Working with equipment group objects

Overview

The equipment group icons in the navigation tree represent logical equipment groups. Initially, an equipment group object is created by choosing Create→Equipment→Group from the NFM-P main menu. A Group (Create) form opens. Additional equipment groups can be created using the Copy button on the equipment group properties form.

The Discovered NEs and the Unmanaged NEs equipment groups are created by default. The Discovered NEs equipment group contains the discovered devices. The Unmanaged NEs equipment group contains non NFM-P managed NEs that have been added to the network. You can create new equipment groups and move devices to them using the topology maps. The topology map supports equipment groups of up to 250 NEs.

Note: For existing topologies, an NFM-P managed NE is not moved automatically to the Unmanaged NEs equipment group if it is unmanaged by the user.

See Chapter 4, Topology map management for information about configuring equipment group objects and managing equipment groups using maps.

Performance considerations

Although there is no limit to the number of equipment groups, Nokia recommends a maximum of 10 000 equipment groups per system for optimal performance. Each equipment group can contain a maximum of 2000 objects. Network elements and immediate child groups are considered objects in an equipment group. A bracketed number is displayed beside the name of each equipment group in the navigation tree. This number indicates the current number of objects in the group.