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Alcatel-Lucent 9959
Network Performance Optimizer | M4
Introduction
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Contents
Preface
Purpose
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Reason for reissue
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Document pertinence ................................................................................................................................................................... xi

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Audience
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Assumed knowledge .................................................................................................................................................................... xi

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Product names ................................................................................................................................................................................ xi
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How to comment
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Overview ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 1-1
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Presentation ................................................................................................................................................................................. 1-1
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NPO functions ............................................................................................................................................................................ 1-3
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NPO architecture ....................................................................................................................................................................... 1-3
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NPO configurations
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Web iconbox (Wibox)

Overview ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 2-1
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Presentation ................................................................................................................................................................................. 2-1
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Procedure 2-1: Start Wibox from Internet browser ...................................................................................................... 2-4
2-4
Procedure 2-2: Logout Wibox .............................................................................................................................................. 2-5
2-5
Procedure 2-3: Change user password .............................................................................................................................. 2-6
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Procedure 2-4: View product information
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NPO main features

Overview ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 3-1
3-1
QoS analysis
Alerters
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3-2
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3-2
Create and execute reports ..................................................................................................................................................... 3-2

3-2
Reference values
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3-3
Rules .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 3-3

3-3
Diagnosis
Tuning
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3-4
Events ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 3-4

3-4
Cell class editor
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3-4
Favorites ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 3-4

3-4
Network Unavailability and Alarm Reporting Tool (NUART) ................................................................................ 3-5
3-5
Remote Inventory Data Management (RIDM) .............................................................................................................. 3-5
3-5
Cartography ................................................................................................................................................................................. 3-5
3-5
Google Earth export ................................................................................................................................................................. 3-6
3-6
Free fields
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3-6
Log visualization ....................................................................................................................................................................... 3-6

3-6
Customize login banner .......................................................................................................................................................... 3-6
3-6
User note
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3-7
Export interfaces
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Web client .................................................................................................................................................................................... 3-7

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Web publishing
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Common Security Asset ......................................................................................................................................................... 3-8

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Using NPO applications

Overview ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 4-1
4-1
Procedure 4-1: Open Optimization application
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Procedure 4-2: Open Security application ....................................................................................................................... 4-3

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Procedure 4-3: Open Log application
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Procedure 4-4: Open Process Monitoring application

Procedure 4-5: Open web publishing
Procedure 4-6: Open web client
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Wibox layout
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List of procedures
Web iconbox (Wibox)

2-1
Start Wibox from Internet browser
2-2
Logout Wibox
2-3
Change user password
2-4
View product information ....................................................................................................................................... 2-8
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2-5
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4-1
Open Optimization application ............................................................................................................................. 4-2
4-2
Open Security application
4-3
Open Log application ............................................................................................................................................... 4-4

4-4
4-4
Open Process Monitoring application ................................................................................................................ 4-5
4-5
Open web publishing ................................................................................................................................................ 4-6
4-6
Open web client .......................................................................................................................................................... 4-8

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Preface
Preface
Purpose
This document provides an overview of the Network Performance Optimizer (NPO).

It describes the architecture and potential configurations, and introduces key operating
and help concepts.
Reason for reissue
Refer to the following Editions for a list of technical and editorial updates to the current
guide.
In Edition 20
First official release of the document for Release M4 R7.

In Edition 01
First official release of the document for Release M4.

Document pertinence
This document applies to the NPO M4.1 projects.

Audience
This guide is intended for network administrators.

Assumed knowledge
You must have a basic understanding of the following:
Oracle database administration

OMC administration
Solaris operating system and administration
Network protocol techniques.
Product names
This document uses the following NPO naming convention: 9959 NPO and the generic
term NPO refer to the Alcatel-Lucent 9959 Network Performance Optimizer.
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How to comment
To comment on this document or indicate an error, please contact your customer

representative.
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Introduction to NPO
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Overview
Purpose
This section provides an overview of the NPO architecture.

