optima user reference guide

OPTIMA User Reference Guide

Version 5.0.3

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Contents Chapter 1 Introduction

About This Manual .............................................................................................. 2 Obtaining User Assistance.................................................................................. 2

About the ENTERPRISE User Reference Guides ...................................................... 3 Using ENTERPRISE User Reference Guide PDFs .................................................... 4 Obtaining Further Information and Services................................................................ 4 Obtaining Support........................................................................................................ 5

Chapter 2 Installing OPTIMA About the Hardware and Software Requirements for OPTIMA........................... 7 Installing OPTIMA ............................................................................................... 8

Installing OPTIMA as Part of ENTERPRISE ............................................................... 8 Installing OPTIMA Lite ................................................................................................. 8 Updating Data.............................................................................................................. 8 About Maintenance and Security................................................................................. 8

Starting OPTIMA ................................................................................................. 9 Changing your OPTIMA Password ................................................................... 10

Chapter 3 About the OPTIMA User Interface About the Main OPTIMA Toolbar ...................................................................... 12

About the Favourites Toolbar .................................................................................... 13 About the OPTIMA Menus ................................................................................ 14 About the Counter Descriptions Window........................................................... 15 Using Clocks in OPTIMA................................................................................... 16

Offsetting the System Clock ...................................................................................... 17 About Performance Alarms ............................................................................... 17

About the Alarms Explorer......................................................................................... 18 About the Alarms Handler Explorer ........................................................................... 19

About the Data Explorer .................................................................................... 20 About the Filter Explorer ................................................................................... 20 Switching Between Open Windows .................................................................. 21 Defining User Preferences ................................................................................ 21

Setting the Filter Directory ......................................................................................... 21 Setting Confirmation Requests.................................................................................. 22 Setting Grid Preferences ........................................................................................... 22 Setting Expression Editor Preferences...................................................................... 22 Setting Security.......................................................................................................... 23

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Chapter 4 OPTIMA Administrator Tools About OPTIMA Security .................................................................................... 26

Example of Using Groups and Users to Configure Security ..................................... 26 Creating Groups ........................................................................................................ 28 Editing and Deleting Groups...................................................................................... 29 Using Groups to Assign Access ................................................................................ 30 Creating Users........................................................................................................... 31 About OPTIMA User Roles........................................................................................ 32 Editing and Deleting Users ........................................................................................ 32 Changing Passwords................................................................................................. 33

Using Contacts in OPTIMA ............................................................................... 33 Adding, Editing and Deleting Contacts in the Address Book .................................... 34 Adding a Contact Group to the Address Book .......................................................... 35 Editing and Deleting Contact Groups ........................................................................ 36

About KPIs ........................................................................................................ 37 Creating KPIs............................................................................................................. 37 Editing a KPI .............................................................................................................. 39 Deleting a KPI............................................................................................................ 39 Synchronising Tables ................................................................................................ 40 Recreating Views....................................................................................................... 42

Adding a Description to a Raw Counter ............................................................ 43 About Global Counters...................................................................................... 44 About Table and Field Information Settings ...................................................... 45

Setting All Table and Field Information Settings Using the Settings Wizard............. 46 Setting Table Security................................................................................................ 47 Setting the Granularity Period for a Single Table ...................................................... 48 Assigning a Category to a Table ............................................................................... 48 Defining an Association for a Table........................................................................... 49 Adding a Comment to a Table................................................................................... 50 Adding a Comment to a Column ............................................................................... 50 Finding a Counter in the Table and Field Info Dialog Box......................................... 50 Repopulating Data ..................................................................................................... 51

About Categories .............................................................................................. 51 Creating and Editing Categories................................................................................ 52

About Routes .................................................................................................... 53 Adding and Editing Routes ........................................................................................ 53

Downgrading Cells ............................................................................................ 54 Excluding Particular Days from Reports............................................................ 55

Editing and Deleting Holidays.................................................................................... 55 Setting the Busy Hour ....................................................................................... 56

Manually Setting the Busy Hour ................................................................................ 57 Configuring the Capture Settings .............................................................................. 58

Modifying Element IDs ...................................................................................... 59 Editing Element IDs ................................................................................................... 59 Using Wildcards in Element ID Search Strings ......................................................... 60

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Chapter 5 Setting Up and Querying Data Using the Data Explorer .................................................................................... 62

Finding a Counter ...................................................................................................... 63 Defining a Query........................................................................................................ 63

About OPTIMA Modules ................................................................................... 69 Creating Folders for OPTIMA Modules ..................................................................... 70 Viewing OPTIMA Modules......................................................................................... 71 Creating OPTIMA Modules........................................................................................ 72 Locking OPTIMA Modules......................................................................................... 74 Restricting Editing of OPTIMA Modules .................................................................... 74 Editing and Deleting OPTIMA Modules ..................................................................... 75 Opening an OPTIMA Module in a New Combination ................................................ 75 Copying OPTIMA Modules ........................................................................................ 76 Importing and Exporting OPTIMA Modules............................................................... 76

Chapter 6 Viewing Data in OPTIMA About Combination Windows in OPTIMA.......................................................... 79

Creating Folders for OPTIMA Combination Windows ............................................... 80 Viewing Pre-Defined Combination Windows............................................................. 82 Creating Combination Windows ................................................................................ 83 Displaying Element Data Across Modules................................................................. 84 Locking Combination Windows ................................................................................. 86 Restricting Editing of Combination Windows............................................................. 87 Copying Combination Windows................................................................................. 88 Importing and Exporting Combination Windows ....................................................... 89

Adding and Editing Favourites in OPTIMA........................................................ 91 Filtering Data in the Combination Window ........................................................ 92

Filtering Data by Selecting Network Elements .......................................................... 92 Setting a Date Range ................................................................................................ 93

Finding Elements in the Modules Pane............................................................. 94 Finding Elements Within One Module ....................................................................... 94 Finding Elements Across Modules ............................................................................ 94

Filtering Elements in the Modules Pane............................................................ 95 Choosing Where to Save Filters................................................................................ 95 Creating a Filter from a Selection .............................................................................. 96 Creating a Filter From the Grid Pane ........................................................................ 97 Selecting Elements Quickly ....................................................................................... 98 Applying a Filter ......................................................................................................... 98

Using the Filter Explorer.................................................................................... 99 Creating Filters in the Filter Explorer ....................................................................... 100 Editing Filters in the Filter Explorer.......................................................................... 101 Copying Filters in the Filter Explorer ....................................................................... 101

Chapter 7 Customising Grids in OPTIMA About the Tools for Customising a Grid .......................................................... 104 Customising Columns in a Grid....................................................................... 105

Sorting Data Within Grid Columns........................................................................... 105 Fixing Grid Columns ................................................................................................ 107 Scrolling to a Grid Column....................................................................................... 108 Changing the Grid Column Settings ........................................................................ 108

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Setting Thresholds and Conditional Fonts............................................................... 109 Refreshing Data....................................................................................................... 110 Saving and Resetting the Layout............................................................................. 111

Searching for Data in Grids............................................................................. 111 Filtering Data in Grids ..................................................................................... 112

Selecting a Single Value to Filter the Grid............................................................... 112 Filtering One Column of the Grid............................................................................. 113 Filtering More Than One Column In The Grid ......................................................... 114

Summarising Data........................................................................................... 115 Viewing Details of a Single Network Element in a Grid................................... 116 Printing Grids .................................................................................................. 118 Exporting OPTIMA Grids................................................................................. 118 Counting Records in OPTIMA Grids ............................................................... 119 Viewing SQL in Grids ...................................................................................... 119

Chapter 8 Using Graphs About the Tools for Customising a Graph ....................................................... 122 Changing the Appearance of Graphs.............................................................. 123

Using the General Tab in the OPTIMA Graph Options Dialog Box......................... 123 Changing the Appearance of Graph Axis ................................................................ 125 Changing the Thickness of Graph Lines ................................................................. 126 Using the Functions Tab in the OPTIMA Graph Options Dialog Box...................... 126 Changing the Thickness of Bars on Bar Graphs ..................................................... 127 Displaying Thresholds on Graphs ........................................................................... 127

About the Navigating Tools ............................................................................. 128 Zooming and Scrolling on OPTIMA Graphs ............................................................ 128 Rotating a Graph ..................................................................................................... 128 Viewing Values Using the Cursor Key..................................................................... 128

About the Appearance Tools........................................................................... 129 Viewing the Graph in 3D.......................................................................................... 129 Viewing Gaps in the Data ........................................................................................ 129 Displaying Data per Point on an OPTIMA Graph .................................................... 130 Viewing Weekends and Holidays ............................................................................ 130

Forecasting and Extending Trends on a Graph .............................................. 131 Printing and Exporting Graphs ........................................................................ 132 About the Series List ....................................................................................... 134

Ordering the List of Data for a Graph ...................................................................... 135 About the 3D Options in the Series List Menu ........................................................ 135 Changing the Colours of the Graph Lines and Functions ....................................... 135 Changing the Axis Where Data Appears................................................................. 136 Using the Series List Functions in Line Graphs ...................................................... 137

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Chapter 9 Using OPTIMA Work Areas About the Work Area Toolbar.......................................................................... 140 Creating a New Work Area ............................................................................. 140 Adding and Removing Combinations.............................................................. 141 Adding and Removing Web Browsers ............................................................ 142 Refreshing Data and Switching Tabs.............................................................. 143

Enabling Data Refreshing and Switching ................................................................ 143 Loading a Work Area ...................................................................................... 144

Chapter 10 Viewing Data on the Map Displaying Performance Data on the Map ...................................................... 146 Changing the Display of Performance Data.................................................... 147 Using the Clock to Display Performance Data ................................................ 149

Chapter 11 Generating and Scheduling Reports Download Learning ReportBuilder .................................................................. 152 About Using OPTIMA Reports ........................................................................ 152

Creating Folders for Reports ................................................................................... 153 Viewing Reports....................................................................................................... 154 Creating Reports Using Report Builder ................................................................... 155 Creating Excel Reports............................................................................................ 175 Locking Reports....................................................................................................... 179 Restricting Editing of Reports .................................................................................. 179 Editing and Deleting Reports................................................................................... 180 Copying Reports ...................................................................................................... 181 Printing Reports ....................................................................................................... 181 Importing and Exporting Report Definitions............................................................. 182 Exporting Reports .................................................................................................... 184

Scheduling When Reports Run....................................................................... 185 Creating Folders for Schedules ............................................................................... 185 Creating a Schedule for a Report ............................................................................ 186 Editing and Deleting Schedules............................................................................... 188 Copying Schedules.................................................................................................. 188 Viewing and Deleting the History of a Schedule ..................................................... 189

Chapter 12 Using Performance Alarms About Alarm Settings ...................................................................................... 192

Configuring Vendors................................................................................................ 192 Configuring Technologies........................................................................................ 193 Configuring Element Types ..................................................................................... 193

About Alarm Filters.......................................................................................... 194 Adding, Editing and Deleting Filters ........................................................................ 194

About Ripple Counts ....................................................................................... 196 Defining an Alarm............................................................................................ 197

Activating an Alarm.................................................................................................. 199 Editing and Deleting an Alarm ................................................................................. 199

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Assigning Alarms to Contacts ......................................................................... 200 Creating an Alarm Handler ...................................................................................... 200 Activating an Alarm Handler .................................................................................... 201 Enabling Contacts to Receive Alerts ....................................................................... 201

Viewing, Clearing and Resetting Alarms......................................................... 202 Viewing and Clearing Alarm Definitions .......................................................... 204 Viewing and Clearing Alarms History.............................................................. 205 Customising Alarm Information ....................................................................... 207

Sorting Alarm Information by Column...................................................................... 207

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Introduction OPTIMA is a network performance management and monitoring software that logs and stores network parameters, enabling you to gain a complete understanding of the current and past performance of your network.

You can use OPTIMA with ENTERPRISE or standalone, as OPTIMA Lite.

By accessing and analysing invaluable performance data, you can:

• Identify and respond quickly to change

• Accurately pinpoint extra capacity requirements

• Deploy network enhancements in a timely and cost effective manner

• Predict future trends in the network or at any part of the network

Some typical uses of OPTIMA for network operation and performance management are:

• Daily reporting of cell, site, BSC, MSC and transmission network performance

• Daily reporting of any cluster of cell sites or network elements covering particular cities, roads or other geographical regions

• Identification of performance anomalies across network regions

• Overall monitoring of alarms and equipment operational status

• Identification and strategic reporting of traffic hotspots and network locations generating high traffic and revenues

In This Section About This Manual Obtaining User Assistance

C H A P T E R 1

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About This Manual This manual describes how to use OPTIMA to view performance data and statistics. This table shows which Chapter contains what information:

Use This Chapter For 2 Administrator-only information about configuring OPTIMA and installing OPTIMA Lite.

3 Information on using the OPTIMA interface.

4 Administrator-only information about using Administrator tools.

5 - 11 User information about setting up and view data and using reports.

Obtaining User Assistance

Using Online Help

ENTERPRISE products come with a complete system of online Help which you can access in three ways:

• From the Help menu, click Help Contents. Scroll through the table of contents and choose a relevant topic to display.

• To search for something particular, from the Help menu, click Help Contents and on the Index tab, type in a word.

• Context-sensitive help is available for most of the dialog boxes. Therefore, to get relevant Help about using a dialog box, in the dialog box, press F1.

We value your comments, suggestions, and criticisms. If you did not find the Help you were looking for, needed more assistance than the online help provided, or have any suggestions for future improvements to our online information, we want to know. Please email your comments with the subject 'ENTERPRISE Manuals' to the appropriate address as described in Obtaining Support.

Using ENTERPRISE User Reference Guides

AIRCOM also provides a series of User Reference Guides for its software tools. For information on the full range available, see About the ENTERPRISE User Reference Guides on page 3.

You can view the manuals supplied as PDFs (Adobe portable document format) on the ENTERPRISE CD, or print out your own copies of them on a postscript printer.

Tip : You can choose to install the PDFs on your PC when installing.

Note : Adobe and Acrobat are trademarks of Adobe Systems, Incorporated.

For any further documentation, such as application notes and extra reference information, please email the support team at the address described in Obtaining Support.


About the ENTERPRISE User Reference Guides This table describes the manuals:

This Manual Contains Information On What's New The main difference between the latest versions of the ENTERPRISE

suite.

ENTERPRISE Administration and Installation Guide Installing and configuring ENTERPRISE, your network, and Oracle databases. Using Administrator to create users and groups, and set permissions.

Also contains information on software licensing.

ENTERPRISE User Reference Functionality that is common to more than one of the products in the ENTERPRISE suite, including how to access, view, edit and store data.

Also contains reference information about file formats.

ENTERPRISE Database Reference The relationships between tables in the database and the contents of each table.

ADVANTAGE User Reference Using ADVANTAGE to plan and optimise networks automatically, analyse network performance, identify problem cells/areas, use network performance data and more.

ArrayWizard User Reference Using ArrayWizard to automatically generate coverage predictions and best server arrays, which gives you instantaneous display of coverage and interference information for pre-selected filters when loaded into ASSET3g.

ASSET3g User Reference Using ASSET3g including information on hierarchical network planning, propagation modelling, coverage analysis, traffic planning, neighbour list definition, automatic frequency planning and CW data analysis.

Using the radio planning tool for 3rd generation mobile communication networks.

Also contains reference information about file formats.

CONNECT User Reference Using CONNECT, the network transmission and microwave link planning software for full network physical link design and logical link design.

Also contains CONNECT specific reference information.

DATASAFE User Reference Using DATASAFE, our network configuration tool to implement both small and large scale changes to networks

DIRECT User Reference Using DIRECT to design telecommunications networks of different network layers. Explains how to plan cellular, PSTN and data networks at a both general and strategic level.

Also contains DIRECT specific reference information.

NEPTUNE User Reference Using NEPTUNE to collect, import and analyse testmobile data and using the optional module, PROBE for additional analysis.

Also contains reference information on NEPTUNE file formats.

OPTIMA User Reference Using OPTIMA to view performance data and statistics both with ENTERPRISE and standalone using OPTIMA Lite.

QUALITA User Reference Using QUALITA including information on how to create Service Level Agreements, setting Quality of Service filters and benchmarks, configuring reports and enabling QoS degradation analysis.

RANOPT User Reference Using RANOPT to efficiently find faults in your network, optimise and validate its performance prior to commercial launch.


This Manual Contains Information On TARGET User Reference Using TARGET as an administrator to design forms, Gantt charts and

reports. Using TARGET to view and edit information about your network and its roll out.

Also contains TARGET reference information.

WEBWIZARD User Reference Using WEBWIZARD to display GIS and report information of network data, including creating layers, regions, nodes, layer types, administering and configuring the system and using the GIS view, explorer and report viewers.

Using ENTERPRISE User Reference Guide PDFs To use the PDFs:

1 Make sure you have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your PC. If you do not have this, you can install it from the ENTERPRISE CD, or get it from the Adobe website.

2 Navigate to the Docs folder in the location where you installed the product.

3 If this folder does not exist or is empty, modify your ENTERPRISE installation now and choose to install them. To do this:

From the Control Panel, double-click Add/Remove Programs.

In the list of items, choose the correct version of ENTERPRISE and click the Add/Remove button.

When prompted, select Modify then click Next twice until you are on the Select Components page of the installation wizard.

Ensure that the documentation you require is selected.

4 When installed, in the Docs folder, double-click the pdf file that you want to open.

Obtaining Further Information and Services As well as providing a comprehensive User Assistance system of Online Help and User Reference Guides, AIRCOM additionally provides:

Knowledgebase

In the Product Support section of the AIRCOM website, you can view our searchable Technical Database (Knowledgebase). It contains articles created by our support professionals who have resolved issues for our customers, and is constantly updated, expanded, and refined to ensure that you have access to the very latest information.

Note : To access the Knowledgebase, you must have a customer web account.


Product Support For information on AIRCOM Product Support, see Obtaining Support. Training If you require details of mobile and fixed network training courses, run by AIRCOM, please contact us at the appropriate email address described in Obtaining Support or via our website. Consultancy Services

AIRCOM also provide full radio consultancy services in Network Audits, Business Planning Support, Licence Applications, Radio Network Planning, Telecommunications Research and System Modelling and Propagation Analysis and Modelling.

Obtaining Support Logging Support Requests Online

To log a support request online:

1 Go to the AIRCOM website, at http://www.aircom.co.uk.

2 Click the link to Support.

3 Log in, using your customer web account username and password.

4 In the Technical Support pane, click Online Helpdesk System.

5 Click Log New.

6 Enter the details of your request, and then click Log.

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Logging Support Requests via Telephone or Email Alternatively, this table shows the contact details for any support or assistance you may require:

Type of Query Contact Email

You have a difficulty you cannot resolve yourself using the Online Help

North America Tel : +214 576 2700 Fax : +1 214 576 2794

[email protected]

South America Tel : +55 12 39412199 Fax :+55 12 3911-3727

[email protected]

You have found a possible fault in the software

Singapore Tel : +65 372 0548 Fax : +65 372 0350

[email protected]

Middle East and Africa Tel : +971 4 391 2640 Fax : +971 4 391 8660

[email protected]

South Africa Tel : +27 11 745 1475 Fax : +27 11 465 1517

[email protected]

Europe and Rest of World Tel : +44 1737 775777 Fax : +44 1737 775770

[email protected]

You cannot find the Help you were looking for

You would like to suggest future improvements to the online information

You require further documentation, such as application notes and further reference information

UK Documentation [email protected]

You require updated versions of PDF files Visit the AIRCOM website at http://www.aircom.co.uk

You require details of mobile and fixed network training courses run by AIRCOM

Competence Development Solutions [email protected]

When contacting us with a support query, it would help us if you:

• Give us as much information as possible about the problem and the context in which it occurred

• State the version and build you are using

• Have all the details of your query to hand

• Are logged into the ENTERPRISE application

• Can send extracts of your data sets if we need them to reproduce your problem

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Installing OPTIMA OPTIMA can be used in the following ways:

If using OPTIMA Then As part of the ENTERPRISE suite To ensure top performance, one of our teams needs to install and integrate

OPTIMA to a network, configuring the collection of performance counters, data storage and the database.

As a standalone product You should contact your system administrator to find out where on your network OPTIMA is installed, and to get a username and password.

When you have this information, you can access OPTIMA without having to install anything.

Over the internet You should contact your system administrator to find out how to use OPTIMA over the Internet.

In This Section About the Hardware and Software Requirements for OPTIMA Installing OPTIMA Starting OPTIMA Changing your OPTIMA Password

About the Hardware and Software Requirements for OPTIMA

You can have one workstation for each client that wishes to use OPTIMA and ENTERPRISE.

The hardware and software requirements are the same as the latest ENTERPRISE specification. For more information, see the ENTERPRISE User Reference Guide or confirm with our Support team, who can be contacted on one of the numbers shown in Chapter 1 of this guide

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Installing OPTIMA You can install OPTIMA in two ways:

• As part of ENTERPRISE

• As OPTIMA Lite

Installing OPTIMA as Part of ENTERPRISE To use OPTIMA as part of the ENTERPRISE suite, one of our teams needs to install and integrate OPTIMA to a network. This ensures maximum performance by configuring the collection of performance counters, data storage and the database.

Installing OPTIMA Lite A standalone version of OPTIMA has been produced so that:

• You do not have to have any other ENTERPRISE products installed to run OPTIMA

• You can run OPTIMA Lite over the network with no installation necessary on your own PC

Note : OPTIMA Lite does not contain the Map View window or the ENTERPRISE database and filters.

Follow these instructions if you want to use OPTIMA Lite:

1 If you are installing OPTIMA Lite using the InstallShield program on the ENTERPRISE CD, when selecting components, select OPTIMA Lite.

– or –

Contact your system administrator to find out where on your network OPTIMA Lite is located, and get a username and password.

2 Locate the OPTIMA_Lite.exe and open it.

You can now start using OPTIMA Lite.

Updating Data When connected to the network switches and the database, OPTIMA updates itself and automatically adds new sites and counter data when necessary. The data collection process is one way and OPTIMA cannot modify the network.

About Maintenance and Security OPTIMA should need no maintenance except for installing any upgrades. However, it is recommended that companies have an on-site Oracle database administrator to attend to any database related problems promptly.

The Oracle server handles security and each user is required to log in before any statistics can be obtained.


Starting OPTIMA To start using OPTIMA as part of ENTERPRISE:

1 Start ENTERPRISE and log into the relevant database. For further information on how to do this, see the ENTERPRISE User Reference Guide.

2 Select the project you require then click the Info>> button.

3 Scroll to the OPTIMA Login tab:

4 On this Login tab:

Select the appropriate database in the DataSource box. Note : An Oracle connection name is specified here, not ODBC.

Type your UserId and Password then click OK.

Tip : Once you have logged in, you can change your password. For more information, see Changing your OPTIMA Password on page 10.

5 In the Start Project dialog box, click Start.


To start using OPTIMA Lite:

Open OPTIMA Lite and, from the OPTIMA Lite Login Information dialog box, type your User Name and Password, and select the Service to which you want to connect.

Tip : Once you have logged in, you can change your password. For more information, see Changing your OPTIMA Password on page 10.

Changing your OPTIMA Password When you use OPTIMA for the first time, you must login to the OPTIMA database with the username and password created by the OPTIMA_Administrator. However, after you have logged into OPTIMA, you can change your password.

To change your password:

1 From the Tools menu, click Change Password.

The Change Password dialog box appears.

2 Type your old password, new password and confirm your new password.

3 Click OK.

Next time you login to the OPTIMA database, you must use your new password.


About the OPTIMA User Interface

The OPTIMA user interface consists of a number of elements, which enable you to:

• View, compare and analyse counter information for network elements using grids and graphs

• Customise windows and reports

• Define how objects, such as modules and grids, function

In This Section About the Main OPTIMA Toolbar About the OPTIMA Menus About the Counter Descriptions Window Using Clocks in OPTIMA About Performance Alarms About the Data Explorer About the Filter Explorer Switching Between Open Windows Defining User Preferences

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About the Main OPTIMA Toolbar To quickly access the frequently used functions, use the OPTIMA toolbar:

OPTIMA Main Toolbar

This table describes the toolbar functions, some of which are only available if you are running OPTIMA as part of ENTERPRISE:

Click: To:

Exit OPTIMA Close the current project and exit the tool.

Login/Logout Login to and logout of the database but keep ENTERPRISE running.

Open/Close Project Open and close projects but keep ENTERPRISE running.

