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January 2010LTE/OAM/INF/028052

eXtended Management SystemFeature Planning Guidefor OAM LA2.0 release


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XMS - FEATUREPLANNINGGUIDEOAM LA2.0 J ANUARY2010

Alcatel -Lucent ProprietarySee Notice on Page 2

LTE/OAM/INF/028052- 3 / 49V01.03 January 2010

Copyright 2009 by Alcatel-Lucent. All Rights Reserved.

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PUBLICATION HISTORY

24 JUNE 2009 - Issue 01.01 JUN 09/ EN, Preliminary, External

Creation for DR0 BDP milestone

19 OCTOBER 2009 - Issue 01.02 OCT 09/ EN, Preliminary, External

Update for DR1 BDP milestone

Feature description Added / Updated

96463 - FM base feature introduction NEW 101698 - WPS kernel evolution (parameter searching, abort long operations, etc - NEW

08 JANUARY 2010 - Issue 01.03 JAN 10/ EN, Standard, External

Update post DR1 BDP milestone

Feature description Added / Updated

77041 - Multi-standard LTE-CDMA supervision NEW 77968 - Integration Function for SAM5620 (alarms and state) - NEW 76920 - Job Management and Scheduling - NEW


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CONTENTS

1 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................7

1.1 SCOPE OF THIS DOCUMENT.....................................................................................7 1.2 AUDIENCE FOR THIS DOCUMENT................................................................................7 1.3 EXPIRY .......................................................................................................7

2 RELATED DOCUMENTS........................................................................................8

2.1 APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS......................................................................................8 2.2 R EFERENCE DOCUMENTS.......................................................................................8

3 EXTENDED MANAGEMENT SYSTEM..........................................................................9

3.1 OAM SOLUTION HARDWARE, OS AND SCALABILITY............................................................9 78225 - XMS Large Server ..................................................................................... 9 96457 - XMS LA2.0 KPI ............ ............. ........... .............. ............. ............. ............10

3.2 OAM INSTALLATION, UPGRADE ANDBACKUP & R ESTORE.................................................... 11 91657 - XMS upgrade to LA2.0...............................................................................11 96460 - SMI introduction ............. ............. ............ ............. ............. ............. ........12 96459 - XMS Platform administration - SMF, SMC introduction ............. ............. .............. .13 89865 - XMS Local Backup and Restore ............. ............ ............. ............. .............. ...14

3.3 LTE RAN SPECIFIC......................................................................................... 15 76847 - Capacity licensing for LTE RAN ............. ............ ............. .............. ............ ....15 83878 - Supported devices and version ............. ............ ............. .............. ............. ...18

3.4 EXTERNALINTERFACES ANDOSS INTEGRATION .............................................................. 19 77034 - 3GPP Fault Management Northbound Interfaces set ............. ............. .............. ...19 89558 - 3GPP PM documentation and Delta ............ ............ .............. ............. ............20

3.5 FAULT MANAGEMENT- FIRST ALERT ........................................................................ 20 80567 - On-Line Help enhancements - Annotation by Alarm type......................................20

80568 - Forwarding alarms to multiple destinations ............ ............. .............. ............. .21 80570 - Advanced Alarm Analysis ............ ........... .............. ............. ............. ............22 89557 - XMS Working zone and Group management......................................................23 79022 - Service Summary view ............ ............ ............. .............. ............. ........... ...26 83936 - Service Matrix View ............. ............ ............. ............. .............. ........... .....27 96295 - Supervision asset enhancements ............ ........... ............. ............. .............. ...30 96463 - FM base feature introduction ............. ............ ............. ............. .............. .....31

3.6 ON-LINE CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT..................................................................... 32 83877 - SON: XMS support of the ANR......................................................................32 76920 Job Management and scheduling ............ ........... ............. ............. .............. ...33

3.7 PM ACTIVATION, COLLECTION & MEDIATION ................................................................ 34 76923 - Call Trace and call failure activation and collection............. ............. ............. ....34

3.8 SECURITYMANAGEMENT.................................................................................... 35

78246 - XMS OS Hardening ............. ............. ............ ............. ............. .............. .....35

3.9 MULTI-STANDARDMANAGEMENT............................................................................ 36 77041 - Multi-standard LTE-CDMA supervision ........... ............. ............. ............. ..........36 77968 - Integration Function for SAM5620 (alarms and state) ............ ............. .............. ...37

4 WIRELESS PROVISIONING SYSTEM (9452 WPS) ......................................................... 40

76914 - LTE Provisioning system: eNodeB Configuration wizard ............. .............. ............40 76915 - LTE Provisioning system: s1 Configuration wizard ............ ............. ............. ........41 76916 - LTE Provisioning system: x2 Configuration wizard..............................................41 101698 - WPS kernel evolution (parameter searching, abort long operations, etc ............ ......42 83932 - SON: physical cell ID ............ ............ ............. ............. .............. ........... .....44