Contents
Presentation
1-1
NPO functions
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NPO architecture
1-3
NPO configurations
1-4
Presentation
The NPO offers a full range of multi-standard QoS Monitoring and radio network
optimization facilities, including:
QoS analysis
QoS decrease cause diagnosis
Radio resource configuration tuning

Cartographic telecom management
Hardware inventory management
User environment customization.
The NPO supports GSM, W-CDMA, WiMAX and LTE Radio Access Networks (RAN).
This product includes a powerful Oracle database containing performance measurements
and calculated indicators which ensure rapid detection of QoS degradation. The NPO also
proposes the appropriate correction tasks and an improved logical configuration for the
radio network, even in multi-standard environments.
Performance measurements ensure:
Efficient planning and optimization of the network
Usage statistics
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Detailed investigation of past problems

Realtime analysis.
Note: The NPO can be delivered by Alcatel-Lucent as an integrated part of different
products, like different OMC-Rs. Depending on the customer's product and the
commercial options, not all modes and technologies may be available.
For more information about
Refer to
The NPO component
Network Performance Optimizer User Guide

NPO Administration User Guide
Data source types and declaration:
Param - For Design and Logical

Parameters
Qos - For Counters and

Indicators
Tuning - For Tuning Operations
Laser - for Availability (Laser)
RNP - For Radio Network

Planner
PCMD- For Per Call

Measurements Data
WCT- For W-CDMA Call Trace
The platform and specifically:
User management and security
Process monitoring
Backup and restore procedures.
NPO Administration User Guide
NPO Platform User Guide
Note: Client applications (either web or java applications) display local time (client
station time zone).
The NPO Administrator can declare data sources using:
The Graphical User Interface - This allows the administrator to enter only
mandatory information; all other fields are automatically filled in
The Command Line.
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NPO functions
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NPO functions
The NPO enables you to optimize/check:
QoS analysis
Reference values
Rules and diagnosis
Events
Configuration parameters
Tuning
Network stability and availability
Alarms
Cartographic display
Thematics
Free field
Log
Web client
Web publishing
User environment.
NPO architecture
The following figure provides an overview of the NPO architecture.
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NPO architecture
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The NPO architecture is a Server/Client application composed of several machines which

communicate via HTTPS protocols inside a LAN network.
The NPO HMI server is an optional machine in the NPO architecture.
NPO configurations
This section provides an overview of the different NPO configurations.
NPO server
An NPO server runs on a dedicated machine.

The NPO server mainly hosts the Oracle database, NPO software, documentation and
Corba/Apache services.
The following software and third party software are installed on the server:
SPARC Solaris / x86 Linux
NPO software
Oracle Database
Jacorb
ACETAO
Apache
Tomcat.
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NPO client
The NPO client represents a PC machine running on the Windows XP Professional SP2
or Windows Vista operating system.
Java 1.6 (JRE and JDK) and the Flash Player software must be installed on the NPO
Client.
Note: It is mandatory to install the JDK. If only the JRE is running, then some
features of the Analysis Desktop will not work (for example, exports of Microsoft
Excel files).
The RAM memory must be:
Minimum 2 GB in size for a full Client

Minimum 1 GB in size for a light Client.
NPO printer
The printer must be declared on the NPO client.

It must have a 10/100 Ethernet interface with a standard TCP/IP port. At least one color
printer must be available to print the content of the Microsoft Excel reports.
The installation and configuration of the printers is of the responsibility of the customers
system administrator.
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Web iconbox (Wibox)

2
Overview
Purpose
This section describes how to use the Wibox applications running directly from the NPO
client Wibox.
Contents
Presentation
2-1
Procedure 2-1: Start Wibox from Internet browser
2-4
Procedure 2-2: Logout Wibox
2-5
Procedure 2-3: Change user password
2-6
2-8
Presentation
The Web iconbox is a web application opened in an Internet browser window, which
allows the Muse desktop to access specific technology and multi-technology applications.
The Wibox displays icons which give the user access to the applications via navigation
objects. Its main page content depends on the profile of the user and on the installation
type.
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Presentation
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Figure 2-1 Wibox layout
The Wibox main window is divided into five areas:
Banner area contains: the Alcatel-Lucent logo, the title of the product (given in the
xml configuration file), the user who is logged in and the X icon used for logging
out from Wibox
Application area contains the icons of the applications which can be launched from
Wibox
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If there are more applications, a navigation system is available to navigate to the

