NPO Seminar

NPO Seminar
December 2007
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NPO SEMINAR
DAY 1
NPO Seminar PORTUGAL – December 2007 All Rights Reserved © Alcatel-Lucent 2007
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Agenda
1. Introduction
2. Differences between NPA/RNO and NPO
3. Getting Started with Analysis Desktop
4. Organization and concepts
5. Objects Execution
6. Propagate Network Objects
7. Topology Object Properties
8. Exercises
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Introduction
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Introduction
The main propose of this seminar is to present the differences between RNO and
NPO.
Although, a global and rich view of NPO will be given to the trainees during this
seminar.
Is recommended that every trainee has some experience on RNO in order to better
understand the differences between this two tools.
Introduction
NPO (Network Performance Optimizer) offers a full range of multi-standard QoS

Monitoring and radio network optimization facilities:
• Powerful Graphical User Interface supporting all efficient use of the NPO
A9159
• QoS analysis
• Tuning Sessions to configure Radio resources
• Cartographic telecom management
• Administration Facilities
• QoS data customization
• Extra functions to investigate and solve QoS issues
NPO includes the multi-standard version of the previous products deployed in

Alcatel-Lucent networks: A9156 / A1353-UR RNO, NPA, and LASER.
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Introduction
NPO supports GSM, UMTS and WiMAX Radio Access Networks.
This product includes a powerful Oracle™ database containing performance

measurements and calculated indicators.
Performance measurements ensure:
• Efficient planning of the network

• Efficient optimization of the network
• Usage statistics
• Detailed investigation of a problem
• Real-time analysis
Introduction
Indicators combining all data sources
storage
Data
Warehouse
Event
Qos Radio Geo
Topology Alarm Inventory Planning
Data Param Data
Log
Import
Have access to all data sources in order to satisfy any composite indicator
requirement
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Differences between NPA/RNO and NPO
Why a new tool like NPO was necessary?
To provide enhanced functionalities

• Answering to customer requests
• Removing limitations of the previous generation
• By using an up-to-date software technology
To reach higher capacity

• One NPO instance managing up to 24 000 cells and more in the future
New design for managing all standards (GSM, UMTS, WiMAX)

• NPO evolutions will benefit to all technologies
• NPO is also embedded in the MS-OMC Portal (=> MS-NPO)
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Network Performance Optimizer (NPO)

• Merge of NPA/RNO/LASER (previous tools)
• Unique expert tool on the market
OMC-R

NPA
y Access to all raw PM counters and some stored
indicators (KPI)
y HMI based on Metrica and PM browser
y Reporting based on Metrica means
RNO + N
y Additional calculated QoS indicators (KPI)
y Based on a well-recognized and field-proven HMI
y Reporting including interface to EXCEL
y Optimization features: cell parameter values display,
rules checking on parameters, parameters tuning, Æ P
neighbourhood management, diagnosis, cartography,
interface with planning tools (RNP),…
LASER + O
y Network Element unavailability indicator computation
(inserted in NPA database)
y Alarm statistics
y Network remote inventory
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Easy to use
• One database and one tool in the same machine (hardware and software)
• Integrated GUI with many usability improvements
• Simplified QoS analysis: e.g. roll-up/drill down by a single click
• Simplified administration: easy secured Oracle backup, administration through web
Flexibility and ability to customize the tool

• Graphical editors for indicators, views, reports, diagnosis scenarios, …
• More user preferences
• Reference values and rules customization
• Programming language for diagnosis scenario
Generalization/Extension of RNO functions

• Functions available on cells now available on any object
• Export format: XLS but also PDF, CSV, HTML and XML
Improvement in the QoS analysis process
• Spatial and temporal roll-up / drill-down by a single click
• Granularity period of 15min PM data available
• Indicators of the current day can be displayed
• Views are available
• Mixing parameters, counters and indicators in one single view
• Easiness to create customer indicators based on counters (or other indicators)
• Customer indicators can be built by temporal aggregation and they can be stored in the
database
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All administrative functions accessible through web

• No need to run the Analysis Desktop (AD) for administration purposes
• PM collection follow-up
• Access to scheduled reports through a standard web URL
Easy and secured back-up

• Thanks to Oracle archive system
External interfaces
• Web interface: EQL (Extensible Query Layer)
• SQL interface (planned)
Single tool and database architecture
• All data in one database
• Merge of NPA, RNO and then LASER (starting from B10 MR2)
• One hardware server instead of 2 or 3
• Capacity to create indicators and reports mixing information previously located in different
databases
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Dimensioning and Hardware configurations
• Same hardware for NPO as for NPA in B9
• Same capacity as in B9
• Possibility to reach higher capacities: up to 24000 cells
• LASER remains an external product in B10 MR1
A9159 250 cells 10500 cells /

2000 cells 5000 cells 8000 cells 24000 cells (**)
capacity Embedded 12000 cells (**)
V490 2 2x
V490 2
V490 2 CPU CPU V490 4 CPU (*) V490 4 CPU
B10 CPU(*) V880 8 CPU
V880 2 CPU V880 2 V880 8 CPU (*) (*)
V880 4 CPU
CPU
(*) with 3510 external disk bay
(**) with B10 MR2 and with V490 with 146 GB disks in the external disk bay
NPA/RNO NPO
remote clients remote clients

Local RNO Local NPO
clients clients
WAN WAN
RNO / LASER NPO HMI

LAN main servers servers
LAN
RNO/LASER NPO clients or
Citrix servers NPO HMI
servers
NPA server NPO server
OMC-R OMC-R
OMC-R OMC-R
OMC-R OMC-R
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• RNO and LASER main servers can be

reused as NPO HMI servers (Citrix) remote clients
• If equipped with 4 GB RAM min. Local NPO
– 5 user sessions clients
WAN
• If equipped with 8 GB RAM min.
– 10 user sessions
NPO HMI
servers
• RNO and LASER clients can be reused as LAN
NPO clients Local NPO
• If equipped with 1 GB RAM min. clients
NPO server
• RNO and LASER Citrix servers can be
reused as NPO clients or NPO HMI servers OMC-R
OMC-R
OMC-R
A9159 NPO = Merge of NPA + RNO + LASER
• All functionalities included in one tool with one database
• Providing enhanced functionalities and higher capacity
• Generalizing concepts used in RNO
• Removing limitations of the previous toolchain
• This A9159 can then be upgraded as a MS-OMC Portal (A1353-MP). This allows adding the
Multi-standard dimension and/or the Supervision functionality
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Getting Started with Analysis Desktop
Analysis Desktop Functions
• QoS analysis through counters, indicators and reports

• Reference values
• Rules and diagnosis
• Events
• Logical and design parameters
• Tuning
• Cartographic display
• Thematic Layers
• Network stability and availability, alarms
• QoS Data Customization
• User preferences
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Initialize Analysis Desktop
• Starting from M2.3, NPO Client (Analysis Desktop) is installed on client by a

remotely way.
• No CDs are needed to install the client, instead of this, client is installed
automatically.
• If the server is migrated to a further version, the client will be migrated as well
automatically.
To download the client start up file use the following link:

http://<npo server>/iconbox<muse instance>/WEB-INF/webstart.jnlp
Notes:
<npo server> = ip address or the hostname of npo server
<muse instance> = number of MUSE instance
To see the client traces on java console, enable “Show console” in JavaTM Control
Panel localized on Windows Control Panel.
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Launch Iconbox
To launch iconbox just click on webstart.jnlp.

After that, a login window will appear.
Iconbox – Optimization menu
Notes:
RIDM – Remote Inventory Data Management
NUART – Network Unavailability and Alarm Reporting Tool
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Iconbox – Security menu
Iconbox – Log menu
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Iconbox – Platform and Administrator menu
Iconbox – NPO Help menu
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Initialize Analysis Desktop
AD is launched from: MUSE Applications-> Optimization -> Analysis Desktop
Initialize Analysis Desktop – Select Working Zone
Every time that AD starts, user can choose the working zone which will be loaded into AD.
This is a behaviour similar to RNO.
Second time and so on
First time
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Tip of the day
After AD initialization, a “Tip of the day” window appears by default.
This feature can be invoked by selecting menu Help -> Tip of the day
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Organization and concepts
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Standard Tab Topology Browser Functions Browser
Browser for:
- Reports
- Tuning
- Detailed Diagnosis
- Cartography
Mode Tabs
View Browser
Analysis Desktop
Standard Tabs
In standard tabs we can use the following technologies:
• GSM
• UMTS
• WIMAX
Only the installed technologies are available/visible in

AD.
It is possible to define the pretended technologies to

use. Right click on a standard and select Organize
Standards…
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Mode Tabs
Each standard has a set of modes.
These modes represent one type/zone of network elements and some of

them are new in NPO:
- MFS
- SGSN_IP_NSVC
- SGSN_ITF
- Adjacencies2GTo3G
- TRX TS 11 NEW
- X25 MODES
- N7LS
- BTS BSC LAPD
- Generic Zones
- GSM 2G External Cells
- GSM 3G External Cells
According to the selected mode, the list of functions can be different.

Functions are filtered according to their availability domain.
Mode Tabs
Like Standard tabs, it is also possible to organize modes using right click on a mode.
The Organize Modes window opens, displaying the available modes.
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Mode Tabs
It is possible to hide one mode without going into Organize mode.

User can select Hide Mode directly after a right click.
This option is also valid in Standard Tabs
Mode Tabs
The availability of modes will depend on the number of cells. NEW
If there are more than 1000 cells in All classification tab, 10 modes will not be displayed in
order to maintain an acceptable performance.
To see all the modes we need to open a standard

working zone.
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Topology Browser
This browser is composed by 3 zones:

• Topology Classification Tabs
• Topology Tree
• Topology Status Bar
Topology Classification Tabs
Topology Tree
Topology Status Bar

Topology Browser - Topology Classification Tabs
These are the set of tabs for topology mode classification.

If all tabs cannot be displayed due to the width of the Topology Browser, arrow buttons appear
allowing the user to scroll among all the existing tabs.
Topology Tab Menu
Different tree gadgets are used to display the network resources by different classification
criteria.
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Each Topology Classification can vary from Mode to Mode.
Cell:
BSS / X25 / BTS_BSC_LAPD / N7SL / N7LS / AIC / GPU:
SGSN_IP_NSVC:
MFS / SGSN_ITF / GSM 2G External Cells / GSM 3G External Cells:
Adjacencies / Adjacencies2GTo3G:
Traffic Zones:
TRX:
TRX TS:
BTS / BSC_MFS_LAPD:
PVC / Bearer Channel:
Cell Zones / TRX Zones:
Generic Zones:
These are the default topology classification tabs presented by NPO.