New 2D View Open the 2D Map View. For more information, see Displaying Performance Data on the Map on page 146.

Data Explorer Open the Data Explorer. For more information, see About the Data Explorer on page 20.

Filter Explorer Open the Filter Explorer. For more information, see Using the Filter Explorer on page 99.

Module Explorer Access the Module Explorer in which you can view and use modules. If you have OPTIMA_Administrator or OPTIMA_Advanced_User permissions, you can also create, modify and delete modules. For more information, see Creating OPTIMA Modules on page 72.

Combination Explorer Access the Combination Explorer from which you can view and use module combinations. If you have OPTIMA_Administrator OPTIMA_Advanced_User permissions, you can also create, modify and delete combinations. For more information,see About Combination Windows in OPTIMA on page 79.

New Combination Create a new OPTIMA window for viewing data. For more information, see Creating Combination Windows on page 83.

New Work Area Access a New Work Area. For more information, see Creating a New Work Area on page 140.

Report Explorer Access the Report Explorer. For more information, see About Using OPTIMA Reports on page 152.

Schedule Explorer Access the Schedule Explorer. You can only schedule reports if you have OPTIMA_Administrator OPTIMA_Advanced_User permissions. For more information, see Scheduling When Reports Run on page 185.

Counter Legend Access the Counter Legend. For more information, see About the Counter Descriptions Window on page 15.

OPTIMA Login Retry your login. This button is only enabled if you have had an unsuccessful login attempt.

Main Clock Access the Main OPTIMA clock. For more information, see Using Clocks in OPTIMA on page 16.


About the Favourites Toolbar The Favourites toolbar is enabled after you have saved one or more favourites and is next to the Main OPTIMA Toolbar. This picture shows an example of the Favourites toolbar:

Favourites toolbar

If you have created a report, module combination or work area that you will reuse frequently, you can save it as a favourite. When you save it as a favourite you also select a button to be added to the Favourites toolbar. For information about saving favourites, see Adding and Editing Favourites in OPTIMA on page 91.


About the OPTIMA Menus Above the OPTIMA toolbar are a series of menus.

This table describes the menu options, some of which are only available if you are running OPTIMA as part of ENTERPRISE:

From the: You can: File menu Exit from the database and close OPTIMA.

If you are using OPTIMA with ENTERPRISE, other menu items will be available. For further information about these items, see the ENTERPRISE User Reference Guide.

Edit, View, Database and Equipment menus

Access features available if you are using OPTIMA with ENTERPRISE. For further information about these menus, see the ENTERPRISE User Reference Guide.

Inspector menu Access the Module Explorer.

Access the Combination Explorer.

Create a New Combination.

Create a New Work Area.

Reporter menu Access the Report Explorer.

Access the Schedule Explorer.

Favourites menu Edit Favourites.

Load Favourites.

Save Favourites.

Performance Alarms Access the Alarms Handler and Explorer.

Administrator menu Access Counter information.

Access the Route Editor and the TCH Editor.

Access miscellaneous information such as holiday entry and trim element ID.

Configure the Busy Hour, that is modify the capture settings and set the busy hour.

Configure database information such as database links.

Manage security in OPTIMA by creating users, groups and contacts.

Note : The Administrator menu is enabled only if you have OPTIMA_Administrator permissions.

Tools menu Login to OPTIMA – only available if your initial attempt to login was unsuccessful.

Access the User Preferences dialog box.

Change your password.

Access the Data Explorer.

Access the Filter Explorer.

View the Counter Legend.

Access the Windows List, which enables you to locate and switch to an open window.

Modify the Main OPTIMA clock.

Windows menu Access the message log - OPTIMA Lite only.

Help menu Access the Help.

Access the Licence Manager.

View information about ENTERPRISE, for example the build number.


About the Counter Descriptions Window The Counter Descriptions window displays a list of all the counters used in OPTIMA, grouped by vendor, along with any further information relating to each counter.

Note : You can only add, edit and delete counters if you have logged into OPTIMA with OPTIMA_Administrator level privileges.

Counter Descriptions window

To view information about a counter:

1 From the Tools menu, click Counter Legend.

– or –

Click the Counter Legend button .

2 In the Counter Descriptions dialog box that appears, select a vendor from the Vendor menu.

3 In the Counter box, type the name of the Counter for which you want more information.

4 Click Find.

The counter is highlighted in the list. Any further information about the counter, if available, will be displayed.


Using Clocks in OPTIMA Usually, when running OPTIMA, you would have it connected to the System Clock to show today’s data. However, sometimes you will want to view and compare data for a different date and time. You can do this by using the Global Clock.

To set the Global Clock:

1 From the Options menu, click Clock

– or –

Click the Clock button .

2 In the dialog box that appears, ensure that the Set to System Clock check box is not selected.

3 To change the year, click on the year at the top of the calendar and type the year that you want

4 Use the arrows to scroll to the correct month then click a date on the calendar.

5 Click the hour and change the time as required, then repeat for minutes and seconds:

6 Providing there is data for that date, you can display the data in different ways:

If you are using OPTIMA with ENTERPRISE, click Update Map to apply the time you have chosen to any open Map View window. For more information, see Viewing Data on the Map on page 145.

To review data collected over the same period, ensure that in each combination window, in the Date Range pane, the Link to Main Calendar check box is selected.

7 When you have finished reviewing data, you can reset the date and time to the System Clock again by opening the Global Clock and selecting the Set to System Clock check box.


Offsetting the System Clock When data is collected by OPTIMA, there is usually a one hour processing delay before that data is available for use in OPTIMA. You can take account of this delay by offsetting the system clock. To do this:

1 From the Tools menu, click Clock.

– or –

Click the Clock button .

2 In the Global Clock's Offset pane, select the Enable check box.

3 Select an offset period using the arrow keys and drop-down menu.

4 Close the Global Clock.

About Performance Alarms You can use performance alarms to manage data before it is passed on to third party fault management systems.

You can set network counter thresholds or key performance indicators (KPIs) and then receive alerts whenever network conditions are not met. Network data is processed by OPTIMA and stored in OPTIMA database tables. The network data is analysed at user defined intervals.

From the Performance Alarms menu, you can select the Alarms Explorer and the Alarms Handler Explorer.


About the Alarms Explorer To open the Alarms Explorer:

From the Performance Alarms menu, select Alarms Explorer.

This picture shows an example of the Alarms Explorer:

From the Alarms Explorer toolbar you can create alarm definitions and folders and view alarm definition logs.

This picture shows an example of the Alarms Explorer toolbar:


About the Alarms Handler Explorer To open the Alarms Handler Explorer:

From the Performance Alarms menu, select Alarms Handler Explorer.

This picture shows an example of the Alarms Handler Explorer:

From the Alarms Handler Explorer toolbar you can view, create, edit and delete alarm handlers.

This picture shows an example of the Alarms Handler Explorer toolbar:


About the Data Explorer In the Data Explorer you can view database tables and create modules and reports without being familiar with SQL. The Data Explorer can be launched from the main OPTIMA toolbar or from the Module Maker. For more information about the Module Maker, see Creating OPTIMA Modules on page 72 .

To open the Data Explorer:

Click the Data Explorer button .

- or -

From the Tools menu, click Data Explorer.

About the Filter Explorer In the Filter Explorer, you can create, edit and delete personal, global filters and ENTERPRISE filters.

To open the Filter Explorer, either:

From the Tools menu, click Filter Explorer.

- or -

Click the Filter Explorer button .

The Filter Explorer opens, this picture shows an example:

For more information about the Filter Explorer, see Creating Filters in the Filter Explorer on page 100.


Switching Between Open Windows When you are using OPTIMA, you may have many windows open at the same time. To make it easier to find the window you want, you can use the Window List.

The Window List will show the names of the following explorer windows, if they are open:

• Combination Explorer

• Module Explorer

• Schedule Explorer

• Filter Explorer

• Data Explorer

You will also see listed any open work areas and combination windows.

To switch to an open explorer, work area or combination:

1 From the Tools menu, select Show Window List.

2 In the Window List, select the window you want to use and click Switch.

Defining User Preferences There are a number of user preferences that you can define using the User Preferences dialog box, including setting your filter directory and grid preferences. These options, once defined, will be available each time you use OPTIMA or OPTIMA Lite.

To open the User Preferences dialog box:

From the Tools menu, click User Preferences.

Setting the Filter Directory When you create personal filters, the files are stored in a user-defined location. To select the location of these files:

1 From the Tools menu, select User Preferences.

2 On the Custom Filter tab in the dialog box that appears, browse to the folder in which personal filters will be stored.

3 Click OK.

Tip : If you do not set your user preferences, you can select a location for the file when you first create a filter.

You create personal filters in the Filter Explorer. For more information, see Using the Filter Explorer on page 99.


Setting Confirmation Requests You can choose to have certain actions, for example opening a read-only copy of a module combination that is already open, confirmed before the action is carried out.

To set confirmation requests:

1 From the Tools menu, click User Preferences.

2 On the Confirmations tab in the dialog box that appears, select the required actions.

Setting Grid Preferences When a grid contains a large number of records, the background processing may slow down the speed with which data is shown in the grid. You can prevent this by disabling the tools after a given number of records are returned from a query.

You can also set a limit on the number of values available to select from when you are filtering a column in a grid.

To set preferences for the grid:


2 On the Grid Settings tab in the dialog box that appears, type the number of:

records after which tools will be disabled

values available when filtering columns

columns to load in the Data Explorer. You can override this option when you are using the Data Explorer.

Setting Expression Editor Preferences When you define a query in the Expression Editor, you can choose to insert the function name or the function name and its parameters.

To set this:


2 On the Expression Editor tab in the dialog box that appears, select how you want the function to appear.


Setting Security If you have OPTIMA_Administrator or OPTIMA_Advanced_User permissions, you can assign a particular group to be the default owner of all new objects, such as reports and modules, that you create.

Note : If you do not do this, objects that you create will not be assigned to a default group and will be available to all users

To set the default group for new objects:


2 On the Security tab in the dialog box that appears, select the Default Group for New Objects check box.

3 Select a group from the drop-down list.

4 Click OK.

Note: You can also assign owning groups at the individual object level, for example, for a specific report.


OPTIMA Administrator Tools

You should only read this section if you are an OPTIMA Administrator. You can only use the OPTIMA Administrator menu if you log in to OPTIMA or OPTIMA Lite, with OPTIMA_Administrator permissions.

OPTIMA_Administrators can:

• control who has access to the features in OPTIMA and at what level.

• configure settings such as the busy hour and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

• define and view performance alarms. For information about using alarms, see Using Performance Alarms on page 191.

In This Section About OPTIMA Security Using Contacts in OPTIMA About KPIs Adding a Description to a Raw Counter About Global Counters About Table and Field Information Settings About Categories About Routes Downgrading Cells Excluding Particular Days from Reports Setting the Busy Hour Modifying Element IDs

C H A P T E R 4


About OPTIMA Security In OPTIMA, there are two ways to configure security. These are:

• at user level by assigning roles, for example, you can choose to give a user read-only access by making them an OPTIMA_User.

• at object level using groups, for example, you can choose to allow a group of users access to certain reports in the Schedule Explorer.

You must:

• create groups before you can restrict access to specific objects in OPTIMA

• assign users to each group, they will inherit the permissions of the group.

Note : OPTIMA_Administrators have write-access to all features and objects in OPTIMA.

Example of Using Groups and Users to Configure Security First, you create these groups:

• North_Team

• South_Team

OPTIMA Groups dialog box


Then you create these users:

User Member Of Role John North_Team

Everyone OPTIMA_Advanced_User

Pierre North_Team Everyone

OPTIMA_User

Emma South_Team Everyone

OPTIMA_Advanced_User

You can then use these groups to limit access to the folders in the Schedule Explorer, as shown below:

The results are:

• John can view and run schedules in the NorthCity_A folder and, as he is an OPTIMA_Advanced_User, he can also create schedules in this folder. John cannot view or create schedules in the SouthCity_A folder.

• Pierre can view and run schedules in the NorthCity_A folder, but as he is a OPTIMA_User, he cannot create schedules. Pierre cannot view schedules in the SouthCity_A folder.

Emma can view and run schedules in the SouthCity_A folder and, as she is an OPTIMA_Advanced_User, she can also create schedules in this folder. Emma cannot view or create schedules in the NorthCity_A folder.


Creating Groups You can create groups and then use these groups to give access to objects in OPTIMA. The group Everyone is automatically created and includes all users. You cannot edit the Everyone group.

To create a group:

1 From the Administrator menu, point to Security and click Groups.

2 In the dialog box that appears, click New Group.

3 In the New OPTIMA Group dialog box, type a name and description for the group.

Note: You can only use letters, numbers and the symbols $ _ and # in the group name. You cannot use spaces and you must use a letter or number for the first and last characters.

4 If you have already created the users that you want to become members of this group, click Add User. If you have not created any users, see Creating Users on page 31.

5 Select the users you want to add to this group and use the > button to move them to the Destination List.

Tip : Use the Shift and Ctrl keys to highlight more than one user at a time and use the >> button to add all the users to the Destination List.

6 When you have finished adding users to the Destination List, click OK.

The users who are members of this group are listed in the Members pane of the New OPTIMA Group dialog box.

7 Click Close to save the new group.

You can now assign this group to the different OPTIMA objects, enabling the members of this group to use those objects. For more information, see Using Groups to Assign Access on page 30.


Editing and Deleting Groups To add users to and remove users from a group:


The OPTIMA Groups dialog box appears.

2 Select the group and click the Edit Group button.

3 To add a user:

Click Add Users.

In the Select Users dialog box, select the users you want to add to this group and use the > button to move them to the Destination List. Tip : Use the Shift and Ctrl keys to select more than one user at a time and use the >> button to add all the users to the Destination List.

When you have finished adding users to the Destination List, click OK.

4 To remove a user: select the user and click the Remove User button.

5 Click Close to save the changes.

To delete a group:


The OPTIMA Groups dialog box displays.

2 Select the group and click the Delete Group button.

3 Click Yes to confirm.

4 If no objects are owned by the group, the group is deleted. However, if there are objects still owned by the group, then the Change OPTIMA Group dialog box appears.

5 To select a new owning group for the objects:

Select a group from the Group list and click the right arrow button. -or -

Double-click a group in the Group list.

Note : If you click Cancel, the group will not be deleted.

6 Click OK.

7 Click Close.


Using Groups to Assign Access You can use groups to restrict access to objects and information held in OPTIMA. Groups can be assigned to objects in the following windows:

• Module Explorer

• Combination Explorer

• Report Explorer

• Schedule Explorer

For example, in the Schedule Explorer, you may have a folder that contains schedules that only one group of users will work with. This may be a regional group, for example, such as the South Team. You can make sure that only the South Team can access those schedules by assigning the South Team group to the folder.

You must create groups before you can assign them. For more information, see Creating Groups on page 28.

To assign a group to an object:

1 Open the appropriate explorer window from the menu or toolbar.

2 Browse to the folder to which you wish to assign access and click with the right mouse button on the folder name. From the menu that appears, click Properties.

3 In the dialog box that appears, click the Security tab and then click Add.

A list of available groups appears.

4 Select the group(s) you want to have access to this folder and use the > button to move them to the Destination List.

Tip : Use the Shift and Ctrl keys to select more than one group at a time and use the >> button to add all the groups to the Destination List.

5 Click OK.

6 Select how you want the group permission to be applied:

Select To Assign Access To Do not cascade permissions The selected folder level and its objects only.

Users of the group will not be able to access any subfolders unless they are a member of a group with access to those folders.

Cascade permission changes to child folders The selected folder and its subfolders. This option will not overwrite any existing groups that have already been assigned to the folder or subfolders.

Cascade all permission to child folders The selected folder and its subfolders. This option overwrites existing groups that have already been assigned to the folder or subfolders.

7 Click OK to apply the group permissions to the folder.


Creating Users To create a user:

1 From the Administrator menu, point to Security and click Users.

2 In the dialog box that appears, click New User.

3 On the General tab of the New OPTIMA User dialog box, add the following details:

In This Box Do This

Username Type a name for the user, this is the name they will use to log into OPTIMA.

Note: You can only use letters, numbers and the symbols $ _ and # in the username. You cannot use spaces and you must use a letter or number for the first and last characters.

Full Name Type the full name of the user.

Description Type a description of the user's account if necessary. This field is not mandatory.

Department Type the name of the user's department if necessary. This field is not mandatory.

Region Type the name of the user's region - this could be actual location or the part of the country they work deals with, for example, a cell planner covering the North. This field is not mandatory.

Password, Verify Password Type the password for the user, this is the password they will use to log into OPTIMA.

User Access Select a role for the user. For more information about roles, see About OPTIMA User Roles on page 32.

4 To assign groups to this user, click the Group Membership tab.

The user is automatically a member of the group Everyone and this group is listed in the Group(s) pane.

5 On the Group Membership tab, click Add.

6 In the dialog box that appears, select the groups you want this user to be a member of and use the > button to move them to the Destination List.


7 When you have finished adding groups to the Destination List, click OK.

The group(s) that this user is a member of are listed in the Group(s) pane of the New OPTIMA User dialog box.

8 If you want to assign contact information to the user:

Click Assign Contact Info.

Select the contact name and click Assign Contact.

In the dialog box that appears, click OK

Click Close to return to the OPTIMA Users dialog box. For more information about contacts, see Using Contacts in OPTIMA on page 33.

9 Click Close to add the new user.


About OPTIMA User Roles There are three default roles for users in OPTIMA. They are created during the installation of OPTIMA and determine the level of system access for a user. You can further define a user's access by assigning groups. For more information about groups, see About OPTIMA Security on page 26.

The three default roles are:

Default Role Default Login User Privileges

OPTIMA_Administrators OPTIMA_Administrator The same permissions as the OPTIMA_Advanced_Users and can also use the OPTIMA Administrator tools.

OPTIMA_Advanced_Users OPTIMA_Advanced_User The same permissions as the OPTIMA_Users and can also add, edit, and delete modules, reports and schedules.

OPTIMA_Users OPTIMA_User Has read-only access to all of the OPTIMA tools except for OPTIMA Administrator. Cannot see the items in the Administrator menu. Can add, edit and delete module combinations.

Editing and Deleting Users To edit user details and permissions:


The OPTIMA Users dialog box appears.

2 Select the user and click Edit User.

Note : You can change the password or the user group details. If you want to change the user name, you will have to recreate the user.

To delete a user:


The OPTIMA Users dialog box appears.

2 Select the user and click Delete User.


The user is deleted.


Changing Passwords When a user logs into OPTIMA, they can choose to change their password. For more information, see Changing your OPTIMA Password on page 10.

If a user forgets their password, and therefore cannot access OPTIMA, you can assign a new password to that user.

To do this:


The OPTIMA Users dialog box displays.

2 Select the user and click Edit User.

3 Type and then verify the password.

4 Click OK to save the changes.

Using Contacts in OPTIMA In OPTIMA, you can save contact details for individual users and groups of users. These contact details are stored in the Address Book and, once saved, can be:

• assigned when you create users.

• selected in an alarm handler to determine who receives alerts when an alarm is raised.

To open the Address Book:

From the Administrator menu point to Security and then click Contacts.

Contacts that contain a group of users are underlined and shown in green text.

In the Address Book, you can:

• sort the list of contacts by clicking on the column headings

• filter the list of contact by selecting All Groups or All Users from the Select menu.


Adding, Editing and Deleting Contacts in the Address Book To add a contact to the Address Book:

1 From the Administrator menu point to Security and then click Contacts.

2 In the Address Book, click the Add button .

3 Type the details for the user in the appropriate boxes.

4 Select the Active check box if you want this user to be able to receive alerts when an alarm is set or cleared. For more information about alarms, see Using Performance Alarms on page 191.

5 Click OK.

To edit a contact:

1 Highlight the user and click the Edit button .

- or -

Double-click the user name.

2 Edit the user's details as necessary.


To delete a contact:

1 Highlight the user and click the Delete button .

2 In the Confirm dialog box that appears, click Yes to delete the user.


Adding a Contact Group to the Address Book You can add a group of users as a contact group to the Address Book. This allows many individuals to receive the same alert when an alarm is set or cleared. For more information about alarms, see Using Performance Alarms on page 191.

To add a contact group to the Address Book:

1 Ensure you have created the users that you want to include in the group. You can add further users at a later date.

2 From the Administrator menu point to Security and then click Contacts.

3 In the Address Book, click the Add Group button .

4 Type a name for the group.

5 If you want to send alarms to a group email address or phone number, type the email address and phone number.

6 Add a note if necessary.

7 Select the Active check box if you want this contact group to be able to receive alerts when an alarm is set or cleared.

8 Click Modify Members.

9 In the dialog box that appears, click Add.

10 Select a user from the Name pane and click Add >.

- or -

Type the name of the user and click Add.

Tip : To change the properties of a user, click Properties and in the dialog box that appears make the changes required.

Note : These users are in addition to any users that are a member of the group email address that you may have typed earlier. You do not have to add those users here.

11 When you have finished adding users, click OK and, in the dialog box that appears, click Yes.

The users appear in the Group Members dialog box.

Tip : To remove a user, highlight their name and click Remove.

12 Click OK to close the Group Members dialog box.

13 In the Group Properties dialog box, click OK and, in the Information dialog box click Yes to save the group.

The contact group is shown, in green text, in the Address Book and can now be used with alarms.


Editing and Deleting Contact Groups To edit a contact group:

1 Highlight the contact group and click the Edit button .

- or -

Double-click the contact group name.

2 Edit the details as necessary.

3 Click Modify Members to add and remove users.


To delete a contact group:

1 Highlight the group and click the Delete button .

2 In the Confirm dialog box that appears, click Yes to delete the contact group.


About KPIs Using OPTIMA Administrator, you can create KPIs to show collected key performance data both in OPTIMA Inspector, using modules and combination windows, and on the Map View Window.

If you choose to show a KPI on the Map View Window, it will appear in the data types tree. For more information, see Displaying Performance Data on the Map on page 146.

Creating KPIs To create a KPI:

1 From the Administrator menu, point to Counters and then click KPI Manager. The KPI Manager dialog box appears. This picture shows an example:

2 From the KPI menu, click Add

- or -

Click the Add button .


3 In the dialog that appears, complete the following information:

In This Box: Do This: Table Choose the table containing the counter that will form the KPI.

Alias Type a name for the KPI.

Column Order Type a number that corresponds to where you want the column to appear on the 2D Map data types tree.

Show in 2D Map - Cell-based KPIs only

Select the Show in 2D Map check box if you want the KPI to be available in the Map View Window.

You must select an element and data column from your chosen table.

Equation Type an equation to define the KPI, using the available columns.

Note : The equation must be in syntax that Oracle will understand.

Tip : Double-click a KPI in the Counters for Equation list to have it added to the equation.

You can build complex equations using the Expression Editor. Click Build Equation toopen the Expression Editor.

Description Type a description of the KPI.

This picture shows an example of the KPI Add dialog box:

4 Click Save.

Note : This may take a few seconds as the equation is automatically tested against the database.

5 If the counter cannot be saved, correct the error and click Save again.

6 Click Close to return to the KPI Manager dialog box.


Editing a KPI To edit a KPI:

1 From the Administrator menu, point to Counters and then click KPI Manager. The KPI Manager dialog box appears.

2 In the KPI Manager dialog box, click + to view the tables for the appropriate schema and then select the required table.

3 In the right-hand pane, either:

Double-click the KPI you want to change.

- or -

Select the KPI and click the Edit button .

4 In the dialog box that appears, change the properties as required.

5 Click Save.

Note : This may take a few seconds as the equation is automatically tested against the database.


Deleting a KPI To delete a KPI:



3 In the right-hand pane, select the KPI(s) you want to delete.

Tip : Use the Shift and Ctrl keys to highlight more than one KPI at a time.

4 Click the Remove button and then click Yes to confirm.



Synchronising Tables You can synchronise KPIs and their associated tables by using the Synchronise Tables function.

To do this:



3 If you want to synchronise KPIs, then in the right-hand pane, select the KPI(s) you want to synchronise.

Tip : Use the Shift and Ctrl keys to highlight more than one KPI at a time.

4 From the Tools menu, point to Synchronise and then click either Selected KPI(s) or Selected Table.

- or -

Click the down arrow next to the Synchronise Summary Tables button and click either Selected KPI(s) or Selected Table.

5 In the Synchronise Tables dialog box, set the following options: In This Pane: Do This: Associated Tables Select the check boxes of the associated tables that you want to

synchronise.