second page, similar to the first one, where the rest of applications are displayed. A
filter mechanism (Domains in the Command area) is used to see only some
applications.
Navigation area contains the Arrow buttons used to navigate through the pages of the
Wibox
Custom area contains applications that the user wants to access frequently. It is filled
by drag and drop from the Application area. The maximum number of contained
applications is four.
If an application is already displayed in the Custom area or if the Custom area is full,
an error message is displayed.
Applications can be removed from the Custom area by dragging them to the
Application area.
The user settings for the Custom area are saved locally, on the client PC, for each
user.
Command area contains the Domains and Status icons.
The Domains icon is used to filter the applications visibility in the Application
Area. If the Wibox contains only one Domain, the corresponding icon is not
displayed.
When clicking on the Domains icon, a list of the filtering options is displayed. The
content of the Application area is updated and refreshed according to the option
selected from the list.
For example, to see in the Application area only the Optimization applications, from
the Domains list, deselect all the options, except Optimization.
The Status icon is used to open a window which contains the date and time of all
the launched applications.
When the mouse is on top of an application icon, a tooltip is displayed, showing the
domain to which the application belongs.
The Wibox application uses:
A Common Security Asset (CSA) server to retrieve the token and access rights of the
user, in order to access the applications integrated in the Wibox
An HTTPS server to obtain the required configuration files.
You can access the Wibox display through an Internet browser (for example Internet
Explorer, Firefox) on the client PC.
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From the Windows Client PC, type the corresponding server IP address or the server
hostname in an Internet Explorer browser bar:
https://<server_IP_address> or <server_hostname>
Note: If you use the hostname, it must be added in the hosts file located in the
C:/WINDOWS/system32/drivers/etc directory.
If a Security warning page opens, click on Continue to this website (not
recommended).
Result: The Alcatel-Lucent CSA login window opens.
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In the Alcatel-Lucent CSA window:

1. Type the appropriate user name and password
2. Click on Login.
Note: If the Convergent Security Asset (CSA) warning window opens, click
Continue.
Result: The Alcatel-Lucent Welcome page appears.
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In the Alcatel-Lucent Welcome page, click on START.

If a Warning - Security window appears, check Always trust content from this
publisher and click Run.
Result: The Wibox application opens.
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From the application
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Click on the
icon from the Banner area of the Wibox.
Result: The Exit confirmation window appears.

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In the Exit confirmation window, click on Yes.

Result: The Wibox application closes.
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From Internet browser

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Click on X in the top right corner of the Internet browser window.

Result: A confirmation window appears.
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In the confirmation window, click on OK.

Result: The Wibox application closes.
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Password policy
You must enter exactly the same password in the Password and Confirm fields. These
fields are case sensitive.
Note: The program does not verify if the new password differs from the previous
password by more than three characters and that the new password is not equal to a
configured number of old passwords.
The password must:
Contain at least seven characters and at most one hundred characters

Contain at least two letters of the alphabet (one in upper case and one in lower case)
Contain at least one Unicode special character and at least one number
Not contain blank spaces
Not be equal to or contain the user name. Also, it must not be a double repeat or a
reverse of the user name. For this comparison, a lower case letter and its
corresponding upper case are equivalent.
Not contain sequential ascending or descending strings of alphabetic or numeric
characters equal to or longer than four characters (e.g. 1234 or dcba are not
accepted). For this comparison, a lower case letter and its corresponding upper case
are equivalent.
Not contain more than three of the same characters in a row. This condition is
managed through a configuration variable (enabled / disabled).
Not contain substrings of at least four characters that match with whole words of the
defined dictionary. This condition is managed through a configuration variable
(enabled / disabled).
Procedure
Change your password according to the password policy.

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2. Click on Login.
Continue.
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Click on the Change password icon.

Result: The Change your password window opens.
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Define the new password:

1. In the Change your password window, type:
For Old password, enter the current password
For New Password, enter the new password

For (Re)New Password, enter the new password again.
If the text in the (Re)New password field is not identical to the text in the New
password field, the following message appears:
The repeated password is not the same !!!
Re-type the correct information.

2. Click on OK.
Result: The old password changes to the new one and an Information window
appears, with the following message:

The password was successfully changed
Note: If the new password does not respect the password policy, an error message
appears.
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Click on Ok.
Result: The Information window closes.
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To view information related to the installed product, access the About window from
Wibox.
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recommended).
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2. Click on Login.
Continue.
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Click on the About icon.