Anyway, NPO user can create their own topology classification using Topology Classification
Editor.
New topology classification in NPO: BTS_D, GPU, To External and LAC -> LAC.
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Topology Classification Editor
To open this editor there are 3 possibilities:
1. Right click on topology classification

tab and select Topology Classification…
2. Use menu Topology -> Topology Classification…
3. Press Ctrl+T
Toolbar Sub-Object Selection Tree
Object Selection Tree Properties and Definition Panel
Topology Classification Editor

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Topology Classification Editor - Create Topology Classification
1. In the toolbar, click on Create button

2. Fill the appropriated fields
3. Drag and drop sub-objects to classification definition
Creation of Topology Classification to group all cells with EDGE activated

Topology Classification Editor - Create Topology Classification
4. Click on “Apply” and confirm with “Yes” on the following window.
In this case, it was been created a new topology based on EN_EGPRS parameter.
As this parameter has two options: Enable or Disable, the tree will be displayed according to
these two options.
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Select Filter on Topology Classification
NPO user can choose one of the available filters associated to a mode and apply it on a topology
classification of the concerned mode.
1. Select a topology classification, right-click and choose Select Filter.

A window with the list of existing filters is displayed, but without the current active filter. The
first item is labeled ’No Filter’ and is used to remove any filter on the classification.
2. Select the appropriate pre-defined filter.

The topology tree is refreshed according to the filtered classification.
Remark: 18 cells didn’t have value for EN_GPRS. N/A values are ignored by this filter
Functions Browser
This browser is composed by 3 zones:
Functions Tabs
Functions Tree
Functions Status Bar
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Functions Browser
Tab menu from this browser is very similar to Topology Browser.
The Classification can vary from Function to Function.
Functions available in NPO:

• View NEW
• Free Fields NEW
• Counter
• Indicator
• Logical
• Diagnosis Scenarios
• Thematics
• Rules
• Design
• Report
• Tuning
The list of functions vary with the selected mode
• Events
Functions Browser – Functions distribution
Cell / SGSN_IP_NSVC:
BSS:
MFS / SGSN_ITF:
Adjacencies:
Adjacencies2GTo3G:
Traffic Zones / Cell Zones / TRX Zones / Generic Zones:
TRX / GSM 2G External Cells:
TRX TS:
BTS:
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Functions Browser – Functions distribution
X25 / BTS_BSC_LAPD / BSC_MFS_LAPD / N7SL / N7LS / AIC /GPU / PVC / Bearer Channel:
GSM 3G External Cells:
Function Classifications
The Function Classification defines how functions are classified in a tree structure.
It is not dependant on the used technology.
Function Classifications can be:

• System, as defined by Alcatel-Lucent
• Customer, when defined by the user
In Analysis Desktop, the Function Classification Trees display only:

• Public and owned private objects
• Visible objects
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Function Classification Editor
To open this editor there are 3 possibilities:
1. Right click on functions classification

tab and select Function Classification…
2. Use menu Data -> Function Classification…
3. Press Ctrl+U
Function Classification Editor

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Function Classification Editor - Create Function Classification
In this example, it is shown how to display the indicators by their unit.
1. In the toolbar, click on Create button

2. Fill the appropriated fields
3. Drag and drop sub-objects to classification definition. Unit in this case.
Creation of Function Classification to organize Indicators by unit

Function Classification Editor - Create Function Classification
4. Click on “Apply” and confirm with “Yes” on the following window.
If we choose this new classification, then the result will be a tree organized by the indicator’s
unit.
NOTICE: Tuning, Events and Free Fields cannot be managed in function classification editor.
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View Browser
The view browser is the target place to drag and drop one or more network resources and one or
more functions.
It contains views NEW that are used to display values of counters, indicators, view templates NEW,
logical and design parameters, rules, events, free fields NEW and diagnosis.
The displayed data in the view can be exported to Excel for further analysis. This action can be
done by a single copy and paste NEW.
Two mode forms are available: tabular and graphical.
Report Browser
The report browser is the target place to drag and drop one or more network resources and one or
more functions. Cartography and Tuning Sessions are managed in this browser.
This browser can manage reports, view templates, indicators, logical and design parameters,
diagnosis, thematics (Cartography), rules, tuning (Tuning Sessions) and Events.
A report is composed of several views, each displaying a set of defined indicators or parameters
for a user defined report period.
Data displayed in the report can be exported to Excel for further analysis. This action can be done
by a single copy and paste NEW.
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Objects Execution
Objects Execution
NPO allows the operator to execute views (on counters or indicators) with more periodicities
than RNO.
On counters NPO allows the following

periodicities during view execution:
¼ - Provides counters normalized

at quarter level NEW
½ - Provides counters normalized

at quarter level NEW
Raw - Provides counters as they

are in the PM files NEW
Hourly - Provides counters

normalized at hourly level
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Objects Execution
NPO allows the operator to select a default period of time using Default Dates NEW.
The default time period varies from each periodicity.
Hour, ½, ¼, – Provides all the previous

hours for the current day.
Day – Provides the previous day.
Week – Provides the previous week.
Month – Provides the previous month.

Trend on hours of day – Provides last 7
days sice yesterday.
Trend on hours of week – Provides last
14 days since yesterday.
Trend on days of week – Provides last

Trend on days of month – Provides last

Objects Execution
There are some execution options available in NPO.

The option to select the QoS Requirement in execution context is new in NPO.
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Objects Execution
Forecast Values in Tuning Sessions NEW (1/3)
To select tuning sessions/jobs for forecast values:
1. Click on [Tuning Sessions…]
The list of all owned tuning sessions and

all tuning jobs are displayed.
The limit for the number of tuning sessions

and jobs that can be selected to be
displayed is 20 by default.
The Tuning Sessions are available only for

parameters.
Objects Execution
To select tuning sessions/jobs for forecast values:
2. Select one or more tuning

sessions/jobs from which the
corresponding forecast values
would be displayed in the view.
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Objects Execution
This value is mandatory if forecast is chosen to be displayed for parameters in the view template
or in the user preferences.
This value is not needed if forecast was not chosen or if there is no parameter in the view.
Objects Execution
Filter Unavailable Objects NEW
The user can choose to filter warning reports, based on:
1. QoS Availability Indicator

2. Comparison Operator
3. Threshold value
This field is not used if Execution Context is not subject for a warning report.
If the execution does not imply a warning report then the panel is grayed.
QoS Availability Indicators are used to filter

objects based on the Comparison Operator
and the Threshold Value.
The following values are used as comparison

operators:
>, <, =, <>, <=, >=.
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Objects Execution
Event Synthesis (1/3)
Select ’Display Event Synthesis’, to display the Event Synthesis in both tabular and graphical
modes for the given network object.
This feature is used in case of a Mono-Object evolution view with daily periodicity that contains
only standard indicators and/or parameters.
Click on [ Show Event Synthesis options ] to view the list of available events.
Select from the ’Event Synthesis Options’ list, the event type that composes the event
synthesis. It is mandatory to select one type if ’Display Event Synthesis’ is set to ’Yes’.
Objects Execution
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Objects Execution
It is possible to check more

details from Events in “Event
Details” button.
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Propagate Network Objects
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Like was in RNO, also in NPO is possible to propagate network objects in order to associate
several types of objects. It is just a matter of drag and drop and if you see this symbol ( ) it
means that it is not possible to propagate the relation.
A total of 41 new propagations are available in NPO.
From Cell:
1) BSS
2) MFSNEW
3) Traffic Zone
4) BTSNEW
5) GPUNEW
6) Cell ZoneNEW
7) Generic ZoneNEW
8) Adjacencies
9) Adjacencies2GTo3GNEW
10) TRX
11) TRX TSNEW

Propagations available in NPO
From BSS:
1) Cell
2) MFSNEW
3) Traffic Zone
4) BTSNEW
5) GPUNEW
6) Generic ZonesNEW
7) Adjacencies
9) TRX
10) TRX TSNEW
11) X25NEW
12) BTS_BSC_LAPDNEW
13) BSC_MFS_LAPDNEW
14) N7SLNEW
15) N7LSNEW
16) AICNEW
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From BTS:
1) CellNEW
2) BSSNEW
3) Traffic ZoneNEW
4) GPUNEW
5) Generic ZonesNEW
6) AdjacenciesNEW
From GPU:
1) CellNEW
2) BSSNEW
3) BTSNEW
4) PVCNEW
5) BCNEW
6) Generic ZonesNEW

From PVC:
1) Bearer ChannelNEW
2) Generic ZonesNEW
3) GPUNEW
From Bearer Channel:

1) GPUNEW
2) Generic ZonesNEW
From MFS:
1) BSSNEW
2) GPUNEW
From BTS_BSC_LAPD / BSC_MFS_LAPD / N7SL / N7LS / X25 / A Interface:

1) BSSNEW
2) Generic ZonesNEW
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Topology Object Properties
The operator can check several properties from network objects using properties button of
right-click menu over the object.
In cells and TRXs there is more information

below this properties table.
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In cell properties user can find the following

information:
• Frequencies and TRX Mapping

• Neighbourhood
• OMC External View
If the user open the right-click menu over one network object a list of features are available
to manage the selection of objects.
The resulting cells are added to the selection, the tree

can be expanded, but it is not scrolled.
Alcatel-Lucent provides the following predefined and

non-modifiable set of cell classes, known as system cell
classes:
• Rural
• Suburban
• Urban
• Dense urban
• Indoor
System cell classes cannot be viewed, modified, or
deleted using the Network Object Class Editor.
In order to fit with their own optimization methods, the
optimizer may define additional customer cell classes.
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Post-Its
In NPO it is possible to add, edit and removed post-its associated to one network object.
Post-Its are visible to all users and are clearly visible in topology or function trees.
A yellow icon ( ) being attached to them, then a tooltip comes up with the post-it.
Similar to Note feature in RNO.

Manage Tuning Inhibition of Network Objects
• By default, all network objects are admitted for tuning, but the tuning operation can be
forbidden on some network objects and a reason can be described.
• If the operator inhibit network objects, then they are no longer accepted for tuning and their
labels appear in italic format.
• A notification is sent to all the clients about the new status of the concerned network objects.
Similar to Inhibit Cell tuning… in RNO.