Tip : Use the Check All button to select all the associated tables in the list and the Uncheck All button to deselect all the tables.

Note : If the selected table has no associated tables listed, click the Get Derived Tables button. This will attempt to retrieve all of the tables that, in conjunction with the selected table, form an associated list for the table. For example, if the table CELLSTATS has an association with the daily, weekly and monthly summary tables, then the daily and monthly summary tables can be derived from the weekly summary table.

Synchronise Options Select how you want the synchronisation to be done.

If you want to match KPIs exactly during synchronisation, select the Synchronise to Match KPIs Exactly radio button.

If you want to merge KPIs during synchronisation:

1. Select the Synchronise to Merge radio button.

2. If you want to overwrite KPIs that have duplicate names, select the Replace KPIs With the Same Name check box.


This picture shows an example of the Synchronise Tables dialog box:

6 Click OK. A new summary table appears in the Hierarchy Tree if not already

present.

7 Click Close to return the KPI Manager dialog box.


Recreating Views If you want to use your KPIs in OPTIMA Inspector, you must create views for their tables in the KPI Manager dialog box.

To do this:


2 If you want to recreate a view for a table, in the KPI Manager dialog box, click + to view the tables and then select the required table.

3 From the Tools menu, point to Recreate View and then click either Selected or All.

4 In the Select Items to Process dialog box, ensure that any table you want to create a data view for has their Include check box selected.

Tip : Use the Check All button to select all the tables in the list and the Uncheck All button to deselect all the tables.

This picture shows an example of the Select Items to Process dialog box:

5 Click Process to recreate the view. In the Select Items to Process dialog box, the

Status and Message columns are updated to show the process output for each selected table. This picture shows an example:

6 Close the Select Items to Process dialog box.

7 Click Close to return the KPI Manager dialog box.

You can see newly created views in their defined category under their respective schema in the Data Explorer. For more information see, Using the Data Explorer on page 62.


Adding a Description to a Raw Counter OPTIMA enables you to add descriptions for raw counters in your network.

To describe a raw counter:

1 From the Administrator menu, point to Counters and then click Raw Counters.

2 In the Raw Counter Descriptions dialog box, click the Add Raw Counter

button .

3 In the Add Raw Counter Description dialog box, type the name of the counter, as well as a brief description.

4 Click Save.

To edit a raw counter description:


2 In the Raw Counter Descriptions window, select the counter you want to edit and

then click the Edit Raw Counter button .

3 In the Edit Raw Counter Description dialog box, edit the information.

4 Click Save.

To delete a raw counter description:


2 In the Raw Counter Descriptions dialog box, select the counter you want to delete

and then click the Delete Raw Counter button .

3 Click OK to confirm the deletion.


About Global Counters OPTIMA enables you to view vendor specific information, such as the counters and global information such as the global counters.

The global counters are defined in the Global Counters dialog box.

Global Counters dialog box

In the Global Counters dialog box, you can add, edit, and delete global counters. You can also add global counters automatically. To do this:

1 From the Administrator menu, point to Counters and click Global Counters.

The Global Counters dialog box displays.

2 Click the Auto Add Counters button. The available global counters will be added to the list.

To display the global counters for a particular table:

Click on the table name in the Table column.


About Table and Field Information Settings The OPTIMA Administrator can use table and field information settings to:

• Allow groups of users access to certain tables

• Set the granularity period for tables

• Assign tables to specific categories

• Assign summary tables to tables

• Add comments to tables and table columns

You configure table and field information settings in the Table and Field Info dialog box. Tables can be configured individually or all at the same time using the Settings Wizard.

To open the Table and Field Info dialog:

From the Administrator menu, point to Data Dictionary and click Table and Field Info.

This picture shows an example of the Table and Field Info dialog box.

Table and Field Info dialog box.


Setting All Table and Field Information Settings Using the Settings Wizard The Settings Wizard enables you to change permission, category and granularity period settings for one or more tables at the same time, rather than changing them individually.

To set table and field information settings:

1 From the Administrator menu, point to Data Dictionary and click Table and Field Info.

2 In the tree view of the Table and Field Info dialog box, select a table, category or schema:

This selection determines which tables will be available to configure in the Settings Wizard. For example, if you select a category or schema, then all of the underlying tables will be available.

3 From the Edit menu, click Change Settings.

- or -

Click with the right mouse button on the schema, category or table you selected and then, from the menu that appears, click Change Settings.

4 On the first page of the Settings Wizard, select the tables you want to use and then click Next.

Tip : If you want to select more than one table, hold down the Shift key and click the tables you want to select.

Note : You cannot apply permissions to tables marked in red as these are internal tables. If your selection includes internal tables, you must unselect them otherwise you will not be able to apply permissions. You can still apply category and granularity period settings to internal tables.

5 On the Table Permission page, select:

The group you want to apply permissions to

Whether the permissions are to be reset, updated or removed

For more information about table permissions, see Setting Table Security on page 47.

6 Click Next.


7 On the Table Info Settings page, select:

The granularity period to be applied to all selected tables. For more information about granularity periods, see Setting the Granularity Period for a Single Table on page 48.

The category to be applied to all selected tables. For more information about categories, see Assigning a Category to a Table on page 48.

8 Click Next.

9 Click Finish to apply your settings and close the Settings Wizard.

Setting Table Security In OPTIMA, you can configure security at the table level by using groups. For example, you can choose to allow a group of users access to certain tables.

Important : You must create groups before you can assign them. For more information, see Creating Groups on page 28.

To set security for a table:


2 In the tree view of the Table and Field Info dialog box, select the table and click the Modify Groups button.

A list of available groups appears.

Note : You cannot apply permissions to internal tables. If your select an internal table, the Modify Groups button will be disabled.

3 Select the group(s) you want to have access to this table and use the > button to move them to the Destination List.


4 Click OK.

5 Click Apply to apply the group permissions to the table.



Setting the Granularity Period for a Single Table The granularity period is used by the Map View window to determine which is the nearest time stamp and therefore what data is returned. This means that you do not have to select the exact time stamp. For example, if you set the granularity period to 15 minutes, data for 13.00 will be displayed if you select 13.15.

You can set the granularity period for a single table or use the Settings Wizard to set the granularity period for all the tables in a category or schema. This is usually done once during the initial set-up of OPTIMA.

To set the granularity period for a single table:


2 In the tree view of the Table and Field Info dialog box, select the table you want to set the granularity period for.

3 Click the Table Info tab.

4 Click the Apply Table Granularity check box and in the Period column, use the up and down arrows to select the number of periods.

5 Select a period type from the drop-down menu.

6 Click Apply.


Assigning a Category to a Table All database tables must be assigned a category to appear in the Data Explorer list of tables. When you create a new database table, a category is automatically assigned when you repopulate the Table and Field Info dialog box. For more information about repopulating tables, see Repopulating Data on page 51.

However, you can also manually assign a category to a table. To do this:


2 In the tree view of the Table and Field Info dialog box, select the table you want to set the category for.


4 Click the Apply Table Category check box and select a category from the drop-down list.

5 Click Apply.


For more information on categories, see About Categories on page 51.


Defining an Association for a Table You can define associations for a single table. To do this:


2 In the tree view of the Table and Field Info dialog box, select the table you want to assign an associated table to.


This picture shows an example of the Table Info tab:

4 In the Associated Tables pane, click the Modify List button.

5 In the Table Selection dialog box appears, select a schema from the Schema drop-down list.

6 Select the associated table(s) you want to assign to the table and use the > button to move them to the Destination List.

Tip : Use the Shift and Ctrl keys to highlight more than one associated table at a time or use the >> button to add all the associated tables to the Destination List.

Note : To add associated tables from more than one schema, repeat steps 5 and 6.

7 Click OK.

8 Click Apply to save your changes.



Adding a Comment to a Table To add a comment to a table:


2 In the tree view of the Table and Field Info dialog box, select the table you want to add a comment to.


4 Click the Apply Table Comment check box and type a comment.

5 Click Apply.


Adding a Comment to a Column To add a comment to a column in a table:


2 In the tree view of the Table and Field Info dialog box, select the table which contains the column you want to add a comment to.

3 Click the Column tab.

4 Find the relevant column in the list and click its Comments cell.

5 Type the comment you want to add and click Apply.


Finding a Counter in the Table and Field Info Dialog Box You can search OPTIMA's database tables for counters in the Table and Field Info dialog box in the same way you can in the Data Explorer. For information about how to do this see, Finding a Counter on page 63.


Repopulating Data If tables or columns have been created or removed in the OPTIMA database, you will need to repopulate the data to view these changes in the Table and Field Info dialog box and the Data Explorer. To do this:


The Table and Field Info dialog box appears.

2 From the View menu, click Regenerate Table Info.

3 From the dialog box that appears, choose to regenerate all table information or only the table information that has changed in the OPTIMA database by selecting the appropriate radio button.

Note : If you choose to regenerate all table information, then the category and granularity period settings for all tables will be reset to the default values.

4 Click the Regenerate button.


When you repopulate the Table and Field Info dialog box with new tables, category names are automatically assigned according to the naming convention for the table. The following table describes the naming conventions:

Category Convention KPI Tables beginning with V

Summary Tables beginning with XX

Configuration Hard-coded configuration tables

Counters All other tables

For more information about categories, see About Categories on page 51.

About Categories All the tables in OPTIMA's database are assigned a category. Categories are used to group tables in the Data Explorer. If a table does not have a category assigned to it, then it will not appear in the Data Explorer list of tables.

The categories can be manually assigned or automatically assigned when you repopulate the Table and Field Info dialog box. For more information about repopulating tables, see Repopulating Data on page 51.

OPTIMA has four default categories, which cannot be edited or deleted:

• Configuration

• Counters

• KPI

• Summary

However, if you are an OPTIMA_Administrator, you can create user-defined categories and then associate them with database tables.


Creating and Editing Categories

Creating a Category

To create a category:

1 From the Administrator menu, point to Counters and then click Categories.

The Table Categories dialog box appears.

2 Click Add.

3 In the Add Category dialog box, type a name and description for the category.

4 Click OK.

5 In the Table Categories dialog box, click Close.

Editing a Category

To edit a user-defined category:

1 In the Table Categories dialog box, highlight the category you want to edit.

Note: You cannot edit OPTIMA's default categories.

2 Click Edit, and edit the name and description as required.

3 Click OK.


Deleting a Category

When you delete a category, you must reassign other categories to all the tables that were in the category you have deleted. If you do not assign other categories, the tables will not appear in the Data Explorer.

To delete a user-defined category:

1 In the Table Categories dialog box, highlight the category you want to delete.

Note: You cannot delete OPTIMA's default categories.

2 Click Remove.

3 Click OK to confirm the deletion.



About Routes The route is the connection on the actual network that goes either in or out of a particular element. The route information is used in any modules or reports that use the ROUTECFG table.

This table shows the information contained in the Route Editor:

Parameter Description Route Route name

Element Element the route is connected with

Type Type of element for example BSC, MSC etc.

Location The location in the network

MSC Link If the type is BSC, this parameter shows the MSC to which the BSC is linked

Direction ‘I’ if incoming or ‘O’ is outgoing

Both way 'Y' if the route is incoming and outgoing, 'N' otherwise

Adding and Editing Routes To add a route to the Route Editor:

1 From the Administrator menu, point to Editors and then click Route Editor.

The Route Editor window appears.

2 Click the button and type the required information on the new row marked with an asterisk.

To edit a route in the Route Editor:

Highlight the route and click on the button.

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Highlight the cell and start typing.

To delete a route in the Route Editor:

1 Highlight the route and click on the button.

2 In the Confirm dialog box, click OK to confirm the deletion.


Downgrading Cells OPTIMA stores:

• The highest recorded number of traffic channels for each cell (Allocated Traffic Channels or DTCH).

• The last currently used traffic channels (TCH).

These two values should be the same, but are sometimes different, for example, when the cell has been downgraded, in which case the DTCH value will be higher than the last used TCH value.

The TCH Editor shows all cells where their TCH value is below the related DTCH (high water mark) value.

TCH Editor

You can correct OPTIMA, so the historic DTCH values are correct, by downgrading a cell.

Warning : Downgrading a cell permanently changes historic performance data.

To downgrade a cell:

1 From the Administrator menu, point to Editors and then click TCH Editor.

2 In the TCH Editor, double-click on the relevant cell. This will update the cell.

3 Click OK to downgrade the cell.


Excluding Particular Days from Reports OPTIMA enables you to excluded particular days, for example holidays, from reports. These days are specified in the Holiday Entry dialog box.

Holiday Entry dialog box

To add a day that you want to exclude from reports:

1 From the Administrator menu, point to Misc and click Holiday Entry.

2 In the dialog box that appears, select the date you wish to make a holiday for example 25/12/04.

3 Select the Holiday check box.

4 Type a description in the Holiday Description window then click Apply.

5 Click Yes if you want this holiday date to reoccur every year.

6 Click OK to close the dialog box.

Editing and Deleting Holidays To edit a holiday:

1 From the Administrator menu, point to Misc and click Holiday Entry.

2 In the Holiday Entry dialog box, select the date.

3 Amend the information.

4 Click Apply.

5 Click OK to close the Holiday Entry dialog box and save the changes.

To delete a holiday:

1 In the Holiday Entry dialog box, select the date.

2 Deselect the Holiday box.

3 Click Apply and then click Yes to confirm.

4 Click OK to close the Holiday Entry dialog box and save the changes.


Setting the Busy Hour The Busy Hour is the time when the most amount of traffic is carried by the network. This is meant to reflect the worst case scenario for optimising the performance of the network. To make OPTIMA more efficient, the busy hour calculation should be made as accurate as possible.

You can choose to:

• Have OPTIMA calculate the busy hour automatically, based on the available data. To do this, set the Busy Hour Rule to Automatic.

• Manually enter the busy hour by setting the Busy Hour Rule to Fixed and then entering the start time of the Busy Hour. The Busy Hour will run for an hour from the start time.

You can edit the busy hour rule at any time.

This table shows the levels for which the busy hour can be set:

This Level Affects Network All the cells in the network.

Note : The default rule for network will be Auto calculate. The busy hour data for the network is calculated from the cell data.

BSC All the cells under that BSC.

Site ID All the cells at that site.

Cell That cell only.


Manually Setting the Busy Hour To manually set the Busy Hour:

1 Ensure you have set the Capture Settings. For more information about the capture settings, see Configuring the Capture Settings on page 58.

2 From the Administrator menu, point to Busy Hour Config and select Busy Hour.

3 In the Vendor dialog box that appears, select the relevant vendor and click OK.

4 The Busy Hour window appears.

The full Network Tree is displayed using data from the OPTIMA database.

Tip : If you select a filter, you can limit the number of nodes displayed in the tree. If child objects exist then all the necessary parents are added to the tree.

5 If you want to set the rule for a particular cell, in the Rule column next to the object, select the rule you wish to use.

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If you want to set the default rule for any level other than cell, for example the whole network, double-click on the chosen object and in the Specify Rule for Child Nodes dialog box, set the rule and click OK.

6 When you setup the busy hour for all the cells, click Apply.


Configuring the Capture Settings Before setting the Busy Hour you need to configure the capture settings. To do this:

1 From the Administrator menu, point to Busy Hour Config and click Capture Settings.

2 In the Vendor Select dialog box that appears, select the relevant Vendor and click OK.

3 In the Capture Settings dialog box, select either Start Date or End Date to match the datetimes stored in the OPTIMA database.

4 Select a capture period. This should match the granularity period of the data in OPTIMA.

5 You can also change the default settings.

This table describes your options:

To change the Do this Default network rule 1. Click the Default network rule browse button

2. In the Modify Network Rule dialog box, set the Rule as either Auto calculate or Fixed.

3. If you set the rule to Auto calculate, click OK.

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4. If you set the rule to Fixed then set the time and click OK.

Busy hour formula 1. Click the Busy hour formula browse button.

2. In the Enter Busy Hour Formulae dialog box, set up your equation and click OK.

6 Click Apply to save the changes and then close the Capture Settings dialog box.


Modifying Element IDs OPTIMA enables you to add or remove parts of your element IDs. This is useful if you use an extension as part of your naming conventions when designing a network in ASSET3g.

Example of Editing an Element ID When designing the network, you may use an extension as part of your naming convention. For example the naming convention is to add D00 to the BSC name. Based on this convention, the name for BSC1 will be D00BSC1. This means that this will be displayed in the Map View Window as D00BSC1 but when OPTIMA collects live data it is collecting it from BSC1. Also, if you are using an ENTERPRISE filter to gather data then the filter will use the naming convention used in ENTERPRISE, which in this case is D00BSC1. However, when OPTIMA looks for this on the network, no data will be found as there is no such item on the live network. OPTIMA needs to know that when looking for data from D00BSC1 the data is actually from BSC1. You can achieve this by using the Trimming function in OPTIMA.

Important : Modifying how OPTIMA uses element IDs is global and will be used by all users of OPTIMA. You cannot configure separate settings for different users.

Editing Element IDs To edit element IDs:

1 From the Administrator menu, point to Misc and then click Trim Element ID.

This dialog box appears:


2 In the Element ID Mapping dialog box, ensure that you have the Trim Element ID check box selected.

3 Select if you want to Add to or Remove from the element ID depending on the naming convention.

4 Select if the extension you want to add or remove is at the Beginning of and/or the End of the element ID.

5 Click the Add button.

6 In the Add New Search String dialog box type the extension you want to add to or remove from the element ID, for example D00 in D00BSC1.

Tip : You can use wildcards to remove or leave letters in the element ID, for more information, see Using Wildcards in Element ID Search Strings on page 60.

7 If you have more than one search string, use the Up and Down buttons to position the strings in the correct order then click OK.

Tip: You can remove a string by highlighting it in the list and clicking Remove.

8 Click OK.

9 To save the current settings, when the Confirm dialog box appears, click OK.

This will add or remove the extension, in this case the D00 from the element ID. When you use the Map View Window and you display D00BSC1, the related data in OPTIMA is from the live BSC1.

Using Wildcards in Element ID Search Strings You can use wildcards when you add or remove extensions. This enables you to edit similar extensions without creating individual search strings.

There are two wildcards you can use:

• Full stops - represent letters you want to remove

• Question marks – represent letters you do not want to remove

Example of Using Wildcards If you wanted to remove the extensions A100, B100, C100 from element IDs, instead of creating three search strings, you can create one using the full stop wildcard. The search string would be .100. This tells OPTIMA to remove 100 from each element ID and also remove any letter which appears before the number 100. If you wanted to leave the first letter in the element ID rather than remove it, you can use the question mark wildcard. The search string would be ?100. This tells OPTIMA to remove 100 from each element ID but leave any letter which appears before the number 100.


Setting Up and Querying Data

OPTIMA uses counters to continually record the performance of each operational network element. The data from these counters is stored in an Oracle database that can be queried using the Data Explorer. From the Data Explorer you can:

• Search for a counter

• View query results in grid format

OPTIMA_Administrators and OPTIMA_Advanced_Users can set up access to data by defining modules, which are then used in module combinations, to display specific data in grid and graph format. Modules are used in the same way that you would use a template to customise the data you want to display.

In This Section Using the Data Explorer About OPTIMA Modules

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Using the Data Explorer You can use the Data Explorer to find counters, view data from OPTIMA database tables and to define modules to be used in combination windows.

To open the Data Explorer:

From the Tools menu, click Data Explorer.

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Click the Data Explorer button on the main OPTIMA toolbar.

If you are an OPTIMA_Administrator or an OPTIMA_Advanced_User and you are creating a module, the Data Explorer can be accessed by clicking Edit Tree SQL or Edit Tree Level SQL in the Module Maker. For more information, see Creating OPTIMA Modules on page 72.

The Data Explorer is made up of a number of panes. The following table describes these panes.

From The You Can Schema List pane Browse the list of schemas and the database tables associated with them. The tables are

grouped into categories, for example Configuration, Counters, KPI and Summary. Categories can only be created by OPTIMA_Administrators. For more information, see About Categories on page 51.

Columns/Data tabs View the column headings or the data contained within a chosen table.

Tip : Hide or show this pane by clicking the View menu and then clicking Show Data.

Builder/SQL/Filter/ Preview tabs

Build a query using SQL or by dragging and dropping tables to create the query if you are not familiar with SQL.

Tip : Hide or show this pane by clicking the View menu and then clicking Show SQL.

From the Data Explorer Misc menu, OPTIMA_Administrators can access KPIs, categories and table information. For more information about using these features, see OPTIMA Administrator Tools on page 25.


Finding a Counter You can search OPTIMA's database tables for any counter that appears as a column heading in the database tables. For example, you can search for Cell but not the cell name 10A.

To find a counter in the Data Explorer:

1 Click the Find Counter button .

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From the Edit menu, click Find Counter.

2 In the dialog box that appears, type the name of the counter you wish to find.

Tip : You can modify the search criteria by clicking More. This gives you the options to search from the start of the schema list and/or search for whole words only.

3 Click Find Next.

The table containing the counter is highlighted in the schema list and the counter is highlighted on the Column tab.

4 Click Find Next again and the next occurrence of the counter is highlighted.

5 To close the dialog box and return to the Data Explorer, click Cancel.

Defining a Query You can define a query which returns data from OPTIMA's database tables. You can use this query to view data in the Data Explorer or you can create a query as part of a module.

Note : Only OPTIMA_Administrators or OPTIMA_Advanced_Users can create modules.

Tip : If you are not familiar with SQL, you can use the Builder tab to create the query. However, the Builder tab is disabled if:

Your database is not using Oracle 9i or above.

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You have manually edited the SQL on the SQL tab.


Using the Builder Tab to Define a Query

To define a query using the Builder tab:

1 In the Data Explorer, click the Builder tab.

2 Add tables to the Builder tab by:

Double-clicking the table names in the Schema List - or -

Selecting a table name and then, while holding down the left mouse button, dragging it onto Builder tab.

Tip: To remove a table from the Builder tab, select the table and click the button in the top-right of the table box.

3 Select which columns you want to include in the query by clicking the boxes next to the column headings.

Tip: Select and clear all the columns in a table by clicking the button next to the table heading.

4 Add links between the tables by selecting a column heading in one table and then, while holding down the left mouse button, dragging the heading to a column heading in another table.

Note : If the two columns cannot be linked, the following icon appears .

Tip: To remove a link, select the link, click with the right mouse button and from the menu that appears, click Delete Link.

5 Set the link type by double-clicking the link and selecting a type. By default, all links are inner links. This means that only rows with matching values in the linked columns will be displayed when the query is run.


6 When you have selected the tables and columns for your query, you need to define the query using the tabs below the Builder tab. The following table describes these tabs:

Use This Tab To Criteria Create the Where clause by adding conditions, each of which may

contain one or more criteria.

The default compose condition is All. To change this, click on the word highlighted in blue and, from the menu that appears, select the appropriate compose condition.

Click the circle, and from the menu that appears, click Add Condition.

In the line that appears, click to select the first part of the criteria and type a value or press Shift + Enter. From the menu that appears, double-click to select the table or column.

The default rule is =. To change this, click on the rule and, from the menu that appears, select the appropriate rule.

Select the second part of the criteria and type a value or press Shift + Enter. From the menu that appears, double-click to select the table or column.

To delete a condition, click on the circled number for that condition and from the menu that appears, click Delete Condition.

To create a compose condition, add a condition and click on its circled number. From the menu that appears, click Make Compose Condition.

Selection View the selected table columns. Here you can choose to return an aggregate value for a column instead of a single row value. To do this:

Double-click in the Aggregate column for the appropriate table column and, from the menu that appears, select the aggregate function.

Grouping Criteria Create the Having clause. You can only do this if you have included an aggregate function in the query.

The Having clause is created in the same way as the Where clause, which is described above for the Criteria tab.

Sorting Define the order for the returned data. The left pane contains all the columns included in the query. Use the arrows to move the columns to the right pane to include them in the returned data. You can move all the

columns by clicking the button.

Use the Up and Down buttons to set the order of the columns in the right pane.

You can change the sort order for each column alphabetically by selecting the column heading it in the right pane and then clicking the A-Z or Z-A button.

7 When you have finished, you can add filters to the query. For more information, see Adding Filters to a Query on page 66.

You can preview the results of the query at any time. For more information, see Previewing the Results of a Query on page 67.


Using the SQL Tab to Define a Query

You can use the SQL tab to define a new query or a query that has been created on the Builder tab.

Important : If you do this, the Builder tab will be disabled and any further changes to the query must be made on the SQL tab.

