Nortel INM 4.1 Release Note
Nortel INM 4.1 Release Note

Nortel INM 4.1 Release Note

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Integrated Network Management Products
INM Broadband Release 4.1
Release Notes For Release 4.1
Document release: Issue 1.0
Date: November 1998
*NTse68HD.0100*

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  • Page 1 Release Notes Integrated Network Management Products INM Broadband Release 4.1 Release Notes For Release 4.1 Document release: Issue 1.0 Date: November 1998 *NTse68HD.0100*...
  • Page 3: Integrated Network Management Products

    Integrated Network Management Products INM Broadband Release 4.1 Release Notes For Release 4.1 Document status: Issue 1.0 Date: November 1998 1998 Northern Telecom All rights reserved Ethernet is a trademark of Xerox Corporation. HP is a trademark of Hewlett-Packard Co. NCD is a trademark of Network Computing Devices S/DMS AccessNode is a trademark of Northern Telecom.
  • Page 4: Publication History

    32 Publication history November 1998 1.0 (Caroline Samson) - Official release for INM 4.1 GA. INM Broadband Release 4.1 Issue 1.0...
  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    13. Remote Inventory and Shelf Level Graphics 20 14. On Line Help 20 15. Trouble Ticketing 20 Release Notes for INM 4.1 Building Blocks 1. Installation 21 2. Common issues to all Building Blocks. 21 3. AMGUI (Application Management GUI). 21 4.
  • Page 6 vi of 32 Table of Contents INM Broadband Release 4.1 Issue 1.0...
  • Page 7: About This Document

    (GUI as well as Building Blocks). The two main sections of the document are entitled Release Notes for INM 4.1 GUI and Release Notes for INM 4.1 Building Blocks, and are divided into several subsections corresponding to the actual new features introduced in INM Broadband Release 4.1.
  • Page 8 8 of 32 About this document INM Broadband Release 4.1 Issue 1.0...
  • Page 9: Summary Of Features

    Summary of Features The new features offered by the Integrated Network Management Broadband Release 4.1 applications are summarized below. • Protection Status and Control GUI and Contract Interfaces (CI) which provide GUI enhancements to support protection status display and protection control for linear systems (1:1, 1+1, 1:N), 2 fiber-ring systems (OC-12 and OC-48 BLSR), as well as OC-192 4-fiber rings.
  • Page 10 • Express CX GUI Support of Fault Management, Performance Monitoring, Remote Inventory, Electronic Software Delivery, Remote Login, Shelf Level Graphics and Connection Management. The support for the Express CX Network Element is provided through the OC-3 Express MOA Release 3.1.
  • Page 11 • PC GUI Remote Login support (JungleMUX JNCI, OC-3 Express, and AccessNode Express Voice Module) allows an INM Broadband user to perform a remote login Reach-Through to the PC-GUI application running on a Windows NT Server machine and running an Element Manager application.
  • Page 12 12 of 32 Summary of Features INM Broadband Release 4.1 Issue 1.0...
  • Page 13: Release Notes For Inm 4.1 Gui

    Release Notes for INM 4.1 GUI 1. Installation It is strongly recommended that users read and understand the installation procedures in the User Guide before installing INM Broadband Release 4.1 GUI. 2. PM Threshold Provisioning 1 When a confirmation message is displayed as a result of applying changes...
  • Page 14: Protection Status And Control

    2 If the user bridges an OC-48 Release 14.1 OPC with INM 4.1, then if the user attempts to invoke the Connection Manager with INM 3.1, the message “Attempting to load connection information”...
  • Page 15: Partitioned Access

    3 In the case were a regen NE has been attached to a traffic link (using the GNE Layout menu command “Attach Regens to <traffic link>”) and the INM Release 4.1 Release Notes Release Notes for INM 4.1 GUI 15 of 32 Issue 1.0...
  • Page 16: Accessnode/Accessnode Express

    16 of 32 Release Notes for INM 4.1 GUI regen NE is decommissioned from the OPC before being detached from the INM traffic link, the configuration will be missing traffic links where links used to be attached to the regen. The user should perform the...
  • Page 17: Bridging

    Network Element to another via the Connection An incompatibility exists between INM 4.1 and OC-3X TL1 MOA 2.0 and prior. The customer is required to upgrade to OC-3X TL1 MOA Release 2.0.1 or greater to provide support for Remote Inventory, Shelf Level Graphics and Performance Monitoring.
  • Page 18: Fault Management