Result: The About window appears, displaying:
Product name
Version of the product.
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To close the About window, click on Close.

Result: The About window closes.
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Overview
Purpose
This section presents the main features of the NPO.

Contents
QoS analysis
3-2
Alerters
3-2
Create and execute reports
3-2
Reference values
3-3
Rules
3-3
Diagnosis
3-3
Tuning
3-4
Events
3-4
Cell class editor
3-4
Favorites
3-4
Network Unavailability and Alarm Reporting Tool (NUART)
3-5
Remote Inventory Data Management (RIDM)
3-5
Cartography
3-5
Google Earth export
3-6
Free fields
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Log visualization
3-6
Customize login banner
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User note
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Export interfaces
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Web client
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Web publishing
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Common Security Asset
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QoS analysis
The NPO collects periodical measurements of the radio traffic, radio resource usage, and
handover behavior from the network elements through the declared OMCs. These
measurements serve the quality of service monitoring at the NPO, and back-office
activities such as network optimization and network planning.
Users can create their own counters and indicators, and customize system data. The data
can then be analyzed in QoS reports. Special functions allow identification of the worst or
best cells related to a QoS indicator, to get reports on the QoS evolution, and to compare
the service quality of different cells. By comparing QoS indicator values with predefined
thresholds, the NPO ensures rapid verification of the quality of service in each single cell.
For more information, refer to Use counters and indicators in the Network Performance
Optimizer User Guide document.
Alerters
Alerters are defined to detect QoS problems and generate QoS alarms in the OMC, on the
basis of reported Performance Measurement data. They are calculated from
counters/indicators.
Optionally, SNMP trap can be sent when a threshold is crossed.
For more information, refer to Alerters in the Network Performance Optimizer User
Guide.
Create and execute reports

The NPO operator can view the results of QoS analysis in the form of reports for a
selected set of network resources and the defined report period.
They contain both tables and graphs (several functions graphically displayed
simultaneously). The customer can also customize reports.
For more information, refer to Reports in the Network Performance Optimizer User
Guide.
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Reference values
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Reference values
Reference values are recommended values of parameters. They allow a quick audit of the
network and permit the operator to detect which objects do not follow recommendations
for parameter values. The reference values for a parameter depend on different criteria,
such as cell type, cell class, frequency, and BTS type.
NPO is delivered with a default set of reference values, which can be customized.
For more information, refer to Use reference values in the Network Performance
Optimizer User Guide.
Rules
Rules are Excel files that express the dependency between two or more parameters of a
given object, and which are stored in the Oracle database.
Conditions and expressions regarding other parameters are defined inside the rule,
indicating when a rule is applicable.
For more information, refer to Use rules in the Network Performance Optimizer User
Guide.
Diagnosis
The NPO investigates and diagnoses QoS problems. Depending on the raised problem, it
proposes some corrective actions and / or extra investigations.
In order to benefit directly from any optimizer's field experience, the NPO allows
integration of new diagnosis scenarios. Therefore, the network optimizer can rely on the
diagnosis rules supplied by Alcatel-Lucent, and also on the rules derived from their own
optimization experience.
Whenever a QoS indicator reaches its alert threshold, the NPO offers the diagnosis
feature to the optimizer, in order to find out the possible cause of the QoS degradation.
For more information about the diagnosis scenario creation and diagnosis editor, refer to
the NPO Diagnosis Development User Guide.
For more information about diagnosis scenario execution and scheduling, refer to
Diagnosis in the Network Performance Optimizer User Guide.
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Tuning
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Tuning
After a network optimization session is completed, a radio parameter tuning is performed
using the NPO. This is done in order to correct network misbehavior and uses monitoring,
checking and diagnosis functions. The NPO user can prepare radio resource configuration
modifications, frequency changes and neighborhood modification and apply them through
the managed OMCs.
For more information, refer to Tuning in the Network Performance Optimizer User Guide.
Events
Events show when the key information of a cell has changed. There is a different event
per type of parameter (identifier, BSC, frequency, etc.) or topology change (for example,
Move BTS). The event can be displayed in reports or in a dedicated tabular viewer.
For more information, refer to Use events in the Network Performance Optimizer User
Guide.
Cell class editor