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5 NETWORK PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZER (9459 NPO) .................................................... 45

90301 - NPO support for MME counters ............. ............ ............. ............. .............. ...45 92662 - NPO Geographical Representation ............ ............. .............. ............. ............46 80682 - NPO supporting LTE nodes in LA2.0...............................................................47

6 GLOSSARY OF TERMS ....................................................................................... 48

APPENDIX - RELEASE DELIVERY / OPTIONALITY........... .............. ............. ............. ........... 49


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1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Scope of this documentThe XMS Feature Planning Guide document provides a features-level description ofXMS features available within eXtended Management System product suit for theOAM LA2.0 release (included in LE2.0 and LE2.1).

Each feature description includes the feature title, reference number, and thefollowing information:

Feature Description

Feature Benefits Dependencies (Hardware, Software, Feature, Inter-working, Devices and

Standards) Impacted Systems Restrictions/Limitations Engineering Impacts Operational Requirements (Counters, Configuration Management and

Parameters, Fault Management and Alarms)

1.2 Audience for this documentThe XMS Short description document is intended for Alcatel-Lucent clients and LTEfunctional groups. This document is intended for engineers specialized in OAM.

1.3 ExpiryThis document is released every two months and readers should obtain the latestversion prior to use. This document version (01.03 JAN 2010) has no expiration date.


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2 RELATED DOCUMENTS

2.1 Applicable documents

2.2 Reference documents[R1] LTE/OAM/INF/024847 XMS Customer Product Overview

[R2] LTE/OAM/INF/026578 XMS Feature Planning Guide OAM LA1.1


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3 EXTENDED MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

3.1 OAM Solution Hardware, OS and Scalability

78225 - XMS Large Server

FEATURE DESCRIPTION

This feature provides support of the XMS Large Server model on the SUN TM SparcEnterprise M5000 server, with the following configuration:

8 CPU quad core 2,4 GHz, 64 GB RAM

4 x 146 GB internal SAS Disk Drives

24 x 300 GB 15k RPM SAS Disk Drives in apair of disk arrays (ST2540 + ST2105expansion tray)

1 x DVD drive, 8X, RW

2 x Quad Gigabit Ethernet PCIe cards

2 x 8GB FC HBA PCIe card

1 XVR-300 Graphic PCIe card

4 Redundant AC Power Supply Units

The capacity target for the XMS Large Server isthe following:

support of up to 4000 e Node Bs and up to24000 cells

75 concurrent user sessions

alarm rate: sustained rate of 70 fault event/s, peak rate of 90 fault event/s

XMS application data storage will be provided by a pair of disk arrays: one SUNST2540 disk controller tray and one SUN ST2501 disk expansion tray deployed in RAIDredundant configuration.

FEATURE BENEFITS

The introduction of the XMS Large Server will provide the required XMS portfolioscalability for customer deployments in LA2.0 timeframe.

IMPACTED SYSTEMS

DEPENDENCIES

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Software

Feature

Interworking

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RESTRICTIONS/LIMITATIONS

The feature is currently in Plan of Intent status (POI)

ENGINEERING IMPACTS

OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

96457 - XMS LA2.0 KPI

FEATURE DESCRIPTION

This feature defines the KPI of the XMS solution in terms of NE capacity, number ofsimultaneous client connections, supported alarm rate supported, etc.

The XMS server portfolio supported is presented below. The large server solution isintroduced in LA2.0.

For the NPO servers, the following models are available: Small server: supports up to 300 Node B / 1800 cells per server, 8 simultaneous

user sessions per server on a SUN SE T5220

Large Server: 3000 Node B / 9000 cells per server, 20 simultaneous users perserver on a SUN SE M4000 2 CPU

FEATURE BENEFITS

The XMS and NPO server portfolio provide the scalability required for customernetwork deployments in LA2.0 timeframe, from small server especially suited forlabs and trials up to high capacity server solutions.

IMPACTED SYSTEMS

Small-scale system Medium-scale system Large-scale system

150 eNode Bs5 concurrent user sessions

Supported on:SUN Sparc Enterprise T5220

700** eNode Bs35 concurrent user

sessions

Supported on:SUN Netra T5440

Up to 4000** eNode Bs75 concurrent user

sessions

Supported on:SUN SE M5000

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DEPENDENCIES

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3.2 OAM Installation, Upgrade and Backup & Restore

91657 - XMS upgrade to LA2.0

FEATURE DESCRIPTION

This feature provides the LA1.1 to LA2.0 XMS upgrade.

The following data will be migrated from the LA1.1 XMS server to the LA2.0 XMSserver:

Configuration Management data

User data (user configuration /security data), UNIX data (Unix level useraccounts)

FEATURE BENEFITS

This feature ensures the migration of critical data from the XMS LA1.1 server to theXMS LA2.0 server.