To define a query using the SQL tab:

1 In the Data Explorer, click the SQL tab.

2 Type the SQL for your query.

Tip: You can automatically add text to the SQL tab by double-clicking, or dragging and dropping, items in the Oracle Commands pane, the schema list and the Columns tab.

3 To add a complex expression, click the Insert Expression button .

4 The Expression Editor appears. Create an expression by double-clicking column headings and selecting items from the drop-down menus. Click OK to add the expression to the SQL tab.

5 When you have finished, if you have not already added filters to the query, you can add filters using the Filters tab. For more information, see Adding Filters to a Query on page 66.

You can preview the results of the query at any time. For more information, see Previewing the Results of a Query on page 67.

Adding Filters to a Query

You can add a date filter and a filter parameter to a query to further define the query. When the query is run, you will be asked to choose a date range or select a filter.

If the query is created as part of a module, the filter parameter option will be replaced by elements selected from the module element tree in the Module Maker.

To add a filter to a query:

1 In the Data Explorer, ensure that you have defined your query

2 Click the Filters tab.

3 Select the Add Date Filter check box if you want to add a date filter.

A list of available date fields appear in the Date Fields box.

4 Select the date field you wish to use and click the button to select it.

5 Select the Add filter check box if you want to add a filter parameter. If you want this filter to replace one already used in the SQL, select the Replace Values in SQL Criteria check box.

A list of available filters appear in the Filter Names box.

6 Select the filter you wish to use and click the button to select it.

7 You can now preview the results of the query.


Previewing the Results of a Query

At any time during the creation of a query, you can preview its results in a grid on the Preview tab. To do this:

1 In the Data Explorer, click the Execute SQL button .

2 If you have included filters in the query, the Parameter Input dialog box appears. This table describes how you can filter the query:

On this tab Do this Filter Select a filter from the list that appears and then select elements you wish

to include using the arrow keys to move the elements to the Selection pane.

You can add elements from any number of filters. For more information about creating filters, see Adding Filters to a Query on page 66.

Datetime – Range tab Select the period over which you require data.

To link to the global clock:

1 Select the Start or End check box and then select Synchronise to Global Clock. The current date and time display.

2 Enter the desired period in the Period box.

Note: You cannot synchronise to the global clock if you set a start and end date.

To specify a duration whose start or end date you know, click either the Start or End check box and choose the correct date, then enter the desired period in the period box.

To specify a period whose start and end dates you know, select the Start and End check boxes and choose the required dates.

Datetime - Exclude/Include tab

Select which days you want to include in the date range. Click with the right mouse button on the Dates of Week area and, from the menu that appears, you can Select All or Deselect All the days or choose just Weekdays or Weekends.

Select the Start and End hours for the days you have included.

Select the check box if you want to Exclude Holidays. For more information about holidays, see .

3 Click OK to close the Parameter Input dialog box and run the query.

4 You can now customise how the data is shown in the grid. For more information about customising grids, see Customising Grids in OPTIMA on page 103.


Saving and Opening Queries

When you have created a query, you can save it so you can use it again. Queries are saved as SQL files.

To save a query:

1 In the Data Explorer, click the Save To File button .

2 In the Save SQL File dialog box, open the folder in which you wish to save the file and type a name for the file.

3 Click Save.

To open an existing query:

1 In the Data Explorer, click the Open File button .

2 In the Load SQL File dialog box, find the query file you wish to open and click Open.

The query is loaded in to the Data Explorer.


About OPTIMA Modules OPTIMA modules consist of:

• Module details – name, description, name of creator, creation date, name of the last person to edit the module and the date last edited.

• A database query that enables you to create a network element tree for displaying and selecting specific network elements.

• Database queries to return data when elements are selected from the tree-view. A separate query can be defined for each tree level. For example, you may have BSCs on one level and cells on the next level. Therefore you could have a query for each of these.

This picture shows an example of a module:

Example Module

If you are an OPTIMA_Administrator or OPTIMA_Advanced_User, you can:

• Create and delete module folders

• Create and edit modules

• Delete modules

• Restrict editing of modules

• Import and export modules

OPTIMA_Administrators can also lock folders and modules. Other users can still view locked folders and modules, but only the Administrator can edit them.

All OPTIMA_Users can view modules.


Creating Folders for OPTIMA Modules To create and delete folders in the Module Explorer, you must have OPTIMA_Administrator or OPTIMA_Advanced_User permissions.

To create a new folder:

1 From the Inspector menu, click Module Explorer.

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Click the Module Explorer button .

2 In the Module Explorer window, browse to where you want to create the new folder and click with the right mouse button. From the menu that appears, click New Folder.

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Click the New Folder button .

3 Type a name for your new folder and press Enter.

OPTIMA_Administrators can lock folders to prevent other users from accessing them. For more information about this, see Locking Folders on page 71.

Deleting Folders

To delete a folder:

1 In the Module Explorer window, highlight the folder you want to delete.

2 Click with the right mouse button and, from the menu that appears, click Delete.

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Click the Delete button .

3 In the Confirm dialog box, click Yes to delete the folder and return to the Module Explorer.


Locking Folders

If you have OPTIMA_Administrator permissions, you can lock folders to prevent other users from editing, moving or deleting them.

To lock a folder:

1 From the Inspector menu, select Module Explorer.

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2 In the Module Explorer, select the folder you want to lock.

3 Click with the right button and then, from the menu that appears, click Properties.

4 On the Security tab in the Module Folder Properties dialog box, select the Admin Folder check box.

5 Click OK.

6 If the selected folder has child folders, you will be asked if you want to apply changes to all child folders. This enables you to lock all of the child folders of an Admin Folder. Click Yes to apply changes, otherwise click No.

To unlock a folder:

Follow the previous steps and clear the Admin Folder check box.

Viewing OPTIMA Modules To view a module:


2 In the Module Explorer, select the file containing the modules you want to view. A list of the modules will appear in the right hand pane.

3 You can choose to view the modules as a list or as a list with details.

Tip : To change between the two, click with the right mouse button and then, from the menu that appears, point to View and click List or Details.

4 Double-click on the module name to view that module.


Creating OPTIMA Modules If you have OPTIMA_Administrator or OPTIMA_Advanced_User permissions, you can create modules.

To do this:


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2 In the Module Explorer, click with the right button and then, from the menu that appears, click New Module.

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Click the Add New Module button .

3 On the Module Information tab of the OPTIMA Module Maker dialog box, type the name and a description of the new module.

4 Select the Enabled check box to enable OPTIMA_Users to use the module.

5 On the Module Definition tab, click Edit Tree SQL to open the Data Explorer. The Data Explorer enables you to define the selection tree information to be displayed by the module. For more information, see Using the Data Explorer on page 62.


6 When you have defined the selection tree, close the Data Explorer and in the Module Maker, click Preview Tree to view the selection tree you have created.

A network element tree of the information you have just entered appears in the right hand pane.

Note : If you have included a date filter in the SQL, you must also define a date and time in the Date Time Entry dialog box. Select a date range and click OK to continue.

7 On the Module Definition tab, click Edit Tree Level SQL to open the Data Explorer. The Data Explorer enables you to define the tree level information which customises the data displayed in a grid or graph when an item is selected from the network element tree. For more information, see Using the Data Explorer on page 62.

8 When you have defined the tree level query, close the Data Explorer and in the Module Maker Graph pane, from the Type and X-axis menus, select the type of graph and X-axis you would like to use:

The graph is shown when you run a module in a combination window. For more information, see Using Graphs on page 121.

9 Click OK to finish.


Locking OPTIMA Modules If you have OPTIMA_Administrator permissions, you can lock modules to prevent other users from editing them. You may want to do this if a module is particularly complex to create or if a module is used by lots of users, to prevent the module being changed in error.

To lock a module:


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2 In the Module Explorer, select the module you want to lock.


4 In the Module Properties dialog box, select the Admin Module check box.

5 Click OK.

To unlock a module, follow the previous steps and clear the Admin Module check box.

Restricting Editing of OPTIMA Modules You can use an owning group to restrict who has editing access to a module. If a module is assigned an owning group, then it can only be edited by members of that group. A module can only have one owning group.

To assign an owning group for a module, you must have one of the following:

• OPTIMA_Administrator permissions

• OPTIMA_Advanced_User permissions and be a member the group that owns the module

To make a group the owner of a module:


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2 In the Module Explorer window, select the module you want to set the owning group for.

Note: You cannot assign the owning group for a module that is locked as an Admin Module, unless you have OPTIMA_Administrator permissions.

3 Click with the right mouse button on the selected module and from the menu that appears, click Properties.

4 In the Module Properties dialog box, select a group from the drop-down list.

5 Click OK.


Editing and Deleting OPTIMA Modules To edit a module:

1 Ensure you have OPTIMA_Administrator or OPTIMA_Advanced_User permissions.


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3 Double-click on the module and make the necessary changes.


To delete a module:

1 Ensure you have OPTIMA_Administrator or OPTIMA_Advanced_User permissions.


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3 Select the module you want to delete, click with the right mouse button and, from the menu that appears, click Delete

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Select the module you want to delete and click the Delete button .

4 In the Confirm dialog box, click Yes to delete the module.

Opening an OPTIMA Module in a New Combination To open a module in a new combination:


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2 In the Module Explorer, select the module you want to open in a new combination.

3 Click with the right button and then, from the menu that appears, click Execute.

The New Module Combination dialog box appears with the selected module added.

For more information about combinations, see About Combination Windows in OPTIMA on page 79.


Copying OPTIMA Modules If you have OPTIMA_Administrator or OPTIMA_Advanced_User permissions, you can copy existing modules and then modify them.

To do this:


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2 In the Module Explorer, select the module(s) you want to copy.

Tip : Use the Shift and Ctrl keys to select more than one module at a time.

3 Click the right mouse button, and from the menu that appears, click Copy.

4 Select the folder that you want to copy the module(s) to.

5 Click with the right mouse button, and from the menu that appears, click Paste. The modules are copied to the specified folder.

Importing and Exporting OPTIMA Modules If you have OPTIMA_Administrator or OPTIMA_Advanced_User permissions, you can export OPTIMA modules to a datafile and then import and use them in another OPTIMA installation. You can import and export:

• Modules

• Module folders

• A combination of modules and module folders

Note : You must have OPTIMA_Administrator permissions to import and export Admin modules and Admin folders.


Importing Modules

To import a module:

1 In the Module Explorer, select the folder into which you want to import the file(s).

2 Click the Import Module From File button .

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Click with the right mouse button, and from the menu that appears, click Import.

3 Click OK to confirm.

4 In the Import Modules dialog box, click the Browse button.

5 In the Browse for Folder dialog box, select the folder which contains the module(s) you want to import and click OK.

6 In the File Name list, select the file(s) and/or folder(s) you want to import and click OK.

Tip : Use the Shift and Ctrl keys to select more than one file and/or folder at a time.

7 If your selection includes modules in sub-folders, you will be asked if you want to recreate the directory structure in the Module Explorer. Click Yes to recreate the directory structure, otherwise click No.

8 In the message box that appears, click OK to import the module(s). The modules are imported to the specified folder.

Exporting Modules

To export a module:

1 In the Module Explorer, select the module(s) and/or folder(s) you want to export.

Tip : Use the Shift and Ctrl keys to select more than one module and/or folder at a time.

2 Click the Export Module to File button .

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Click with the right mouse button, and from the menu that appears, click Export.

3 If your selection includes modules in sub-folders, then in the Export Modules dialog box, set the following options by selecting or clearing the appropriate check boxes:

Export modules from sub-folders.

Create folders in destination directory.

4 Click OK.

5 In the Browse for Folder dialog box, select the folder into which you want to export the module(s) and click OK.

6 In the message box that appears, click OK to export the module(s). The modules are exported to the specified folder.


Viewing Data in OPTIMA OPTIMA enables you to view specific data from your network using combination windows, which you can define yourself. For example, you can display cell statistics within a certain date range in both a graph and a grid layout.

In This Section About Combination Windows in OPTIMA Adding and Editing Favourites in OPTIMA Filtering Data in the Combination Window Finding Elements in the Modules Pane Filtering Elements in the Modules Pane Using the Filter Explorer

About Combination Windows in OPTIMA You can view data in OPTIMA in either a pre-defined combination window or a window you have created.

A combination window is made up of a number of panes. The following table describes how you can customise the window using these panes.

This Pane Enables you to Modules Add and remove modules that customise the data that is to be displayed in the window.

You can run one module, or a combination of modules.

Custom Filter Select, create and edit custom filters. You can hide or display this pane by clicking on the title bar.

Date Range Set the date range for the data to be displayed. You can hide or display this pane by clicking on the title bar.

Grid Display the data. You can modify the order of the data as well as search for specific information.

Series List Select what data appears in the graph pane.

Graph Display the data in a graph format.

Before you can use combination windows, OPTIMA_Administrators and OPTIMA_Advanced_Users must first define the modules. For more information, see Creating OPTIMA Modules on page 72.

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Creating Folders for OPTIMA Combination Windows To create and delete folders in the Combination Explorer, you must have OPTIMA_Administrator or OPTIMA_Advanced_User permissions.


1 From the Inspector menu, click Combination Explorer.

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Click the Combination Explorer button .

2 In the Combination Explorer window, browse to where you want to create the new folder and click with the right mouse button. From the menu that appears, click New Folder.

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Deleting Folders

To delete a folder:

1 In the Combination Explorer window, highlight the folder you want to delete


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3 In the Confirm dialog box, click Yes to delete the folder and return to the Combination Explorer.


Locking Folders


To lock a folder:

1 From the Inspector menu, select Combination Explorer.

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2 In the Combination Explorer, select the folder you want to lock.


4 On the Security tab in the Combination Folder Properties dialog box, select the Admin Folder check box.

5 Click OK.


To unlock a folder:



Viewing Pre-Defined Combination Windows To view a pre-defined combination window:


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2 In the Combination Explorer, select the file containing the combination window you want to view. A list of the combinations will appear in the right hand pane.

Tip : You can choose to view the combinations as a list or as a list with details. To change between the two, click with the right mouse button and then, from the menu that appears, point to View and select List or Details.

3 Double-click on a combination name to open that combination window.

4 Select the data you want to view, for example, the network elements and date. For more information, see Filtering Data in the Combination Window on page 92.

Click the Run All Modules button to view data for all the modules in the combination

5 If you want to view a single module, select it in the Module pane and click the

Run Highlighted Module button .


Creating Combination Windows To create a new combination window:

1 From the Inspector menu, click New Combination.

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Click the New Combination button .

2 In the New Module Combination window that appears, click the Add Module to

Combination button .

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Click with the right mouse button in the Modules pane and, from the menu that appears, click Add Module.

3 From the Select Module dialog box, select the module you wish to use and click Open. The module appears in the Module Pane.

Note : To add more than one module to your combination window, repeat steps 2 to 3.

4 You can now create links between the modules to view associated element data. For more information, see Displaying Element Data Across Modules on page 84.

5 To save the combination, click the Save button .

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Click with the right mouse button in the Modules pane and, from the menu that appears, click Save.

6 In the Save Module Combination dialog box, type a name and description and click Save.

Removing Modules from the Combination Window

To remove a module from the combination window:

1 In the New Module Combination window, select the module you want to remove

and click the Remove Module button .

2 The Confirm dialog box appears, click Yes to delete the module.

3 To save the window, click the Save button , type a name and description in the Save Module Combination dialog box and click Save.

Note : Removing a module from a combination window does not delete that module from the Module Explorer.


Deleting Combination Windows

To delete a saved combination window:

1 In the Module Combination Explorer window, select the module combination you want to delete.

2 Click the Delete button .

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Click with the right mouse button and, from the menu that appears, click Delete.

3 The Confirm dialog box appears, click Yes to delete the combination window.

Displaying Element Data Across Modules When you combine modules you can also add links between them so that the modules display data for the same elements selected from any of the module network element trees.

There are two different types of link:

• Tree links – are between modules and link elements in the module trees. When an element in one module tree is selected, all other elements with the same name are automatically selected in the other module trees. Links can be edited to include other matching attributes.

• Drill down links – are between levels in the same or other modules. Drill down links do not have default settings. When you create a drill down link, you also have to select a field to be used in the link. This link will enable you to view data from linked modules.

To enable or disable linking within a combination:

In the Module pane, click with the right mouse button and from the menu that appears, click Enable Linking:


Adding Links

To add links in a module combination window:

1 Click the Edit Module Links button .

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Click with the right mouse button in the Modules pane and, from the menu that appears, click Edit Links.

The Module Links dialog box appears. The Modules pane lists each module and each level under that module for which data is available.

2 Highlight a level in the Module pane and click Add.

The Link Editor appears.

3 Select the type of link you want to create, either a Tree link or a Drill down link. If the link is between data levels in the same module, you must select Drill down link.

4 From the Additional Levels/Data Fields listed in the Source Module pane, select the level/field you want to link.

5 From the TARGET Module and Tree Level menus, select the module and level you want to link to.

The Additional Levels pane shows the list of available levels.

6 Highlight the level you want to link to and click the > and < buttons to add or remove links from the Additional Links pane.

Note: If you have selected a drill down link, the first link is automatically set to the TARGET module tree level.

7 When you have finished adding links to the Additional Links pane, click OK.

8 In the Module Links dialog box, click OK to save the changes and return to the combination window.

You can now run the linked modules from the grid.

Editing and Removing Links

To edit or remove a link:

1 In the Links pane of the Module Links dialog box, highlight the link you want to edit or remove.

2 Click Edit, the Link Editor appears. Make the required changes and click OK.

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Click Remove.

3 In the Module Links dialog box, click OK to save the changes and return to the combination window.


Running Linked Modules From the Grid

When you have added drill-down links between modules, you can run the linked modules from the grid.

Note : An asterisk in the column heading indicates that drill-down links are available for elements in that column.

To run linked modules:

1 Double-click the element name for which you wish to run linked modules. For example cell 306A.

2 In the Confirm dialog box, click Yes to run the linked modules.

The data for the linked modules will appear in the grid.

Locking Combination Windows If you have OPTIMA_Administrator permissions, you can lock combinations to prevent other users from editing them.

To lock a combination:

1 From the Inspector menu, select Combination Explorer.

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2 In the Combination Explorer, select the combination you want to lock


4 In the Combination Module Properties dialog box, select the Admin Combination check box.

5 Click OK.

To unlock a combination, follow the previous steps and clear the Admin Combination check box.


Restricting Editing of Combination Windows You can use an owning group to restrict who has editing access to a combination. If a combination is assigned an owning group, then it can only be edited by members of that group. A combination can only have one owning group.

To assign an owning group for a combination, you must have one of the following:


• OPTIMA_Advanced_User permissions and be a member the group that owns the combination

To make a group the owner of a combination:


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2 In the Combination Explorer window, select the combination you want to set the owning group for.

Note: You cannot assign the owning group for a combination that is locked as an Admin Combination, unless you have OPTIMA_Administrator permissions.

3 Click with the right mouse button on the selected combination and from the menu that appears, click Properties.

4 In the Combination Module Properties dialog box, select a group from the drop-down list.

5 Click OK.


Copying Combination Windows If you have OPTIMA_Administrator or OPTIMA_Advanced_User permissions, you can copy existing combination windows and then modify them.

To do this:


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2 In the Combination Explorer, select the combination window(s) you want to copy.

Tip : Use the Shift and Ctrl keys to select more than one combination at a time.


4 Select the folder that you want to copy the combination window(s) to.

5 Click with the right mouse button, and from the menu that appears, click Paste. The combinations are copied to the specified folder.


Importing and Exporting Combination Windows If you have OPTIMA_Administrator or OPTIMA_Advanced_User permissions, you can export OPTIMA module combinations to a datafile and then import and use them in another OPTIMA installation. You can import and export:

• Combinations

• Combination folders

• A combination of combinations and combination folders

Note : You must have OPTIMA_Administrator permissions to import and export Admin combinations and Admin folders.

Importing Module Combinations

To import a combination:

1 In the Combination Explorer, select the folder into which you want to import the file(s).

2 Click the Import Module Combination From File button .

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Click with the right mouse button, and from the menu that appears, click Import.


4 In the Import Module Combinations dialog box, click the Browse button.

5 In the Browse for Folder dialog box, select the folder which contains the combination(s) you want to import and click OK.



7 If your selection includes combinations in sub-folders, you will be asked if you want to recreate the directory structure in the Combination Explorer. Click Yes to recreate the directory structure, otherwise click No.

8 In the message box that appears, click OK to import the combination(s). The combinations are imported to the specified folder.


Exporting Module Combinations

To export a combination:

1 In the Combination Explorer, select the combination(s) and/or folder(s) you want to export.

Tip : Use the Shift and Ctrl keys to select more than one combination and/or folder at a time.

2 Click the Export Module Combination to File button .

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Click with the right mouse button, and from the menu that appears, click Export.

3 If your selection includes combinations in sub-folders, then in the Export Module Combinations dialog box, set the following options by selecting or clearing the appropriate check boxes:

Export module combinations from sub-folders.


4 Click OK.

5 In the Browse for Folder dialog box, select the folder into which you want to export the combination(s) and click OK.

6 In the message box that appears, click OK to export the combinations(s). The combinations are exported to the specified folder.


Adding and Editing Favourites in OPTIMA OPTIMA enables you to save module combinations, reports and work areas as favourites. This means you will have fast and easy access to information, via a customised toolbar. The toolbar contains a shortcut button for each favourite you save and is enabled after you have saved one or more favourites. This is an example of the Favourites toolbar:

To add or edit favourites:

1 From the Favourites menu, click Edit Favourites.

Tip : You can click with the right mouse button on the module combination, report or work area you want to save and click Edit Favourites.

2 In the Edit Favourites dialog box that appears, edit an existing favourite by selecting it and modifying the information or delete a favourite from the list by selecting it and clicking Delete.

3 To add a favourite click Add and then, from the Favourite Type dialog box, select the type of item you want to add and click OK.

4 If you chose to add a module combination, in the Module Combination Explorer window that appears, select the combination you want to add and click OK.

5 If you chose to add a report, in the Report Explorer window that appears, select the report you want to add and click OK.

6 If you chose to add a work area, browse to the work area INI file and click Open.

7 The combination, report or work area appears in the Edit Favourites dialog box.

8 Click Icon and then in the dialog box that appears, select the icon file and click Open.

9 Click Save to close the Favourites Editor.

A new button is added to the Favourites toolbar with the selected icon.

10 You can now access the favourite view by clicking the appropriate button on the Favourites toolbar.

Tip : To share your favourites, save and load them to a .INI file.


Filtering Data in the Combination Window In the combination window, you can filter the data you view in the grid and graph panes by:

• Selecting network elements from the modules in the combination. Data is only displayed for the selected items.

• Setting a date range. This option is available if a date filter has been included in the module.

Filtering Data by Selecting Network Elements You can select network elements from module to restrict the data shown in the combination window. You can select elements in the following ways:

• If you know where the network element appears in the module tree, click the + sign to expand the tree under the module containing the element you want and select the check box.

• If you do not know where the element appears in the module tree, you can search

for it within one module or across all modules. For more information, see Finding Elements in the Modules Pane on page 94.

• You can apply a filter to select a defined group of elements within the modules. For information, see Filtering Elements in the Modules Pane on page 95.

Tip: You can select or clear all the elements under each network element by clicking with the right mouse button on the element name and, from the menu that appears, clicking All or Clear All.

When you have selected the network element(s):

Click the Run All Modules button or the Run Highlighted Module button to refresh the data based on this filtering.


Setting a Date Range You can restrict data by filtering on the current date or over a specified date range.

To select a date or date range:

1 In the Date Range pane, on the Range tab, select the period over which you require data in one of these ways:

To Do this Link to the global clock Select the Start or End check box and then select Synchronise

to Global Clock. The current date and time appears.

Enter the required period in the Period box. For example, 2 days.

You can set a global data and time in the OPTIMA Main Clock. For more information, see Using Clocks in OPTIMA on page 16.

Specify a duration whose start or end date you know

Click either the Start or End check box and choose the correct date.

Enter the desired period in the period box. For example, 1 week.

Select the Include Time check box, if you wish to set the start or end time in hours and minutes.

Specify a period whose start and end dates you know

Select the Start and End check boxes and choose the required dates.

Select the Include Time check box, if you wish to set the start or end time in hours and minutes.

Note: You cannot synchronise to the global clock if you set a start and end date.

2 To modify your time period further, on the Exclude/Include tab:

Select which days you want to include in the date range. Click with the right mouse button on the Dates of Week area and, from the menu that appears, you can Select All or Deselect All the days or choose just Weekdays or Weekends.

