How does service management interact with NFM-P?

Service management and NFM-P

Services created in using Classic Management (NFM-P) can be managed by NSP's service management function if the service's NSD Managed parameter is enabled in NFM-P. NSP can discover LSP and SDP tunnels created previously in NFM-P. NFM-P is used to define QoS Generic policies so that NSP can handle service access QoS.

To deploy IP services to NFM-P, the NSP uses NFM-P templates that are installed into NFM-P during NSP installation. The templates are hard-coded in NSP, however, the NSP service definition is very abstract and models only a small subset of available attributes on the NEs. Operators can use these templates to augment services, sites, and endpoints so that additional attributes can be configured from the NSP's service management views.

The following table maps the service names defined in NFM-P to the corresponding NSP service names:

Table 1-1: Service type naming

NFM-P service	NSP service
CPIPE	C-LINE
EPIPE	E-LINE
VPLS	E-LAN
VPRN	L3 VPN

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