Fault Management - Eci Telecom XDM-100 General Description Manual

Management XDM® -100
DWDM Trail Management
eNM LightSoft enables you to upload, label, and display existing optical trails from
the optical layer. This form of "bottom-up" provisioning is suited to optical
equipment that does not support tunable lasers and ensures that eNM LightSoft has
all the required trail information that was provisioned at the fiber level. In addition,
eNM LightSoft supports full provisioning capabilities in next-generation optical
equipment utilizing tunable lasers.
eNM LightSoft takes advantage of XDM sublambda grooming capabilities for the
efficient utilization of DWDM wavelengths. This capability provides a form of
"top-down" optical trail provisioning by creating cross-connects between optical
endpoints at the SDH/SONET level.
Gigabit Ethernet Trail Management
eNM LightSoft enables XDM NEs to provide various types of Gigabit Ethernet
services via its Ethernet Layer 2 Service (EIS) cards. The card provides bandwidth
management allocation for each Gigabit Ethernet connection in VC-4/STS-3c
increments, up to the full Gigabit Ethernet rate. The interface is configured
separately to provide maximum flexibility.

6.4.5 Fault Management

eNM LightSoft simplifies real-time status monitoring of the network and its
elements. The main window uses color-coded icons to show equipment status at a
glance. The main window also has customizable alarm listings, alarm counters, and
alarm audio indicators, which are updated in real time. Administrators can
acknowledge alarms from the Current Alarm list or click any element in the diagram
to open status windows that list the alarms for each object, including NEs, cards, and
physical ports.
With eNM LightSoft, network administrators can assign severity levels to individual
alarm parameters in specific network elements. This means that remote NEs can
screen out low-level alarms, while the network administrator analyzes
eNM LightSoft pre-filtered and sorted daily alarm logs.
The eNM LightSoft fault management system is fully integrated and includes alarms
for each NE, regardless of the layer being viewed (physical, SDH/SONET, or
optical).
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