Select the Start and End hours for the days you have included.

Select the check box if you want to Exclude Holidays. For more information about holidays, see Excluding Particular Days from Reports.

3 Click the Run All Modules button or the Run Highlighted Module button to refresh the data.

Data for the period that you specified is displayed. The dates you set are saved for this window and you can save different dates for each window separately unless you have linked to the global clock.


Finding Elements in the Modules Pane If you want to view data for a particular network element or group of elements, you can search for it in the Modules pane using the following options:

• Find in module – use this to find elements within a single module.

• Find across modules – use this to find elements across a number of modules.

Finding Elements Within One Module If you want to search in one module for a single network element:

1 In the Modules pane, highlight the module you want to search.

2 Click with the right mouse button on the Modules pane and, from the menu that appears, click Find in Module.

3 In the Find dialog box, type the element you want find.

4 Click Find Next. If the element is found, it is highlighted in the Module pane. You can now select that element and run the module to view the data.

Finding Elements Across Modules If you want to search across several modules for a network element:

1 In the Modules pane, highlight a module.

2 Click with the right mouse button and from the menu that appears, click Find Across Modules.

3 In the Find Across Modules dialog box, type the element you want to find.

4 Click Find Next. If the item is found, it is highlighted in the Module pane. You can now select that element and run the module to view the data.


Filtering Elements in the Modules Pane In the Modules pane, you can use filters to select a sub-set of performance data based on particular network elements. For example, you might want to select data for cells 10A, 10B and 10C only if these are known to be a group of problem cells.

You can use three types of filter in OPTIMA. These are described in this table:

This Type Can be Used By And is Stored

Personal The user who creates them On that user's machine

Global All users In the OPTIMA database

ENTERPRISE Any user with the correct ENTERPRISE permissions

In the ENTERPRISE database

Filters are found in the Custom Filter pane. If the pane is hidden, click on the title bar to display it.

You can create custom filters in the Filter Explorer. For more information see Creating Filters in the Filter Explorer on page 100.

Note : You cannot create ENTERPRISE filters in OPTIMA Lite.

Choosing Where to Save Filters When you create personal filters, the files are stored in a user-defined location. To select the location of these files:

1 From the Tools menu, select User Preferences.

2 On the Custom Filter tab in the dialog box that appears, browse to the folder in which personal filters will be stored.

3 Click OK.

Tip : If you do not set your user preferences, you can select a location for the file when you first create a filter.


Creating a Filter from a Selection You can create a filter by selecting network elements in the Modules Pane. To do this:

1 In the Modules pane, select the check box for each element that you want to add to the filter.

2 Click with the right mouse button on the Modules pane and, from the menu that appears, click Create Filter From Selection.

3 To include the parent elements for each element you have selected, click With Path.

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To include just the selected element names, click Without Path.

4 In the dialog box that appears, type a name for the filter.

5 Click Next.

The values that will be included in the filter are listed in the Filter Values pane.

6 In the Save Filter As pane, select the appropriate check boxes to define the filter type, and then click Next.

7 Check that the filter details are correct. If not, click Back to go back and correct them, otherwise click Finish.

The filter is now available from the list of filters that appear in the Custom Filter pane. This picture shows an example:


Creating a Filter From the Grid Pane If you have run a module and data is displayed in the grid, you can create a filter from the Grid pane . The filter will only contain the elements shown in the grid.

To create a filter from the Grid pane:

1 Click with the right mouse button and, from the menu that appears, click Create Filter.

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Click the Create Filter button .

The Custom Filter Wizard appears.

2 Type a name for the filter and then click Next.

3 In the Available Fields pane, select the field you want to include in the filter.

4 If you want to set a threshold to restrict the elements in the filter, select the Configure Filter Threshold check box and click Filter Threshold. In the dialog box that appears:

In this box Do this Fields Select the field to which you want to apply the threshold. Only numerical fields are

listed in the menu.

Operator Select an operator for the threshold.

Value Type the value for the threshold.

Tip : If you have already set a threshold for the field, you can use this instead of setting a new threshold. To do this, select the Use Existing Threshold check box and choose the required threshold from the list.

5 Click OK to save the threshold and return to the Create Filter Wizard.

6 Click Next.

The values that will be included in the filter are listed in the Filter Values pane.



The filter is now available from the list of filters that appear in the Custom Filter pane.


Selecting Elements Quickly You can use the Quick Selection list to select a list of elements in the Modules pane. You can also re-use previous lists.

Note: When you apply a filter, any elements you have previously selected will be cleared.

To quickly select elements:

1 In the Custom Filters pane, in the Quick Selection drop-down, type the list of elements you want to select. The elements must be separated by commas, for example, 10A,11B,11C.

Tip : You can use wildcards to represent characters in filter values. There are two wildcards you can use:

Asterisk (*) - to represent zero or more characters. For example, if you type 'BSC*', you will filter all the elements that begin BSC.

Question mark (?) – to represent a single character. For example, if you type 'BSC?', you will filter the four-character elements that begin BSC, such as BSC1 or BSC2.

2 Click the Apply Quick Selection Filter button .

The elements are automatically selected in the Modules pane.

The Quick Selection drop-down list holds the previous ten quick selection filters. To re-use one of these filters:

1 From the Quick Selection drop-down list, select the one you want to use.

2 Click the Apply Quick Selection Filter button .

The elements are automatically selected in the Modules pane.

Applying a Filter To apply a filter that has already been created:

1 In the Custom Filter pane, select the filter from the Filter Name menu.

2 Select if you want to apply the filter to All Modules or just a Selected Module. To apply the filter to a selected module, ensure the module is highlighted in the Modules pane.

3 Click the Apply Custom Filter button .

The elements within the filter are selected in the Modules pane.

Note: When you apply a filter, any elements you have previously selected will be cleared.


Using the Filter Explorer In the Filter Explorer, you can create, edit and delete personal, global filters and ENTERPRISE filters.

To open the Filter Explorer, either:

1 From the Tools menu, click Filter Explorer.

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2 In the Custom Filter pane, click the Filter Explorer button .

The Filter Explorer opens, this picture shows an example:


Creating Filters in the Filter Explorer In the Filter Explorer, you can create a filter. If you wish to create a personal filter, you first need to select a folder for the filter to be saved into. This is done by setting user preferences. For more information, see Choosing Where to Save Filters on page 95.

To create a filter:

1 In the All filters pane, select the folder in which you want to create the filter, based on the filter type you are creating. For example, if you want to create a personal filter, select the Personal Filters folder.

2 Click the Create New Filter button .

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Click with the right mouse button, and from the menu that appears, click New Filter.

3 In the dialog box that appears, type a name for the filter and click Next.

4 In the Filter Values pane, type the values on which you want to filter. For example, if you want to filter on cell 10A, type 'Cell10A'.

Tip : You can use wildcards to represent characters in filter values. There are two wildcards you can use:

Asterisk (*) - to represent zero or more characters. For example, if you type 'BSC*', you will filter all the values that begin BSC.

Question mark (?) – to represent a single character. For example, if you type 'BSC?', you will filter the four-character values that begin BSC, such as BSC1 or BSC2.



A new filter is created and stored in the appropriate folder:


Editing Filters in the Filter Explorer In the Filter Explorer, you can edit existing filters. To do this:

1 In the All Filters pane, select the folder containing the filter, and in the Filter Name pane, select the required filter.

2 Click the Edit Filter button .

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Click with the right mouse button, and from the menu that appears, click Edit Filter.

3 In the dialog box that appears, edit the filter details as required on each page. When you are satisfied, click the Finish button on the final page.

Note : You cannot edit ENTERPRISE filters in OPTIMA Lite.

Copying Filters in the Filter Explorer In the Filter Explorer, you can copy filters between folders, and in this way, change their permissions. For information on the permissions for the different types of filter, see Filtering Elements in the Modules Pane on page 95.

To move filters:

1 In the All Filters pane, select the folder containing the filter, and in the Filter Name pane, select the required filter.

2 Click the Copy filter button .

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Click with the right mouse button, and from the menu that appears, click Copy filter.

3 In the All Filters pane, select the folder to which you want to move the filter.

4 Click the Paste Filter button .

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Click with the right mouse button, and from the menu that appears, click Paste Filter.

Tip : You can also drag and drop a filter into a folder.


Customising Grids in OPTIMA

You can show data in grid format when you run either:

• A performance alarm in the Alarm Explorer

• A module in the module combination window

• A query in the Data Explorer

For modules, a separate grid is displayed for each module in the combination window. You can switch between grids by clicking the appropriate tab above the grid:

Many of the tools used are found by clicking with the right mouse button on the grid.

When a grid contains a large number of records some of the tools, such as filtering and grouping, may slow down the speed with which data is shown in the grid. This is due to the background processing of these tools. You can prevent this slow down by disabling these tools after a given number of records are returned from a query. For more information, see Setting Grid Preferences on page 22.

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In This Section About the Tools for Customising a Grid Customising Columns in a Grid Searching for Data in Grids Filtering Data in Grids Summarising Data Viewing Details of a Single Network Element in a Grid Printing Grids Exporting OPTIMA Grids Counting Records in OPTIMA Grids Viewing SQL in Grids

About the Tools for Customising a Grid To view the tools menu, hover the mouse cursor over a grid and click with the right mouse button. This picture shows the menu that appears:


You can show the toolbar above the grid by pointing to Toolbars and from the menu that appears select Toolbar. The toolbar duplicates the options in the popup menu:

Customising Columns in a Grid You can customise the way each grid displays data using the tools described in the following sections.

If you have defined a maximum number of columns to display when you run a query (for more information, see Setting Grid Preferences on page 22), then all the columns may not appear in the grid. If you want to display all the columns before you begin to

customise them, click the Load All Columns button .

Sorting Data Within Grid Columns To see by which column data in the grid is sorted, look for the arrow in the column heading. An up arrow indicates data is in ascending order and a down arrow indicates data is in descending order:

To sort the data using the column headings:

Click the heading for the column by which you wish to sort the data.

Tip : If you want to sort by more than one column, hold down the Shift key and click the heading for each column by which you want to sort the data.

The table refreshes to show information sorted in ascending or descending order by the column you clicked.

To clear a sort on a column:

Hold down the Ctrl key and click the heading for the column from which you want to remove the sort.


Sorting Data Before Running a Module

Before you run a module, you can sort data on the server, . This is particularly useful if you know the query will return a large amount of data. The sorting function is much quicker when run on the server.

To sort data on the server:

1 Highlight the module in the Modules pane.

2 Click with the right mouse button on the grid and, from the menu that appears, click Server-side Sorting.

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Click the Server-side Sorting button .

3 In the Sort Order dialog box that appears, highlight the column by which you want to sort the data and click the right arrow button. Repeat this step for all the columns you want to sort by.

Tip: You can move all the selected columns back to the list on the left by clicking the double left arrow button.

4 Sort the columns in the right-hand pane by using the Up and Down buttons.

5 Use the ASC or DESC button to switch between ascending and descending sort orders for each column.

6 Click OK to return to the grid.

7 You can now run the module. To do this, in the Modules pane:

Click the Run Highlighted Module button .


Fixing Grid Columns For OPTIMA windows that contain a grid showing data, you can choose to fix any number of columns in that grid. This means that they remain displayed while the other columns of data will still scroll.

For example, in a window showing Cell Statistics, you might want to have the Cell Identification and Site name columns fixed so that they are always shown when you are scrolling through the data. This makes it easy to see which information belongs to which cell.

To fix columns:

Click with the right mouse button on the grid, point to Fix columns and choose the number of columns you wish to fix.

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Click one of the Fix Columns buttons .

Note : If you choose Fix N Columns, in the Fix Columns dialog box that appears, type the number of columns and click OK.


Scrolling to a Grid Column To scroll to a column

1 Ensure the Row Highlight option is not selected. For more information, see Viewing Details of a Single Network Element in a Grid on page 116.

2 Click with the right mouse button on the grid and, from the menu that appears, select Scroll to Column.

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Click the Scroll to Column button .

3 In the Scroll to Column dialog box that appears, select from the drop down menu the column that you want to scroll to and click OK.

Changing the Grid Column Settings OPTIMA enables you to change the column settings. You can set the position, size and width of columns and also hide columns. You can also change how text appears in the columns.

To change the column settings:

1 Click with the right mouse button on the grid and from the menu that appears select Column Settings.

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Click the Column Settings button .

2 In the Column Settings window, set up your columns as required:

To: Do this: Move a column up or down Select the column from the list and click the Move Up and Move Down

buttons as appropriate.

Move a column to the beginning or end

Select the column from the list and click the Move to First and Move to Last buttons as appropriate

Change the width of the column Double-click on the column you want to modify and, in the Column dialog box, type the width you want the column to be.

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Select the column to which you want to make changes and click the Edit button. In the Column dialog box, type the width you want the column to be.

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Click in the Width column next to the column to which you want to make changes and type in the width you want the column to be.

Hide or show a hidden column Select the check box in the Show column for each column to want to display. You can Show All, or Hide All, by clicking the Show All or Hide All buttons.

Tip : You can also use shortcuts to quickly edit columns. For more information, see Shortcuts for Changing Column Settings on page 109.


You can change how the text appears in all the columns in your grid by changing the column fonts. If you have also set threshold and conditional fonts, these will overwrite the column font.

To change the column font:

1 Click with the right mouse button on the grid and, from the menu that appears, select Font.

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Click the Font button .

2 In the Font dialog box that appears, select how you want the text to appear.

3 Click OK to close the Font dialog box and save the changes.

Shortcuts for Changing Column Settings

You can also change the column settings in the grid using the following shortcuts:

To: Do this: Change the position of a column Select the column and drag it to the desired location in the table

Change the width of the column Place the cursor between the column titles (above the column divider) then click and drag the cursor to the required width.

Automatically size the column so you can read all the column text

Place the cursor between the column titles (above the column divider) then double click between the columns. The column to the left will automatically resize.

Setting Thresholds and Conditional Fonts You can use conditional fonts to highlight certain data values, for example, if you want to show congestion greater than 1% in blue, and greater than 2 % in red. You can do this as part of the process of setting thresholds.

Important : Conditional fonts will override counter thresholds that have been set via the Thresholds window. For example, if the conditional font has been set on a column containing Erlang data, the data will be displayed using the conditional fonts rather than the global Erlang threshold colours.


To set thresholds:

1 Click with the right mouse button on the grid and, from the menu that appears, select Column Settings.

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Click the Column Settings button .

2 In the Column Settings window, double-click in one of the Threshold columns.

3 In the Column window that appears, select a check box to enable that threshold.

4 Type in a value for the threshold and select a logical operator (=, <>, >, >=, <, <=) from the drop-down menu.

5 Click the button to set the conditional fonts. You can set the colour, size and font type.

6 Click OK to close the Font dialog box and then click OK to close the Column dialog box.

Note : You can set up to three threshold for each column.

Refreshing Data The Refresh data option is used to update data in the grid to show the most recent query run.

To refresh data:

Click with the right mouse button on the grid and, from the menu that appears, select Refresh Data.

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Click the Refresh Data button .


Saving and Resetting the Layout When you have made changes to the appearance of the columns in the grid, you can save the layout so it stays the same the next time you open that combination window or you can reset the layout to its original format.

To save the layout for future use:

Click with the right mouse button on the grid and, from the menu that appears, select Save Layout.

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Click the Save Layout button .

To reset the layout to its original format:

Click with the right mouse button on the grid and, from the menu that appears, select Reset Layout.

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Click the Reset Layout button .

Searching for Data in Grids You can search for data in a grid using the Search toolbar. To do this:

1 Make sure the toolbar is displayed by selecting Search Bar from the Toolbars menu:

2 In the Search On box, from the menu select the item that you want to find.

3 In the For box, type a value or element name as required.

4 Select the check boxes if you want to find a Partial Match and/or you want your

search to be Case Insensitive.

Note : If you search for a partial match of CELL and 301, the search would return all cells containing the number 301. That is 30100, 30101, 40301 and so on.

5 Click Find to start the search.

The grid scrolls and the line that contains the nearest match to your search is indicated with an arrow:


Filtering Data in Grids You can filter the data in one or more columns of the grid. This makes it easier to view specific information. For example, the grid could display data for a number of days, but you may want to quickly view the data for just one of those days.

Tip : If a column has a filter applied to it, the filter arrow is shown in blue.

Using filters, you can define the data in the grid in the following ways:

• Display data for a single value from one or more columns, for example BSC1.

• Display data which is filtered by rules applied to one column, for example where the Erlang is less than 5 or greater than 10.

• Display data which is filtered by rules applied to more than one column, for example where the Erlang is less than 5 or greater than 10 and the BSC is equal to BSC1.

Selecting a Single Value to Filter the Grid You can select a single value from any column in the grid and only view the data which applies to that value.

To select a value:

Click the arrow on the heading of the column you want to filter and, from the menu that appears, click the value. Repeat this for each column that you wish to filter.

To remove a filter:

Click the blue arrow on the heading of the column from which you want to remove the filter and then click All.

You can limit number of values that are listed by editing your user preferences. For more information, see Setting Grid Preferences on page 22.


Filtering One Column of the Grid You can create a filter which applies to only one column of the grid but uses rules to return more than one value in that column.

To create a filter:

1 Click the arrow on the heading of the column you want to filter and, from the menu that appears, click Custom.

The Custom Filter dialog box appears.

2 Select a rule and type a value for your filter. If the value is a date, click the arrow in the value box and a calendar appears from which you can select a date.

3 If you want to define a second rule, you must select a logical operator for your filter.

4 Click OK.

The grid refreshes to show only the filtered data, the filtered column's arrow changes to blue and a summary of the filter appears below the grid.

5 Repeat the above steps for each column that you wish to filter.

To remove a filter:


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Click X in the filter summary.


Filtering More Than One Column In The Grid You can create a filter which applies to more than one column of the grid and uses rules to return more than one value for each column. This is done in the Filter Builder.

To open the Filter Builder:

Click Customize, to the right of the filter summary, below the grid.

To create a filter in the Filter Builder:

1 Click Filter and select Add Condition.

2 In the condition row that appears, the first column from the grid is automatically displayed. To change this, click the column name and from the list of columns that appear select the appropriate one.

3 To select an operator, click on the default operator and from the list that appears

select the appropriate operator.

4 To select a value, click Empty and type a value. If the value is a date, click the arrow in the value box and a calendar appears from which you can select a date.

5 Repeat the above steps until you have defined your filter.

6 Click Apply to view the grid with the filter applied.

7 Click OK to apply the filter and close the Filter Builder.


To remove a filter:


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Click X in the filter summary.

Summarising Data OPTIMA enables you to summarise the data contained in the grid.

You choose at least one column by which you wish to group the data for example BSC, the data in this column cannot be summarised. You can then summarise each column by one summary type, that is either count, average, minimum, maximum or total. For example:

To create a summary of data in a column:

1 Click the Customise Summaries button.

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Click with the right mouse button and, from the menu that appears, point to Summary and click Customise Summaries.

2 In the Summary Details dialog box, click Add.

The Add Summary dialog box appears.

3 From the menus available, select the column you wish to summarise and how you want that data to be summarised.

4 Click OK.

5 Click Close in the Summary Details dialog box to return to the combination window.


To view summarised data:

1 Ensure you have created a summary for each column you want to summarise then decide by which column you want to group the data, this column must not have a summary created for it.

2 Click the heading of the column by which you want to group the data and drag the heading into the grey area above the grid.

The grid displays the summaries.

3 Repeat the step above for each column by which you want to group the data.

To remove the summaries:

Click the heading in the grey area above the grid and drag it back onto the grid.

Viewing Details of a Single Network Element in a Grid If your grid has many columns, you might want to highlight a row or view all the details for a single network element. In OPTIMA, you can do this is two ways:

Highlighting a Row in a Grid

To highlight a row:

1 Select a cell in the row you want to highlight.

2 Click with the right mouse button and, from the menu that appears, select Row Highlight.

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Click the Row Highlight button .

To clear the row highlight, click the button again.


Viewing Details in a Grid

To view details for a single network element:

1 Select a cell in the row for the element you wish to view.

2 Click with the right mouse button and, from the menu that appears, select View Details.

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Click the View Details button .

3 A Grid Details window appears, detailing information on your chosen element.

This picture shows an example:

4 In the Grid Details window, you can manipulate your data in the following ways:

Manipulation To Do This Move the position of data Click the data you wish to move and drag it to the required position.

Sort the details by Field name or Data

Click on the Field name or Data header box to sort the details. Click againto view the details in descending order.

Delete a piece of data Click with the right mouse button on the data and from the menu that appears, click Delete.

Note : Deleting data in this way removes it from the Grid Dialog Box only; it still remains in the Cell Statistics window.

Print the data In the Grid Details window, click with the right mouse button and, from the menu that appears, select Print or Print Preview.

Note : This will only print data for this network element.


Printing Grids From the combination window, you can print:

• A single network element. To do this, you first need to view the details for that single element, for more information on this, see Viewing Details of a Single Network Element in a Grid on page 116.

• The entire grid

To print an entire grid:

1 Click with the right mouse button on the grid and from the menu that appears select Print.

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Click the Print button .

2 From the menu that appears, click Print.

3 In the Print dialog box, choose your options then click OK.

Exporting OPTIMA Grids You can export OPTIMA grids to:

• A CSV or HTML file

• The Clipboard, from where you can paste the grid into other applications

• A Microsoft® Excel® spreadsheet

To export a grid:

1 Click the appropriate Export button .

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Click with the right mouse button on the grid and select Export, From the menu that appears, click Export and choose one of the following:

Clipboard

File as CSV

File as HTML

Excel

2 If you export to the clipboard, open an application and paste the grid.

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If you export to Excel, an Excel spreadsheet will open and display the data.

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If you select .CSV or .HTML, type a filename then click Save.


Counting Records in OPTIMA Grids You can count the total number of cells shown in the grid, even for a particular filter displayed.

To count the records shown:

Click with the right mouse button on the grid and, from the menu that appears, select Record Count.

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Click the Record Count button .

A dialog box appears, displaying the number of records.

Viewing SQL in Grids You can view the SQL query used in the module that calls the data shown in the grid. You might want to do this to check you are querying the correct tables, or you may wish to copy the SQL to use it elsewhere.

To view the SQL:

Click with the right mouse button on the grid and, from the menu that appears, select Show SQL.

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Click the Show SQL button .

A window appears, showing the SQL. You cannot edit the SQL in this window, but you can copy it by pressing Ctrl+C.


Using Graphs When you run a module in the module combination window, the data is shown in grid and graph format. This Chapter describes the tools you can use to customise the graph.

Many of the tools used are found by clicking with the right mouse button on the graph.

In This Section About the Tools for Customising a Graph Changing the Appearance of Graphs About the Navigating Tools About the Appearance Tools Forecasting and Extending Trends on a Graph Printing and Exporting Graphs About the Series List

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About the Tools for Customising a Graph To view the tools menu, hover the cursor over a graph and click with the right mouse button. This picture shows the menu that appears:

Zoom in and outof a graph

Changes pointerback to arrow

Rotate a graphChanges cursor to acrosshair to view values

View graphs in 3D

Show gaps on dataShow data value

pointsHighlights weekends onthe graph

Shows holidays

Shows threshold lines

Extends any showntrends on a graph

Export a graphPreview a graph

before printing

Show / hide the series listShow / hide the

toolbarProperties - OPTIMAgraph options

By selecting Toolbar, you can display all the options from the menu as a toolbar. This picture shows the sections of the toolbar that appears:

Navigating Appearance Printing / ExportingFunctions


Changing the Appearance of Graphs The OPTIMA Graph Options dialog box enables you to set up the properties of the graphs. Once this is set up for one graph, it will be used as the default for all other graphs.

To open the OPTIMA Graph Options dialog box:

Click with the right mouse button on the graph and from the menu that appears, select Properties.

You can edit the graph options on the following tabs:

• General

• Axis

• Line Series

• Functions

• Bar Series

• Threshold Lines

Using the General Tab in the OPTIMA Graph Options Dialog Box On the General tab you can:

• Choose to show or hide the legend key and amend the alignment

• Select auto marks

• Edit the background, weekend and holiday colours

Showing and Hiding the Legend Key

You can select to show or hide the legend key in the OPTIMA Graph Options dialog box. To do this:

1 Click with the right mouse button on the graph and from the menu that appears, select Properties.

2 On the General tab, select the Show Legend check box.

3 To amend the alignment of the legend key, in the Legend Alignment pane, click the required option such as Left, Right, Top or Bottom.

