TMA for HP OpenView
- HP OpenView® module
for the management of Telindus equipment
- Multiple management transport
protocols
- User-selectable alarm levels
- Interactive pictures
Telecommunication networks evolve
from year to year, and increasingly people rely on these networks
for conducting their business. As a result, performance and reliability
of these infrastructures have become an essential requirement in
today’s world.
TMA (Telindus Management
Application) for HP OpenView meets all these requirements by providing
a powerful management tool for Telindus access equipment. TMA
for HP OpenView supports permanent performance monitoring of
each network element (alarms, status and statistics), network element
configuration, and operator initiated actions (such as testing).
All alarms on each
individual network element are immediately logged in the HP OpenView®
event-log, and the HP OpenView® icon on the map reflects
the resulting status. For this purpose, TMA for HP OpenView
fully supports the HP OpenView® alarm levels (warning,
minor, major, critical). The operator can configure these alarm
levels for each individual alarm condition. The status of all network
equipment is also easily visualised by an interactive picture (including
LED and push-button status), where colour-codes allow for a quick
identification of the cause of potential network trouble.
A user-friendly menu
enables the configuration of any individual network element. When
activating configuration consistency, the management keeps the network
element configurations completely consistent with centrally stored
configuration profiles, even when a network element is replaced.
Similarly code consistency allows keeping Flash code consistent
with centrally stored firmware versions.
Integration with the HP OpenView®
Event-Log
All Telindus equipment
supports a private SNMP MIB. It is ideal for performance monitoring
based on the polling of different parameters (e.g. noise level,
line attenuation). The HP OpenView® platform provides
the ability for representation of these polling results in graphical
format. TMA for HP OpenView integrates seamlessly with third-party
management modules, making it possible to integrate the management
of Telindus modem and third-party router equipment, for example,
on the same platform.
TMA for HP OpenView
uses TCP/IP connectivity to address the Telindus equipment. Each
network element may or may not be identified by an IP address. Some
units (such as the Crocus inverse multiplexer) have a direct Ethernet
port, whilst other units (such as the Aster and Crocus modem ranges)
are connected to a controller device (Orchid 1003 LAN) which acts
as an TCP/IP proxy. Only centrally installed modem equipment is
connected to the Orchid 1003 LAN. An out-band auxiliary channel
on the modem-link is used to give management access to remote equipment.
Also more complex configurations such as management on extended
links are possible.
In the case of management
through an Orchid 1003 LAN, this controller can encapsulate the
IP management traffic directly into X.25 SVC’s, Frame Relay
PVC’s or PPP. This allows the transport of the management information
over a packet switched backbone, without the need for an overlay
network.
TCP/IP connectivity of management
traffic
TMA for HP OpenView auto-discovers
very quickly all network elements defined on the Orchid 1003 LAN.
On the map, the network elements get always their name as it has
been assigned on the Orchid 1003 LAN.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Minimal system requirements
Sun Solaris 2.5, 2.6
HP OpenView®
Network Node Manager 5.X, 6.X
HP-UX 10.20, 11.0
HP OpenView®
Network Node Manager 5.X, 6.X
Windows NT 4.X
HP OpenView®
Network Node Manager 5.X, 6.X
Alarm notification
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SNMP
or proprietary |
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|
5 (normal,
warning, minor, major, critical) |
Management interconnectivity
- TCP/IP (direct 10Base-T connection)
- X.25 SVC RFC 1356(1)
- PPP RFCs 1332,1661,1994(1)
- Frame-Relay PVC RFC 1490(1)
(1)With Orchid 1003
LAN
Features
- Individual network element configuration
- Configuration and Code consistency
of managed devices
- Interactive picture of every network
element
- Alarm notification with user-selectable
severity
- Alarm filtering on different levels
- Coupling of alarms to the HP OpenView®
map
- Private MIB for continuous performance
monitoring
Sales Codes
Sun Solaris operating system
Internet
Access