    18 of 32 Release Notes for INM 4.1 GUI Manager during a period when the topology information is invalid. The user should close and re-open the GNB. 4 For the OC-3 Express, the provisioned PEC will always be the same value as the Physical PEC of the circuit pack.
  • Page 19 The user must manually reselect the invalid tributaries or channel based on available inventory presented in either the Tributary Usage or Channel Usage Dialogs. INM Release 4.1 Release Notes Release Notes for INM 4.1 GUI 19 of 32 Issue 1.0...
  • Page 20: Oc-192 Release 5.0 Web Ui

    20 of 32 Release Notes for INM 4.1 GUI 12. OC-192 Release 5.0 WEB UI 1 If the user performs a WEB UI login to an NE, a new window is opened for each login even though a Netscape window is already opened for that NE.
  • Page 21: Release Notes For Inm 4.1 Building Blocks

    Building Blocks. In addition, users should refer to the INM Broadband Release 4.1 Planning Guide for information regarding disk partition sizes prior to installation of the INM 4.1 software. 2. Common issues to all Building Blocks. 1 When a “true” result is returned for the CmiseResult to the user (meaning that the operation is successful) the user should ignore the error information because it can be misleading.
  • Page 22: Corba Gateway

    22 of 32 Release Notes for INM 4.1 Building Blocks 6 Certain graphical applications cannot be started if some others are running first. Typically, the GNB/GNE cannot start if the AMGUI is running because colors are consumed by the AMGUI.
  • Page 23: Fmbb (Fault Management Building Block)

    3 The first response of a PM iterator is always empty. The user should look at the result starting with the second response. INM Release 4.1 Release Notes Release Notes for INM 4.1 Building Blocks 23 of 32 Issue 1.0...
  • Page 24: Cmbb (Connection Management Building Block)

    24 of 32 Release Notes for INM 4.1 Building Blocks 9. CMBB (Connection Management Building Block) 1 When the query_subnetwork_inventory operation is invoked on a CMBB that has 2 SONET MOAs in its subdomain and both of those SONET MOAs have a Ring in common, the operation reports that Ring twice.
  • Page 25: List Of Terms

    List of Terms Add Drop Multiplexer AISS Alarm Indication Signal Second Application Management Agent AMBB Application Management Building Block AccessNode AccessNode Express ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange Bipolar Code Violation Bipolar Errored Second BLSR Bidirectional Line Switched Ring D r a f t BSES Bipolar Severly Errored Seconds...
  • Page 26 26 of 32 List of Terms Ethernet IMA Mapper Errored Second Frame Failure Count FMBB Fault Management Building Block Graphical Network Browser Graphical Network Editor Graphical User Interface Hewlett-Packard HP-VUE Hewlett-Packard Visual User Environment Intelligent Alarm Filtering ICCCM Inter-Client Communication Convention Manual IDLC Integrated Digital Loop Carrier IEEE...
  • Page 27 S/DMS Synchronous/Digital Multiplexing System SEFS Severly Errored Frame Second Severely Errored Second SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol Span of Control SONET Synchronous Optical Network STS-1 Synchronous Transport Signal (at 51.84 Mb/s) TCP/IP Transport Control Protocol/Internet Protocol TN-1X TransportNode STM-1 Multiplexing Network Element Unavailable Second UDLC Universal Digital Loop Carrier...
  • Page 28 28 of 32 List of Terms INM Broadband Release 4.1 Issue 1.0...
  • Page 29: Appendix

    If you are Overseas Call us at: 613-765-7766 Duration 90 days from the date of shipment warranty period (standard Nortel warranty period is 12 months) 29 of 32 Times available 24 hours a day 7 days a week 8 am to 8 pm...
  • Page 30: Product Warranty

    Product Warranty The sole obligation of Nortel under this warranty is the replacement or repair, at Nortel's option, of the defective product. Software licensed by Nortel is warranted to function without material troubles which Nortel deems to have resulted from a defect in design of the software, as set forth in the technical specifications of the product.
  • Page 32 Integrated Network Management Products Integrated Network Management Broadband Release 4.1 Release Notes 1998 Northern Telecom All rights reserved Information subject to change without notice. Issue 1.0 November 1998 Printed in Canada...

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