Node Availability Summary report
Node Availability Summary report overview
The Node Availability Summary report shows availability information for NEs.
Use cases
Service level agreement—Use the report to validate that NE availability meets agreed targets.
Troubleshooting—Use the report to determine if an NE is currently, or has previously, been unavailable.
Limitations
When the report is exported to the RTF or DOCX file type, some columns may not display or there may be a problem with the table border.
Prerequisites
To create the report, NE availability must be determined. An availability framework computes periodic outage time and outage counts from state change records contained in the auxiliary database data dictionary. These periodic values are aggregated to determine the availability of an NE over a period of time. A periodic table tracks the activity state and availability of an NE. The availability framework supports the creation of an availability table that aggregates the data in the periodic table based on the periodic synchronization time configured on the system.
Update the interval of Analytics Data Dictionary tables: The object synchronization interval for tables registered for periodic calculation must be configured to run every 15 min by configuring analyticsMODictPeriodicSyncTime in the nms-server.xml file; see How do I synchronize the Analytics data dictionary table data with the NFM-P?. This procedure applies to all availability reports; it can be skipped if it has already been done.
Optionally, you may populate the maintenance window table in the auxiliary database with details of object maintenance; see To add data to the samdb maintenance-window table in an auxiliary database. The report runs if the table is not created or empty; however, maintenance windows are treated as downtime when availability is calculated.
Attributes to track operational state changes
The following table contains the attributes for tracking operational state changes.
Note: The table does not need to be manually enabled as it is system wide; by default, it is enabled for the entire network. Therefore, no action is required to enable the table. The current database sizing tool does not account for availability reports, and the retention time is not configurable. The availability reports are limited.
Table 11-4: Attributes to track operational state changes
Dictionary Name |
Input Parameter |
If State Changed |
If State Not Changed | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
analytics_network_element |
reachability |
Returns 1 |
Returns 0 |
Report characteristics
The following table lists the principal report characteristics.
Table 11-5: Node Availability Summary report characteristics
Notes:
Note: The 7705 SAR-H is not supported.
Example
The following figure shows a report example. Not all figures are from the same report.