Applications
Applications are started from the NEM Desktop “Application” menu.
• Homepage
The homepage is the browser-based home for all UI applications provided with FOXMAN-UN, i.e., all browser-based applications and legacy applications. At startup, it shows an overview with
− Alarms summary,
− Services Supervision summary,
− Clock synchronization information,
− Servers information,
− System host information, and
− Application shortcuts.
Browser-based homepage with basic network and system information (sample)
The homepage includes links to
− all Web UI applications and
− all legacy applications that can also be reached from the NEM Desktop menu.
The applications are listed as tiles with an icon and their respective name. They are grouped by the categories:
− All Apps (with tiles to start each application),
− Fault Management,
- Service Supervision
- Alarm Management
− Configuration,
- Circuit Emulation,
- Teleprotection,
- MPLS-TP,
- TDM,
- Spanning Tree,
- Element Management,
− Performance Monitoring,
- Network Monitoring,
- Time Synchronization,
- DCN,
− Security,
- Credential Distribution,
- DIRAC & FU Credential Management,
- Ethernet Security Manager,
- User and Role Management,
− Fleet Management
- Inventory,
- Profile & CPS Tasks,
- ESW Network Overview,
- ESW Distribution Wizard,
- ESW Task Management,
- ESW Job Management,
− System,
- System Event List,
- Remote Executor.
Browser-based homepage with application overview “All Apps”
• The main applications available from the NEM Desktop menu are listed below:
− NEM Network Browser:
The Network Browser provides the operator with a graphical view of the network in the form of maps to supervise the network and carry out the day to day management of the network elements.
− NEM Configurator:
The Configurator allows setting up all the details of the management network and defining the security aspects. In addition it provides access to the NE configuration management and limited access to the fault management.
− Section Management:
The Section Management allows creation, modification or deletion of section(s) and launch of the NP GUI for the specific section. The dialog likewise displays all sections of the managed network, regardless of any map that may be opened.
− Networking Package (NP):
The Networking Package provides an end-to-end provisioning of circuits and trails across FOX51x or FOX61x TDM-based legacy networks.
− Ethernet Networking Package (ENP):
The Ethernet Networking Package provides an end-to-end provisioning of MPLS-TP tunnels, pseudo wires, VPLS, and VPWS services across FOX61x networks.
− Ethernet Security Manager:
The Ethernet Security Manager provides all controls for managing Ethernet security like MPLS-TP encryption, setting up Crypto Engines, and defining mappings of encryption termination points and ports for MPLS-TP tunnels.
− Service Supervision:
The Service Supervision and Reporting allows end-to-end network services monitoring. It runs regular reports regarding end-to-end service availability, particularly related to any Service Level Agreements that may exist. In the current release, System Services and Advanced Services are distinguished.
The Circuit Emulation Manager (CEM) provides an overview of Circuit Emulation Services (CES) in FOX61x networks, including alarm monitoring, a list of possible issues, graphics on clock operation modes, Pseudo Wire (PW) protocols, CES profiles, packet traffic statistics and alarm history. It also lists end-to-end TDM services, CES, and VPWS in separate tables.
− Homepage
The Homepage is described at the beginning of this section “Applications”.
The following application provides system administration options:
The Remote Admin Tool is available for the FOXMAN-UN Linux client only. It is not available for the FOXMAN-UN client for Windows®.
It provides access to all other administration sub-areas:
− License Information:
The NEM License Information is used to display and monitor the License Key required for running the application. In addition, a license file can be uploaded from a file system.
− Manage Authentication Keys:
This dialog is used to create, activate, delete, and export authentication keys for the secure FOXMAN-UN to FOX61x management communication.
− Start/Stop Services:
The Start/Stop Services dialog offers a graphical interface for monitoring the status of NEM base and core services, starting and stopping the NEM core services, restarting selected services, performing a resynchronization of NP data, and showing the status of Element Agents.
− Show Element Agents:
The Element Agent window is used to display status information of the agent processes supporting the communication to the Network Elements.
− Inventory Information:
Used to display server related inventory information, such as disk mount points and usage, memory usage, and CPU usage information.
− Database Backup:
Provides three separate GUI dialogs to:
- Schedule periodic, daily, weekly. and/or monthly database backups,
- Create and delete manual database backups,
- Restore manually or automatically created database backups.
− Main/Standby Configuration:
Provides GUI dialogs to configure server redundancy via the setup of main and standby server types, assign these servers to each other, and make one of the servers the active one.