacques Kuftedjian)
- Official Release for RTM.
November 20, 1997
0.2 Draft (Jacques Kuftedjian)
- Release for review only.
October 10, 1997
0.1 Draft (Jacques Kuftedjian)
- Initial release for review only.

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Table of Contents
About this document 7
Structure of the document 7
Audience 7
Summary of Features 9
Release Notes 13
1. Installation 13
Upgrades 13
New Installs 13
2. Federated Networks 13
3. Problem Analyzer 14
4. Partitioned Access 14
5. Alarm History 15
6. Improved On-Line Help 15
7. Bridging 15
8. MOAs 15
9. Fault Management 16
10. Connection Management 16
11. Remote Inventory and Shelf Level Graphics 16
List of Terms 19
Appendix 1:
Technical support and information 21

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About this document
This document describes the INM Broadband Release 3.1 release notes 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 operational
considerations for each of the features introduced in this release. The main
section of the document is entitled Release Notes which is divided into several
subsections corresponding to the actual new features introduced in INM
Broadband Release 3.1.
Audience This Release Notes document has been specifically prepared for the following
audience:
• INM Broadband Software Administrators
• INM Broadband Users

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Summary of Features
The new features offered by the Integrated Network Management Broadband
Release 3.1 applications are summarized below.
•Federated Networks support which provides the ability to manage a
network of up to 5500 network elements and 750 controller (OPC/MOA)
pairs in a scalable environment by distributing the resources and data
required for the network across a number of communicating INM
workstations.
—GlobalAlarmAcknowledgementinascalableenvironmentprovidesan
unconditional propagation of alarm acknowledgement to all INM
workstations managing OPCs and MOAs that support alarm
surveillancefunctionality.Peer-to-peerworkstationcommunicationsis
used in the INM federation to perform global alarm acknowledgement.
•PartitionedAccesssupport which allows thegraphical view of the network
to be divided into several sub-views which may contain any or all of the
network elements in the network, and which can be configured to permit
some or all management functions to be enabled for the user.
• Problem Analyzer (PA) performs Intelligent Alarm Filtering (IAF) which
provides the correlation of alarms into direct detect and related alarm
events into a single Network Problem Report. The PA provides additional
information to the user by showing the alarm correlation, viewing
problems not alarms, giving probable cause, providing a NTP reference to
fix the problem, and performing preventive analysis. This feature is
optional and is delivered on a separate CD-ROM/DAT Tape.
•Alarm History and Enhanced Audit Trail for S/DMS OC-3/12/48, and
S/DMS OC-192. The Alarm History Retrieval option provides the ability
to retrieve historical alarm information for the network element from the
graphical user interface of INM Release 3.1. The Enhanced Audit Trail
(EAT) provides the capability to record the alarm information of raised,
acknowledged and cleared alarms.
•Facility Parameter Provisioning which extends the Tributary Facility
State Provisioning feature on the previous S/DMS Network Manager
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to electrical facilities (DS1, DS3, STS1). The user will be capable of
provisioning the parameters supported by each type of facility.
•OC-192 Performance Monitoring, Inventory, and Fault Management. In
this Release, a new PM category, Intermediate Path will be added to the
PM statistics display to enable a user to query STS path PMs for OC-192.
Inventory queries to OC-192 NEs are also supported for all new cards
which occupy existing shelves and for the new extension shelves.
•AccessNode Express (ANX) Fault Management and Shelf Level View
support is provided. All severities of alarms (warning, minor, major,
critical)raisedagainstANXequipmentarereportedontheANXnodesand
are included in summary alarm counts for groups containing ANX nodes
as well as in the GNB alarm banner. The shelf level graphics feature
permits the user to view the layout of the shelf as well as the cards installed
in the shelf and view which circuit packs or equipment have alarms raised
against them.
•OC-3 Express Connection Management, Performance Monitoring and
Remote Inventory (including Shelf Level Graphics) support is provided in
INM 3.1. INM 3.1 supports a new nodal connection management for OC-3
Express NEs for functionalities such as Time Slot Assignment (TSA),
Time Slot Interchange (TSI), Hairpinning, Path switched connections and
Drop-and-Continue and Broadcast. Remote Inventory, Shelf Level
Graphics and Performance Monitoring are supported with functionalities
similar to that provided for other types of NEs.
•Improved on-line help which has evolved to a World Wide Web (WWW)
oriented method and which provides the capability to access the INM 3.1
documentation from within the graphical user inteface. Help information
is available in HTML format, to permit access with a WWW browser. The
browser used in this release is the International version of Netscape
Navigator 3.01, which is provided with the Integrated Network
Management Broadband Release 3.1.
•Printing support which enables the user to print lists or text areas within a
window. The user can also print the whole graphical window screen
containing the graphical information to a postscript printer or to save the
image in a postscript file in a user definable directory. The texts and lists
are saved in a text format, which can be viewed by a text editor or printed.
Printing can be done in color or black & white (grey scale), depending on
the printer’s capabilities.
•Generic workstation and X terminal engineering guidelines which
provides information about the engineering characteristics on unsupported
platforms (workstations as well as X-terminals) in order to be able to
properlyusethese unsupported platforms to gainthebest results from INM
3.1.
•Increased bridging control is introduced in this release in order to support
scalability. The user has more control over when bridging is performed on