IMPACTED SYSTEMS

DEPENDENCIES

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96460 - SMI introduction

FEATURE DESCRIPTIONThis feature introduces the Software Management Infrastructure (SMI) component asthe installation and software update framework for the XMS solution.

SMI provides a wizard based easy-to-use and easy-to-learn interface to the operatorto perform the XMS software installation and update operations.

The software management operations can be remotely performed, using secureprotocols (SSH, SFTP) from a PC client.


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The software installation wizard allows selection of software modules to be installed(e.g. software options) on the XMS server.

FEATURE BENEFITS

SMI provides a state of the art framework for software installation and updatesoperations of the XMS application.

IMPACTED SYSTEMS

DEPENDENCIES

Hardware

Software

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Interworking

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Standards


ENGINEERING IMPACTS


96459 - XMS Platform administration - SMF, SMC introduction

FEATURE DESCRIPTION

With this feature, the XMS system management solution is evolved to introduceSUNTM Service Management Facility (SMF) for the management of the XMS applicationand SUN Solaris OS processes: coordinated start of processes at XMS application startor restart, display of process status, automatic re-start of processes.

SUN Management Center (SMC) is used for XMS hardware monitoring, providinginformation about the health of the XMS server from an hardware and file systemperspectives.


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FEATURE BENEFITS

This feature allows to fully benefit from SUN TM SMF and SMC solutions as the basiclayers of the XMS platform administration framework for Process control and Systemmonitoring of XMS server hardware and Operating System.

IMPACTED SYSTEMS

DEPENDENCIES

Hardware

Software

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Interworking

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ENGINEERING IMPACTS


89865 - XMS Local Backup and Restore

FEATURE DESCRIPTION

This feature provides the XMS local backup & restore solution based on LTO4 1 (Linear Tape Open format, for high performance tape storage) tape drives.

The XMS local backup and restore solution, covers backup and restore of:

System data (OS, XMS and third party software binaries)

Essential data (NE configuration data, user/user group data, OAM settings,etc.)

Historical data (historical fault, PM files)

Backup is done online. Restore of historical data is done online, restore of system

data and essential data is done offline.

FEATURE BENEFITS

This feature provides an efficient local backup and restore solution based on tapedrive delivered with the XMS server.

IMPACTED SYSTEMS

DEPENDENCIES

Hardware

1 For the XMS Medium server deployment into a NEBS cabinet, in order for the solution to be fully NEBS

compliant, a NEBS compliant DAT72 tape drive is used


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Software

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3.3 LTE RAN Specific

76847 - Capacity licensing for LTE RAN

FEATURE DESCRIPTION

The XMS contributes to the system capacity and feature licensing. This feature isessential for the revenue protection of the system in order to charge the system onused capacity and feature as opposed to full capacity available and deployed. Itenables ALU to preserve the unitary pricing of the system while satisfying customerdemand and budgetary constraints during progressive roll-out.

When the customer is ordering a new hardware module, he/she can choose to orderit with a minimal initial capacity and subsequently purchase, through a capacitylicensing scheme, additional capacity only if and when needed. Capacity can hence

be remotely added to existing eNodeB sites without any need for site visit. XMS


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includes a framework for eNodeB capacity licensing allowing the operator to managesmoothly at the OAM level a pool of token representing different eNodeB capacity.

From the licensing console, the user is able to retrieve all the eNodeB on which agiven license have been installed and at the opposite to retrieve all the licenses thatare in use on a given eNodeB.

From this new GUI, the user is able :

to Add a new license file. In case the NodeB capacity needs to be increasedand the number of available RTU is not sufficient, a new license file needs tobe ordered. This license file is provided in an electronic format to customersin the form of a signed license file sent by email. Once installed on WLM(c.f. below snapshot), it yields to a new pool of RTU that can be used toconfigure the NodeBs with the desired level of capacity. A new license fileis not an increment to the previous one but replaces it and contains the total

licensed capacity values for the corresponding XMS. Export the current license allocation to a file. Last, export capabilities have

been implemented to allow an export of the License Management Consolecontent in .csv format to allow the data post processing in Excel typetabular editor.

to retrieve all the NodeB which a given license have been installed.

On the opposite, the user is also able to retrieve all the licenses that are inuse on a given NodeB

Visual alert mechanisms based on icons have been put to place to warn the user of:


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No more availability: The user immediately knows when licenses are no moreavailable or licenses obsolete

Warning: The user immediately knows when a license is going to expire(more than 90% consumed, configurable by the user)

On this visual alert mechanism is added an email notification mechanism: An emailcan be sent automatically sent periodically at a fixed time in the day and / or if thewarning threshold is crossed. The email contains the list of all license types thathave crossed a threshold. The email addresses are configurable by the end user

Last, automatic scheduable generation of report export for post-processing analysispurpose are available. It Include the warnings information tag for a better pro-activemanagement of the licenses.