This feature allows the operator to change the cell class of a cell compared to the cell
class imported from RNP. The user can create a new cell class that inherits its
characteristics from the system defined cell class.
For more information, refer to Use network object class in the Network Performance
Favorites
This feature provides a shortcut to select the indicator or report (similar to the best of in
RNO). Each operator can save favorites.
For more information, refer to Use favorites in the Network Performance Optimizer User
Guide.
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The Network Unavailability and Alarm Reporting Tool (NUART) analyzes and reports
system quality degradation, detects the impact on stability and unavailability, highlights
faulty equipment, and extracts unavailability related to managed objects for a specified
time period, filter and sort statistics.
Based on the reported PM data, alerters detect QoS problems and generate QoS alarms.
For more information, refer to the NPO Unavailability User Guide.
Remote Inventory Data Management (RIDM)

The Hardware Inventory application consists of Remote Hardware Inventory
management and Customer Acceptance List management to compare it with what is
actually deployed on the field.
Using the Remote Hardware Inventory, data is collected for the entire equipment rapidly
and precisely, without the need to go onsite. The operator can then use the information to
determine the exact number and locations of boards to be replaced (for example, before
the introduction of a new release) or the detailed characteristics (especially the functional
variant and ICS or correction status) of a faulty board requiring intervention.
For more information, refer to the NPO Remote Inventory User Guide.
Cartography
The cartography feature allows the geographical display of cells, adjacency and of other
objects (BSC, etc.) rasters and vector maps with the same coordinate system, computed
maps and network objects. The coordinates can be imported from RNP data, operational
data or data entered by the operator.
Thematic layers allow the user to visualize QoS information on the geographical
representation. Its purpose is to color parts of the geographical representation, according
to user requests on the QoS indicators, parameter values, analysis results, etc.
The adjacencies analysis functionality, by the means of graphic tools, enables the user to
view existing and forecasted adjacency additions and deletions for a cell, and decide
whether to add the forecast to a tuning session.
For more information, refer to Cartography in the Network Performance Optimizer User
Guide.
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Google Earth export
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Google Earth export

The cartography information can be exported in order to be displayed in Google Earth
through the Keyhole Markup Language (KML) interface. The KML is an XML grammar
and file format for modeling and storing geographic features such as points, lines, images
and polygons for display in Google Earth.
For more information, refer to Google Earth Export in the Network Performance
Free fields
For each customer object type, a set of additional free fields can be defined. Then, an
object can be associated with a set of free fields values.
Free fields can be generalized for all network objects, but are basically used with the
cells.
For more information, refer to Use free fields in the Network Performance Optimizer
User Guide.
Log visualization
The log visualization feature offers the basic features for handling the generated logs:
Viewing
Filtering/sorting
Importing/exporting
Saving
Purging.
For more information, refer to Manage Log Files in the NPO Platform User Guide.
Customize login banner

This feature provides the possibility to customize the disclaimer for:
Wibox
For more information, refer to Customize login banner in the NPO Platform User Guide.
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User note
This feature allows the operator to add comments on network object and functions.
Comments are shared between operators.
For more information, refer to Use user note in the Network Performance Optimizer User
Guide.
Export interfaces
The NPO offers a public web interface called EQL, used to retrieve data through external
tools such as web-browsers (Mozilla, Internet Explorer) or web-enabled applications
(Excel). This can be done by executing queries or report requests.
The command line access to EQL is supported from Windows and Unix.
For more information on how to execute a data query, report request, or dynamic Excel
page, and about global parameter exports, refer to Export interfaces using EQL requests
in the NPO Export Interface User Guide.
Web client
This feature allows the operator to browse the NPO topology and functions, and to
execute classical views and reports for a quick analysis of daily checks without running
the NPO Analysis Desktop.
The search facilities of the Web Client help the operator perform their selections and the
selections can be stored as favorites.
Web client introduces the concept of the selection cart, which is a preset of topology
elements and function elements in order to ease the use of selection lists.
For more information, refer to the NPO Web Client User Guide.
Web publishing
This feature enables the light client to display computed views and reports in a web
browser, accessible from any PC with a web browser, without having to launch the
Analysis Desktop.
Each published view/report is stored in a web file repository in its existing XML format.
For more information, refer to the NPO Web Publishing User Guide.
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The Common Security Asset offers a Single Sign On and Access Control mechanism at
different levels to provide a highly secured operating environment. This includes an
entry-level login and password mechanism.
All system users have an associated user profile that defines their user ID, password, and
access privileges.
System administrators assign maintenance personal access profiles based on the
management functions that they perform.
The CSA GUI allows you to manage users, user sessions, groups, IP address and
subnetwork access on the CSA.
It also enables you to view the list of all users, user groups, entities, entity groups, tasks,
task groups and criteria on the CSA.
Use the User and Session Manager to carry out the following user administration tasks:
Create and remove users, user groups, entities, entity groups, tasks, and task groups
Assign users to user groups

