Nortel INM 3.1, Руководство по выпуску

Страница: 10 / 24

10 of 24 Summary of Features
INM Broadband Release 3.1 Issue 1.0
to electrical facilities (DS1, DS3, STS1). The user will be capable of
provisioning the parameters supported by each type of facility.
• OC-192 Performance Monitoring, Inventory, and Fault Management. In
this Release, a new PM category, Intermediate Path will be added to the
PM statistics display to enable a user to query STS path PMs for OC-192.
Inventory queries to OC-192 NEs are also supported for all new cards
which occupy existing shelves and for the new extension shelves.
• AccessNode Express (ANX) Fault Management and Shelf Level View
support is provided. All severities of alarms (warning, minor, major,
critical) raised against ANX equipment are reported on the ANX nodes and
are included in summary alarm counts for groups containing ANX nodes
as well as in the GNB alarm banner. The shelf level graphics feature
permits the user to view the layout of the shelf as well as the cards installed
in the shelf and view which circuit packs or equipment have alarms raised
against them.
• OC-3 Express Connection Management, Performance Monitoring and
Remote Inventory (including Shelf Level Graphics) support is provided in
INM 3.1. INM 3.1 supports a new nodal connection management for OC-3
Express NEs for functionalities such as Time Slot Assignment (TSA),
Time Slot Interchange (TSI), Hairpinning, Path switched connections and
Drop-and-Continue and Broadcast. Remote Inventory, Shelf Level
Graphics and Performance Monitoring are supported with functionalities
similar to that provided for other types of NEs.
• Improved on-line help which has evolved to a World Wide Web (WWW)
oriented method and which provides the capability to access the INM 3.1
documentation from within the graphical user inteface. Help information
is available in HTML format, to permit access with a WWW browser. The
browser used in this release is the International version of Netscape
Navigator 3.01, which is provided with the Integrated Network
Management Broadband Release 3.1.
• Printing support which enables the user to print lists or text areas within a
window. The user can also print the whole graphical window screen
containing the graphical information to a postscript printer or to save the
image in a postscript file in a user definable directory. The texts and lists
are saved in a text format, which can be viewed by a text editor or printed.
Printing can be done in color or black & white (grey scale), depending on
the printer’s capabilities.
• Generic workstation and X terminal engineering guidelines which
provides information about the engineering characteristics on unsupported
platforms (workstations as well as X-terminals) in order to be able to
properly use these unsupported platforms to gain the best results from INM
3.1.
• Increased bridging control is introduced in this release in order to support
scalability. The user has more control over when bridging is performed on