4 Click Apply to view the changes and then click OK to save the changes.


Setting the Auto Marks

You can set the mouse so that when it is hovered over a series, the information about that point in the series automatically shows. This is known as auto marks. To set the auto marks:

1 Click with the right mouse button on a graph and from the menu that appears, select Properties.

2 On the General tab, select the Auto marks check box.


Now when you hover over a point on a graph, the information is automatically displayed, as shown here:

Setting the Colours

You can set different colours for the weekends and holidays shown on the graph as well as setting the background colour for the entire graph area. To set a colour:

1 Click with the right mouse button on a graph and from the menu that appears, select Properties.

2 On the General tab, click the Change button next to the holiday, weekend or background colour.

3 In the Colour dialog box that appears, click on the colour you want to use and click OK.

4 In the OPTIMA Graph Options dialog box, click Apply to view the changes and then click OK to save the changes.


Changing the Appearance of Graph Axis On the Axis tab of the OPTIMA Graph Options dialog box, you can:

• Add grid lines to your graph

• Change the values of each axis

• Amend the date format

• Change the angle of the labels on each axis

Adding Grid Lines

To add gridlines to the graph:

1 Click with the right mouse button on the graph then, from the menu that appears, select Properties.

2 Select the Axis tab and click the Gridlines check box for the relevant axis, either left, bottom or right.


To remove gridlines, repeat the process.

Changing the Values of an Axis

You may want to change the values of an axis because you wish to view the values as a percentage or because values for one of two selected counters, shown on different axes, may be too small to display.

To change the values of an axis:

1 Click with the right mouse button on the graph then, from the menu that appears, select Properties.

2 On the Axis tab, under the axis you want to change, deselect the Automatic check box and insert the required minimum and maximum values.


Changing the Date Format

If you want to change the format of any dates that are shown on the graph axis:


2 On the Axis tab, in the Bottom pane, select the required Date Format from the list.



Changing the Angle of the Labels

You can change the angle of the labels on the bottom axis to enable more labels to be viewed. To do this:


2 On the Axis tab, in the Bottom pane, use the up and down arrows on the Angle box to select the angle in degrees.


Changing the Thickness of Graph Lines If your graph is a line graph, you can adjust the thickness of the lines displayed.

To do this:


2 On the Line Series tab, select the required line thickness – Thin, Medium or Thick.


Using the Functions Tab in the OPTIMA Graph Options Dialog Box In the Functions tab of the OPTIMA Graph Options dialog box you can set a gap period. The gap period is normally set at twice the data capture period, for example, if the data is captured at hourly intervals, then the gap period would be set at two hours.

To set the gap period:


2 On the Functions tab, in the Gap Period pane, use the up and down arrows to set the number and from the drop-down list select the time period.

3 In the Moving Average Function pane, set the number of value used in the moving average function.



Changing the Thickness of Bars on Bar Graphs If your graph is a bar graph, you can adjust the thickness of the bars displayed.

To do this:


2 On the Bar Series tab, in the Multiple Bar pane, choose how you want the bars to appear – None, Side, Stacked, Stacked 100%.

3 If your bar graph has DATETIME on the X-axis, you can specify the thickness of the bars by typing a number between 0 and 100 in the Bar Width field.

Note : The default bar width is 70.


Displaying Thresholds on Graphs You can set thresholds and then display a threshold line in the graph.

Note : This does not affect the threshold display options in the Grid.

To set the threshold:


2 On the Threshold tab, click Add.

3 Type a name for the threshold, for example GSM_Standard.

4 Insert a value.

5 Select the Axis and choose a colour.

6 Click OK

7 In the Graph Display Options dialog box, click OK to save the changes.

Tip : To edit or delete a threshold, highlight the threshold and click Edit and make your changes or click Delete.

To display threshold lines:

Click with the right mouse button on the graph and from the menu that appears, select Show Threshold Lines.

The threshold lines for this graph are displayed.


About the Navigating Tools You can use the following tools to navigate around the OPTIMA graphs:

• Zoom

• Rotate

• Cursor

Zooming and Scrolling on OPTIMA Graphs To zoom in on a graph:

Click in the top left section of the area on the graph you want to zoom into and drag the cursor towards the bottom right until you have covered the area you want to view.

To zoom out on a graph:

Click in the bottom right of the graph and drag the cursor towards the top left.

You can also scroll to a particular point on the graph. To do this:

Click with the right mouse button and drag the cursor in the required direction: dragging to the right scrolls the graph right, dragging to the left scrolls the graph left, and so on.

Rotating a Graph You can rotate graphs using the rotating tool. To do this:

1 On the graph, click with the right mouse button and then from the menu that appears, select the Rotate button.

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Select the Rotate button from the toolbar.

2 Click and hold the left mouse button on the graph and drag the cursor in the required direction.

To turn the rotating tool off, click the Rotate button again.

Viewing Values Using the Cursor Key Use the cursor key to view values between points. To select the cursor:

1 On the graph, click with the right mouse button and then from the menu that appears, select the Cursor.

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Select the Cursor button from the toolbar.

2 Hover with the mouse over the graph and drag the cursor in the required direction, the values are highlighted on the graph.

To turn the cursor tool off, click the Cursor button.


About the Appearance Tools You can use the following tools to change the appearance of the OPTIMA graphs:

• View 3D

• Show Gaps

• Show Points

• Show Weekends and Holidays

Viewing the Graph in 3D You can view graphs in 2D or in 3D. To view a graph in 3D:

On the graph, click with the right mouse button and from the menu that appears, click View 3D.

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Select the View 3D button from the toolbar.

To revert to a 2D graph, click the View 3D button.

Viewing Gaps in the Data You can view gaps, or missing data values, in the data shown in a graph.

The gap period is set on the Functions tab in the OPTIMA Graph Options dialog box. For more information, see Using the Functions Tab in the OPTIMA Graph Options Dialog Box on page 126.

To view the gaps in the data:

1 Ensure you have set the required gap period.

2 On the graph, click with the right mouse button and from the menu that appears select Show gaps.

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Select the Show Gaps button from the toolbar.

The gaps will display on the graph.

Tip : To view the gaps closer, use the zooming tool.

To remove gaps from the graph, click the Show Gaps button.


Displaying Data per Point on an OPTIMA Graph You may wish to study data related to a specific point on an OPTIMA graph. To do this:

1 Click with the right mouse button on a graph and from the menu that appears, click Show Points.

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Select the Show Points button from the toolbar.

2 Click the specific point on the graph. The Counter value and the date appear. The grid also scrolls to this value, enabling you to see the relevant data in tabular form.

You can also view the information on the graph automatically with the mouse hovered over the points. This is called auto marks. For more information, see Using the General Tab in the OPTIMA Graph Options Dialog Box on page 123.

To remove the points from the graph, click the Show Points button.

Viewing Weekends and Holidays You may wish to view or analyse points that occur at the weekend or on holidays. You can change the colour of these points so that they stand out from other points. This is done in the OPTIMA Graph Options dialog box. For more information, see Using the General Tab in the OPTIMA Graph Options Dialog Box on page 123.

To view weekend or holiday points:

On the graph, click with the right mouse button and from the menu that appears, select Show weekends or Show Holidays.

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Select the Show Weekend button or Show Holiday button from the toolbar.

To remove the points from the graph, click the Show Weekend or Show Holiday buttons.


Forecasting and Extending Trends on a Graph To extend a trend:

1 Selected a trend from the Series list.

2 On the graph, click with the right mouse button and from the menu that appears,

select Extend trends.

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Select the Extend Trends button from the toolbar.

3 In the Time Period dialog box that appears, use the up and down arrows and the drop down menu to select how far you would like to extend the trends. The following picture shows an example:

4 Click OK to view the extended trend.


Printing and Exporting Graphs From the combination window, you can print the graph or export it:

• to the Clipboard

• to a File

• via e-mail

Printing a Graph

To print a graph:

1 On the graph, click with the right mouse button and from the menu that appears, select Print Preview

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Select the Print Preview button from the toolbar.

2 In the Print Preview window, set the following items so your graph prints as required:

Set the: By Doing This: Printer Selecting a printer from the list. You can set-the printer properties by

clicking the Setup button.

Paper Orientation Selecting either Portrait or Landscape.

Margins Using the up and down arrows next to each margin value – or – Selecting the View Margins check box and dragging the margins to the desired position on the preview of the graph.

Detail Level Dragging the Detail arrow to either More or Normal.

3 Click the Print button.

The Print Preview window appears.


Exporting a Graph

To export a graph:

1 On the graph click with the right mouse button and from the menu that appears, select Export.

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Select the Export button from the toolbar.

2 In the Export dialog box that appears, select the format type for exporting the graph.

3 If you want to save the graph to the Clipboard, click Clipboard. The graph is

saved to the clipboard.

4 If you want to export the graph to a File, click File and in the Save as window that appears, browse to the appropriate folder and save your graph.

5 If you want to export the graph via email, click Email and in the Choose profile dialog box, ensure the profile is correct and click OK. The graph is added to a blank email as an attachment.

6 When you have completed your export, in the Export dialog box, click Close.


About the Series List The Series List is the pane to the left of the Graph pane. The list contains the items you can display on the graph. The type of graph is determined by the module that you are using. To display an item in the graph, select it in the series list.

Series List

You can show and hide the series list. To show or hide the list:

Click with the right mouse button on the graph, from the menu that appears click Series List.

To view the series list tool menu:

1 Click with the right mouse button on the series list.

This menu appears and is split into two sections:

2 Use the Select all option to select all the data in the series list and the Unselect all

option to deselect the data.

From the series list you can:

• Order data in the series list

• Move series along the z axis when viewing a graph in 3D

• Change the colours used on the graph

• Change the axis where data appears

• Access extra functions if the graph is a line graph


Ordering the List of Data for a Graph You may wish to order performance data in the list to the left of the graph. OPTIMA enables you to sort this data alphabetically. This is useful for displaying related data together when multiple elements have been selected for viewing.

To order the list of data that you can display on a graph:

1 Click with the right mouse button on the series list.

2 From the menu that appears, click Sort.

About the 3D Options in the Series List Menu The 3D options are only available when a graph is in 3D mode. You can use the 3D options to move series in a graph on the z axis forward one, back one or right to the beginning of the axis or to the end of the axis. To do this:

1 Click with the right mouse button on the Series list.

2 From the menu that appears select 3D Options and then select the option you require.

Changing the Colours of the Graph Lines and Functions To change the colour of a graph line and function:

1 In the Series List pane, highlight the series or function for which you want to change the colour and click with the right mouse button.

2 From the menu that appears, click Change Colour.

3 In the Colour dialog box that appears, either choose a colour from the basic colour palette, or define your own.

4 Click OK to close the Colour dialog box. This applies the colour to the graph.


Changing the Axis Where Data Appears If you are comparing two graphs, it is sometimes easier to gain an accurate picture or comparison when the graphs you are viewing have the same axis. An example of this might be if you have a view set up that combines a cell history and cell statistics module.

However, you may not want all the data displayed using the same axis.

For example, values for one of two selected counters may be too small to display. In this case, you can select one of the counters and change the axis. To do this:

1 In the Series List pane, click the + sign next to the required counter to expand the tree.

2 Select the option Change Axis.

The counters are displayed on the right axis.

To change the axis back repeat the process and the counter will display on the left axis.


Using the Series List Functions in Line Graphs If the graph is a line graph, you can access extra functions such as trend, and average, for the graph.

To use a function:

1 In the Series List pane, click the + sign next to the required counter to expand the tree.

2 Click the + sign to expand the Functions option.

3 From the list of functions that appears, select the one you want to use.

This table describes the functions:

Function Description Trend Constructs a line based on the trend of the Series values; it draws the best

straight line trend through the data.

Low Shows the lowest point of all the series values.

High Shows the highest point of all the series values.

Average Gives you the average for a series across the whole chart.

Moving Average Performs a simple or weighted average of last period series values enabling you to track the current average as your data charts.

Exponential Average Creates an exponential average based on the series values.

Note : The exponential average is similar to a moving average. It has a weight factor to add importance to more recent data.

Standard Deviation Shows the standard deviation from the mean of data from the input Series.

Curve Fitting Performs a polynomical Gaussian calculation on the underlying series data to draw a smooth curve over the original points.

Cumulative Constructs a line based on the cumulative values of the input. It sums the seriesvalues starting from the first point.

Count Draws a horizontal line at Y position that is defined by the number of values in underlying series.

RSI Calculates a percent value based on financial data.


Using OPTIMA Work Areas An OPTIMA work area can contain multiple:

• Web browser pages, which enable you to display web pages

• Combination pages, which enable you to display module combinations

By using a work area, you can:

• save all the items you regularly use then open this one work area rather than opening each item every time you want to view it. All the settings for the work area are saved on a per user basis to a local INI file. You can save a work area as a favourite. This gives you quick, easy access to that work area from the Favourites toolbar. For more information, see Adding and Editing Favourites in OPTIMA on page 91.

• set up refresh times so, after a specified interval, queries will be executed again.

• set switching intervals so that you can automatically switch between combinations and web browsers.

In This Section About the Work Area Toolbar Creating a New Work Area Adding and Removing Combinations Adding and Removing Web Browsers Refreshing Data and Switching Tabs Loading a Work Area

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About the Work Area Toolbar This picture shows the work area toolbar:

You can use the options available from the toolbar to customise your work area. For more options when you have a work area open, click with the right mouse button on the work area and, from the menu that appears, select the appropriate action.

Creating a New Work Area A work area consists of two types of page:

• Web browser pages, which enable you to display web pages.

• Combination pages, which enable you to display module combinations.

You can have as many pages in a single work area as you require.

To create a new work area:

1 From the Inspector menu, select New Work Area.

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Click the New Work Area button .

2 Add any combinations you want to save with this work area. For more information, see Adding and Removing Combinations on page 141.

3 Add any web browser pages you want to save with this work area. For more information, see Adding and Removing Web Browsers on page 142.

4 Add the switching and refreshing data intervals. For more information, see Refreshing Data and Switching Tabs on page 143.

5 Click the Save button on the work area toolbar to save your changes.

6 Select a directory and type a filename for the work area then click OK.

Important : When you save the work area it is saved to a local .INI file. If you want to remove a work area you will need to delete the .INI file from your machine. This will remove the file completely. You should only do this if you are certain you no longer need this work area.


Adding and Removing Combinations

Adding a Combination

To add a combination to a work area:

1 Click the Add Combination button .

2 In the Module Combination Explorer, select the combination you want to add and click OK.

3 You can now enter the switching interval and the refreshing interval for the page. For more information see Refreshing Data and Switching Tabs on page 143.


Tip: You can also drag and drop an open combination onto a work area.

Removing a Combination

To remove a combination from the work area:

1 Click with the right mouse button on the combination tab you want to remove and, from the menu that appears, select Remove Combination.

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Click on the combination tab you want to remove and click the Remove

Combination button .

2 In the Confirm dialog box, that appears, click Yes.

The combination is removed from the work area.



Adding and Removing Web Browsers You can add web browsers to the work area so that you can view any queries that may be running via the Intranet or Internet.

Adding a Web Browser

To add a web browser to a work area:

1 Click the Add Web Page button .

2 In the dialog box that appears, type the URL for the web page you want to display then click OK.

Tip : To change the page you want to display, on the work area toolbar, click the

Edit Web Page button and type the new web page address.

A new page displaying the web page is added to your work area. You can navigate to other areas from the web page, although the Back web browser button is not available when navigating from the web page.

3 You can now enter the switching interval and the refreshing interval for the page. For more information, see Refreshing Data and Switching Tabs on page 143.


Removing a Web Browser

To remove a web browser from the work area:

1 Click with the right mouse button on the web page tab you want to remove and, from the menu that appears, select Remove Web Page.

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Click on the web page tab you want to remove and click the Remove Web Page

button .

2 In the Confirm dialog box, that appears, click Yes.

The web page is removed from the work area.



Refreshing Data and Switching Tabs You can set up refresh times for the data, so that after a specified interval the query will be executed again and the data updated. You can also set a switching interval, which specifies how long each page is shown. Refresh and switching intervals can be set per page.

To specify the interval for data refresh or switching for a page:

1 In the New Work Area dialog box, select the page you want to set the refresh and switching intervals for.

2 Click the Tab Options button on the toolbar.

3 From the Tab Options dialog box that appears:

In the Refresh Interval field, enter the interval time in seconds. This is the number of seconds that should pass before the query runs to refresh the data. Tip : If you want the interval to apply to all pages, select the Apply to All check box.

In the Switch Interval field, enter the interval time in seconds. This is the number of seconds that should pass before the work area switches to the next page. Tip : If you want the interval to apply to all pages, select the Apply to All check box.

4 Click OK. If you have selected to apply the refresh and/or switching intervals to all pages, click Yes to confirm.

Enabling Data Refreshing and Switching

Refresh Option

To turn the Refreshing data option on or off:

On the Work area toolbar, click the Enable Refresh button .

Switching Option

To turn the Switching option on or off:

On the Work area toolbar, click the Enable Switching button .


Loading a Work Area If you have saved a work area previously, you can load it.

Note : Loading a work area involves loading an INI file.

To load a work area:

1 Ensure you have added a combination or web browser page to a work area and saved the work area. For more information, see Creating a New Work Area on page 140.

2 From the Inspector menu, select New Work Area.

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Click the New Work Area button .

3 On the work area toolbar, click the Load work area button.

4 In the Open window select the relevant work area file and click Open.

The work area is loaded along with any switching and refreshing procedures previously set up for that work area.


Viewing Data on the Map When using OPTIMA with ENTERPRISE, you can view operational performance against geographical location using the Map View window.

To enable you to do this, OPTIMA has the category Performance Data in the standard list of data types available for display in the Map View window.

KPIs, created by the OPTIMA_Administrator, are shown under this category. All these counters can be displayed on the map.

Note: KPIs which, when they were defined, did not have the Show in Map check box selected will not appear in the performance data list. For more information, see Creating KPIs on page 37.

For core information about the ENTERPRISE Map View window, see the ENTERPRISE User Reference Guide.

In This Section Displaying Performance Data on the Map Changing the Display of Performance Data Using the Clock to Display Performance Data

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Displaying Performance Data on the Map When you have collected performance data, you can display it on the map.

To display data on the map:

1 From the View menu, click 2D View to open a Map View window.

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Click the New 2D View button .

2 Click the Show Data Types button .

3 In the list of data types, click the + sign next to Performance Data to expand the category.

4 Expand the appropriate schema and table and then select the counters that you

want to display on the map.

5 Click with the right mouse button on the map and click Refresh to redraw the map

and show the performance data that you selected.

This picture shows an example.


Changing the Display of Performance Data When using OPTIMA to display data on the Map View window, you can customise the display for the selected performance counter using the Display Properties window.

You can change properties such as font, colour, symbol, and size of symbol. Also, on the Data tab you can:

• Choose which data is shown on the map by setting the date and time required.

• Choose the filter required, to specify whether all or a sub-set of cell groups is shown on the map.

• In the Display Options pane, choose whether to display service area, sector and text for the cells.

To change how performance data is displayed on the map:

1 In the Map View window, click the Show Data Types button .

2 Expand the Performance Data category.

3 Double-click the counter whose display you wish to change. The Display Properties dialog box appears.


4 On the Data tab:

Select The To display Link to Main Calendar check box

Data for the current date.

If you do not select this check box, select a date using the calendar in the Date pane.

Filter Only data that is included in the selected ENTERPRISE filter. Select the All filter to include all data.

Sector check box The cell as a 3-sector icon

Text check box The textual data that applies to this cell

Service Area check box The area of service provided by this cell. Click Select to choose a 2G or 3g service area. If you choose 3G, you can also select array settings from the Array Setting menus.

5 On the Size tab, select:

A Symbol Size, using either Auto or typing in a set size in metres.

The minimum and maximum size limits to stop the symbol from dominating the view when you zoom in or disappearing when you zoom out.

6 On the Colour tab, select:

The first colour used to show the data type.

The interval. For every increase in the value you type in the Interval box, the colour will change to the next colour in the palette.

The minimum and maximum values displayed by any colour.

7 On the Font tab, change the font settings as required.

8 On the Background tab, select whether a background colour is switched On or Off. If you choose On, select a colour from the palette.


10 Click with the right mouse button on the map and click Refresh to redraw the map.


Using the Clock to Display Performance Data You can display performance data by using the OPTIMA clock. By using the Play function, you can look at the data from different time periods as quickly or as slowly as you want. To use the clock's Play function:

1 From the Options menu, click Clock.

2 In the Main OPTIMA Calendar dialog box that appears, click Advanced.

This pane appears.

This table shows what you can do in this pane:

In this pane/box Choose

Playing Data in 2D Map – Increment by:

The size of the interval you want between each data display. For example, to see the data at 0000, 0200 and 0400, you would select a step of 2 hours.

Playing Data in 2D Map – Every: How quickly you want the map to refresh with the data you have specified. For example, if you refresh the map view every minute, it gives you a minute to analyse the data before it changes.

2D Map Switching – Every: How often you want to switch between maps.

3 When you have selected the step and period value, click Play. The performance data displayed on the map will alter accordingly.


Generating and Scheduling Reports

You can use OPTIMA to generate and schedule reports of performance data. You can create reports, and then, at times you have defined, have OPTIMA automatically produce reports and email them to you, print them to a printer or save them to a file. The reports can be printed or exported in the following formats: • RAF • CSV • PDF • XHTML • RTF • HTML

• XLS • BMP • JPEG • TIFF • RTM

You can save a report as a favourite and then have quick, easy access to that report from the Favourites toolbar. For more information, see Adding and Editing Favourites in OPTIMA on page 91.

The report system uses the following report applications:

• ReportBuilder, which is a third party report application that is fully integrated with OPTIMA. For more information, see Creating Reports Using Report Builder on page 155.

Note : Detailed information on ReportBuilder and how to use it can be found on the Digital Metaphors website at www.digital-metaphors.com. Digital Metaphors supply a document called Learning ReportBuilder, which is available for download from their website.

• OPTIMA Excel Report Editor, which enables you to create and edit Microsoft® Excel™ reports in OPTIMA. For more information, see Creating Excel Reports on page 175.

In This Section Download Learning ReportBuilder About Using OPTIMA Reports Scheduling When Reports Run

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Download Learning ReportBuilder To access the Learning ReportBuilder document:

1 On the www.digital-metaphors.com Welcome page click the rbuilder

ENTERPRISE link .

2 On the page that is displayed next, select Learning ReportBuilder from the list of options in the left hand pane.

You can now download the Learning ReportBuilder document, in PDF format.

About Using OPTIMA Reports Using the OPTIMA Report Explorer, all OPTIMA_Users can:

• Select existing reports to view

• View the history of a report

OPTIMA_Administrators and OPTIMA_Advanced_Users can additionally:

• Create and delete folders

• Create reports

• Restrict editing of reports

• Edit and rename reports

• Copy and paste reports

• Import and export reports

• Print and print preview reports



Creating Folders for Reports To create and delete folders in Report Explorer, you must have OPTIMA_Administrator or OPTIMA_Advanced_User permissions.


1 From the Reporter menu, click Report Explorer.

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Click the Report Explorer button .

2 In the Report Explorer window, browse to where you want to create the new folder and click with the right mouse button. From the menu that appears, click New Folder.

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Deleting Folders

To delete a folder:

1 In the Report Explorer window, highlight the folder you want to delete.


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3 In the Confirm dialog box, click Yes to delete the folder and return to the Report Explorer.


Locking Folders


To lock a folder:

1 From the Reporter menu, select Report Explorer.

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2 In the Report Explorer, select the folder you want to lock.


4 On the Security tab in the Report Folder Properties dialog box, select the Admin Folder check box.

5 Click OK.


To unlock a folder:


Viewing Reports To view a report:


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2 In the Report Explorer window, browse for the report you want to view and either:

Double-click the report name. - or –

Click with the right mouse button on the report, and from the menu that appears, click Open.


Creating Reports Using Report Builder If you have OPTIMA_Administrator or OPTIMA_Advanced_User permissions, you can create and edit reports with Report Builder.

The Report Builder application is incorporated within the Report Designer window. You use the Report Designer window to create and edit your reports. This picture shows an example of the Report Designer window:

Report Designer window

The Report Designer window has three tabs, which are described in the following table:

Use This Tab: To: Data Select and manipulate the data required for a report. For more

information, see Defining Queries on page 156 and Editing Queries on page 163.

Design Design the layout of a report. For more information, see Designing Reports on page 164.