Assign entities to entity groups
Assign tasks to task groups

Assign entities or entity groups to user groups
Assign tasks or task groups to user groups
Monitor user sessions using the monitoring tool
Enable or disable IP address and subnetwork access to CSA.
For more information, refer to the User Administration Handbook.
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Overview
Purpose
This section describes how to use the NPO applications.

Contents
4-2
Procedure 4-2: Open Security application
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4-4
4-5
4-6
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recommended).
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2. Click on Login.
Continue.
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Select one of the following:
Analysis Desktop
Data Management
Import/Export Management
Diagnosis Editor
Remote Inventory
Unavailability.
Result: The corresponding tool opens.
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N D O F S T E P S
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recommended).
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2. Click on Login.
Continue.
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Access Right Defs
Change Password.
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N D O F S T E P S
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recommended).
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2. Click on Login.
Continue.
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Log Viewer
Detailed Logs files viewer.

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N D O F S T E P S
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recommended).
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2. Click on Login.
Continue.
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Select Process Monitoring.

Result: The Process Monitoring page opens.
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N D O F S T E P S
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Open an Internet browser.

Result: The Internet browser opens.
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Type the following URL:

https://<IP_address>:8190/maat/report/npowebviewer
Result: The following window appears.
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N D O F S T E P S
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For more information, refer to the NPO Web Publishing User Guide.
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Open an Internet browser.

Result: The Internet browser opens.
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Type the following URL:

https://<server_IP_address> or <server_hostname>:8190/maat/webclient/
Result: The following window appears.
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For more information, refer to the NPO Web Client User Guide.
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Web iconbox (Wibox)

NPO main features

Create and execute reports ..................................................................................................................................................... 3-2

Rules .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 3-3

Events ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 3-4

Favorites ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 3-4

Log visualization ....................................................................................................................................................................... 3-6

Web client .................................................................................................................................................................................... 3-7

Common Security Asset ......................................................................................................................................................... 3-8

Using NPO applications

Procedure 4-2: Open Security application ....................................................................................................................... 4-3

Procedure 4-4: Open Process Monitoring application

Web iconbox (Wibox)

Start Wibox from Internet browser

Change user password

View product information ....................................................................................................................................... 2-8

Using NPO applications

Open Optimization application ............................................................................................................................. 4-2

Open Security application

Open Log application ............................................................................................................................................... 4-4

Open Process Monitoring application ................................................................................................................ 4-5

Open web publishing ................................................................................................................................................ 4-6

Open web client .......................................................................................................................................................... 4-8

This document provides an overview of the Network Performance Optimizer (NPO).

First official release of the document for Release M4 R7.

First official release of the document for Release M4.

This document applies to the NPO M4.1 projects.

This guide is intended for network administrators.

You must have a basic understanding of the following:

Oracle database administration

To comment on this document or indicate an error, please contact your customer

This section provides an overview of the NPO architecture.

Radio resource configuration tuning

User environment customization.

Efficient planning and optimization of the network

Detailed investigation of past problems

For more information about

The NPO component

Network Performance Optimizer User Guide

Data source types and declaration:

Param - For Design and Logical

Qos - For Counters and

Tuning - For Tuning Operations

Laser - for Availability (Laser)

RNP - For Radio Network

PCMD- For Per Call

WCT- For W-CDMA Call Trace

The platform and specifically:

User management and security

Backup and restore procedures.

NPO Administration User Guide

NPO Platform User Guide

The NPO architecture is a Server/Client application composed of several machines which

An NPO server runs on a dedicated machine.

SPARC Solaris / x86 Linux

Minimum 2 GB in size for a full Client

The printer must be declared on the NPO client.

Web iconbox (Wibox)

Procedure 2-1: Start Wibox from Internet browser