Overview

Support for drivers in the NFM-P

Note: NFM-P multi-vendor drivers are no longer supported; instead, multi-vendor support is managed using model-driven adaptors. See the Network Developer Portal for more information.

Drivers are optional software modules corresponding to specific devices. They can be used to increase or extend management of NEs currently managed as GNEs. Drivers mediate between the NE and the NFM-P, allowing the NFM-P operator to manage non-standard equipment and services from the GUI or the NFM-P XML OSS interface.

See section Generic NEs for more information about managing other vendors’ NEs without a driver.

With the addition of a driver, management capabilities are added in the following areas, depending on the driver and release:

• configuration management

• software management

• network assurance

• service assurance

• service provisioning

• device life cycle management

Driver development

A number of GNE drivers are developed, delivered, and installed on the same product release cycle as the NFM-P as part of the overall product offering. Many of these drivers have been designed to support specific capabilities relevant to a particular managed device, such as radio port properties configuration for Wavence MPT devices.