Preview See how a report will look when it is printed.

To create a new report:


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2 In the Report Explorer window, browse to where you want to create the new report and click with the right mouse button. From the menu that appears, click New Report.

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Click the New Report button .

The Report Designer window appears. You can now choose the content of your report and design its layout. For more information, see Defining Queries on page 156 and Designing Reports on page 164.


Defining Queries

On the Data tab of the Report Designer window, you can define queries to retrieve information from the OPTIMA database to use in your reports. When you build a query, you can choose to use either the Query Wizard or the Query Designer. The following table describes the two options:

Option: Description: Query Wizard A step by step wizard that guides you through the process of defining a query. You do not

need to be familiar with SQL to use the Query Wizard. For more information, see Using the Query Wizard to Define a Query on page 156.

Query Designer A dialog box with a series of tabs that can be used to define and edit queries. The Query Designer is more flexible than the Query Wizard and allows you to edit the SQL manually. It can also be used for multi-vendor queries. For more information, see Using the Query Designer to Define a Query on page 160 and Editing Queries on page 163.

Using the Query Wizard to Define a Query

To define a query using the Query Wizard:

1 In the Report Designer window, on the Data tab, from the File menu, click New.

2 In the New Items dialog box that appears, select Query Wizard and then click OK.

3 On the first page of the Query Wizard, in the left-hand pane, select the table that

you want to query and click the > button.

4 Click Next.


5 On the second page of the Query Wizard, select the fields that you want to query by selecting one of the options described in the following table:

Select This Radio Button: If You Want To:

All Fields Select all of the fields in the table.

Choose Fields Select specific fields in the table.

To select a field, select it in the left-hand pane and click the > button.

6 Click Next.

7 On the third page of the Query Wizard, you can add calculations to the fields selected in Step 5.

To add a calculation to a field:

1. Select the Add Calculations radio button.

2. In the left-hand pane, select the field you want to add a calculation to and click the > button.

3. In the dialog box that appears, select a function from the Function drop-down list and a field from the Numeric Field drop-down list.

4. Click OK. The calculation is added to the right-hand pane.

5. To add another calculation, repeat steps 2 to 4.

If you do not want to add any calculations, select the No Calculations radio button.

8 Click Next.

9 On the fourth page of the Query Wizard, you can group rows together based on common field values. The following table describes the two grouping options:


No Grouping Have no grouping.

Select Group Fields Select the fields to group by.

To select a field, select it in the left-hand pane and click the > button.

Note : If your query contains calculations, then it will automatically be grouped by all selected fields.

10 Click Next.


11 On the fifth page of the Query Wizard, you can limit the rows returned by the query. You might want to do this to restrict the amount of data returned during the design process. The following table describes the two limiting options:


All Rows Have all rows returned by the query.

Define Search Criteria Define search criteria to limit the rows returned.

To define search criteria:

1. In the Criteria pane, click with the right mouse button and, from the the menu that appears, click Insert Criteria.

2. In the Search Criteria dialog box, select a Field and an Operator from the appropriate drop-down lists and enter a value in the Value field.

3. Click OK. The search criteria is added to the Criteria pane.

4. To define more search criteria, repeat steps 1 to 3.

12 Click Next.

13 On the sixth page of the Query Wizard, you can set the row order based on the field values. The following table describes the two row order options:


Natural Order Use the natural row order.

Set Order Set your own row order.

To set the row order:

1. In the left-hand pane, select the row that you want to be first in the order and click the > button.

2. In the left-hand pane, select the row that you want to be next in the order and click the > button.

3. Repeat step 2 until there are no more rows in the left-hand pane.

14 Click Next.

15 On the final page of the Query Wizard, type a name for your query and select one of the options described in the following table:


Return to Data Workspace To be returned to the data workspace when you have finished.

Preview this Query Preview the data returned by your query when you have finished.

Modify the Query's Design Modify your query using the Query Designer when you have finished.

16 Click Finish to save your query and close the Query Wizard.


This picture shows an example query which returns data from the CELLSTATS table:

Example Query


Using the Query Designer to Define a Query

To define a query using the Query Designer:

1 In the Report Designer window, on the Data tab, from the File menu, click New.

2 In the New Items dialog box that appears, select Query Designer and then click

OK. The Query Designer window appears. This picture shows an example:


3 On the Tables tab, in the Available Tables list, double-click the table you want to query. The table is added to the Selected Tables list. This picture shows an example:

Tip : To remove a table, double-click the table in the Selected Tables list.

4 On the Fields tab, in the Available Fields list, double-click the fields you want to query. The fields are added to the Selected Fields list. This picture shows an example:

Tip : You can add all of the fields to the Selected Fields list by selecting the All Fields check box.

5 On the Calcs tab, you can add calculations to the fields selected in Step 4.

To add a calculation to a field:

1. In the Available Fields list, double-click the field you want to add a calculation to. The field is added to the Calculations list.

2. In the Calculations list, select the field.

3. Select a function from the Function drop-down list. If you want to use a user-defined expression, select Expression from the Function drop-down list and then type the expression in the Expression field. This picture shows an example of the Sum function:


6 On the Group tab, you can select fields to group the results of your query by. To select a field to group by, double-click the field in the Available Fields list.

7 On the Search tab, you can filter the data returned by your query. For detailed information about how to do this, see Filtering the Data Displayed in Reports on page 171.

8 On the Sort tab, you can select fields to order the rows returned by your query.

To select a field to order by:

1. In the Available Fields list, double-click the field you want to order by.

2. If you want the returned rows to be in descending order, select the field in the Sort Fields list and then select the Desc (z>a) check box. This picture shows an example.:

Tip : To use the order of the rows stored in the OPTIMA database, select the Natural Order check box.

9 On the SQL tab, you can view and manually edit the SQL of your query.

Note : Once you have manually edited a query, you can no longer use the Query Designer tabs to edit your query.

To manually edit a query:

1. Click with the right mouse button on the SQL and, from the menu that appears, click Edit SQL.

2. Click Yes to confirm. The SQL becomes editable.

10 Click OK to save your query and close the Query Designer.


Editing Queries

You can use the Query Designer to edit existing queries. To do this:

1 In the Report Explorer, double-click the report with the query you want to edit. The Report Designer window appears.

2 In the Report Designer window, click the Data tab.

3 Click with the right mouse button on the query you want to edit and, from the menu that appears, select the required option.

The Query Designer appears, with the corresponding tab selected.

4 Make the required changes to your query. For more information about using the Query Designer, see Using the Query Designer to Define a Query on page 160.

5 When you have finished, click OK to save your changes and close the Query Designer.


Designing Reports

After you have selected the content of your report, you can design its layout. You design reports using the toolbars available on the Design tab in the Report Designer window.

The Standard Component toolbar contains static components which you use to enhance the appearance of your report, for example, to add labels or images. This picture shows an example of the Standard toolbar:

Standard Component toolbar

The Data Component toolbar contains data aware components. You use these components to display actual data from the OPTIMA database. This picture shows an example of the Data toolbar:

Data Aware Components

Data Component toolbar

For more information about designing reports using ReportBuilder, see the Digital Metaphors website at www.digital-metaphors.com.



This picture shows an example report design. In the example, static components have been used in the Header band of the design area to create the visual appearance of the report and data aware components have been used in the Detail and Footer bands to display data from the OPTIMA database.

Example Report Design

Displaying Query Data in a Graph

With Report Builder, you can add graphs to your reports to display the data from queries. You create graphs using TeeChart Pro. TeeChart Pro is a third party charting application. For more information about TeeChart Pro, see the Steema Software website at http://www.steema.com.

Note : You must have a query defined before creating a graph. For information about defining queries, see Defining Queries on page 156.

To display query data in a graph:

1 In the Report Explorer, double-click the report you want to add the graph to. The Report Designer window appears.

2 In the Report Designer window, click the DB Chart button .

3 In the design area, click where you want the graph to be located.

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4 Click with the right mouse button on the graph and, from the menu that appears, click Edit Chart. The Editing ppDPTeeChartControl1 dialog box appears. This picture shows an example:

5 In the Editing ppDPTeeChartControl1 dialog box, click Add. The TeeChart

Gallery dialog box appears. This picture shows an example:


6 In the TeeChart Gallery dialog box, click the type of graph that you want to add. If you want your graph to be a 2D graph, unselect the 3D check box.

7 Click OK. A new series is added to the Editing ppDPTeeChartControl1 dialog box. This picture shows an example of a series for a bar graph:

Tip : To rename the series, click Title and, in the dialog box that appears, type a new name and then click OK.

8 Click the Series tab and then click the Data Source sub-tab.

9 On the Data Source sub-tab, select Data Pipeline from the drop-down list. This

will enable you to link a query to the series.

10 From the Data Pipeline drop-down list, select the query that you want to link to the series.


11 On the Data Source sub-tab, complete the following information:

In This Field: Do This: Labels Select a label from the drop-down list, if you want a label to be displayed on the

x axis for each series point.

X Select a field from the drop-down list to display on the x axis of the graph.

Bar Select a field from the drop-down list to display on the y axis of the graph.

DateTime Select this check box if you want to display the date and time on the x axis.

DateTime Select this check box if you want to display the date and time on the y axis.

This picture shows an example of a bar series which is linked to the MIRNC01_Query query and has DAY, Date and Time on the X axis and RAB SU ACC COMP VOICE % on the Y axis:

12 Click Apply.

13 If you want to add another series to your graph, repeat steps 5 to 12.

14 Click the Chart tab and then click the Titles sub-tab.

15 In the Text pane, type a title for your graph.


16 Click Close to save your graph and exit TeeChart Pro.

Tip : To preview your graph, in the Report Designer window, click the Preview tab.

This picture shows an example of a 3 series bar graph:

Example Bar Graph


Saving Reports

To save a report to the OPTIMA database:

1 In the Report Designer window, on the Design tab, from the File menu, click Save As.

2 In the Save New Report As dialog box, browse to the Report Explorer folder where you want to save your report, type a name and click Save. The report is saved to the OPTIMA database.

To save a report to file:

1 In the Report Designer window, on the Design tab, from the File menu, click Save to File.

2 In the Save As dialog box, browse to the folder where you want to save your report, type a name and click Save.

Reports are saved in RTM format. This means that you can send reports, by email for example, and load them into other OPTIMA databases by using the Load from File option.


Filtering the Data Displayed in Reports

In ReportBuilder, you can use filters to limit the data returned when reports are run. When you run a report with a filter, you are asked to specify the criteria that you want OPTIMA to report on.

To create a filter for a report:

1 In the Report Explorer window, open the report that you want to add a filter to. The Report Designer window appears.

2 In the Report Designer window, click the Data tab.

3 Select the query that you want to filter and either:

Click the Search button .

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Click with the right mouse button on the query and, from the menu that appears, click Search.

The Query Designer appears, with the Search tab selected. This picture shows an example:

4 In the Available Fields pane, either:

Double-click the field that you want to be a filter.

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Click with the right mouse button on the field that you want to be a filter and, from the menu that appears, click Insert Criteria.

The selected field appears in the Criteria pane.


5 In the Criteria pane, complete the following information: In This Field: Do This: Operator Select an operator from the drop-down list. For example, if you want to create a filter that only returns

data for an exact value, then select the = operator.

Note : You must select In List if you want to use OPTIMA filters when the report is run.

Value Either leave this field blank or add default values. If you add default values, they will be pre-selected in the filter when you run the report. For more information about filter values, see Adding Filter Values on page 173.

AutoSearch Select this check box if you want to display the Search dialog box when the report is run. For more information, see Adding Filter Values on page 173.

Note : Do not select the AutoSearch check box if the report is to be scheduled.

Mandatory Select this check box if you want to ensure that a filter value is entered when the report is run.

Show All Select this check box if you want the filter to display all of the values of the field.

Note : This option overrides all other filter options.

This picture shows a filter for the XXTRAFFMEASBH24_ERI.UTRANCELL field which when run will display the Search dialog box and allow OPTIMA filters to be used:

6 Click OK.

7 Close the Report Designer and click Yes to save your changes.

Now when you run the report, you will be asked to specify filter value(s) based on the criteria you have set. For more information about filter values, see Adding Filter Values on page 173.


Adding Filter Values

When you run a report with a filter, the Search dialog box is displayed. In the Search dialog box, you can choose to add a filter value and/or an OPTIMA filter. The report will display only the information that relates to the filter value(s) you have added. For more information about OPTIMA filters, see Creating Filters in the Filter Explorer on page 100.

Note : The Search dialog box is not displayed when you preview a report in the Report Designer.

To add a filter value:

1 In the Report Explorer window, run the report you want to filter.

2 In the Search dialog box that appears, type the value that you want to filter and click Add to List. The value appears in the list of search values.

For example, if your report has a UTRANCELL filter and you want to run the report for UTRANCELL 1811, simply add the value 1811 to the list. This picture shows an example:

3 Click OK to close the Search dialog box and run the report with the specified filter

value.


To add an OPTIMA filter:

1 In the Report Explorer window, run the report you want to filter.

2 In the Search dialog box that appears, click the Add Optima Filter button.

3 In the Add Optima Filters dialog box that appears, select a filter from the list.

The filter elements associated with the filter appear in the Contents of Filter list. This picture shows an example:

4 To add an available element to the search values, click the right arrow button.

Tip : To add all of the available elements to the search parameters, click the double right arrow button.

5 Click OK.

The selected filter elements appear in the list of search values. This picture shows an example:

6 Click OK to close the Search dialog box and run the report with the OPTIMA

Filter.


Creating Excel Reports If you have OPTIMA_Administrator or OPTIMA_Advanced_User permissions, you can create and edit Microsoft® Excel™ reports in OPTIMA.

To create an Excel report:


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2 From the Report Explorer File menu, point to New and click Excel Report.

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Click the New Excel Report button .

The OPTIMA Excel Report Editor window appears. This picture shows an example:

3 On the Report Information tab, type a name and description and select the

Enabled check box.

Important : Ensure the Enabled check box is selected otherwise the report will not run.


4 On the Report Definition tab, you define and edit the contents of your report by writing one or more data queries and assigning an Excel template. The data queries will determine the data that is displayed in the report and the Excel template how that data is displayed.

This table describes the Report Definition buttons: Click: To: Add Create and add a new data query to a report. To do this:

1. Click Add. The Data Explorer appears.

2. In the Data Explorer, define your data query. For more information, see Defining a Query on page 63.

3. Close the Data Explorer and click Yes to save your data query to the Excel Report.

4. In the dialog box that appears, type a name and description for your data query and click OK. The new data query is added to your report and appears in the Report Data Queries List.

Remove Remove a data query from a report. To do this:

1. Select the data query you want to remove in the Report Data Queries List.

2. Click Remove.

3. Click OK to remove the data query.

Edit Edit a pre-defined data query. To do this:

1. Select the data query you want to edit in the Report Data Queries List.

2. Click Edit. The Data Explorer appears.

3. In the Data Explorer, edit your data query. For more information, see Defining a Query on page 63.

4. Close the Data Explorer and click Yes to save your data query to the Excel Report.

5. In the dialog box that appears, click OK. The edited data query is added to your report.

Preview Data Preview the data returned from a data query. To do this:

1. Select the data queries you want to preview in the Report Data Queries List.

Tip: Use the Shift and Ctrl keys to highlight more than one data query at a time.

2. Click Preview Data. An Excel workbook appears, containing a separate worksheet for each selected data query.

3. If you want to create a new Excel report template, add formatting to the workbook and then, when you have finished, save the workbook as an .XLT file.

Tip : You can use the range function in Excel to specify how each data query is displayed. When using ranges, ensure that the range name is exactly the same as the corresponding data query name.

4. Close Excel to return to the Excel Report Editor window.


This picture shows an example of the Report Definition tab:

5 Click the Assign Template button.

6 In the dialog that appears, select the Excel template that you want to associate with your report and click Open. The name of the associated template appears in the Template File Name field.

7 Click the Preview Report button. An Excel workbook appears, containing a separate worksheet for each data query associated with the report.

Tip : Repeat steps 5 to 7 if you want to see how your report looks with a different template applied.

8 If you want to create a new Excel report template, add formatting to the workbook and then, when you have finished, save the workbook as an .XLT file.

Tip : You can use the range function in Excel to specify how each data query is displayed. When using ranges, ensure that the range name is exactly the same as the corresponding data query name.

9 Close Excel to return to the Excel Report Editor window.

10 Click OK to save your report to the OPTIMA database and close the OPTIMA Excel Report Editor window.


This picture shows an example of an Excel report:

Example Excel Report

Viewing Excel Reports

All OPTIMA_Users can view Excel Reports. To view an Excel report:


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2 In the Report Explorer window, browse for the Excel report you want to view and either:

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Click with the right mouse button on the report, and from the menu that appears, click Open.


Locking Reports If you have OPTIMA_Administrator permissions, you can lock reports to prevent other users from editing them.

To lock a report:

1 From the Reporter menu, select Report Explorer.

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2 In the Report Explorer, select the report you want to lock


4 In the Report Properties dialog box, select the Admin Report check box.

5 Click OK.

To unlock a report follow the previous steps and clear the Admin Report check box.

Restricting Editing of Reports You can use an owning group to restrict who has editing access to a report. If a report is assigned an owning group, then it can only be edited by members of that group. A report can only have one owning group.

To assign an owning group for a report, you must have one of the following:


• OPTIMA_Advanced_User permissions and be a member the group that owns the report

To make a group the owner of a report:

1 From the Inspector menu, click Report Explorer.

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2 In the Report Explorer window, select the report you want to set the owning group for.

Note: You cannot assign the owning group for a report that is locked as an Admin Report, unless you have OPTIMA_Administrator permissions.

3 Click with the right mouse button on the selected report and from the menu that appears, click Properties.

4 In the Report Properties dialog box, select a group from the drop-down list.

5 Click OK.


Editing and Deleting Reports

Editing Reports

To edit a report:


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2 Highlight the report you want to edit and double-click to open it.

The Report Designer window appears.

Renaming Reports

To rename a report:

1 In the Report Explorer, click with the right mouse button on a selected report, and from the menu that appears, click Rename.

2 Type in the new name for the report and press Enter.

Deleting Reports

To delete a report:

1 In the Report Explorer, highlight the report you want to delete

2 Click with the right mouse button, and from the menu that appears, click Delete.

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Copying Reports If you have OPTIMA_Administrator or OPTIMA_Advanced_User permissions, you can copy existing reports and then modify them.

To do this:


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2 In the Report Explorer, select the report(s) you want to copy.

Tip : Use the Shift and Ctrl keys to select more than one report at a time.


4 Select the folder that you want to copy the report(s) to.

5 Click with the right mouse button, and from the menu that appears, click Paste. The reports are copied to the specified folder.

Printing Reports To print and print preview reports, you must have OPTIMA_Administrator or OPTIMA_Advanced_User permissions.

To print a report:


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2 In the Report Explorer window, highlight the report you want to print and click with the right mouse button. From the menu that appears, click Print or Print Preview.

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Click the Print or Print Preview buttons .

3 In the Print Preview dialog box, you can scroll through the report pages and zoom

in and zoom out on the report. Click the Print button to open the Print dialog box.

4 In the Print dialog box, select the printer and the print properties and click OK to print the report and return to the Report Explorer.


Importing and Exporting Report Definitions If you have OPTIMA_Administrator or OPTIMA_Advanced_User permissions, you can export reports and then import and use them in another OPTIMA installation. You can import and export:

• Reports

• Report folders

• A combination of reports and report folders

Note : You must have OPTIMA_Administrator permissions to import and export Admin reports and Admin folders.

Importing Reports

To import a report:

1 In the Report Explorer, select the folder into which you want to import the report(s).

2 Click the Import Report From File button .

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Click with the right mouse button, and from the menu that appears, click Import Report(s) Definition.


4 In the Import Reports dialog box, click the Browse button.

5 In the Browse for Folder dialog box, select the folder which contains the report(s) you want to import and click OK.



7 If your selection includes reports in sub-folders, you will be asked if you want to recreate the directory structure in the Report Explorer. Click Yes to recreate the directory structure, otherwise click No.

8 In the message box that appears, click OK to import the report(s). The reports are imported to the specified folder.


Exporting Reports

To export a report:

1 In the Report Explorer, select the report(s) and/or folder(s) you want to export.

Tip : Use the Shift and Ctrl keys to select more than one report and/or folder at a time.

2 Click the Export Report to File button .

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Click with the right mouse button, and from the menu that appears, click Export Report(s) Definition.

3 If your selection includes reports in sub-folders, then in the Export Reports dialog box, set the following options by selecting or clearing the appropriate check boxes:

Export reports from sub-folders.


4 Click OK.

5 In the Browse for Folder dialog box, select the folder into which you want to export the report(s) and click OK.

6 In the message box that appears, click OK to export the report(s). The reports are exported to the specified folder.


Exporting Reports If you have OPTIMA_Administrator or OPTIMA_Advanced_User permissions, you can export reports to file and/or email. To do this:

1 In the Report Explorer, select the report you want to export.

2 Click with the right mouse button, and from the menu that appears, click Export.

3 In the Export dialog box that appears, select the format you want to export the report in by selecting the appropriate radio button. This picture shows an example:

Note : If you are exporting an Excel report, the Excel File radio button is pre-selected for you.

4 If you want to zip the report, select the Zip File Before Exporting check box.

5 If you want to export the report to file, click File and in the Save As dialog box that appears, browse to the appropriate folder, type a name, and click Save.

6 If you want to export the report via email, click Email and in the blank email that appears, type the email addresses and click Send.

7 When you have finished, click Close to return to the Report Explorer.


Scheduling When Reports Run You can manage report schedules in the Scheduler Explorer window. If you have OPTIMA_Administrator or OPTIMA_Advanced_User permissions, you can create, edit or delete a schedule and view the history of a schedule.

Creating Folders for Schedules To create and delete folders in the Schedule Explorer, you must have OPTIMA_Administrator or OPTIMA_Advanced_User permissions.


1 From the Reporter menu, click Schedule Explorer.

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Click the Schedule Explorer button .

2 In the Schedule Explorer window, browse to where you want to create the new folder and click with the right mouse button. From the menu that appears, click New Folder.

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Deleting Folders

To delete a folder:

1 In the Schedule Explorer window, highlight the folder you want to delete.


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3 In the Confirm dialog box, click Yes to delete the folder and return to the Schedule Explorer.


Locking Folders


To lock a folder:

1 From the Reporter menu, select Schedule Explorer.

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2 In the Schedule Explorer, select the folder you want to lock.

3 Click with the right mouse button and then, from the menu that appears, click Properties.

4 On the Security tab in the Schedule Folder Properties dialog box, select the Admin Folder check box.

5 Click OK.


To unlock a folder:


Creating a Schedule for a Report OPTIMA_Administrators or OPTIMA_Advanced_Users can either create a schedule for a report from the Report Explorer or from the Schedule Explorer.

To create a report schedule:

1 In the Report Explorer window, click with the right mouse button on the report you want to schedule and, from the menu that appears, click Schedule.

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In the Schedule Explorer, click with the right mouse button on the report you want to schedule and, from the menu that appears, click New Schedule .

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In the Schedule Explorer, click the New Schedule toolbar button .

2 In the Select Report dialog box, select the report you want to create a schedule for and click Open.


3 In the Schedule Editor dialog box, set the following options:

On this tab Do this General tab Type a name for the schedule, and a description if required.

Important : Ensure the Enable Schedule check box is selected otherwise the report will not run.

Recurrence tab In the Pattern pane, select how often you want the report to run. Using the options that appear, select when you want the report to run.

In the Range pane, select the start and end date and time. You can also select whetheryou want the schedule for running the report to end:

On a particular date

After the report has run a specific number of times

To have no end date.

Export tab Choose where you want the report to be exported by selecting:

Printer. Select the Windows default or a specified printer for the report.

File. Click the Browse button and find the client server shared folder. Type a name in the File Name box and click Save. If you want to overwrite the same report each time you run the schedule, select the <filename> save method. If you do not want to overwrite the report, select the <filenameddmmyyyyhhmiss> save method to add a date and time stamp to each report name.

Email. Type the email addresses and a subject line for the email. You can choose a format for the email from the Email as: menu.

Note : If you choose File or Email, you can zip the file by selecting the Zip File Before Exporting check box.

Conditions tab Set any further conditions for the report schedule. Use SQL, which may contain multiple conditions ('where' clauses). If the SQL returns any results, the schedule is processed. If no results are returned, the schedule is ignored.