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Exercises
Exercises
1. Hide the following modes: N7LS and TRX TS.
2. Find a way to see Cells based on their number of

TRX.
3. Find a way to see Rules organized by Severity.
4. Try to find Events in the Network and specify the

events if you find them.
5. How many cells has s222 BSC?
6. What is the GPU of cells 99 and 44502?
7. What is the external ID and friendly name of the

parent object of cell 44500?
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Exercises
8. Add a new Post-It. Then find another Post- it and try

edit this Post-it.
9. Check the Notification Window.
NPO SEMINAR
DAY 2
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Agenda
1. Counters and Indicators
2. Parameters
3. Exercises
4. Views
5. Reports
6. Exercises
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Counters and Indicators
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Introduction
Counters are retrieved from the BSS and MFS and used as building blocks in the formation of
indicators.
The indicator is computed from counters, other indicators or any other available network
parameter values such as radio parameters.
An indicator can be stored. For stored indicators, the storage duration can be configured.
In order to perform some actions in NPO it is necessary to install a specific license.
• MUSE_QOS_<TECHNO>_LICENSE - To declare QoS data sources for a given technology

• MUSE_QOS_INDICATOR_CREATION_LICENSE - To create customer indicators
• MUSE_QOS_HISTORY_LICENSE – To save historical QoS data more than one week.
Storage
Counters values are not stored into NPO database.
Basic indicators are always stored, but only a limited number of basic indicators is supported.
Calculated indicators are not stored in the database unless they have an associated stored
temporal aggregation.
Every stored indicator has an indicator group and the table name will be related to this group.
In the data warehouse, each indicator group corresponds to a different table.
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•A counter is defined by:
• Reference – Unique counter reference (ASCII)

• Long Name – Unique long counter name (mnemonic)
• StructureType – 4 types are supported - scalar, axis, vector or matrix
• Description – Counter description
GSM
• Source Network Object – Type of object supporting the counter
only
• Collecting Network Object - Type of object collecting the counter
• PMType – PM Group files per Type
• LoadMapFormula – Simple formula to apply before loading the counter (ex: *100,
means counter*100)
• Interpolation – Method used to compute the missing values
• Consolidation – Method used to compute hourly value - Normalization.
• Unit – Counter Unit
• Precision – Number of significant digit displayed to the operator
There are more counter attributes and they are described in NPO User Guide.

A Telecom Indicator has two types.
Basic Indicator (stored and based on a counter formula)
Interpolation method
Indicator Group
Consolidation
method
Counters Formula
Calculated Indicator (not stored and based on a indicators formula)
Indicators Formula
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Indicator’s Dictionary Attributes
• Name
• Version
• Date
• Author
• Description
• Type - {System, Customer}
Release Attributes
• Technology
• Supplier Dictionary example
• Name
• Version
• Description
Indicator Group
• Name
• Spatial Aggregation Path
Telecom Indicator Definition
• Long Name
• Reference
• Description
• Unit
• Upper is fault – Flag to indicate whether the quality is better when the value is higher
or the opposite.
• Structure Type – {Scalar, Axis, Vector, Matrix}
Each structure type has their own attributes like value type, size,
etc…
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Telecom Indicator Definition
Here is an example of a matrix indicator.
Basic Indicator Definition
• First Method Interpolation

• First Method Parameter – Provide the padding value for the first interpolation method
• Second Method Interpolation
• Second Method Parameter
• Consolidation Method
• Interpol change allowed
• Group
• Spatial Aggregation
Counter Formula attributes
• Technology
• Supplier
• Release
• Spatial Aggregation on Loading
• Counter Formula
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Basic Indicator Definition
Here is an example of a matrix basic indicator.
Indicator presentation
Some attributes can be defined to manage the presentation of each indicator in AD.
• Availability domain – The object type and temporal level where the indicator is available.
• Unit
• Precision – The number of significant digits.
• Sampling indicator – Sampling indicator long name
• Threshold values – Threshold values for each QoS Requirement
• Sampling values - Sampling values for each QoS Requirement
• Reliability Indicator – Reliability indicator long name
• Access Right – {Private, Public}
• isVisible – {True, False} Default value: True. If the indicator doesn’t have a family, this
boolean is forced to False whatever the dictionary value.
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Indicator presentation template
Temporal Aggregation
Some indicators have distinct temporal aggregations like Busy Hour, Maximum, Average, value
based on all hours or working hours, etc…
Constraint: Indicator Name, reference and (reference+ReferenceExtension) should be unique in

NPO.
TA Indicator Attributes
• Long name
• Reference extension
• Description extension
• Availability domain
• Unit
• Precision
• Sampling indicator
• Thresholds values
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TA Indicator Attributes (continuation)
• Sampling values
• Reliability indicator
• Access right
• isVisible
• Stored Temporal Aggregation – Function used to perform temporal aggregation (from
Normalized table to Daily, Weekly or Monthly).
• Relevant Hour – {All Hours, Working Hours} By default: All Hours.
• Group
• Busy Hour indicator – Long name of the indicator used to compute the busy hour.
• Calculated Formula
When imported a new temporal aggregation with the same long name as the global indicator
there will be a migration problem. In this case, it is mandatory to specify a different long name
for TA indicator.
Busy hour example

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Telecom Family
Counters and Indicators need a family in order to be available in AD.

The family attributes are:
• Name
• Order
• List of indicators
Indicators and counters can have till 4 sub-families.

Dictionary Analysis Desktop
Consolidation
• Indicator consolidation is used to normalize and optionally to aggregate QoS data inside the
data warehouse.
• Aggregation and normalization apply only on indicators.
• It is possible to calculate multiple temporal aggregation from the same indicator at a raw
level.
• The scheduler launches the consolidation scripts every night. If the previous day
consolidation is not finished, the system waits for the completion of the ongoing loading of
files before launching the consolidation for the current day. If any files are missing, the
consolidation starts anyway.
• The administrator can manually launch a manual consolidation if he finds out that there is
recovered data that has not been consolidated yet.
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Consolidation Steps
It performs the following tasks once a day at 01:00 (Local Time - Oracle Scheduler)
• Data transfer from RDB to HDB

• Transfer daily indicator from RDB to daily tables
• Normalize data from HDB to normalized tables
• Daily spatial aggregation
• Spatial aggregation
• Temporal aggregation
• Purge of old partitions
Consolidation Steps
Time
Normalisation(Ind) Aggregation(Formula(Ind))
M PM X X X Aggregation(Ind) X
Files Raw Norm alized Daily W eekly
Aggregation(Ind) X
M onthly
Generic
Loader
Aggregation(Formula(Ind))
X’ X’ Aggregation(Ind) X’
Norm alized Daily W eekly
Plug-in Aggregation(Ind) X’
Monthly
Aggregation(Formula(Ind))
Topology
Spatial X’’ X’’ Aggregation(Ind) X’’
Aggregation Norm alized Daily W eekly
Path Aggregation(Ind) X’’
M onthly
Import from PM
Basic Indicators
calculation QoS
Spatial aggregation Indicators Stored consolidation
Temporal aggregation Data not stored

Data optionally stored
Daily indicator
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Consolidation – Normalization and Aggregation
The consolidation scripts include:
• Data normalization - normalized indicator tables are computed using the default
normalization methods
• Data aggregation - aggregated tables are computed using normalized indicators and
aggregation methods.
The obtained indicator data is aggregated spatially and then temporally.
Daily aggregation is performed every day.

Weekly and Monthly aggregations are only performed on the first day of the week or of the
month.
Normalization
In the telecom context the measurements can be reported with different periods, different
synchronizations.
The measurements can be lost for different reasons, normal network management or incident
in the process.
Cell A 1 h 1 h 53 mn 1 h 1h
Cell B ¼h ¼h ¼h ¼h ¼h ¼h ¼h ¼h ¼h ¼h ¼h ¼h ¼h ¼h ¼h
Cell C 2 h 2 h
Cell D ½h ½h ½h ½h ½h
Cell E 1 h 1h ½h ½h ½h
time
If we use directly those measurements it is not possible to compare the different objects and
the different measurements.
To allow the comparison between different objects and different periods, it is used the
normalization.
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Normalization
The normalization aims are:

• Order the measurements
• Interpolate missing data
The normalization process can be divided in different steps:

1. Retrieve the needed data
2. Order the data
3. Synchronize data to display period
4. Interpolate missing and NULL data
5. Consolidate to the requested period size
Normalization
Retrieve and order data
• The measurements can arrive in wrong order or with some delay.
• The aim of this step is to provide time-sorted data to the next step.
vR5
vR1
vR2 vR3 vR4 vR6 vR: value raw data
BR: Begin period raw data
BR1 BR2 BR3 BR4 BR5 BR6
ER1 ER2 ER3 ER4 ER5 ER6 ER: End period raw data
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Normalization
Synchronize data to display period
• The aim of this step (also called alignment) is to divide all the periods that are covering
two (or more) display periods.
tD tD tD tD tD tD tD TD : time Display period
vR5
vR1 va R4 vb R6
vR2 va R3 vb R3 va R6 va R or vb R : values raw data aligned
vb R4
BR1 BR2 BR3 BR4 BR5 BR6
ER1 ER2 ER3 ER4 ER5 ER6
tD tD tD tD tD
• This period alignment (time shift), will set the same measurement period for all
measurement data involved in the aggregation or formula calculation (for example 4H, 1H,
15mn).
Normalization
Interpolate missing data
The aim of this (optional) step is to provide values for all the missing time intervals.
In RNO there are only 2 interpolation methods, linear and padding by zero. In NPO there are 4
new methods.
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Normalization
In NPO, six customizable interpolation methods are supported:
None - only the existing values are used (no interpolation)
Only OK value - when a display period is not fully available, a NULL value is provided for that
displayed period NEW
Extend - only the existing values are used and they are extended to the wanted displayed
period NEW
Zero - all the missing periods are set to the zero value
Normalization
Interpolation methods (continuation):
Linear - the missing values are replaced by a linear interpolation between the previous
known value and the next known value. The linear interpolation can be specific if the values
before or after are not known.
Padding - all the missing periods are set to a padding value. This is zero by default, but can
be configurable through the ’Padding’ parameter. NEW
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Normalization
Interpolate missing data or NULL data

Interpolation of
missing values
Linear Padding ONLY_OK interpolation. Extend

Original GPs No interpolation
interpolation interpolation In further operation any interpolation
(Raw Data)
(0 or any other combination with NULL will
constant) result in NULL
Interpolation of
NULL values
Linear Padding ONLY_OK interpolation, in Extend

Original GPs No interpolation
interpolation interpolation further operation any interpolation
with NULL ( _ )values (Raw Data)
(0 or any other combination with NULL will
constant) result in NULL
Normalization
Consolidate to the requested period size
The aim of this step is to provide only one value per display period.
vD1 vD5 vD6

vD2 v D3 vD4 vD7
tD tD tD tD tD tD tD v D : final values for display
This consolidation will return a consolidated value for the whole display period.
7 methods of consolidation are supported by NPO.
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Consolidation methods
Sum - This method sums all available data to get the consolidated value.
Average - This method computes the temporal average of all available data to get the
consolidated value. It varies between intensive and cumulative cases (value is already
depending on the collection interval).
Maximum - This method gets the maximum of all available data to get the consolidated value.
Minimum - This method gets the minimum of all available data to get the consolidated value.
The consolidation result for these 4 methods will be NULL if a NULL value is provided.
Consolidation methods (continuation)
Count - This method counts all contributing data to get the consolidated value. For
instance, if PM data are collected every 15 minutes, a consolidated hour should be
composed of 4 measurements, so 4 will be the consolidation result even if there is
missing PM data.
Count Present – This method sum the duration of each available data and compute
the ratio with the display period to get the consolidated value. For instance, if PM
data are collected every 15 minutes and only one quarter was collected, for a
display period of one hour, 0.25 will be returned.
Count Missing - This method returns the missing data ratio as consolidated value. It
is the opposite of Count Present method.
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Consolidation methods
Example 2 PMs of 30 minutes.

