Performance Management, Diagnostics and Status
FOXMAN-UN allows collecting and reporting of the NEs, networks and services performances through the following:
• Performance Data Collection:
Elements in the managed network can be specified for performance monitoring. The performance data of these elements are continuously collected and saved in a separate database.
Collected performance data from NEs, the FOXMAN-UN server, or basic OS statistics can be displayed via customizable dashboards in the Metrics Database application.
From there, the performance information can be exported for integration into an OSS (Operation Support System).
• Health Monitoring:
Some specific performance data, such as RX/TX errors, RX/TX throughput, NE uptime, NE temperature, CPU load, SFP temperature, SFP RX/TX power, memory usage, is used to indicate network, network element, and section health in the Network Monitoring application.
• Service Supervision and Reporting:
This allows FOXMAN-UN to measure the end-to-end service delivery quality. It ensures that end-to-end applications are flowing across the network and are being delivered to the end users according to the agreed service level metrics.
• Synchronization maps:
Synchronization map graphically displays the actual clock propagation of the SDH or PDH of the managed network. This facilitates identifying synchronization problems such as:
− 'clock islands', where a network element clock is generated locally and is not propagated to any other network element,
− 'timing loops' which may have inadvertently been created by propagating the clock from a network element back to a network element which is providing the clock source.
PTP synchronization map graphically displays the PTP clock distribution in the Ethernet / MPLS-TP network with clock mode, ID, class, accuracy, and source for each NE.
• NE Synchronization:
FOXMAN-UN allows synchronizing the alarms, inventory and service of all or a selection of the NEs in the managed network with the database. In addition date and time of the NEs can be synchronized with the workstation date and time.