OSS RC -Training

Ankush Sharma
Vodafone-Punjab
 Agenda
• OSS Software Architecture
• Users Management
• Fault management
• Platform Architecture (CIF)
• AXE Common Tools (EAM, APG architecture)
• Performance Management (STS in APG, SMIA, SGW, SDM)
• ARNE & new node integration.
• OSS health check Up.

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GSM Operations Support System

OSS
Performance Fault
Management Management

Configuration Security
Management Management

MSC BTS BSC

SCP HLR Voice Mail

AUC MXE BGW

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OSS Work Areas and Applications

Configuration Management
SM PM  CNA (Cellular Network Administration)
View, plan and update cellular data
RNO CM  BTS Management (BSW,BHM,BCM and
FM BAM)
Base Station Software Management
Base Station Hardware Management
Base Station Configuration Management
Base Station Alarm Management
Work flow tool that supports O&M tasks

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OSS Work Areas and Applications

Fault Management
• Network monitoring
• Handling alarms
SM PM • Searching for alarms
• Statistical alarm analysis
RNO CM
FM Applications:
• ASV (Alarm Status Viewer)
• ASM (Alarm Status Matrix)
• ALV (Alarm List Viewer)
• ALB (Alarm Log Browser)
• FMX (Fault Management eXpert)

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OSS Work Areas and Applications
Performance Management
Network Statistics (NWS) - a complete Performance
Management solution with…

 NWS-A (NWS-Analyzer)
SM PM
Reporting capabilities
 SDM (Statistical Data Mart)
RNO CM
Storage and aggregation capabilities
FM  SGw (Statistical Gateway)
Collection and mediation capabilities
 SMIA (Statistical Measurement Initiator and

Administration)
Measurement set-up and initiation capabilities
 PSA (Performance Statistical Alarms)
Network performance monitoring capabilities

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 Radio Network Optimization
OSS Work Areas  FAS - Frequency Allocation Support
and Applications To improve the frequency plan due to quality problems (optimization)
To find frequencies in order to add or expand a cell (planning)
To supervise the interference levels in a certain area (supervision)
To verify improvement after a frequency change (verification)
 FOX - Frequency Optimization eXpert
Automated FAS
SM PM  NCS - Neighboring Cell Support
To find missing neighboring cell relations (optimization)
To find neighboring cell relations to a new cell (planning)
RNO CM
 NOX - Network cell Optimization eXpert
FM Automated NCS
 MRR - Measurement Result Recording
To analyze radio characteristics for problematic cells (optimization)
To supervise radio characteristics in a certain area (supervision)
To verify improvement after a change (verification)
 TET - Traffic Estimation Tool
To find the most suitable location for a hot spot cell (planning)
To give indications on dimensioning, output power and suitable
neighbouring cells for the future cell (planning)

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OSS Workareas

Security Management
SM PM
Authority support
RNO CM Activity tracing
FM Security administration
BoKS enhanced security

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OSS Applications

Fault Management

ASM ASV FMX

OSS 8.2

Configuration Management

FAS FOX NCS NOX TET MRR

Performance Management

SMIA SGw SDM PSA NWS-A

Element Management Tools

SRM CLS AM EMSA CFI EME TGW

Tools

WinFIOL ALEX OMCFB WTP AST

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OSS Architecture
CIF Self-Management
 CIF Platform
• Activity Manager APR 901 58 • Self Management Service APR 901 64
• CIF Common APR 901 146 • Start/Stop/Restart Service APR 901 62
• CIF SunOS Installer APR 901 041 • Syntax Checker and plug-in test APR 901 069
• CNAM APR 102 80/1A • TBS, Telecom Basic Service APR 102 13/9
• Configuration Service APR 901 61
• TDS, Telecom Database Service APR 901 043
• Directory Service Agent APR 901
070 • TSS APR 901 133
• Ericsson SSH APR 901 445 • UML2XML APR 901 066
• Installation Service APR 901 68
• Launch Service APR 901 72
• Model Parser APR 901 63
• Naming Service Agent APR 901 071
• Notification Agent APR 901 53
• Object Explorer CNZ 223 14/1
• Parameter Service APR 901 084
 3PP Products

• Sybase 12.5.1 ( ASE and Open Client ) RDBMS

• Versant 6.0.1.1 ODBMS
• Novell eDirectory LDAP ( Directory Service )
• Visibroker CORBA ( Naming Service )
• OpenFusion Log Service, Notification Service
• Stronghold Web Service
• Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System
• Adventnet SNMP Manager
CIF Platform

• Notification Service
• Configuration Service
• Directory Service
• Naming Service
• Parameter Service
• Self management
Managed Component, MC

Concept of Managed Components

The “Managed Component”, MC, is a “Managed Object”, i.e. an entity that is manageable.
The MC is a set of one or more processes.
One process can not exist in several MCs.
The MCs is the smallest logical entity a system administrator has to manage.
Self Management Service

The following services are covered by self-management:

Start/Stop/Restart Start, Stop and Restart MCs

Product Inventory To see what is installed in the O&M system.
System Logging Logging of normal system events in the O&M system.
Error Handling Logging of abnormal system events in the O&M system.
Alarms Generate alarms from errors.
SW Trace Start, stop and collect debugging printouts in O&M applications.
Self Test Perform self-tests on MCs.
Instrumentation Get run time values, e.g. queue length.
Configuration Handling of configuration parameters.
 Self Management CLI

