Configuration Management
Introduction
Configuration is clearly an important feature of any management system. The ease of use is paramount if the efficiency and responsiveness of an operator to create, modify and expand the network is to be guaranteed.
Configuration management is divided into 2 distinct parts:
• Network element configuration,
• Network configuration.
Network elements (NEs) are presented to the operator by a set of views through which he has access to all the parameters, status monitoring, and diagnostic functions at the element level.
More than one network element can be accessed and worked on at the same time on the same screen.
Bulk configuration tasks can be executed with the built-in task dialogs. For the following tasks a separate dialog is available:
• NE password changes,
• Profiles and CPSs,
• ESW installation.
The automated network and service provisioning features are discussed separately under Networking Package and Ethernet Networking Package.