Summary Of Features - Nortel INM 3.1 Release Note

Summary of Features

The new features offered by the Integrated Network Management Broadband
Release 3.1 applications are summarized below.
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INM Release 3.1 Release Notes
Federated Networks support which provides the ability to manage a
network of up to 5500 network elements and 750 controller (OPC/MOA)
pairs in a scalable environment by distributing the resources and data
required for the network across a number of communicating INM
workstations.
— Global Alarm Acknowledgement in a scalable environment provides an
unconditional propagation of alarm acknowledgement to all INM
workstations managing OPCs and MOAs that support alarm
surveillance functionality. Peer-to-peer workstation communications is
used in the INM federation to perform global alarm acknowledgement.
Partitioned Access support which allows the graphical view of the network
to be divided into several sub-views which may contain any or all of the
network elements in the network, and which can be configured to permit
some or all management functions to be enabled for the user.
Problem Analyzer (PA) performs Intelligent Alarm Filtering (IAF) which
provides the correlation of alarms into direct detect and related alarm
events into a single Network Problem Report. The PA provides additional
information to the user by showing the alarm correlation, viewing
problems not alarms, giving probable cause, providing a NTP reference to
fix the problem, and performing preventive analysis. This feature is
optional and is delivered on a separate CD-ROM/DAT Tape.
Alarm History and Enhanced Audit Trail for S/DMS OC-3/12/48, and
S/DMS OC-192. The Alarm History Retrieval option provides the ability
to retrieve historical alarm information for the network element from the
graphical user interface of INM Release 3.1. The Enhanced Audit Trail
(EAT) provides the capability to record the alarm information of raised,
acknowledged and cleared alarms.
Facility Parameter Provisioning which extends the Tributary Facility
State Provisioning feature on the previous S/DMS Network Manager
Release 6.00 to include optical facilities (OC3, OC12, OC48) in addition
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