OccamView™
Element Management System
OccamView™ EMS, version 5.0, is a robust, carrier-class Element Management System (EMS) that enables service providers to manage their Occam BLC-based access networks more effectively and economically. It provides a wide array of advanced management services from sophisticated alarm management to performance monitoring to diagnostic analysis. Built upon an industry-leading network management framework, OccamView is a distributed EMS that scales seamlessly to meet the needs of small-to-medium regional telcos as well as large, geographically diverse national service providers. OccamView centralizes and automates management to make the daily tasks of managing your access network simpler and more efficient.
- Comprehensive global view of network services / status from one location
- Central repository for general and technical device information
- Real-time fault and event management and behavior definition
- Instantaneous notification of network devices failures and users affected
- Performance management with threshold alarms
- Links between network elements, services, and subscribers
- Image management; configuration backup, restore and reboot
- Group and user management for highest level of security
- Device discovery and data collection scheduler
- Geographical network topology with links and location managers
- Web GUI, SSH and Telnet cut through
Carrier Class Management
OccamView EMS delivers a wide variety of advanced management tools and features to make managing and operating your access network faster, easier and more convenient.
Fault Management
OccamView provides an alarm window that displays network-wide faults/events, color-coded based on alarm severity level. Faults can also be viewed via a geographic topology view of the network, allowing administrators to focus on the problem regions immediately.
Details are available for each event and network device, as well as notes recorded while the alarm is open. Various filters based on location, severity and device qualifications can be set to define alarm actions, to determine who sees alarms and to manage contact closures in the CO.
Event Management
OccamView provides flexible event templates, with threshold qualifiers, that determine when and how network events are turned into alarms. OccamView EMS defines a variety of event sources such as Java, RMI events, SNMP traps and *SYSLOG and can be customized to support other event notifications.
Configuration Management
With OccamView administrators can automatically schedule a variety of configuration management functions including software upgrades, configuration backup and restoration and various other network health checks. OccamView also manages blade provisioning and service configurations via a cut through to the Embedded Web GUI and to the Command Line Interface of the BLC.
Performance Monitoring
OccamView monitors network performance down to the interface level, and enables an administrator to collect device port statistics in a database for later analysis using off-theshelf reporting tools. Statistics can be plotted graphically and exported for further analysis.
Inventory Management
OccamView makes inventory management easy with its network and device discovery capability. EMS software identifies devices and their associated physical and logical attributes by their IP addresses, and with this information creates a complete inventory of the BLC network. Devices can be partitioned into groups by location, equipment type, software revision, etc. for easy isolation of administration domains.
Global Topology
OccamView provides administrators with the option to view the network inventory of devices via a topology map.
Root Cause Analysis
This OccamView function aids in diagnosis of network problems, as well as identifies the true cause of system events and alarms, saving administrators diagnostic and troubleshooting time.
Security
OccamView allows administrators to maintain the highest network security by controlling access to the BLC network through the creation of user accounts and groups. All user activity is controlled via user-name and password entry, with each user being given varying levels of access to the network. User activity logs enable the administrator to easily pinpointand address any unusual user activity.
Service Activation*
OccamView provides tools to manage subscribers and associate subscribers with services and ports and devices. It also supports a transaction-based model for service activation, which provides rollback and failure notification if any of the provisioning steps fail thus preventing incorrect configurations and incorrectly allocated ports and circuits from proliferating. OccamView supports POTS and ADSL service activation.
Service Level Agreements
OccamView enables administrators to define, monitor and report on Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Once an administrator defines SLA parameters and levels such as uptime and bandwidth, OccamView proactively monitors these service parameters/levels to assure service quality. Administrators may configure thresholds on service affecting parameters.