FEATURE BENEFITS

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83878 - Supported devices and version

FEATURE DESCRIPTION

XMS LA2.0 supports d2U eNodeB LA2.0 and LA1.1.

FEATURE BENEFITS

IMPACTED SYSTEMS

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3.4 External Interfaces and OSS Integration

77034 - 3GPP Fault Management Northbound Interfaces set

FEATURE DESCRIPTION

XMS LA2.0 introduces 3GPP standardized CORBA North Bound Interfaces for thepurpose of integration with Customer Fault Manager OSSs.

The following 3gpp CORBA IRPs are supported:

Kernel IRP (32.663)

Entry point IRP (32.363)

FM IRP (32.111)

Notification IRP (32.303) Basic CM IRP (32.603)

Communication Surveillance IRP (32.353)

The IRPs conform to 3gpp R7, and use the 3gpp R8 NRM (32.762) for LTE NEs.

In standard offer, XMS can fully manage the LTE network in standalone mode.

The 3GPP FM NBI set is an optional package made available to the customers whorequire integration with 3gpp compliant OSSs.

FEATURE BENEFITS

Introduces support of 3gpp standardized interfaces into XMS allowing it to be easilyincorporated into a customers OSS environment.

IMPACTED SYSTEMS

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89558 - 3GPP PM documentation and Delta

FEATURE DESCRIPTION

XMS collects Performance Measurement (PM) data from the EuTRAN NEs and makes it

available for a customer NML PM OSS to retrieve.

This feature supports inter-operability documentation of the collected Performancedata with Customer Network-Level PM OSSs. It will allow Customer or GPS teams toretrieve PM data from XMS as well as perform integration activities with CustomerPM OSSs.

FEATURE BENEFITS

Support easy into integration into a customer Performance Measurement solution.

IMPACTED SYSTEMS

DEPENDENCIES

Hardware

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Interworking

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ENGINEERING IMPACTS


3.5 Fault Management - First Alert

80567 - On-Line Help enhancements - Annotation by Alarm type

FEATURE DESCRIPTION

XMS provides a facility to add automatic annotations to an alarm.

The operator can specify the alarm signature consisting of:

NE type

Alarm type

Probable Cause

Specific Problem

NE ID

Severity


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This feature allows an operator-specified annotation to be automatically added to analarm as soon as the alarm is received by XMS.

FEATURE BENEFITS

One advantage of this feature is the ability for the operator to automatically addtheir own alarm-handling procedure for a specific type of alarm.

IMPACTED SYSTEMS

DEPENDENCIES

Hardware

Software

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Interworking

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ENGINEERING IMPACTS


80568 - Forwarding alarms to multiple destinations

FEATURE DESCRIPTION

Using this feature the operator is able to forward alarms to external customersystems or to processes in XMS.

The operator can specify the alarm signature consisting of:

NE type

Alarm type

Probable Cause

Specific Problem

NE ID

Severity

Typical forwarding destinations include:

SMS

Email

Pager

Automated script


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FEATURE BENEFITS

This feature protects the revenue streams of the operator by giving them quickinformation about the potential problems in their network.

This feature is useful especially for the Unmanned OAM / Short Staffed use case.During periods of low network usage or unavailability of staff, the operator may notwish to keep the OAM manned, but prefer to have people on call in the event of aserious system error. This feature allows for the setting of criteria such that shoulda serious problem occur (as defined by the operator) people are notified in aminimum amount of time.

XMS allows for the possibility of notifying different destinations for various definedevents, so, for example, the relevant people could be emailed out for specifichardware, or for different locations.

Once the relevant personnel have been notified, they will be able to look to find out

the exact sequence of events, and take action accordingly.

IMPACTED SYSTEMS

DEPENDENCIES

Hardware

Software

Feature

Interworking

Devices

Standards


ENGINEERING IMPACTS


80570 - Advanced Alarm Analysis

FEATURE DESCRIPTION

This feature enhances the alarm handling and analysis capabilities of XMS.

The ability for an operator to perform alarm analysis on incoming alarms is to reducethe information overload on operators and allows an operator to deal with realproblems in the network.

The feature offers the ability for an operator to perform analysis on alarms as theyare received by the fault manager.

Analysis functions include:

Suppress by alarms by NE


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Suppress short duration alarms

Suppress alarms by NE state (NE is in maintenance mode)

Auto clear ADMC alarms

Auto acknowledge alarms

The operator is allowed the capability to specify the signature of the alarm based analarm criteria. If the criteria matches the alarm signature, alarm analysis will beperformed.

