LinkMeUp. Issue number 21. Network monitoring and management systems

In the 21st release of the podcast, let's talk about what the engineer and manager need to know about the network, what tools exist to simplify life, optimize resources.

If you say something about the abbreviations NMS, OSS, BSS, SNMP, CORBA, you will be interested. If they do not speak, then even more so it is necessary to listen.

Moreover, Dmitry Volodin (author and developer of NOC) and Alexander Efremov (TL in Netcracker) will tell - these guys know a lot about network management.
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System hierarchy:

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Main modules:

• Accessibility monitoring
  

  Checks the availability of items and services, such as HTTP or DNS, for example.
  

• Performance Management
  

  Tracks the quantitative indicators of any resources - interface utilization, processor load, element temperature.
  

• Inventory (Resource / Inventory Management)
  

  Responsible for accounting for physical and logical network resources.
  

• Trouble Ticketing
  

  Allows each problem to formalize, assign a responsible, determine the steps of the solution.
  

• Fault Management
  

  It is a system for monitoring and managing alarms, which is designed to filter and correlate them in order to identify the root cause that generated the flow of interrelated alarms;
  

• Order Fulfilment / Order Management
  

  A system that allows you to organize "orchestration" of orders, break up the whole process into a series of subprocesses, automate some of them.
  

• Work force management
  

  This module formalizes all processes in the company. Now any event or action will have an owner and a specific set of states. For example, the replacement procedure for faulty equipment.
  

• Fraud Management Systems (Fraud Management)
  

  Designed to prevent and prevent cases of unauthorized and unpaid use of services of telecom operators;
  

• Service Quality Management (SLA Management)
  

  Provides online monitoring of services available to internal and external users;
  

• Service Planning and Development Module
  

  Allows you to predict the development of events and simulate a variety of scenarios;
  

• Security Management
  

  Provides access control to network resources;
  

• Accounting Management Module
  

  Registers the use of various network resources.
  

The terms used in the article can be found in the glossary .