Chapter 5: Operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning

Overview

Purpose

This chapter describes the operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning (OAM&P) functions for the Alcatel-Lucent 1850 Transport Service Switch 5 (Alcatel-Lucent 1850 TSS-5).

Contents

Maintenance

Multi-level operations

IAO LAN ports (detail)

Operations philosophy

Operations interworking

Multi-vendor operations interworking

Data communications channel

Software download (generic)

Database backup and restore

Maintenance signaling

Fault detection, isolation, and reporting

Loopbacks and tests

Ethernet Link OAM IEEE 802.3 Clause 57

Ethernet Service OAM IEEE 802.1ag

T-MPLS operation and maintenance (OAM)

High-performance Ethernet OAM ITU-T Y.1731 for VLNC42/42B circuit packs

User interface

WaveStar® CIT

Web GUI

SNMP interface

Protection switching

Line protection switching

Path protection switching (path switched rings)

Link aggregation

T-MPLS 1:1 Linear tunnel protection

Performance monitoring

Performance monitoring terms

DS1 performance monitoring parameters

DS3 performance monitoring parameters

E1 performance parameters

E3 performance parameters

VT1.5 performance parameters

VC-n performance parameters

STM-n performance parameters

STS-n performance parameters

OC-n performance parameters

Ethernet performance monitoring parameters

Performance monitoring data storage

Performance parameter thresholds

TCA transmission to OS

Provisioning

Default provisioning

Remote provisioning

Cross-connect provisioning

Automatic provisioning on circuit pack replacement

Line/port state provisioning

Channel state provisioning

Flow control

VLNC40/42/42B resource guidelines

Reports

Alarm report

Performance monitoring reports

State reports

Provisioning reports

Maintenance history reports

Version/equipment list

Administration

Software upgrades

IP Access for network management

Time and date synchronization

Office alarms interface

Remote NE status

SONET/SDH network size

Directory services

Security

Password administration (CIT and system)

User-defined miscellaneous discrete interface

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