FEATURE BENEFITS

IMPACTED SYSTEMS

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Interworking

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ENGINEERING IMPACTSOPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

89557 - XMS Working zone andGroup management

FEATURE DESCRIPTION

XMS includes a powerful facilityallowing the operators to groupcollections of Network elementsinto "zones" and groups. Alarmand state information for aparticular zone can then becollated and used to give theoperator the ability to check the"health" of a zone via a singleglance.

Working Zones

It allows the user to define zones ofinterest. The working zones are


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dynamic: whenever a new Network Element is created / integrated, it isautomatically included in the relevant working zone according to filtering criteriadefined by the user. Various filtering criteria are available allowing finegranularity filters

Simple criteria: user create a simple condition on a specific parameter orfree field

Hierarchical criteria: user can add conditions on parent or child class

Advanced Relation: user can specify a relation between two parametersfrom different class

Groups

Groups can be defined by the user as sub-part of a working zone. Multiple groupscan be defined per working zone and the same network element can be assigned todifferent groups as soon within the same working zone. The group definition has tobe carefully done as each group will be visible in the Service summary view.

Group Management is static: whenever a new network element is added, anauthorized user can include this new resource in a given group or in multiple groups

The same filtering criteria than for working zone definition are available for thegroups definition.


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Groups are all public.

FEATURE BENEFITS

Operators benefits from this working zone and group framework allowing the zoning/ grouping of the network elements which speeds up the first alert activities and

therefore the resolution of the problems.

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79022 - Service Summary view

FEATURE DESCRIPTION

XMS provides a network-wide alarm and status summary of critical RAN resources ina tabular format: radio cells and interfaces. This GUI called Service Summary Viewdisplays one line per group that are created using the working zone feature. Itprovides trends capabilities as well asmultiple columns sorting, thresholdscrossing color coding, zooms in/out and incontext launch points to relevantSupervision view, Alarm window, etc.

The RAN service Summary view

provides network wide alarmand status summary of criticalresources in a tabular format.The view provides an alarmand status summary for thecritical resources: radio cellsand interfaces.

It is designed to support multi-standard network elements (e.g.: LTEeNodeB, CDMA BTS, W-CDMA NodeB,

GSM BTS, etc)A particular care has beenput in defining ergonomicview and navigation totroubleshooting functions: theview can be sorted againsteach column and the Alarmmanager and Supervision/Matrixview can be launched in context ofeach line of the table

The RAN Summary service can be easily customized by the operator at his/herwillingness:

By showing/hiding columns among the set of proposed ones

By writing dedicated user notes

By configuring the colons to show, their appearance (with gauge, value, lockindicator)

by configuring Threshold with Color coding

Last trend indicators are implemented by operational effectiveness purpose: the GUI

has a reset button. For each value in the table, a small up or down arrow indicateshow the value evolved since the reset button was last hit.


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FEATURE BENEFITS

The service summary view, used in conjunction with the Supervision matrix viewmonitor offers a flawless, efficient and intuitive monitoring process, providing bothalarm-driven and status-driven first alert, allowing operator to quickly detectproblems and drill down to the erroneous components.

IMPACTED SYSTEMS

DEPENDENCIES

Hardware

Software

Feature

Interworking GSM, W-CDMA and CDMA upon integration program and relevant features

DevicesStandards


ENGINEERING IMPACTS


83936 - Service Matrix View

FEATURE DESCRIPTION

The XMS network service state supervision provides comprehensive networkresources and state supervision tree and table views for an efficient first alertingfor:

Real-time fault detection

Fault diagnosis (including remote equipment tests) and correction

Management of services and resource states

The fault detection is performed by the network elements, which report alarms and

state changes to the XMS. Alarms and state changes are used to animate in real-time a hierarchical representation of the resources, providing a quick overview ofthe health of the overall network while allowing at the same time to drill down intodetailed information for specific resources or equipments.

For each resource, the following information is provided:

Alarm synthesis, that is the highest severity of the active alarms on this resource

Operational state (enabled / disabled)

Administrative state (locked / unlocked), managed by the operator

The wireless service supervision view encompasses multiple tabs for various displaysof critical network resources.


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An explorer tree

A Matrix Service view tab showing all the network elements of the groupselected

A Network Element tab showing all the network elements of the group selected A Radio Resource tab showing all the cells of the various network elements with

indication of status, alarm, key features, etc

An Interface Resource tab focusing on the interfaces of the network elements(x2, s1, iuB, iuCS, etc)

A Map view tab displaying the network elements and whatever resources thatthe operator is willing to display according to fulfilled geographical coordinates

The wireless service matrix view provides group based alarm and status summary ofnetwork elements in a matrix format. It helps network health troubleshooting thoughintuitive at a glance summary of the critical resources:

alarm summary,

up to 3 states summary,

up to 4 configuration information such as the transport technology used (e.g. inGSM can be TDM, IP),

the technological level (e.g. TDD, FDD), etc.