PM1 = 4
PM2 = 2
•Consolidation
Sum
consolidation
Count Missing
Average Max consolidation
consolidation consolidation
Min Count
consolidation consolidation Count Present
consolidation
Aggregation
Indicators can be aggregated in two modes:
• Temporal Aggregation
It aggregates data of one network element into one value that defines the parent in the
period hierarchy. Period hierarchy = {Hour, Day, Week, Month}
• Spatial Aggregation
It aggregated data of several network elements into one value that defines the parent in the
network hierarchy. Example of network hierarchy = {TRX, Cell, BSC, Network}
Counters and Parameters can be aggregated as well but is not so common as on indicators.
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Two types of temporal aggregation can be defined:

• Stored Aggregation
• Calculated Aggregation – To avoid too much stored aggregations when it is possible
to calculate it using other indicators
A Daily value is computed from hourly values based on the following temporal aggregation
methods: SUM, MIN, MAX, AVG, BH.
A Weekly value is computed from daily values based on the following temporal aggregation
methods: SUM, MIN, MAX, AVG, BH, nDAV
A Monthly value is computed from daily values based on the following temporal aggregation
methods: SUM, MIN, MAX, AVG, BH, nDAV
Temporal Aggregation Methods
The next functions are used to compute spatial or temporal aggregated values. In the
temporal case, they are used to compute Daily, Weekly and Monthly aggregated data, below
daily periodicity, the normalization process is used instead.
SUM - This method sums the non-NULL present measurements.
AVG - This method computes the average value of non-NULL present measurements.
MAX - This method returns the maximum value of non-NULL present measurements.
MIN - This method returns the minimum value of non-NULL present measurements.
COUNT - This method counts the number of non-NULL present measurements.
Busy Hour, 3DAV and 5DAV are presented in the next slides.
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Busy Hour Aggregations
All Busy Hour aggregations are working on plain hours (xx:00:00 to xx:59:59), sliding hours are
not supported.
The Busy Hour principle consists in retrieving the hourly value of an indicator when the peak
of traffic is measured during the day. The traffic peak is identified thanks to a traffic
indicator called reference indicator.
Input:
• Indicator
• Reference indicator
Output:
• Hourly indicator value
Erlang nb
Used to select maximum hour

for the daily busy hour
hour
- Busy hour function: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
hour to d a y
Erlang nb
Used to select maximum day for the weekly max
busy hour (Attention : we use the last Busy Hour
and not other aggregation day)
max
max
Day
- Busy hour function: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
BH day to we e k
BH day to m on th %
nb
result
f
Week
Week
O utput
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Busy Hour algorithm:

1. Identify the hour of the day that corresponds the maximum hourly value for the reference
indicator (1 value per day – the first value in case the same value is present several times).
2. Retrieve indicator values for the identified hour.
3. Compute the calculated indicator value (if necessary).
In RNO/NPO, the reference indicator for GSM is:

RTCH_occy_total (GTCTRT)
And for GPRS is:
GPRS_useful_throughput_radio_avg (GTRPDXA)
Note: Due to the fact that NPO supports several technologies, all the GSM refnames start by
‘G’ on NPO (starting since B10). So, from RNO to NPO, the operator should add a ‘G’ in the
beginning of the indicator’s refname.
Busy Hour Position
This function returns the hourly (GMT) position of the busy hour (0 to 23).
Input:
• Reference indicator Erlang 1 st max
Output:
• Hourly position (0 to 23)
hours
00 03 06 12 13 18 24
Result : 13
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Daily Average Value (DAV)
The objective of Daily Average Value computation is to get an average busy hour value for a
given period (several days).
Algorithm:
1. Select the n hours that correspond to the maximum values for the hourly reference
indicator (one maximum per day)
2. Retrieve the hourly indicators values at the n hours,
3. Average the n values for each indicator
4. Compute the calculated indicator from the average values (if necessary).
nDAV: n is the number of data (generally 3 or 5)
Daily Average Value (DAV)
A Select 3 h o u r s th a t co rr esp o n d to th e m a xim u m o f I r ef (fo r 3 d iffer en t d a ys),

3 D A V (I 1 ,I ref ) Er la n g nb
m ax
m ax
W ith : m ax I r ef
I 1 = f(I 2 , I 3 ) = I 2 / I 3 I2
I 2 , I 3 h o u rly sto r ed in d ica to r I3
In p u t hour
M onday Tu esd a y W ed n esd a y Th u r sd a y Fr id a y Sa tu r d a y Su n d a y
O n th e 3 se lected h o u r s, ta k e th e
B nb nb
h o u r ly in d ica to r s va lu e s (I 2 , I 3 ) I2 I3
M a k e a n a ver a g e w ith
C th e selected va lu es (I 2 , I 3 ) I 2 : A ver a g e I 3 : A ver a g e
r esu lt
D C o m p u te th e r esu lt o n
th e selected va lu e f
I 1 3 D A V b y w eek W ee
O u tp u t
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Spatial Aggregation
It consists in data coming from several network elements into one value for a related upper
object in the topology model using one of the following spatial aggregation methods:
• SUM
• MIN
• MAX
• AVG
• COUNT
Usually the related upper object is the parent one, but sometimes topology levels can bypass
or a relation can be used to reach another object.
The spatial aggregation is always done on normalized indicators tables, except for daily
indicators.
Consolidation Traces
During the consolidation execution, a file is written in real time with useful information
about the process, this file is called a trace.
In NPO Server, traces regarding consolidation can be found in:
• /alcatel/muse/data/trace/CONSO_LOG_0.traces (Standard consolidation)
• /alcatel/muse/data/trace/admintrace_<hostname>_0.traces (Manual consolidation)
• /alcatel/muse/data/trace/scripttrace_<hostname>_0.traces (Manual consolidation)
Trace Keywords:
‘started’ & ‘ended’: each step of the consolidation is described by a trace like:
************RBD to HDB transfer started************
***************Normalization started***************
************Spatial Aggregation started************
************Spatial Aggregation started************
************Daily Aggregation started************
************Weekly Aggregation started************
************Monthly Aggregation started************
All Errors or Exception found in the traces have to be analyzed.
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PM Purge Data
As soon as the consolidation is completed, the data whose storage duration has expired is
purged / removed from NPO data warehouse.
This is done for performance and storage space reasons, and depends on the configured
storage durations. The minimum purge granularity is the day.
The following table provides an illustration of the default size of each partition and their
storage duration:
Table Type Storage Duration
RAW 60 days
Normalized 2 Months
Daily From 3 to 14 Months
Weekly From 3 to 36 Months
Monthly From 6 to 36 Months
Reliability
The value of the reliability indicator informs the operator about loss of QoS data.
The reliability indicators detect:

• Lost objects - If any object is lost, the number of the observed objects is lower than the
number of the expected objects.
• Lost periods - If any period is lost, the observed time is lower than the expected time.
Indicators are always displayed, even if some data is missing and the propose of reliability is
to inform if the displayed value is reliable or not.
An indicator value is displayed in italic when the reliability indicator threshold associated is
not green.
The reliability display has priority over sampling or thresholds display.
Note: The reliability indicator is not developed for the adjacency object.
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Threshold and Sampling
When creating an indicator, you can associate thresholds and sampling to it.
Thresholds are used for highlighting QoS values. This is done using colors in a
view or report, in order to quickly see which values are critical, major, etc.
Indicators Restrictions After B9 NPA Data Import into NPO
The following restrictions are applicable for indicators migrated from NPA to NPO:
1. Reliability Indicators
• In both NPA and NPO the reliability indicators follow the group structure of the stored
indicators groups.
• When groups change (split/join), the old reliability indicators are no longer relevant.
• The group structure is very different in NPO compared to NPA, this is why the reliability
indicators are ignored during data import.
For historical data, the reliability indicators do not hold any values in NPO. Therefore
operator should not check the reliability when displaying the historical data - all this data
appears as “unreliable”.
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Indicators Restrictions After B9 NPA Data Import into NPO
2. B8 specific indicators
• Every new release should have values from the old release.
• Indicators from older releases than the previous one will be rejected.
• NPO supports B9/B10 GSM releases, so B8 indicators are not migrated into NPO.
3. NPA B9 MR1 specific indicators

• NPO dictionaries are aligned with B9 MR4.
• Migration from NPA B9 MR1 is possible but with some restrictions.
• Indicators removed in B9 MR4 are not imported into NPO.
4. Provisioned or unused indicators

• Provisioned stored indicators present in the NPA database are not migrated to NPO.
Propagate Counters and Indicators NEW
In NPO, you can propagate:

• Counters to Indicators (Counters directly or indirectly on Indicators)
• Indicators to Counters, Views, Diagnosis and THL.
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Find Indicator from Counter NEW
If you know the counter, you can easily find the associated indicator with this
feature. This procedure only shows the indicators which have the counter directly
in their formula.
To use this new feature, press Find Indicators from Counter on indicator’s tree
menu.
Write the counter’s refname
After pressing [Search] the indicator is selected.

