Craft Terminal Overview

Alcatel-Lucent provides a comprehensive range of Network Management Applications compliant with the ITU-T Telecommunication management Network Principles.

The ZIC (Zero-Installation Craft terminal) is a project in charge of the local management of single network elements from different Alcatel-Lucent SDH and DATA products, providing ITU compliant Information Model Interface to the Network Element.

The ZIC can be integrated to products in charge of the management of networks and network elements.

The ZIC uses a state-of-the-art platform for providing an advanced and integrated Management.

It performs as well all the SW functions related to the control and management activities like info–model processing, event reporting and logging, equipment data base management, SW downloading and management, etc.

ZIC main functionalities

This chapter describes the main functionalities of the ZIC (Zero-Installation Craft terminal). The functionalities constitute the heading of each sub-section below.

System management

• Start-Up/Stop of the system

• Visualization of all the ZIC related processes

• The computing environment (system back-up/restore)

Security management

This section is related to security within the ZIC. The functions of configuration and installation are accessible only to the Administrator. It contains:

• Access to the system (password modification, login, logout)

• Profile assignment (determines which functionalities the user has access to)

• Property of the map (public / private)

Network element management

This section deals with the management of the equipment present in the network. Network Element management is detailed in the Operator's Guides dedicated to the NE.

Some of the functionality offered by the ZIC are common to all the NEs, other functionalities are dedicated and present only for some NE types.

• Supervision of NEs

• Changing of boards and subracks

• Alarm and Event Notification

• Configuration of the alarm severity profile

• Time management

• Port management

• Performance monitoring. It consists of a set of functions that evaluate and report on the behavior of the NEs and their effectiveness relating to the communications taking place on the Network.

• Synchronization

• Software download for NE upgrading, following the network evolution

Software management

The software management section refers to the software package(s) present in the NE. This is the support of the ZIC application running on any NE. The operations concerned are:

• Getting information about the software downloaded in a selected NE

• Getting information about the software present on the FTP server for the NE

• Downloading software packages from the FTP server to a NE

Alarm management

This function is used to detect and correct abnormal functioning of the system. The managed entities transmit alarms to the ZIC that processes them. The different alarm functionalities are:

• Reception and processing of alarms

• Establishment of filter criteria on alarm reception

• Log management of alarms

• Internal storing and treatment of alarm information

• User interface service management for displaying purposes

• User interface operations for alarm processing

• Alarm probable cause

• The alarms concerning a particular managed entity is represented in a synthetic way in all the pages concerning the entity

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