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The matrix view provides in context launch point to underlying EMS and availableactions such as launching the Notification Log tool, Object editor, etc

FEATURE BENEFITSThis feature significantly increases the first troubleshooting capabilities of the XMSsolution and its serviceability. It allows the operator to quickly identify the NetworkElements, cells and links that encounter operational issues therefore requiringimmediate attention.

IMPACTED SYSTEMS

DEPENDENCIES

Hardware

Software

Feature

Interworking CDMA upon integration program and relevant features

Devices

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96295 - Supervision asset enhancements

FEATURE DESCRIPTION

This feature provides multiple various enhancements of the First alert capabilities ofXMS solution in the Summary and Supervision GUIs:

In the Summary view

A sanity box is included as a table indicating a summary of the networkelement sanity par network element type and per technology with 3 colourscoded indicators:

- The good shape Network Elements

- The off-normal Network Elements

- The out of service Network Elements

A new display option is provided in addition to the existing display using gaugeand colored threshold: the display in absolute value (e.g. 180/240)

An new indicator display if there are Network Elements of the group is in Loss ofconnection state

In the Supervision view

A personal NE custom filter set up by the user himself (pick and choose ofselected NE within the group) is added and saved across sessions

The parameter tab displays 12 parameters per pan on max 2 lines

In all Supervision windows (especially the Display options and Not displayedResource Panel windows), the information shown are displayed following order:

- per table (when applicable)

- then per technology

- then per alphabetic order

FEATURE BENEFITS

These operational enhancements increase the efficiency of the XMS users byreducing the repetitive tasks and providing easier to use GUIs.

IMPACTED SYSTEMS

DEPENDENCIES

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Standards


ENGINEERING IMPACTS


96463 - FM base feature introduction

FEATURE DESCRIPTION

Fault Management in XMS for LA2.0 offers significant enhancements over what wasavailable in LA1.1.

The enhancements are in the following areas: Enhanced support of x.733 fields in alarms

o Additional fields are available which can be utilised by the NEs whenreporting alarms.

Support of trouble-ticket fields for integration into NML trouble-ticketing systems. Automatic acknowledgement of cleared alarms Automatic alarm annotation filtering Real time alarm analysis

o Exception-based analysiso Delay-based forwarding

Alarm aging enhancements User-definable alarm severity colours in Fault Management User Interface improvements for Alarm filter modification Integration with User Interface components for alarm grouping and reach-through

functions Enhanced alarm filtering rules using logical operations Integration with NBI components

FEATURE BENEFITS

Improved Fault Management functions are available to customers allowing thecustomer to manage alarms on XMS as well as integrate XMS into their OSS

environment.

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3.6 On-line configuration management

83877 - SON: XMS support of the ANR

FEATURE DESCRIPTION

In order to minimize pre-provisioning during the deployment and ongoing re-planningof LTE Networks, the eUTRAN (eNodeB + XMS) automate the configuration ofnetwork parameters. This automation includes the X2 and the LteCell neighboringrelations configuration (including white and black lists).

This feature manages all XMS impacts (including WPS). The FRS 81872 AutomaticNeighboring Relation Configuration and Optimization manages the eNodeB impacts.

FEATURE BENEFITS

This feature, coupled to the eNodeB feature 81872 Automatic Neighboring RelationConfiguration and Optimization, is viewed as a key feature to enableimplementation of Self Optimizing Network functionality in its LTE product portfolio.As a component of self optimizing network functionality this feature benefits theoperator by reducing the OPEX of the operator by automating the currently manually

intensive task of neighbor list generation and updating particular during times ofnetwork rollout and upgrade.

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76920 Job Management and scheduling

FEATURE DESCRIPTION

WICL scripts defined in the In-term can be scheduled once, or on hourly, daily,

weekly, monthly or yearly basis. The execution can be recurrent. The GUI provides acalendar view of the jobs. The user can display the details of each job, including thecommands, the originator, the execution time

Upon failure, job can be discarded or retried three times (user demand). Executionresult is displayed with status.

Examples of schedulable jobs: XML work-order load, XML snapshot export, WICLscript

FEATURE BENEFITS

This feature allows scheduling all OAM functions that can be expressed throughWICL.

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3.8 Security Management

78246 - XMS OS Hardening

FEATURE DESCRIPTION

The XMS server is configured for Operating System (OS) hardening as per industrybest practices.

The XMS OS Hardening feature ensures that only the required OS/UNIX/networkingservices and ports are enabled on the XMS Server.

As part of the software design live cycle, a Security Vulnerability Assessment processis put in place. Regular Security Vulnerability Assessment scans are performed withthe NESSUS tool to detect and correct potential vulnerabilities.

FEATURE BENEFITS

Operating System hardening is a key component of the XMS server security solution,ensuring that access to the server is tighten as per industry best practices.