Display Counter Properties (1/5)
Use right-click menu to get

properties from the counter.
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B10 Definition
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Display Indicator Properties (1/4)
Use right-click menu to get

properties from the indicator.
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Display Type 110 Counters NEW
In NPO it is possible to show all the main QoS counters (type 110) for one cell.
To see the 110 Counters select the appropriate cell and choose Display type 100 counters…
from the right-click menu.
Attribute Description
Mode Name Name of the mode
The id of the cell provided

Cell ID in the URL
(<MCC>-<MNC>-<LAC>-<CI>)
Cell label Label of the cell

Start Time Start time of the PM Counter
End Time End time of the PM Counter
List of Counter Names
List of Long Names
List Network Objects / Cell labels Label of the cell
Cell Mode (1/10)
This feature takes into account

also other modes linked to cell:
•TRX
•BSC
•N7SL
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Cell Mode (2/10)
Cell Mode (3/10)
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Cell Mode (4/10)
Cell Mode (5/10)
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Cell Mode (6/10)
Cell Mode (7/10)
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Cell Mode (8/10)
Cell Mode (9/10)
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Cell Mode (10/10)
TRX Mode (1/2)
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TRX Mode (2/2)
BSC Mode
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N7SL Mode
It is possible to open these pages in a web browser and to obtain the link is very easy using
right-click menu.
With the html tables, user can select them and copy and paste them into Excel worksheets or in
other tools.
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Counter execution
To check a value from a counter, NPO user must drag and drop a selected counter or group of
counters to the view browser.
Counter execution
In the execution context user can manipulate several options. The most common is the time
period.
Finally press [Execute]

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Counter execution
The values are then displayed in the view browser.
Indicator execution
The indicator execution is identical to counters but this time there are more available
periodicities.
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Indicator execution
Indicator’s result in the view browser.
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Parameters
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Parameters
Radio parameters are used for QoS interpretation and to know some characteristics of the
network.
There are two types of parameters on NPO:

• Logical – Telecom Parameters (Network optimization)
• Design – Radio Network Architecture (Coverage and capacity)
Licenses required by NPO Server to manage parameters:
MUSE_PARAM_<TECHNO>_LICENSE – To create parameters for a given technology
MUSE_PARAM_HISTORY_LICENSE – To display historical values from parameters
Parameters
Type of values displayed by NPO regarding logical and design parameters:
• Operational
• Historical
• Forecast (Only available from tuning session)
• Reference (Min, Default and Max values)
• Planned
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Parameters
Parameter Properties
In parameter’s properties, operator can see the following information:
• Name
• Reference
• Formula
• Type
• Description
• Default Value
• Min
• Max
• Unit
• Availability Domain
• Step
• Planned
• Cell Zone criteria
Parameters
Parameter Properties
Parameter’s attributes (continuation):
• Outage
• Visible
• Technology specific attributes
• Supported Release Information – {Release, Supplier, Name, Version, Description}
• Dictionary Information – {Name, Version, Date, Author, Description}
• Families – 4 sub-families can be defined
Use right-click menu over the parameter

to obtain the properties.
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Parameters
Logical Parameter Properties (1/3)
Parameters
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Parameters
Parameters
Design Parameter Properties (1/3)
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Parameters
Parameters
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Parameters
Propagate Parameters
You can propagate both design and logical parameters to:
• View Template
This retrieves all View Templates referencing the selected parameters in their tabular list.
• Rules
This retrieves all Rules using the selected parameters in their definition.
• Thematics
This retrieves all Thematic Layer Templates referencing the selected parameters.
Parameters
Manage Parameters
1. Import Parameters Dictionary

• Parameter dictionaries describe all the supported parameters for the network objects.
• Dictionaries are specific for each managed technology.
• Costumer can easily import dictionaries through Web Administration Interface.
2. Load Parameters Data

• The parameters data of the whole network is loaded each night.
• Costumer can perform a manual load every time he wants to do it.
3. Parameters Historical Data Purge

• For performance and storage space reasons, a regular data purge of the oldest historical values is
performed.
• The purge process is launched every night after the daily import of operational values.
• It deletes every records that contain a date older of a specified number of days than the current
date.
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Exercises
Exercises
1. Imagine that we have 1 PM every 15 min. There

is no interpolation for the missing data.
PM1 = 2; PM2 = 4; PM3 = 6; PM4 = missing
What will be the result for the following

consolidation methods?
• Sum
• Max
• Min
• Avg
• Count
• Count Present
• Count Missing
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Exercises
2. Check if there is missing data for MC718 in

the cell 44620 at 30/11/2007.
If there is missing data, what kind of
interpolation is used on this counter?
3. Find the basic indicator of this counter and

retrieve it at cell level for the same day per
hour. What is the aggregation used (type and
method) between 2 and 3?
Exercises
4. Is EDGE activated in cell 44583?
5. What is the maximum coding scheme

allowed for GPRS and EDGE for cell 44610?
6. How many rules are associated with

MAX_PDCH parameter?
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Views
Views
Presentation
• Views enable to display results coming from any analysis service

• Results can be displayed as tabular or graphical mode
There are two ways to create a view:
• View templates - Views already defined in NPO
• Interactively – Functions executed in view browser.
A view is also known as an Executed View and appears in the view browser.
The default limit for the maximum number of views in the view browser is 20. NEW
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Views
View Templates (1/2)
View templates are localized in View function tab
Views
View Templates (2/2)
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Views
Interactive view (1/2)
If we drag and drop functions (ex: indicators) for the view browser, then we have a view defined by
the selected indicators.
Views
Interactive view (2/2)
Even if the indicators are the same, we can obtain a different view presentation.
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Views
Classification
View modes:
• Tabular – Display values in tables
• Graphical – Display values through columns and lines
View types:
• Standard – View which has scalar indicators/parameters, rules, events or free fields
• Vector - View which has one or more vectors inside
• Matrix – View which has one or more matrices inside
• Equipment – View for alarms and availability
Views
Display View Properties (1/6)
To see view properties, use right-click menu from one view.
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Views
Views
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Views
Views
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Views
Views
Edit Executed View
• The user can change the display properties of each executed view.
• The update appears directly on the displayed executed view.
• It is possible to edit the view title and update the current view.
Edit Title NEW
• The view title can be edited by double-clicking on it.
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Views
Edit Executed View
Edit View Tab NEW
• The view tab can be edited by double-clicking on it.
Views
Edit Executed View
Update the current executed view NEW
• It is possible to add functions in the current executed view using Ctrl+Drag&Drop

• It is possible to remove functions in the current executed view using Ctrl+Shift+Drag&Drop
• With this option, the execution context is not necessary.
Functions available to update executed view:

• Indicators
• Counters
• Parameters (logical and design)
• Rules
• Events
• Free Fields
To use this feature properly, press and release Ctrl+Drag&Drop at the same time
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Views
Edit Executed View
Add one Indicator (Ctrl)

Views
Edit Executed View
New indicator
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Views
Edit Executed View
Remove one Indicator (Ctrl+Shift)

Views
View functionalities
There are some functionalities in the left-side of the view (Toolbar):

• Toggle Display Type NEW
• Propagate
• Save View As Template NEW

• Export View
• Spatial Rollup NEW
• Spatial Drill Down NEW
• Temporal Rollup NEW
• Temporal Drill Down NEW
• Show Legend
• Highlight NEW
• Rotate View NEW
• Clear All Filter(s)

• Filter Repeated Values
• Show Filter List
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Views
Toggle Display Type NEW
• This function changes the view from tabular mode to graphical mode and vice-versa.
Views
Save View As Template NEW
• This function saves a executed view as a template one.

• By default, the view template has User Defined family
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Views
Spatial Rollup NEW
• This function allows operator to roll up spatially in the executed view

• Typical Network Levels in ascending order: {TRX, Cell, BSC, NETWORK}
Views
Spatial Drill Down NEW
• This function allows operator to drill down spatially in the executed view
All the cells of the BSC are displayed

after a spatial drill down.
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Views
Temporal Rollup NEW
• This function allows operator to roll up temporally in the executed view

• Typical Periodicities in ascending order: {Hour, Day, Week, Month}
Hourly Data
Daily Data
Views
Temporal Drill Down NEW
• This function allows operator to drill down temporally in the executed view
Weekly Data
Daily Data
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Views
Highlight NEW
• NPO user can highlight the view results on all functions except for counters and events
• The color for each function has a different meaning
Style and colors for Indicators after Highlight:
• Italic: Reliability test is wrong

• Grey: The associated sampling value is too low for the tested value
• Black: The indicator does not have a threshold
• Green: Result value is less or greater (depending on UpperIsFault) than yellow threshold
• Yellow: Result value is between the yellow and orange threshold
• Orange:Result value is between the orange and red threshold
• Red: Result value is less or greater (depending on UpperIsFault) than red threshold
Views
Highlight NEW
Colors for Parameters after Highlight:

• Black: Impossible to test the parameter value. (Operational, planned)
• Green: The values (historical, reference) are equal to the operational value
• Orange:The value changed between current and previous date
• Red: The values are different than the operational value
Colors for Rules after Highlight:

• Black: Rule result is N/A
• Green: Rule result is true
• Orange:Rule result is false and is a warning rule.
• Red: Rule result is false.
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Views
Highlight NEW
Colors for Synthetic Diagnosis after Highlight:

• Black: Diagnosis result is unknown
• Green: Diagnosis result is nopbfound (no problem found)
• Red: Diagnosis result is pbfound (problem found)
Note: Synthetic Diagnosis are the ones which are executed in the view browser.
Views
Highlight NEW
Indicator’s example
Parameter’s example
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Views
Highlight NEW
Rules’s example
Synthetic Diagnosis’s example
Views
Rotate View NEW
• This functions rotate the executed view

• This function can be very useful before extract view to excel (256 columns at maximum)
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Reports
Reports
Presentation
• Reports enable user to display functions in several views.

• Every function executed to Report Browser originates a Executed Report
Licenses needed by NPO regarding Reports
MUSE_REPORT_TEMPLATE_CREATION_LICENSE
This license is needed to create reports in NPO.
MUSE_REPORT_LICENSE
This license is needed to execute reports in NPO.
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Reports
Report type
There are four types of report:

• Mono-Object Evolution
• Multi-Object Evolution
• Multi-Object Comparison
• Mono-Object Distribution
Mono-Object Distribution Reports are not available in WiMAX.
It is possible to edit the report title and update the current executed Report. NEW
Reports
Edit Report Title NEW
• The report title can be edited by a right click on the title and select Rename
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Reports
Update Executed Report NEW
• It is possible to add Views in the current executed Report using Ctrl+Drag&Drop
To use this feature properly, press and release Ctrl+Drag&Drop at the same time
Reports
Update Executed Report NEW
• It is possible to add Views in the current executed Report using Ctrl+Shift+Drag&Drop
To use this feature properly, press and release Ctrl+Shift+Drag&Drop at the same time
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Reports
Reports Toolbar
• Save Executed Report as template NEW
• Synchronize Zoom
• Synchronize Cursor
• Highlight NEW
• Grid NEW
• Export Report
• Spatial Roll Up NEW
• Temporal Roll Up NEW
• Automatic Resize NEW
• Propagate Report Contents to objects NEW or functions
Reports
Save Executed Report as template NEW
• Operator can save an executed Report as a new Report Template using this icon ( )
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Reports
Highlight NEW
• The Highlight of Reports as the same behavior than in Views
Reports
Grid NEW
• The grid display can be toggled on or off in all the views of the report at once.
• To activate the grid display, click on the icon ( ) from the report toolbar.
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Reports
All these 4 report features have a similar behavior as views.
• Spatial Roll Up NEW
• Temporal Roll Up NEW
Automatic Resize NEW
• This feature makes an automatic resize on report’s views

• This feature takes into account the width of the chart and legend zones and also the height of
the views.
Reports
Before Automatic Resize

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Reports
After Automatic Resize

Reports
Propagate Report Contents to objects NEW or functions
• The propagation to functions/indicators was possible in RNO.

