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Performance Counter
Reference
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How Do I Use Performance Counter Reference?

Application
Scenario

Process

Involved
Personnel

Monitor performance counters.

Network shift engineers

Daily Maintenance

Notify the maintenance team of

counter exceptions.

Obtain reference documents.

Performance Counter
Reference

Capacity Monitoring

Maintenance team
Maintenance engineers

KPI Reference
Network planning and
optimization engineers
Capacity Monitoring Guide

Feature Documentation

Feature Performance
Evaluation

Onsite engineers

View help information about

corresponding counters.
Troubleshoot counter
exceptions.

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Daily Maintenance

1. Check whether KPIs

are normal.

2. Check whether performance

counters corresponding to KPIs
are normal.

Activities
View the
Performance
Counter Reference
document.

4. Analyze the cause of the

KPI exception by referring to
the help information.

Technical support
5. If the KPI exception is not
resolved, contact Huawei technical
support.

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Capacity Monitoring
1. View the help
information about
abnormal KPIs.

2. View the information

about capacity-related KPIs
in the Capacity Monitoring
Guide document.

Activities

4. Perform capacity expansion by

referring to the recommended
measures in the Capacity Monitoring
Guide document.
1. View the capacity expansion
specifications of capacityrelated KPIs.

Technical support
5. If the KPI exception is not
resolved, contact Huawei
technical support.

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2. View the method of

analyzing capacity
resources and
recommended capacity
expansion measures.

Feature Performance Evaluation

1. Learn the basic
information about a
feature in GBSS Feature
Documentation.

2. View the performance

counters for this feature in
the Performance Counter
Reference document.

Activities

4. Check whether the measured

values of these counters meet the
expected result after the feature is
enabled.

5. If the measured values of these

counters do not meet the
expected result, contact Huawei
technical support.

1. View the performance

counters for a feature in
the Performance
Counter Reference
Summary.xls file.

Technical support

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2. Learn the function of

each performance
counter in the
Performance Counter
Reference document.

How Do I Obtain Performance Counter Reference?

1 Viewing Performance Counter Reference on the M2000 online help interface

1
Click this icon. The help
information page for the
corresponding counter is displayed.

Downloading Performance Counter Reference by using the HedEx Lite software

Download the BSC

product documentation
of the target version.
View Performance
Counter Reference in
the downloaded product
documentation.

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How Do I Obtain Performance Counter Reference?

3 Obtaining Performance Counter Reference from http://support.huawei.com/.
GSM Performance
Counter Reference

Choose Documentation >

Wireless > SingleRAN >
MBSC > BSC6900
GSM/BSC6910 GSM.
Choose Documentation >
Wireless > GSM-BSS > GSMBTS.

UMTS Performance
Counter Reference

LTE Performance
Counter Reference

Choose Documentation >

Wireless > SingleRAN >
MBSC > BSC6900
UMTS/BSC6910 UMTS.
Choose Documentation >
Wireless > WCDMA-RAN >
WCDMA-NodeB.

Choose Documentation >

Wireless > LTE FDD >
eNodeB.

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