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3.9 Multi-Standard Management

77041 - Multi-standard LTE-CDMA supervision

FEATURE DESCRIPTION

This feature allows 9453 XMS to integrate multiple Alcatel-Lucent CDMAmanagement systems (9253 OMC-RAN) and display alarms from both LTE and CDMANEs to the operator.

This functionality supports in-context and out of context navigation from XMS toOMC-RAN.

In context navigation is from XMS to the relevant component managed by OMC-RAN.Out of context navigation allows an operator direct access to OMC-RAN-specific userinterface components, including:

Overview screens

TI/CLI

RCV

Fault and State information is exchanged between XMS and OMC-RAN, this allows anoperator using XMS to perform full fault and state management of the LTE and CDMANEs. Combined alarm lists (for LTE and CDMA NEs) are hosted by XMS.

Users of XMS have single-sign-on capability for all components in a mixed LTE andCDMA environment.

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FEATURE BENEFITS

This feature allows Alcatel-Lucent to position LTE to CDMA customers as an evolutionof their legacy CDMA networks and to leverage this investment into the 4G arena.

This feature will help the operator support service assurance of the network byoffering a single client application user experience for the fault management of thedual technology (LTE + CDMA) solution.

It will reduce the cost of integration into OSS solution if the operator uses thefederated 3GPP NBI since a single adaptor would be required on the OSS system.

A single person can do the surveillance of the combined LTE and CDMA RAN networksfrom a single application. This will lead to OPEX containment and higher workdistribution flexibility for the operator during the day, and will enable an operatorto reduce the staffing required during night and week-end periods.

Over time, it will reduce the level of training for users who will use same monitoringprocesses for both CDMA and LTE networks.

The deployment pattern and sizing is a good fit with existing Alcatel-Lucent CDMAcustomers in their local and regional office deployments.

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77968 - Integration Function for SAM5620 (alarms and state)

FEATURE DESCRIPTION

XMS provides integrated Fault Management support for the devices managed by the5620 SAM: MME, S-GTW, P-GTW and Security GTW as well as generic devicesmanaged by the SAM (e.g.: 7750, 7705, etc). The following are the key benefitsoffered by this feature:

First Alert Fault Management (alarm and state) in both Supervision GUIs(Summary, Matrix, Interface, Supervision tree, Map views) and Alarm

Management functions (filters, history, rule-set, etc)


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In-context reach-through to the associated EMS (SAM) as appropriate from theXMS client, the context being the device id or the device IP@

Single 3GPP northbound CORBA Fault Interfaces (and XML based Fault Interfacesfor later release)


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FEATURE BENEFITS

This functionality allows an operator single-point access to E2E LTE OAM systemsfrom a first alert perspective and support reach-through to lower-level OAM systemcomponents for performing detailed system-specific activities.

A single person can do the surveillance of the E2E LTE network from a singleapplication. This will lead to OPEX reduction and higher work distribution flexibilityfor the operator during the day, and will enable an operator to reduce the staffingrequired during night and week-end periods. Over time, it will reduce the level oftraining for users as they will use same monitoring processes for E2E LTE networks.

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4 WIRELESS PROVISIONING SYSTEM (9452 WPS)

76914 - LTE Provisioning system: eNodeB Configuration wizard

FEATURE DESCRIPTION

The LTE eNodeB configuration wizard is an advanced capability of the WirelessProvisioning System. It is used for the pre-provisioning of eNodeB equipment for thecreation phase and for re-configuration operations.

The WPS provides a high-level task-oriented ENodeB configuration wizard thatsimplifies the provisioning task by relying on extensive use of templates andembedded engineering rules. The Wizard is implemented in a task-orientedapproach, allowing de-correlated tasks to be completed independently. The taskbreak-down reflects a typical operators organization and allow several departmentsto work on different aspects on the same nodes.

Task-oriented wizards offer a very intuitive graphical support, and providecontextual help and hyperlinks for a secure configuration.

FEATURE BENEFITS

The eNodeB configuration wizard drastically simplifies the complexity of provisioningthe eNodeB such that massive deployments can be planned efficiently, withouterrors, in accordance with planning information and equipment constraints.

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approach, allowing de-correlated tasks to be completed independently. The taskbreak-down reflects a typical operators organization and allow several departmentsto work on different aspects on the same nodes.

Task-oriented wizards offer a very intuitive graphical support, and providecontextual help and hyperlinks for a secure configuration.

FEATURE BENEFITS

The X2 Configuration wizard drastically simplifies the complexity of provisioning theeNodeB such that massive deployments can be planned efficiently, without errors, inaccordance with planning information and equipment constraints.