If and when it is impossible to start a graphical user interface you can also control most self management features from a
command line interface:

#/opt/ericsson/nms_cif_sm/bin/smtool
( Nowdays ’smtool’ is in $PATH )

Using this tool you can for example:

•View status of MCs

•Start/Stop/Restart MCs
•Display/Set configuration parameters
•Start/Stop CIF Trace for MC[s]

You might also want to take a look at a similar unofficial tool:

#/opt/ericsson/sck/tmp/ssr.sh
 Self Management CLI

smtool command examples:

smtool list Lists status off all MCs

smtool list | grep –v started Lists not started MCs
smtool offline sdm
smtool online sdm
smtool warmrestart eam_handlerMtp Re-reads MC / process configurations
smtool coldrestart FM_DistributionServer Same as offline + online
smtool trace ARNEServer 1-199 arne_trace.log smtool trace <MC> <trace type> <file>
smtool trace stop
smtool cancel Cancels ongoing start/stop of MCs

text in RED are examples of MCs

FM Architecture
FM Architecture
EAM Concepts
Performance Management
Performance Management
Performance Management
Performance Management
PM Architecture.
Performance Management
What is SMIA ?
Performance Management - SMIA

• SMIA – Statistical Initiation and Administration Tool

• SMIA is an tool which facilitates Initiation and

Administration of statistical measurements towards Network
Elements built on the AXE platform

• Part of the performance management suite of

applications (Network Statistics - NWS) in the OSS RC
SMIA
SGW
SGW
SGW
SGW
SGW
SGW
SGW
SDM
SDM
SDM
SDM
SDM
SDM
SDM
New Node Integration

New Node
Inytegration
 Command Description

Daily Tasks

# uptime Check the Server’s uptime on daily basis to verify that whether it has been rebooted without the administrator’s knowledge.

# iostat -E Verify that all the physical disks or disk arrays are having any Soft Error, Hard Errors or Transport Errors.

# /usr/platform/sun4u/sbin/prtdiag –v Verify that all the system components, like CPU, Amount of Cache, Cooling FAN, Power Supplies etc., are working properly.

# vmstat By means of the UNIX command `vmstat' it is possible to identify if a performance problem is caused by a shortage of memory or CPU power.

# prstat Use the following command to monitor which application/process is using the CPU resource most. It is a real time CPU monitoring sun command.

Logically read the system generated administrative message which gives the information for the successes and failures occurred during operation.
# tail –1000 /var/adm/messages | more
Very useful for troubleshooting.

# df –k To determine the amount of disk space available and used on the file system.

Check the amount of disk space in number of 1 Kbytes blocks used by the current directory and subdirectories if you have space problem for file
# du –k
systems.

# vxprint Check the Status of the Disks Under Veritas Control, all disks must show Okay status.

# vxdisk list Check the status of mirroring.

# vxprint –p  

# vxprint –ht  

Check that all processes are running in CIF Management Console. Open the CIF Management console and observe that all the processes are online.If
# /opt/ericsson/nms_cif_sm/bin/smtool list
offline, make them as online.

# /opt/versant/ODBMS/bin/dblist Check the status of the versant databases whether it is active or not.

# more /var/opt/ericsson/sdm/log/SDM_GRAN_dispatcher.log Read SDM error reports messages for statistics data missing & other messages.

# cd /var/opt/sybase/sybase/log Check the Sybase error log

# /ericsson/syb/util/db_check.sh Check database space.

# isql –Usa – w2000 –Psybase11

1> sp_helpdb
2> go Check None of the Databases should be Offline.

# df –kh /ossrc/sybdev/sybmaster
# df –kh /ossrc/sybdev/pm/pmsybdata
# df –kh /ossrc/sybdev/pm/pmsyblog
# df –kh /ossrc/sybdev/oss/syblog
# df –kh /ossrc/sybdev/fm/fmsyblog Check Remaining disk space on sybase filesystem.
# df –kh /ossrc/sybdev/fm/fmsybdata
# df –kh /ossrc/sybdev/oss/sybdata

# cd /var/opt/ericsson/sgw/outputfiles/apg40files/sts Observe the latest time stamp of the files coming from APG40.

# isql –Usa –w2000 –Psybase11

1> use bsddb
2> go
1> select max(TIME), NE from CELL_ADM where RES=1 group by NE Verify that the STS data coming from the nodes are getting loaded properly in the database/Sybase for each of the active nodes
2> go
 Description
Command

Weekly tasks

Check the weekly database dump succeeded in directory

# cd /var/opt/ericsson/sybase/sybase/dumplogs/
# ls –la syb_dbdump*

Scan & Delete Core Files

# find / -type f -name core

Scan filesystem for large files and delete them if not required.
# find / -type f -size +10000000c -ls.

4.2.3 Check the Space Availability for Automatic Database Dumping, Make sure there is enough disk space left for the automatic database
dumps.
# df –k /export/dbdumps/<SQL Server Name>

Delete or archive FMA and EAC logs in log administration

Monthly Tasks

Remove the CNA printouts, Check that all adjustment and update jobs are completed before removing them.
# rm /var/opt/ericsson/cna/log/reports

Clean the RNO Database Delete the older and unwanted RNO recordings from the RNO GUI for smooth operation of RNO.

Check the backup log files

# cd /ericsson/dmr/log
# ls –lrt db_dump*