Nortel INM 4.1 Instruction Manual

Release Notes
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Integrated Network Management Products
INM Broadband Release 4.1
Release Notes For Release 4.1
Document release: Issue 1.0
Date: November 1998

INM Release 4.1 Release Notes Issue 1.0
Integrated Network Management Products
INM Broadband Release 4.1
Release Notes For Release 4.1
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Document status: Issue 1.0
Date: November 1998

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Publication history
November 1998
1.0 (Caroline Samson)
- Official release for INM 4.1 GA.

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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
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 document are entitled Release Notes for
INM 4.1 GUI and Release Notes for INM 4.1 Building Blocks, and are divided
into several subsections corresponding to the actual new features introduced in
INM Broadband Release 4.1.
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
lockout commands 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.
• 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) provide the same DCP provisioning and editing capabilities
through the open, standards based CI using the CORBA Interface
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•PM Threshold Provisioning GUI and Contract Interface 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.Thesupportforthenew EIM card is providedonly
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 of the Dialog itself as well as 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.
• Resource Management Contract Interfaces provide the equivalent support
and functionality existing in the INA Transport Release 2.0 by replacing
the Configuration INA DPE Contract Interfaces with the CORBA Contract
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.
•Express CX GUI Support of Fault Management, Performance Monitoring,
Remote Inventory, Electronic Software Delivery, Remote Login, Shelf
Level Graphics and Connection Management. The support for the Express
CXNetworkElementisprovidedthroughthe OC-3 Express MOA Release
3.1.