• In NPO, is also possible to propagate objects from reports to topology tree.
3 types of propagation are allowed:

• Propagate All – Functions and objects are propagated to the respective trees
• Propagate All Network Objects – Only objects are propagated to topology tree
• Propagate Data – Only functions are propagated to the functions tree
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Exercises
Exercises
1. Execute GTRPDDPDA in the view browser.

Properties:
Cell ID: 44520
Time Period: 01/12/07 0h – 04/12/07 23h
Periodicity: Hourly
2. Add EN_AMR_FR to the previous view. Check

the Highlight. Invert the order and check the
Highlight again.
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3. Execute Alc_Mono_Call for 44520 from

29/11/2007 till 9/12/2007 per hour.
4. Update the same report in order to display

values at BSC level.
5. Update the same report in order to display

values at daily level.
NPO SEMINAR
DAY 3
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Agenda
1. User Preferences
2. Define customer data
3. Diagnosis
4. Object Zone
5. Working Zone
6. Exercises
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User Preferences
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User Preferences
• Analysis Desktop can be configured to suit the individual preferences of each user.
• These settings apply only to the user currently logged on Analysis Desktop.
Configure User Preferences NEW
1. Select Edit -> Preferences…
2. Select and modify the appropriate tab:

• General
• Views/Reports
• Cartography
User Preferences
General User Preferences
In this tab, NPO user can modify the following preferences:

• Prompt to confirm on exit
• Add favorite to current selection
• Save layout on exit – {No, Yes, Ask}
• Date format – {dd/mm/yyyy, mm/dd/yyyy, yyyy/mm/dd}
• Default behavior for hyperlinks – {Same window, New window}
• Mode tabs text – {Horizontal, Vertical}
• Display time before a tab is raised and made active – {1,2,3,4,5, Disable}
• Show soft-deleted objects – {Yes, No}
• Display tips on startup – {Yes, No}
• Font name
• Font size
These configurations can be reset using “Default Settings” button.
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User Preferences
General User Preferences NEW
User Preferences
Views / Reports Preferences NEW
Preferences regarding views and

reports can be set in this window.
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User Preferences
Cartography Preferences NEW
Preferences regarding cartography

can be set in this window.
User Preferences
Layout User Preferences
The Analysis Desktop layout can be customized by resizing or changing the following properties:
• Position of the main window
• Position of the dividers
• Size and Position of all sub-windows
To save the current layout:

• Select Window -> Save Layout
NPO user can select the pretended layout in menu:
Window -> Layouts
Pre-defined AD window layouts:
• Default Layout
• Maximize Report
• Maximize Trees
• Maximize View
• User-Defined Layout
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User Preferences
Save User Preferences Implicitly
• The values entered by the user in any Analysis Desktop dialog box are implicitly saved as user
preferences.
• The next time the same dialog box is opened, the fields are automatically filled in with these
pre-saved values.
• These parameters are associated with an identifier, which defines a user and/or a profile, so
that each user and/or profile can have its own set of preferences.
The following parameters are also stored as implicit user preferences:

• Displayed and hidden modes
• Order of modes
• Topology classifications
• Topology trees
• Functions classifications
• Functions trees
User Preferences
Set QoS Requirement NEW
To set the QoS requirement levels:
1. In the menu bar, select Analysis Desktop -> Set QoS Requirement...
2. Select the appropriate QoS Requirement Level (Low, Medium or High)
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Define customer data
Create Customer Indicators
NPO users can create their own indicators when needed.
To create indicators, NPO users must use the Indicator Editor.
To open the editor:

Select Data -> Indicators… or Ctrl+N
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Indicator Editor
To create a new indicator, use this button ( ) from Indicator Editor.
Then, choose the indicator type.
Finally, you can create the indicator by fill the attributes.
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Customer must define the following attributes:
• Reference
• Name
• Description
• Unit
To insert indicators in the formula, drag&drop them from sub-object selection tree (right-side)
into the Formula box.
Do the same for all the needed indicators.
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After retrieve all the needed indicators, apply the operators to use in the formula.
After finalize the formula, customer should check criteria using this button ( )
The formula can be valid or invalid.
Invalid example
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• The presentation must be defined.

• In this case, only unit must be defined, other attributes are filled by default.
• Pay attention in the Availability domain in order to check the objects and periodicity where this
indicators will available.
• Check the Severity as well {UpperIsFault or LowerIsFault}
Other attributes can be defined such as:

• Thresholds values
• Sampling indicator
• Sampling values
• Reliability indicator
• Temporary indicator
• Calculated / Basic Indicator
• Families
• New temporal Aggregation
To apply the customer Indicator press this button ( )
Then, confirm the Indicator creation by pressing [YES].
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Finally, the customer indicator will be available to execute in Analysis Desktop.
• Every customer indicator starts by underscore (_)

• The green triangle ( ) means that this indicator is a costumer one
Create Customer Views
NPO users can create their own views when needed.
To create views, customer must use the View Template Editor.
To open the editor:

Select Data -> View Templates… or Ctrl+E
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View Template Editor

To create a new view, use this button ( ) from View Template Editor.
Then, choose the view type.
Finally, you can create the view by fill the attributes.
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Customer must define the following attributes:

• Name
• Title
• Family (in order to be visible)
• Description
• Preferred Display Type
To insert indicators in the view, drag&drop them from sub-object selection tree (right-side) into
Tabular View.
Do it for all the needed indicators

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Customer will see the list of indicators updated in the Tabular View
After drag&drop all the needed indicators, customer has to put them in the primary or secondary
graphic to see them as graphic, otherwise will be a tabular view only.
Customer should check the following graphic attributes:
• Type
• Max value
• Min value
• Style
• Legend
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• At the final configuration, customer should check the Availability Domain in order to check the
availability of the view.
• If there is no crosses then the view will be not available.
• The Availability Domain (AvD) result is the interception of the AvD of the view indicators.
Finally, customer should apply the view using this button ( ).
Finally, the customer view will be available to execute in Analysis Desktop.
The pink icon ( ) means that this is a private view.

The open lock ( ) means that this view is editable.
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Create Customer Reports
NPO users can create their own reports when needed.
To create reports, customer must use the Reports Template Editor.
To open the editor:

Select Data -> Report Templates… or Ctrl+R
Report Template Editor

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To create a new report, use this button ( ) from Report Template Editor.
Then, choose the view type.
Finally, you can create the view by fill the attributes.
Customer should define the following attributes:

• Name
• Short Name
• Title
• Family (in order to be visible)
• Description
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The final step is to add views in the report.
After adding all the pretended views, check the AvD and click in apply button ( ).
Finally, the customer report will be available to execute in Analysis Desktop.
All the 3 customer functions are present in this

report. (Indicator + View + Report)
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Diagnosis
Diagnosis
Presentation
• Diagnosis can be seen as advanced rules.

• Diagnosis are useful to diagnose and provide a solution to network problems.
• Diagnosis can be executed automatically if they have a trigger.
The trigger can be linked to:

• Indicators (Diagnosis)
• Parameters (Complex Rules)
Diagnosis results can be:

• No problem found
• Unknown
• Problem found
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Diagnosis
Presentation
There are two modes of executed Diagnosis:

• Synthetic (Executed in View Browser)
• Detailed (Executed in Report Browser)
Diagnosis Properties
• Operator can check all the proprieties of each Diagnosis.

• Select Properties after a right click over the appropriate Diagnosis.
Diagnosis
Diagnosis Properties (1/4)
Several attributes can be seen in the Diagnosis Properties

• Name
• Description
• Owner
• System
• Access Rights
• Visible
• Validated
• Type – {Diagnosis, Complex Rule}
• Severity – {Error, Warning}
• Dictionary Information – Contains Name, Version, System, Data, Author and Description
• Families – 4 Sub-families can be defined
• Availability Domain
• Scenario Triggers – Indicators and parameters associated with the scenario
• Node Tree – A tree displaying all the nodes associated with the scenario
• Node Information – Contains Name, Description, Node position, Node Links and Node Code
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Diagnosis
Diagnosis
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Diagnosis
Diagnosis
Propagate Diagnosis NEW
• In NPO, it is possible to propagate Diagnosis to Indicators

• The selected indicator will be the one defined in the diagnosis trigger
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Diagnosis
Execute Diagnosis
• In NPO, the standard diagnosis ( ) can be executed at any time. NEW
• The executed Diagnosis cannot be saved as templates
Synthetic Mode
• To see a synthetic mode, drag&drop a Diagnosis to View Browser

• This mode presents only the final result state of the Diagnosis
Diagnosis
Detailed Diagnosis
• To see a detailed mode, drag&drop a Diagnosis to Report Browser

• This mode presents the results (State, Context, Description, Report and Code link) of each node
of the Diagnosis
• The Detailed Diagnosis can be saved as an html page using this button ( ).
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Diagnosis
Detailed Diagnosis
Diagnosis
Display Executed Logs
• Customer can check the all the Diagnosis executed till the current date.
• Diagnosis execution logs are created and are available in Analysis Desktop.
• Executed logs present the size and the last modified date of the executed diagnosis.
To open Diagnosis Executed Logs:

Select Diagnosis -> Display Execution Logs… from the menu bar
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Diagnosis
User can check how many trace files were generated by pressing over the links.
Diagnosis
Trace files created for the scenario: BCCH and BSIC check
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Diagnosis
Update Detailed Diagnosis
• In NPO, it is possible to update the current detailed diagnosis.
To update the Detailed Diagnosis:

Select Diagnosis -> Executed Diagnosis… from the menu bar
Diagnosis
• A context execution will appear and user can modify all the attributes.
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Diagnosis
• For example, user can update the day of the diagnosis
Diagnosis
Schedule Executed Diagnosis Reports
• NPO user can schedule Diagnosis.
Output Format:
• Analysis Desktop
• HTML
To schedule a Diagnosis Report:

1. Drag&Drop into Report View
2. In the execution context window select To Be Scheduled
3. Define the appropriate attributes in tabs: Date, General and Repeat
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Diagnosis
Date attributes
Diagnosis
General attributes
Output Format:
• AD
• XML
• PDF
• XLS
• CSV
• HTML
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Diagnosis
Repeat attributes
Diagnosis can be stored in NPO Database every Day, Week or Month.
Diagnosis
Display Pending Diagnosis Reports
To view the executed scheduled Diagnosis:

• Select Diagnosis -> Display Pending Diagnosis Reports…
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Object Zone
Object Zone
Presentation
• An object zone describes a set of network objects of the same type, filtered by a set of criteria.
• The filters are dynamically applied to the current Working Zone.
• An object zone must be applied to one network object type.
A specific license must be installed in NPO Server to manage Object Zones:

• MUSE_OBJECT_ZONE_LICENSE
List of 20 network elements available to create an object Zone:
1. CELL2G 6. SGSN_IP_NSVC 11. N7SL 16. TRAFFIC_ZONE