For example, to schedule a report only if the percentage drops rate for any cell goes above 2%, you would need to add the following code:

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM LASTREADING WHERE PDROP > 2

To test the SQL click Test SQL.

Note : Ensure you select the Enable condition on this report if you want the condition to be active.

4 Click OK to schedule the report.

Note : If you created the New Schedule from the Report Explorer then you will be prompted to save the schedule to a folder. To do this, select the appropriate folder and click OK.


Editing and Deleting Schedules

Editing Schedules

To edit a report schedule:

1 In the Schedule Explorer, double-click the report you want to edit. The Schedule Editor is displayed.

2 Amend the details and click OK to save the changes.

Renaming Schedules

To rename a schedule:

1 In the Schedule Explorer, double-click the schedule you want to rename.

2 In the Schedule Editor, select the General tab and delete the current schedule name and insert the new schedule name.


Deleting Schedules

To delete a schedule:

1 In the Schedule Explorer, highlight the schedule you want to delete

2 Click with the right mouse button and from the menu that appears, click Delete.

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Copying Schedules If you have OPTIMA_Administrator or OPTIMA_Advanced_User permissions, you can copy existing report schedules and then modify them.

To do this:

1 From the Reporter menu, click Schedule Explorer.

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2 In the Schedule Explorer, select the schedule(s) you want to copy.

Tip : Use the Shift and Ctrl keys to select more than one report.


4 Select the folder that you want to copy the schedule(s) to.

5 Click the with right mouse button, and from the menu that appears, click Paste. The schedules are copied to the specified folder.


Viewing and Deleting the History of a Schedule In the Schedule Explorer you can view the history of a schedule. To do this:

Select the schedule for which you want to view the history. The history appears in the Schedule History pane of the Schedule Explorer.

Deleting the History of a Schedule

In the Schedule Explorer you can delete the history of a schedule. To do this:

1 Select the schedule for which you want to clear the history. The history appears in the Schedule History pane of the Schedule Explorer.

2 In the Schedule History pane, click with the right mouse button and click Clear History.

3 In the Confirm dialog box, click Yes to delete the history.


Using Performance Alarms Only OPTIMA_Administrators can use OPTIMA's performance alarms. Performance alarms enable you to set network counter thresholds or key performance indicators (KPIs) and then receive alerts whenever network conditions are not met. Network data is processed, at user defined intervals, by OPTIMA. This data is stored in OPTIMA database tables in the form of counters. Ripple counts are used to define the threshold conditions for setting or clearing alarms.

The information from these alarms can be:

• queries in OPTIMA modules and reports.

• viewed in the Alarms Explorer.

• passed on to a fault management system.

In This Section About Alarm Settings About Alarm Filters About Ripple Counts Defining an Alarm Assigning Alarms to Contacts Viewing, Clearing and Resetting Alarms Viewing and Clearing Alarm Definitions Viewing and Clearing Alarms History Customising Alarm Information

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About Alarm Settings Before you can define and use an alarm, you must define the following:

• Vendors

• Technologies

• Element types

You define these settings from menus in the Alarms Explorer. To open the Alarms Explorer:


Once defined, these settings can be added to an alarm on the Settings tab of the Alarm Definition dialog box. The settings provide an easy way to sort information in the Alarm Log Viewer.

Configuring Vendors In the Vendor Settings dialog box you can add, edit or delete the vendors that you can use when creating an alarm.

To add a vendor:

1 In the Alarms Explorer, from the Vendor menu click View.


3 Type the name of the vendor and click OK.

To edit a vendor name:


2 Select the vendor and click Rename

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Double-click the vendor name.

3 Type in the new name for the vendor.

To delete a vendor:


2 Select the vendor and click Delete.



Configuring Technologies In the Technology Settings dialog box you can add, edit or delete the technologies that you can use when creating an alarm.

To add a technology:

1 In the Alarms Explorer, from the Technology menu click View.


3 Type the name of the technology and click OK.

To edit a technology name:


2 Select the technology and click Rename

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Double-click the technology name.

3 Type in the new name for the technology.

To delete a technology:


2 Select the technology and click Delete.


Configuring Element Types In the Element Type Settings dialog box you can add, edit or delete the elements that you can use when creating an alarm.

To add an element type:

1 In the Alarms Explorer, from the Element Type menu click View.


3 Type the name of the element type and click OK.

To edit an element type:


2 Select the element type and click Rename

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Double-click the element type name.

3 Type in the new name for the element type.

To delete an element type:


2 Select the element type and click Delete.



About Alarm Filters You can create filters to define sets of network elements. When a filter is added to an alarm, the alarm will monitor only the elements included in the filter.

You create filters from the Filter menu in the Alarms Explorer. To open the Alarms Explorer:


Once defined, filters can be selected on the Settings tab of the Alarm Definition dialog box.

Adding, Editing and Deleting Filters To add a filter:

1 In the Alarms Explorer, from the Filters menu, click View.

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If you are already defining an alarm, on the SQL tab of the Alarm Definition dialog box click Element Selection and then click Filters.

2 In the Filter_ID Settings dialog box, click Add.

3 Type a name for the filter and click OK.

4 In the Filter SQL dialog box that appears, type in the code for the filter.

Tip : The Database pane contains a list of OPTIMA tables and columns, Oracle keywords and functions. Double-click any of these to add them to the SQL pane.

5 To test the code works correctly, click Test SQL. If your code is correct, results appear in the bottom pane of the dialog box.


This picture shows an example:

6 Click Save.

To edit a filter:

1 In the Filter_ID Settings dialog box, select a filter and click Edit

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Double-click the required filter.

2 Edit the code for the filter and click Save.

To delete a filter:

1 In the Filter_ID Settings dialog box, select a filter and click Delete



About Ripple Counts Ripple counts are used to define the threshold conditions for setting or clearing alarms. These conditions need to be met continually until the threshold is reached and an alarm is raised. If, at any point the condition is not met, the ripple count is reset and the conditions will have to be met again to raise an alarm.

On the Settings tab in the Alarm Definition dialog box, you can define the ripple counts using the up and down arrows. This picture shows an example.

The following is an example using ripple counts:

For a SET alarm query returning 5 or greater Erlangs and a CLEARED alarm query returning 4 or less Erlangs, you enter a SET ripple count of 3 and a CLEARED ripple count of 4. This means that:

• For a SET alarm to be raised for a particular element in a filter, the element should have an Erlang factor of 5 or more for the next three polling intervals.

• For a CLEARED alarm to be raised for a particular element in a filter, the element should have an Erlang factor of 4 or less for the next four subsequent data granularity periods.

For information about granularity periods, see About Granularity Periods.

This applies to all cells in the filter and with any order of values. So:

1 If the three values 6, 9 and 8 are received, then the SET alarm will be activated on receiving the third value (8). The ripple process will now wait for a CLEARED alarm.

2 If the four values 2, 4, 1 and 3 are received, then the CLEARED alarm will be activated on receiving the fourth value (3). The ripple process will now wait for a SET alarm.


Defining an Alarm Before defining an alarm, ensure you have configured the alarm settings. For more information, see About Alarm Settings on page 192.

To define an alarm:

1 From the Performance Alarms menu, click Alarm Explorer.

2 In the Alarms Explorer, click the Create New Alarm Definition button .

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In the Alarm Definitions pane, click with the right mouse button and from the menu that appears, click Add Definition.

The Alarm Definition dialog box appears.

3 On the Information tab, type the alarm name and add a description.

4 On the Settings tab:

In This Pane Do This Alarm Polling Set the rate at which information from the network is tested against the alarm thresholds. To

do this:

1 From the Next Polling Date Time menus, select a date and a time from which to run the alarm.

2 From the Alarm Polling Interval menu, select the polling interval frequency and time duration.

Ripple Counts Select the ripple counts that will define the thresholds. For more information, see About Ripple Counts on page 196.

Alarm Severity Select the severity levels for your alarm from the list available.

Vendor, Technology, Element type

Select a vendor, technology and element type. For more information, see About Alarm Settings on page 192.

Probable Cause Select a probable cause for your alarm from the list available.

SNMP Select the Forward SNMP Traps check box if you want SNMP traps to be forwarded to a third party fault management system.


5 On the SQL tab:

In This Pane Do This Tree Filter Operations Select the elements to be included in this alarm:

1 Click Element Selection, the Element Selection Wizard that appears.

2 Select the filter and click Next. If you need to create a filter, see Adding, Editing and Deleting Filters on page 194.

3 Expand the element tree and select the elements you want to include in the alarm.

4 To include hierarchy details, select the Include Hierarchy in Element ID check box. Note : If you are working with cells that have similar element IDs, include the hierarchy details to distinguish between the cells.

5 Click Next and then click Finish.

SET Alarm SQL/ CLEARED Alarm SQL

Define the SQL for the alarm:

1 Click SET SQL or CLEARED SQL.

2 In the dialog box that appears, type in the SQL code.


Note : If you selected a filter and you only want to monitor the elements in that filter, you must add the %ELEMENTIDLIST placeholder to the SQL.


4 Click Save and then click Yes to confirm.

Map the counters that are returned by the alarm:

1 From the Element ID list, select an element.

2 From the Date Time list, select a value.

3 For SET Alarms, select values to use in the problem text, which is defined on the Problem Text tab.

6 On the Problem Text tab:

In This Pane Do This Problem Text for SET/CLEARED Alarm

Define the problem text that will be received when an alarm is raised:

1 Click Define.

The Problem Text dialog box appears.

2 Type in the text that you want to be sent when an alarm is raised.

If you wish to include an SQL statement in the problem text:

1 Select the Override SQL check box.

2 In the SQL pane, type the code for the problem text.



4 When you have defined the problem text, click Save and then click Yes to confirm.

7 When you have defined both SET and CLEARED alarms, you can activate the alarm. For more information, see Activating an Alarm on page 199.


Activating an Alarm Once you have created an alarm, you must activate it to start monitoring the network. To do this:

1 From the Performance Alarms menu, click Alarm Explorer.

2 In the Alarm Definition pane, select the Active check box for each alarm you wish to activate.

Note : You can have as many active alarms as needed at any one time.

Editing and Deleting an Alarm To edit an alarm:

1 In the Alarms Explorer, select the alarm you want to edit.

2 Click the Edit Alarm Definition button .

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Click with the right mouse button on the alarm name and from the menu that appears, click Edit Alarm Definition.

3 Edit the alarm as necessary and click OK to save the changes.

To delete an alarm:

1 In the Alarms Explorer, select the alarm you want to delete.

2 If the alarm is active, clear the Active check box.

3 Click the Delete Alarm Definition button .

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Click with the right mouse button on your alarm definition and from the menu that appears, click Delete.

4 In the Confirm dialog box, click Yes to delete the alarm.


Assigning Alarms to Contacts You can assign alarms to contacts so they are notified when an alarm is raised. You can also choose how the alarm is sent, either by email, SMS (text message) or both. Once defined, these are known as alarm handlers.

You can only assign one alarm to a contact or a group of contacts. Once assigned, an alarm cannot be used in another alarm handler.

Before you can assign an alarm to a contact, the contact must be defined. Only OPTIMA_Administrators can define contacts using the Address Book. For more information, see Using Contacts in OPTIMA on page 33.

Creating an Alarm Handler To create an alarm handler:

1 From the Performance Alarms menu, click Alarm Handler Explorer.

2 In the Alarms Handler Explorer, click the Create New Alarm Handler button .

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In the Alarm Handler pane, click with the right mouse button and from the menu that appears, click Add Handler.

The Alarms Handler dialog box appears.

3 On the Information tab, type the handler name and add a description.

4 On the Settings tab:

In This Pane Do This Alarm Handler Choose which alarm you want a contact to be notified about:

1 Click Select.

2 From the list that appears, select an alarm and click Select.

Note : You can only choose one alarm in an alarm handler.

Notification Type Select how you want the contact to be notified when the alarm is raised.

If you want the contact to receive an alert for each element within the alarm, select the Send Multiple Notifications Per Email and/or SMS check box.

Note : You should only use this option if the alarm is monitoring a small number of elements.

Amend Alarm Type Select the Apply Handler on CLEAR Alarms check box if you want the contact to be notified when an alarm is cleared. The contact will also be notified if the alarm is cleared by the OPTIMA_ Administrator.

Template You do not need to change the report format type.

5 On the Contacts tab, click Assign.


6 In the dialog box that appears, select a contact and click Add.

The contacts who will receive notification when this alarm is raised are shown in the right-hand pane of this dialog box.

Tip : To remove a contact from the list, select the name and click Remove. You view detail for a contact or activate a contact so they can receive alarm notifications by selecting their name in the Assign Users dialog box and clicking Properties.

7 You can now activate the alarm handler so the contact receives the notifications.

Activating an Alarm Handler Before a contact can receive alarm notifications, you must activate the alarm handler.

To do this:

1 Ensure the alarm in each alarm handler is active. For information about activating alarms, see Activating an Alarm on page 199.


3 In the Alarm Handler pane, select the Active check box for each alarm handler you wish to activate.

Enabling Contacts to Receive Alerts If a contact is not active, they will not receive alerts. OPTIMA_Administrators can activate contacts using the Address Book. For more information, see Using Contacts in OPTIMA on page 33.

If you are not an OPTIMA_Administrator, you can activate a contact from the Alarm Handler Explorer.

To do this:


2 In the dialog box that appears, from the Tools menu click Contacts.

3 In the Address Book that appears, select the contact you want to activate and click

the Edit button .

4 In the Properties dialog box that appears, select the Active check box.

5 Click OK and then click Yes to confirm.

Tip : To activate or deactivate all contacts, click with the right mouse button in the Address Book and from the menu that appears select Activate All or Deactivate All.


Viewing, Clearing and Resetting Alarms In the Alarms Explorer Viewer Pane, on the Alarms tab, you can view the alarms which are not acknowledged by a third party Fault Management System (FMS). This picture shows an example of the Alarms tab:

Alarms Tab

Viewing Alarms

The following information is shown in the Alarms tab:

• Description of the alarm.

• Element type, for example Cell.

• Element ID.

• SQL Date Time, this is the date and time of the data that generated the alarm.

• Alarm Date Time, this is when the data was queried by the alarms program.

• Vendor, Technology and Severity as selected when the alarm was defined.

• Problem Text.

• Forwarded value. The following table describes the two possible Forwarded values:

Forwarded Value: Description: 0 Alarm has not been forwarded to the FMS by the SNMP program.

1 Alarm has been forwarded to the FMS by the SNMP program.

Tip : You can customise the way alarm information is displayed by using the tools menu. For more information, see Customising Alarm Information on page 207.


Clearing SNMP Forwarded Alarms

If an alarm has been raised and it has been forwarded to the FMS, you can choose to clear that alarm. You can only clear the alarms whose Forwarded value has been set to 1. To do this:

1 In the Alarms tab, select the alarm(s) you want to clear.

Tip : Use the Shift and Ctrl keys to highlight more than one alarm at a time.

2 Click with the right mouse button and then, from the menu that appears, click Delete Forwarded Alarms. You can choose to delete all or delete by alarm id or definition id.

Cleared alarms can be viewed in the Alarms Historical Log tab.

Resetting SNMP Forwarded Alarms

If an alarm has been raised and it has been forwarded to the FMS, you can choose to reset that alarm. Resetting an alarm sets its Forwarded value back to 0. You might want to do this if there was a problem sending SNMP notifications, for example, during SNMP synchronisation. To do this:

1 In the Alarms tab, select the alarm(s) you want to reset.


2 Click with the right mouse button and then, from the menu that appears, click Reset Forwarded Alarms. You can choose to reset all or reset by alarm id or definition id.


Viewing and Clearing Alarm Definitions In the Alarms Explorer Viewer Pane, on the Definition Log tab, you can view information about the changes made to alarm definitions. The Definition Log tab has two sub-tabs which are described in the following table:

Sub-Tab: Description: Definition Log Shows the log for alarm definitions.

Redundant Definition Log Shows the log for deleted and/or non-existing alarm definitions.

You can choose to view either all results or results by definition, by selecting the appropriate option from the View Data drop-down list.

This picture shows an example of the Definition Log tab:

Definition Log tab

Viewing Alarm Definitions

The following information is shown in both sub-tabs on the Definition Log tab:

• A description of the definition.

• The user who made the change to the definition.

• The date and time when the change was made to the definition.

• The action that was performed on the definition.

Tip : You can customise the way alarm definition information is displayed by using the tools menu. For more information, see Customising Alarm Information on page 207.


Clearing Alarm Definitions

To clear alarm definitions in the Definition Log sub-tab:

1 In the Definition Log sub-tab, select the alarm definition(s) you want to clear.


2 Click with the right mouse button and then, from the menu that appears, click Clear Items. You can choose to clear one item or all of the items.

To clear alarm definitions in the Redundant Definition Log sub-tab:

1 In the Redundant Definition Log sub-tab, select the alarm definition(s) you want to clear.


2 Click with the right mouse button and then, from the menu that appears, click Clear Items. You can choose to clear one item or all of the items.

Viewing and Clearing Alarms History In the Alarms Explorer Viewer Pane, on the Alarms Historical Log tab, you can view all historical alarms. The Alarms Historical Log tab has the following two sub-tabs:

• Historical Alarms which shows the historical log for all generated alarms.

• Redundant Alarms Log which shows the alarms for deleted and/or non-existing definitions.

This picture shows an example of the Alarms Historical Log tab:

Alarms Historical Log tab


Viewing Alarms History

The following information is shown in both tabs on the Alarms Historical Log tab:

• Description of the alarm.

• Element type, for example Cell.

• Element ID.

• SQL Date Time, this is the date and time of the data that generated the alarm.

• Alarm Date Time, this is when the data was queried by the alarms program.

• Vendor, Technology and Severity as selected when the alarm was defined.

• Problem Text.

Tip : You can customise the way alarm history information is displayed by using the tools menu. For more information, see Customising Alarm Information on page 207.

Clearing Alarms History

To clear alarms history in the Historical Alarms sub-tab:

1 In the Historical Alarms sub-tab, select the alarm(s) you want to clear.


2 Click with the right mouse button and then, from the menu that appears, point to one of the options described in the following table:

Point to: To: Clear Items Clear one or all items.

Send ADMIN_CLEAR Manually clear alarms which have been raised and not cleared, for example, if an alarm is in a setting state and its clear conditions have not been met after a long period of time, and the user has acknowledged this and is prepared to close the alarm.

To clear alarms history in the Redundant Alarms Log sub-tab:

1 In the Redundant Alarms Log sub-tab, select the alarm(s) you want to clear.


2 Click with the right mouse button and then, from the menu that appears, point to Clear Items. You can choose to clear one item or all of the items.


Customising Alarm Information In the Alarms Explorer Viewer Pane, information is displayed in grid format. You can customise the way this information is displayed by using the tools menu.

To view the tools menu, hover the mouse cursor over a grid and click with the right mouse button. This picture shows the menu that appears:

You can show the toolbar above the grid by pointing to Toolbars and from the menu that appears select Toolbar. The toolbar duplicates the options in the popup menu:

For more information, see Customising Grids in OPTIMA on page 103.

Sorting Alarm Information by Column To sort alarm information using the column headings:

Click the heading for the column by which you wish to sort the data.

Tip : If you want to sort by more than one column, hold down the Shift key and click the heading for each column by which you want to sort the data.

To see by which column data in the grid is sorted, look for the arrow in the column heading. An up arrow indicates data is in ascending order and a down arrow indicates data is in descending order.

To change the position of a column:

Select the column and drag it to the desired location.

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Index

A Adding

alarms • 197, 200 combination windows to a work area • 141 favourites • 91 holidays • 55 modules to a combination window • 83 web pages to a work area • 142

Alarm definitions clearing • 204 viewing • 204

Alarms about • 191 activating • 199, 201 clearing • 202 defining • 197 deleting • 199 editing • 199 resetting • 202 viewing • 202

Alarms history clearing • 205 viewing • 205

B Busy Hour

about • 56 capture settings • 57 setting • 56

C Capture Settings • 57, 58 Categories • 48, 51 Clearing

alarm definitions • 204 alarms • 202 alarms history • 205

Clock offsetting • 17 play data • 149 setting global date • 16 viewing data on the map • 149

Combination Window adding to work area • 141 copying • 88 creating • 83 data grids • 103 deleting • 84 exporting • 89

filtering data • 92 importing • 89 locking • 86 new • 83 removing modules • 83 restricting editing • 87 viewing • 82

Copying combination windows • 88 modules • 76 reports • 181 schedules • 188

Counter types, adding global • 44 raw • 43 Viewing • 15 viewing on the map • 145

Creating alarms • 197 combination windows • 83 custom filters • 95 folders • 70, 80, 153, 185 KPIs • 37 links between modules • 84 new work area • 140 queries • 63 report schedules • 186 reports • 155, 175 Users • 31

Custom Filters • 95

D Data

gathering • 61 grids • 103 monitoring with alarms • 191 setting-up • 61 sorting • 105, 106 summarising • 115 viewing on the map • 146

Data Explorer about • 20 adding filters • 66 defining queries • 63, 64, 66 searching • 63 using • 62

Date Range • 93 Defining

associations for a table • 49 Deleting

KPIs • 39 report schedules • 188 reports • 180

Drill Down Links • 84

E Editing

KPIs • 39 report schedules • 188 reports • 180

Element IDs • 59 Excel Reports

creating • 175 viewing • 178

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Exporting combination windows • 89 grids • 118 modules • 76 reports • 182, 184

F Favourites

adding and editing • 91 Filtering

data in combination windows • 92 data in grids • 112, 113, 114 elements • 95 network elements • 92 using date ranges • 93

Finding elements in the modules pane • 94

Folders creating • 70, 80, 153, 185 locking • 71, 81, 154, 186

G Global Counters • 44 Global date and time • 16 Granularity Period

repopulating tables • 51 setting • 48

Graphs automarks • 123 changing apperance • 129 colours • 123 grid lines • 125 legend • 123 properties • 123

Grids exporting • 118 toolbar • 104 Using • 103 Using Thresholds • 109

Groups, User Permissions • 26

H Holidays

about • 55 entering • 55

I IDs • 59 Importing

combination windows • 89 modules • 76 reports • 182 work areas • 144

Installing OPTIMA • 8

K KPIs

about • 37 creating • 37 deleting • 39

editing • 39

L Linking modules • 84 Locking

combination windows • 86 folders • 71, 81, 154, 186 modules • 74 reports • 179

Login to OPTIMA • 9

M Modules

about • 69 copying • 76 editing • 75 exporting • 76 Filtering in the Combination Window • 92 finding • 94 importing • 76 linking • 84 locking • 74 opening in a new combination • 75 removing from the combination window • 83 restricting editing • 74 setting-up • 61

N Network elements, selecting • 92

O Opening

combination windows • 82 Data Explorer • 20 module in a new combination • 75 OPTIMA • 9 OPTIMA Lite • 9 queries • 68 work areas • 144

P Password,changing • 10 Permissions

about • 26 creating • 31

Printing graphs • 132 grids • 118 reports • 181

R Raw Counters • 43 Recreating, views • 42 Report Builder • 151, 155 Report Schedules

copying • 188 creating • 186 deleting • 188 editing • 188

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renaming • 188 Reports

about • 151 copying • 181 creating • 155, 175 exporting • 182, 184 filters • 173 importing • 182 locking • 179 restricting editing • 179 scheduling • 185 viewing • 154, 178

Resetting, alarms • 202 Route Editor • 53

S Selecting Network Elements • 92 Settings Wizard, using • 46 Sorting data • 105, 106 Starting

OPTIMA • 9 OPTIMA Lite • 9

Synchronising, tables • 40

T Table and Field Information

about • 45 adding comments to columns • 50 adding comments to tables • 50 assigning categories • 48 defining associations for a table • 49 setting granularity period • 48 setting table security • 47 using the Settings Wizard • 46

Table associations, defining • 49 Table Security, setting • 47 Tables

synchronising • 40 Thresholds

Thresholds • 109 Toolbar

favourites • 13 grids • 104 OPTIMA • 12

Tree Links • 84

U User Permissions

about • 26 creating • 31

Using custom filters • 95 Data Explorer • 62 OPTIMA • 9 OPTIMA Lite • 9 quick selection filters • 98 reports • 152 work areas • 139

using windows in the work area • 139

V Viewing

alarm definitions • 204 alarms • 202 alarms history • 205 automarks • 123 combination windows • 82 counters • 15 data • 79 data in the Data Explorer • 67 data on the map view • 145 report schedules • 189 reports • 154, 178 thresholds • 109 web pages • 139, 142

Views recreating • 42

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