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101698 - WPS kernel evolution (parameter searching, abort longoperations, etc

FEATURE DESCRIPTION

This feature aims to rebase LTE WPS on the latest WPS Kernel Platform version(v7.1) to inherit the new generic functionalities introduced in this release:

Abort Long Operations : This functionality provides the possibility to abort longoperations especially for big size networks. The abort will be available for importsnapshots and on-going check sessions.

WorkOrder Management Enhancement : By avoiding the import of the full snapshot,this Functionality reduces the time lost when managing WorkOrders especially forbig size networks.

Operation effectiveness : A set of other enhancements in the platform wereintroduced in the latest WPS version mainly the possibility to propagate templateswith subtree.


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92662 - NPO Geographical Representation

FEATURE DESCRIPTION

The user will Display the object and result of indicators in a graphical way on a

geographical basis. The goal is to be able to monitor the network and have keyindicators highlighted on a different basis to allow the customer to correlategeographical constraint (building, field) and QoS indicators. This module isdependant of the availability of geographical coordinates for the different objects.

FEATURE BENEFITS

Customer benefits from the post processing of LTE performance counters for QoSmonitoring, optimization investigation & troubleshooting purposes on eNodeB anddisplaying them on a GIS in order to have a geographical view of the performancesresults.

Having access to a geographical highlighting of the results is a added value view thatallows to investigate geographical constraint towards effective results.

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80682 - NPO supporting LTE nodes in LA2.0

FEATURE DESCRIPTION

This feature tracks the NPO updates required in LA2.0 linked to LA/XMS evolutions.NPO supports LA2.0 and backward compatibility to LTE release LA1.1.

NPO provides some new features such as:

Display related counters in indicator online-help

Improved spatial & temporal roll-up/drill-down allowing to skip somegranularities

Support of Windows Vista OS on client PC

Archiving of scheduled report results

FEATURE BENEFITS

Post Processing Product for Qos Counters is mandatory to be able to monitor and

optimize the network configuration and evaluate the efficiency of the network.

NPO is a powerful Alcatel-Lucent solution for Performance Data (counters/metrics)Management.

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6 GLOSSARY OF TERMS

CMT Chip Multi Threading

eNodeB Refers to the Base Station of the EUTRAN Network

LTE Long Term Evolution

LTO Linear Tape Open

EUTRAN Enhanced Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network

RU Rack Unit

SRF Software Repository Function

9453 XMS LTE Management System

9459 NPO Network Performance Optimizer9458 RFO Radio Frequency Optimizer

9452 WPS Provisioning System

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APPENDIX - RELEASE DELIVERY / OPTIONALITY

XMS OAM features can be:

B = Basic features provide the base software functionality of the release

O = Optional features : optional features of the release provide extrafunctionality and can be added to enhance a system or network

Features title PM id Release B OEXTENDED MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - 9453 XMS xCapacity licensing for LTE RAN 76847 XMS2.0 xJob Management and Scheduling 76920 XMS2.0 x

Call Trace and call failure activation and collection 76923 XMS2.0 x3GPP Fault Management Northbound Interfaces set 77034 XMS2.0 xMulti-standard LTE-CDMA supervision 77041 XMS2.0 xIntegration Function for SAM5620 (alarms and state) 77968 XMS2.0 xXMS Large Server (POI) 78225 XMS2.0 xXMS OS Hardening 78246 XMS2.0 xService Summary view 79022 XMS2.0 xAnnotation by Alarm type 80567 XMS2.0 xForwarding alarms to multiple destinations 80568 XMS2.0 xAdvanced Alarm Analysis 80570 XMS2.0 xSON: XMS support of the ANR 83877 XMS2.0 xSupported devices and versions LE2.0 83878 XMS2.0 xService Matrix View 83936 XMS2.0 xXMS Working zone and Group Management 89557 XMS2.0 x3GPP PM documentation and Delta 89558 XMS2.0 xXMS Local Backup and Restore 89865 XMS2.0 xXMS upgrade to LA2.0 91657 XMS2.0 xSupervision asset enhancements 96295 XMS2.0 xXMS LA2.0 KPI 96457 XMS2.0 x

XMS Platform administration - SMF, SMC introduction 96459 XMS2.0 xSMI introduction 96460 XMS2.0 xFM base feature introduction 96463 XMS2.0 x


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PROVISIONING SYSTEM - 9452 WPS xLTE Provisioning system: eNodeB Configuration wizard 76914 XMS2.0 xLTE Provisioning system: s1 Configuration wizard 76915 XMS2.0 xLTE Provisioning system: x2 Configuration wizard 76916 XMS2.0 xSON: physical cell ID 83932 XMS2.0 xWPS kernel evolution 101698 XMS2.0 x

NETWORK PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZER - 9459 NPO xNPO supporting LTE nodes 80682 XMS2.0 xNPO support for MME counters 90320 XMS2.0 xNPO Geographical representation 91662 XMS2.0 x

xms feature planning guide oam la2.0 v01.03 jan10

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