2. TRX 7. BEARERCHANNEL 12. ECELL2G 17. TRX TS
3. BTS 8. PVC 13. SGSN_ITF 18. GPU
4. BSC 9. BSC_MFS_LAPD 14. AIC 19. ECELL2G
5. X25 10. BTS_BSC_LAPD 15. MFS 20. N7LS
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Object Zone
Compute Object Zone
• This computation will show the number of objects filtered by the appropriate object zone.
• To compute the OZ, select Compute from right click menu over the object zone.
Object Zone
Object Zone Properties
• Object Zone (OZ) Properties can be seen on Analysis Desktop by clicking in the Properties from
the right click menu over the appropriate object zone.
Attributes defined in OZ Properties:

• Name
• Owner
• Created
• Modified
• System
• Access Rights
• Visible
• Auto Compute
• Description
• Object Type
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Object Zone
Object Zone Properties
Object Zone
Create Object Zone
To create a new object zone, customer should use Object Zone Editor.
To open the Editor, customer can use these 4 options:
Topology -> Object Zone… or (Ctrl+B)
OZ right menu -> Object Zone…
Object Zone Icon
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Object Zone
Create Object Zone
Object Zone Editor

Object Zone
Create Object Zone
Customer should define the following attributes:
• Name
• Access Rights
• Object Type
• Visible
• Auto Compute
• Description
Then, customer must apply a filter for this object zone.
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Object Zone
Create Object Zone
In this example will be created a object zone defined by all the cells of s222 BSC.
To obtain the BSC parameter, select Design from sub-object selection and drag&drop it to criteria
white box.
Customer can define a filter name
Object Zone
Create Object Zone
To compare strings we can use LIKE operator.
Filter Legend:
Add Union
Add Intersection
Add Exclusion
Remove Operation
Clear Criteria
Customer should check the criteria after define the criteria.
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Object Zone
Create Object Zone
If the criteria is valid, then a green light should appear in the status.
To finish this creation, customer has to made Apply.
After refresh Generic Zone or Object Zone modes, this new object zone will be displayed.
Object Zone
Create Object Zone Interactively
Customer can select the network elements and

create a new object zone defined by the select
objects.
After click in Create Object Zone… a popup will

appear to define the object zone name.
After pressing OK, a result message will be

displayed.
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Object Zone
Create Object Zone Interactively
This new object will be available as well in Analysis Desktop.
Propagation to Cells
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Working Zone
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Working Zone
Presentation
• The Working Zone Manager allows the optimizer to define a specific subset of cells in the
network as a personal working zone.
• If a Working Zone contains a filter of another WZ, then it is called a Sub Working Zone.
• The Working Zone is also used to manage secured access to some parts of the network.
• Sub Working Zones have the same security access as their reference WZ.
• Regular operators can only create Sub Working Zones.
Working Zone
Presentation
Working Zones are classified in two categories:
• Standard Working Zones – Less than 1000 cells

• Large Working Zones – More than 1000 cells
• Each technology can specify the available modes for Standard and Large Working Zones.
To manage Working Zones in NPO, the following license must be installed:
• MUSE_WORKING_ZONE
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Working Zone
Change Working Zone
To change Working Zone from Analysis Desktop, user can do it from the menu bar.
Select Analysis Desktop -> Change Working Zone…
Then, a window is displayed with all the Working Zones defined on NPO.
In this case, only the Global WZ is present.
Working Zone
Create Working Zone
To create a new working zone, customer should use Working Zone Editor.
To open the Editor, customer can use these 2 options:
• Select Topology -> Working Zone… from menu bar.
• Press Ctrl+Z
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Working Zone
Create Working Zone
Working Zone Editor

Working Zone
Create Working Zone
Customer should start to define the following attributes:
Name
QoS Requirement
Visible
Parent Working Zone
Description
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Working Zone
Create Working Zone
Customer can use the following functions to apply in the criteria:
• Design Parameters
• Logical Parameters
• Free Filed
• Operators
• Topology
Working Zone
Create Working Zone
Drag&Drop the appropriate function to criteria box.
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Working Zone
Create Working Zone
Adjust the formula and then check criteria.
Be sure that the status light is green and finally apply the new Working Zone.
Working Zone
Create Working Zone
User can change now to the new working zone
Instead of the 417 cells (Global WZ), it is

presented only 221 cells of the Global WZ
which have more than 3 TRXs
(4_TRXs_and_more WZ).
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Exercises
Exercises
1. Create one basic indicator, one view and

one report at your choice.
2. Execute Call Setup Success Rate Diagnosis

for cell 44505 at 05/12/2007 and check the
final status of TCH assignment failure problem
node.
3. Create a BTS Zone with 5 BTSs.
4. Create a Sub WZ from Global WZ.
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NPO SEMINAR
DAY 4
Agenda
1. Tuning
2. Tuning - Exercises
3. Cartography
4. Cartography - Exercises
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Tuning
Tuning
Presentation
Customer can use tuning sessions in order to correct some network misbehaviour.
Then Optimization level can be:

• Radio resource configuration modifications
• Frequency changes
• Neighborhood modifications
• Add adjacencies
• Change logical/design parameter values
Licenses required by NPO Server to tune parameters:

MUSE_TUNING_LICENSE to display in Analysis Desktop Tuning menu
Licenses to see the tuning menu item:

MUSE_NPO_TUNING_PREPARATION and MUSE_NPO_ADMINISTRATE_TUNING_SESSIONS
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Tuning
Presentation
• Tuning Session contains tuning operations and can be applied to create a tuning job.
• Tuning Job is a particular tuning session that has been applied at a given date.
• Tuning Task contains all tuning operations that are impacting one particular OMC-R.
Purge Completed Tuning Job
Each night, NPO checks if there is any Tuning Job that is:
• Last then 15 days: Completed / Failed / Partially failed
• More then 15 days: Applied but not yet completed / Failed / Partially failed
These old not completed Tuning Jobs are then purged (deleted) from the database.
A notification is sent to all users when a job is purged.
Tuning
Tuning Session Life Cycle
The common usage of tuning session is:
• Create a Tuning Session
• Fill the Tuning Session with:

o Parameter Tuning Operations
o Topology Object Tuning Operations
o Topology Relation Tuning Operations
o Frequency Tuning Operations
o Advice Tuning Operations
• Check the consistency of all the operations

• Apply the Tuning Session
• Follow the application of the Tuning Session on the concerned OMC-R.
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Tuning
To make an advanced usage of tuning, customer can aplly the following tasks:
• Select the appropriate network objects and inhibit all tuning operations for them. These
objects can no longer be tuned.
• Select the appropriate network objects and define them as being Reference Objects. These
objects can now be used as ’templates’ when tuning other network objects.
Tuning
The available operations over the tuning sessions:
• Scheduled or applied but not yet completed / failed /partially failed, then it can only be
copied.
• Not owned by the operator (and the operator is not Administrator), then it can only be copied
or opened in read only mode.
• Is owned by the operator (or the operator is the Administrator) and is created, or completed /
failed / partially failed, then it can be opened, copied, deleted.
• It is always possible to create a new tuning session.
• If a working zone is deleted, then there will be an automatic re-parenting of the tuning
sessions.
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Tuning Session Properties
To check Tuning Operation Properties select Tuning -> Tuning Session… from the menu bar.
And then select properties from the right click menu of tuning session.
In the Tuning Session Properties and Tuning Job Properties only their title is different.
Tuning
In this properties, customer can check the values for the following attributes.
Temporary Flag indicating if the Tuning Session is a temporary copy or not.

This field is not visible for the user
Source Tuning Reference to the non temporary tuning session from which a temporary tuning
Session ID session has been created.
This field is not visible for the user.
Working Zone Working Zone to which the Tuning Session is linked (i.e.Working Zone in which the
Tuning Session has been created).
Purpose Description associated to the Tuning Session. (Optional field)
Recommended Date when the tuning operations contained in a Tuning Session should be applied
date of application on the network
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Tuning
Creation Date Date when the Tuning Session was created
Update Date Date when the Tuning Session was updated
Last Export Date Date when the Tuning Session was applied for execution
Overview • Number of modified object(s) of each object type

• Number of created object(s) of each object type
• Number of deleted object(s) of each object type
• Number of each specific Tuning Operation
Tuning
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Tuning
Tuning Session Manager
To open a Tuning Session:

Select Tuning -> Tuning Session, or press Ctrl+H.
Customer can do the following operations:
• Create a new tuning session pressing on [NEW]
• Open a tuning session pressing on [Open]
• Copy a tuning session pressing on [Copy]
• Delete a tuning session pressing on [Delete]
Tuning
Display Tuning Session
To display the existing tuning sessions linked to

the current Working Zone:
1. Open Tuning Sessions Window
2. Select the appropriate tuning session(s),

and double click on it or click on [ Open ].
The selected tuning session is displayed

in the report browser.
3. Click on [ Close ] to close the

"Tuning Sessions" window.
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Tuning
Create Tuning Session
To create a new Tuning Session press [New] from Tuning Sessions window
Tuning
Tunning Session Properties
To modify some properties of the Tuning Session make a double click over the tuning session
grey panel.
Customer can also use the menu

bar to Edit Properties of a Tuning
Session
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Tuning
Create Tuning Session by Copy
• The new tuning session is created with a default name: <oldname>_Copy_n.

