Network Management System UNEM

Keeping your complete MileGate and UMUX network under control

■ Graphical user interface

■ Fault, configuration, perform-
ance and security manage-
ment
■ Sophisticated inventory
reports
■ SNMP, CLI & XML interfaces
to OSS
■ Auto discovery of network
elements
■ Automatic routing for TDM
up to STM-4
■ High scalability and high avail-
ability
■ Management support of
selected 3rd party devices

Scaleable GUI: From network views to a single card

UNEM – the proven and scalable ■ Introduction UNEM, the network management
network management solution system for the multi-service
enabling the cost-efficient In today’s telecommunication access platforms MileGate and
operation of a MileGate and market, service providers need to UMUX provides all the means to
UMUX multi-service access differentiate in order to gain new manage the access network
network. customers and to sustain their cost-efficiently and in a conven-
business. Delivering and main- ient manner. The integration into
taining a high quality of service is the service provider’s existing
crucial for their strategy. OSS (Operational Support
Cost efficient and user friendly System) environment is realised
network management applica- through open northbound
tions reducing operational interfaces.
expenditures (OPEX) play a vital
role within the organisation of a
service provider.
Simple configuration, fault management and visualisation of your network topology

■ Network View For the TDM world the end-to- ■ Service Assurance
end provisioning of connections
UNEM offers a user-friendly and is offered by means of the UMUX The powerful fault management
intuitive graphical user interface networking package, allowing the application offers graphical
(GUI) providing immediate access operator to save time during the display of alarm states on the
to the variety of applications. creation of new services. network element symbols pre-
sented on the map. Alarm lists
 Graphical network representa- This application provides auto- associated with flexible filtering
tion is offered through topo- matic routing capability of SDH and sorting capability enable the
logical maps, allowing the circuits and trails, including the operator to take immediate
operator to create his own, creation of protected connec- actions to re-establish the
customised hierarchical views tions, combined with a powerful service. Alarms can be forwarded
of the MileGate and UMUX and customisable network using e-mail service.
network. reporting functionality.
The quality of a service is perma-
 The automatic discovery of A comfortable tool for network nently monitored in the network
newly deployed network wide software downloads allows elements. In case the quality of a
elements combined with the updating embedded software in line falls below a defined thresh-
upload of their configuration the units. New functions and old value, the system creates
information reduces setup services can be provided in the corresponding alarms.
time. network elements either by
immediate or by scheduled The Performance Management
application in UNEM offers the
■ Service Provisioning download and activation. In
capability to collect performance
addition, MileGate configuration
The configuration of the various profiles can be managed and data from selected ports on the
network and service parameters downloaded network wide. UNEM platform. The data is
in the network elements is stored in XML format and can
performed through the intuitive easily be exported to any 3rd
configuration view, enabling the party OSS. The network element
fast and efficient provisioning of backup and restore function
new services. allows returning to a previous
configuration in case of a failure.
■ Security Management offers the required modularity to ■ OSS Integration
scale with the size of the network.
The powerful security manage- The integration of UNEM into
ment application offers a flexible The different software compo- Operations Support Systems
user administration – based on nents can either be installed on a (OSS) is realised through various
customisable user profiles – single platform, to manage small interfaces.
allowing the administrator to to medium size networks or in a
distributed client/server environ- The SNMP based northbound
define individual levels of access
ment allowing the management interface, offers a trap-based
privileges to managed objects,
of thousands of network ele- fault management and the export
network resources and manage-
ments. of basic inventory information
ment applications. Password
together with notifications on
changes in network elements can The flexible concept provides a modifications in the network
be performed as bulk operations. wide range of deployment elements (e.g. the provisioning of
scenarios, including redundancy a new unit). This allows the
■ Inventory Management concepts and high availability integration of UNEM in virtually
cluster solutions. any high level management
The maintenance and the UNEM operates on standard system offering a SNMP inter-
resource capacity planning tasks computer hardware running Red face.
are supported with the inventory Hat Enterprise Linux. HP UNIX is Various CLI-based APIs support
management application, provid- supported for existing installa- inventory data retrieval, line
ing detailed network inventory tions. UNEM offers all advan- testing capabilities (POTS, SELT/
data of the MileGate, UMUX tages of a workstation based DELT) and service provisioning.
network elements and selected computing environment, like The built-in CLI-multiplexer
3rd party devices. multi-tasking and multi-user (CLIMUX) allows implementing
For the MileGate product family capability. service provisioning concepts in
configuration reports are avail- The UNEM client software runs connection with high level OSS.
able showing service parameters on standard personal computers. For inventory and performance
such as service ID, service type, Alternatively, X-emulation data retrieval xml-file based
port address, port profiles and software can be used to access interfaces are available.
VLAN IDs. the UNEM graphical user inter- UNEM has been successfully inte-
face from their desktop PC. grated into the IBM Tivoli Net-
■ System Management cool® suite, enabling umbrella

System administration tasks – like ■ Management of Third Party alarm monitoring of MileGate
and UMUX networks.
database backup and restore, the Devices via SNMP
modification of the licence key The integration of UNEM into the
UNEM offers a SNMP interface Preside Application Platform,
etc. – are supported by an southbound to manage selected
administration tool offering a Nortel Networks’ NMS solution
third party devices (CPE and for their optical (SDH) product
graphical user interface. others). Management includes portfolio, has been realised
With the implemented features basic discovery, inventory and through a dedicated northbound
UNEM is a self-monitoring alarm handling. Alarms based on interface offering fault and trail
element management system, SNMP-alarm traps are displayed management as well as GUI
requiring almost no maintenance in the UNEM alarm list and – if “reach through” capability.
effort from the system administra- required - forwarded through the
tor. UNEM northbound interface to Contact us to find out more
upper layer OSS. Cross-launch of about UNEM.
selected third party applications
■ Scalable & Flexible Solution allows accessing devices for
further management tasks.
Built on a modern architecture
using CORBA technology and an
object oriented database, UNEM
Technical Specifications (valid for UNEM release 8C)

General Recommendations Server Platform

For up to 500 network elements Dell PowerEdge SC1435, PowerEdge 1900 or 1950 III
For up to 1000 network elements Dell PowerEdge 2900 or 2950 III
For more than 1000 network elements For larger networks a distributed architecture must be deployed

© KEYMILE 2009-07-13 V006. Our products are subject to continuous development and we reserve the right to amend specifications without notice.
For high availability deployments a cluster solution is available
Operation system Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 4.7 or 5.3. Further Red Hat certified computer
hardware can be found under http://www.redhat.com/rhel/compatibility/hardware.
HP-UX is recommended for existing installations only.
Hardware Recommendations Server Platform
CPU Quad-Core
RAM 8 GB (minimum 4 GB)
LAN 1 x 10/100BaseT interface for network, additional interface for office LAN
Monitor 19 inch or larger, resolution 1280 x 1024
Peripherals (optional) DVD-ROM drive, optional tape drive for backup
Recommendations Client Platform
Option 1 Dedicated UNEM client software running on standard PC with Windows® XP
Professional with
2 GB RAM recommended (minimum 1 GB)
available hard disk space 350 MB
network interface card for accessing UNEM server using TCP/IP
colour monitor with 1280 x 1024 resolution
Option 2 Standard PC running X-emulation software
Management Communication
Management channel In-band and out-of-band, TCP/IP-based

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