• All tuning operations contained in the source tuning session are also duplicated in this new
tuning session.
• The user becomes the owner of the tuning session.
Tuning
Check Tuning Session
To check Tuning Session

press the following icon:
Then, a window will appear

with a message regarding the
validation of the tuning
session.
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Tuning
Apply Tuning Session
To apply Tuning Session press

the following icon:
Then, a confirmation window

will show up.
Press [YES] to apply the
tuning session definitely.
Tuning
Delete Tuning Session
1. Press [Delete] from Tuning Sessions windows

2. Confirm the deletion by pressing [Yes]
3. Confirm the deletion of an open TS by pressing [Yes] (optional)
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Tuning
Open Tuning Jobs Window
To open existing Tuning Job(s) in order to check their content, perform one of the following
actions:
• Select Tuning -> Tuning Jobs... from the menu bar
• Press Ctrl+J
Tuning
Tuning Jobs Properties
• In NPO we can check the status and the modifications made on tuning jobs.
Tuning Job Status Circle Color
Applied Yellow
Created Blue
Partielly Failed Orange
Failed Red
Completed OK Green
Tuning Session Status Flag color
Modified since job creation Orange Flag
Not Modified since job creation Green Flag
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Tuning
Change Classification in Tuning Jobs Tree
Tunning jobs can be organized by 3 modes:
• Applier / Creator
• Status
• Working Zone associated (default mode)
The tuning job tree is updated with the

selected classification.
Tuning
Display Existing Tuning Jobs
To display the existing tuning job click on [Open Tuning Job] from Tuning Jobs window
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Tuning
Display Tuning Job Follow-up
To display the tuning job Follow-up click on [View Follow-up] from Tuning Jobs window
Tuning
Display Tuning Synthesis
This feature is only avalaible on

Parameters.
Select Tuning -> Tuning

Operations -> Show Synthesis
To switch Parameter vs Object use:

Right Click on zones 1 or 3 and
then, select Toggle Display option.
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Tuning
Show/Hide Tuning Session Properties
• To show tuning session properties, click on this icon ( )

• To hide tuning session properties, click on this icon ( )
Save Tuning Session
• The tuning session is saved with all the forecast values defined.
• Customer can define a name for the saved tuning session in the following window.
Tuning
Propagate from Tuning Session
There are 3 options of propagation:
• Propagate Tuning Session Content – Propagation to Objects and Parameters
• Propagate Tuned Parameters – Propagation to Parameters
• Propagate Tuned Network Objects – Propagation to Objects
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Tuning
Propagate from Tuning Session
Tuning
Clear Tuning Session
To clear all the content of the tuning

session there are 2 options:
1. Select Clear from right click menu over

the content
2. Menu Tuning -> Tuning Session -> Clear
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Tuning
Create a Parameter Tuning Operation
• Select the appropriate Network objects from the topology browser
• From the Tuning tab select Logical or Design Parameters
• Drag and drop the appropriate parameters to the opened tuning session
• The parameters values are:
o Reference value
o Planned value
o User Defined value
o Historical value
o Reference object
Tuning
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Tuning
In this example, customer is setting a new maximum coding scheme allowed in a specific cell.
Tuning
To finally the tuning session creation, customer should check the forecast values defined
previosly. 4 types of checking are available:
• Mandatory Checks – Includes mandatory rules referencing tuned parameters.

• Optional Checks - Includes optional rules referencing tuned parameters.
• All Checks – Both mandatory and optional rules are checked.
• No Checks
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Tuning
Customer can see the operations made in the tuning session contents.
Indication of the current value (2) and forecast value (4) for MAX_GPRS_CS
Tuning
Create Topology Relation Tuning Operation(s)
To tune Relations in NPO start to do the following steps:
1. Select the appropriate cell from the topology browser
2. Choose ’Adjacencies Tuning’ from the Tuning tab
3. Drag and drop the selections to the opened tuning session.
4.The "Relation Tuning" window appears.
An example of these steps is presented in the next slide
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Tuning
Tuning
In the relation tuning window it is possible to add new cells or remove the exinting ones.
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Tuning
It is possible to create a new object

in order to be added in the relation
Direction Legend:
<- Incoming
-> Outgoing
<- -> Bidirectional.
Tuning
Create Frequency Tuning Operation(s)
To add frequency information to a Tuning Session:
1. Select appropriate cell from the topology browser
2. Select ’Frequency Tuning’ from the Tuning tab.
3. Drag and drop the selections to the opened tuning session.
4. The "Frequency Tuning" window appears.
An example of these steps is presented in the next slide
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Tuning
Tuning
Customer can change the Forecast value and the BSIC code as well
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Tuning
Create Advice Tuning Operation(s)
Advices may be added to network object(s) in a tuning task, to send a message to the OMC-R
user. To enable this feature drag&drop Advice Tuning to Tuning Session content.
Tuning
Manage Reference Object(s) for Tuning
Licenses that must be installed to manage reference objects for tuning:

• MUSE_TUNING_LICENSE
• MUSE_NPO_ADMINISTRATE_REFERENCE_OBJECT
Declare/Undeclare Network Object(s) as Reference Object(s) for Tuning
• Network object(s) can be declared as reference object(s).
• When declared as a reference object, this object is written in blue
• Reference object can be used as a template in tuning session.
• A notification is sent to all clients about the new reference object
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Tuning
To declare a new reference object:
1. Select the approrpiate object and then user has 2 options:

a) Right click and select Set Reference Object…
b) Select Topology -> Set Reference Object…
User can check/uncheck declaration and can insert a

reason to explain why this is a reference object
Tuning
Use the reference as a template in the Tuning Sessions
The value applied to the session is the operational value of the reference object
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Tuning - Exercises
Exercises
1. Create a Frequency tuning in the following cell:

LAC: 4451
CELL ID: 4473n
New frequencies:
BSIC: n
TRX 1: 70 + n
TRX 2: 74 + n
Recommended Date of Application:15/12/2007
n – NPO Seminar user number
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Exercises
2. Add an Adjacency tuning in the previous

tuning session.
Cell: 4451/4473n
New Cell to add: 4451/4470n
Add a bi-directional relation
Apply the reference parameter values.
Don’t check the tuning.
Exercises
3. Add a Parameter tuning in the previous

tuning session.
Cell: 4451/4450n
Parameter: Antenna_Azimuth
New value: 10 * n
Apply the reference parameter values.
Don’t check the tuning.
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Cartography
Cartography
Presentation
The cartography module offers the user the following possibilities:
• Correlate the design view and the operational view

• Access the topology of operational elements
• Focus on faulty objects
• Highlight network objects
• Perform adjacency analysis and tuning
• Manage background maps, as well as strongest server maps
• Manage multiple map layers
• View multi-technology objects for the same map.
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License needed to cartography viewer be available:

• MUSE_CARTOGRAPHY_LICENSE
Cartography terms
Raster:
• Bitmap image consisting of a matrix of pixels.
Vector:
• File that contains objects and shapes using mathematical coordinate systems and formulas.
These files can be imported using NPO Import/Export Management Web Interface
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Cartography Terms
Background Maps:
• Used to display a set of raster and vector maps in the background.
• This is mainly the place where satellite/aerial maps, roads, rivers, elevation maps are
displayed.
Cell Coverage Area (CCA):

• Data file containing polygons representing surfaces associated with a network object
reference.
• Contains CCA Layers with a list of polygons with rendering properties
• CCA objects are not movable and zoomable.
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Cartography Terms
Network Objects layers:

• The network objects can be seen into the cartography viewport.
• A sub layered is created for each object type.
• Two different Network Objects cannot be displayed in the same sub layer.
Voronoi maps:
• Voronoi maps are computed polygons per object.
• They represent a zone where a function is maximized for the object.
• Displays the Voronoi contours of an area covered by a cell (Best Server).
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Voronoi maps (continuation):

• If you want to use a Voronoi map for Adjacency Analysis, you must load it before you carry out
the analysis.
• The used algorithm for Voronoi computing is the distance.
• Distance funciton is tuned by the network object parameters.
Best Server:
• Computed raster or vector file coming from RNP software.
• Computes polygons for cells showing the geographic zone that is the best telecom service.
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Best Server (continuation):

• Several polygons can be set for a network object.
• The Best server file comes in MIF/MID files describing the polygon list.
Thematic Layer:
• Displays graphically the value of parameters and indicators.
• It contains sub-layers by sorting criteria, containing all selected objects that match the
criteria.
• They are displayed in various shapes and colours (user defined rendering).
• Thematic layers are computed using thematic layers template and a set of network objects for
a specific time period.
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Cartography Browser
The Cartography browser consists of five regions:
• Cartography Toolbar
• Cartography Viewport
• Minimap
• Layer Manager
• Information Bar
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Cartography Browser
The Cartography browser is

displayed as a tab in the Report
browser.
There can be multiple report

tabs and multiple tuning tabs,
but there is only one tab for
cartography.
Layer Manager
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Cartography Toolbar
• Main features of Cartography are accessible from this toolbar
Cartography Viewport
• Main window of the cartography module
• Shows the visible layers at their right position in the current world coordinates system.
• Background maps, CCA polygons, network objects, and thematic objects are displayed.
• This area can be zoomed and panned.
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Minimap
• Defines the overview of the actual viewport.
• At any point in time the entire map is visible in the minimap with a small rectangle.
Layer Manager
• Contains a list of layers and sub-layers that are arranged in the hierarchical tree structure.
• A layer is a graphical component containing the description of the graphical content and not the
graphical content itself.
• The layers can be moved up and down in the hierarchy, depending on the type of the layers.
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Layer Manager (continuation)
• The sub-layer within the main layer can be moved up and down, except for the relation type and
thematic layers.
• The root nodes and the leaf nodes, as well as their corresponding icons are defined in the
configuration file.
Information Bar
• The information bar shows the latitude and longitude of the cursor position in the map.
• It also contains a scale displaying the information regarding the distance of the line when the
user is in compute distance mode.
• Scale changes dynamically when the viewport is zoomed or unzoomed.
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Display Network Objects in Viewport
• Network objects can be executed to Cartography and then a site will be the new name for
these objects.
• A Site is a logical object, where one or more network objects are located.
• All the objects that have the same geographical position (latitude/ longitude) are usually
grouped together as a site, and is represented as a filled circle.
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Cells
• To differentiate cells of different standards, a small hexagon containing the technology letter
(G for GSM, U for UMTS, W for WiMAX)
You can use the user preferences to show the standards or not:
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Cells
The figure below shows the layout of a cell along with its rendering attributes:
• ObjectType giving the shape

• Technology represented by the initial
• Two parameters:
• cellClass - background
• cellType - sub icon.
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Density Level
The viewport can contain thousands of objects, making the rendering of all objects along with all their
properties practically impossible. This is why the density level notion is introduced.
The density level is the level of details to which the network objects are displayed in the viewport.
Density Level Objects Rendering Main Object Type Rendering Site
1 >2000 None
None
2 [501;2000] Point
3 [101 - 500] Point and Azimuth
4 [51 - 100] Collapsed Icons size (1/2) Point and Azimuth
5 [26 - 50] Collapsed Icons size(1) Point and Azimuth
6 [26 - 50] Expanded Icons size(1) sub-Icon labels Point and Azimuth
7 [1 - 10] Full Expanded Icons size(1) sub-Icon labels Point and Azimuth
(1/2) - half the original size; 1 - full size
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Graphic Modes
Depending on the Density Level of the viewport, two modes of graphic display are automatically
selected for the main object type:
• Collapsed
• Full-expanded
Collapsed Mode
Similar type or located in the same site are grouped together (co-localized cells or
collapsed cells).
The maximum number of cells co-localization for a given azimuth (sector) is:
2G: two co-localized cells
3G: four co-localized cells
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Collapsed Mode
The meaning of the graphical object presented below is:
• The double hexagon indicates that there are multiple cells situated at the same location (co-
localized)
• “U-3” means that there are three UMTS cells grouped together
• “G-2” means that there are two GSM cells grouped together
• “W-1” means that there is one WiMAX cell in the collapsed cell.
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Collapsed Mode
Real example
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Full-expanded Mode
• The “full expanded co-localized cells” are rendered on the border of a circle.
• The circle represents sectors by technology and cell type with a larger space between co-
localized objects.
• This allows rendering of adjacencies between co-localized objects.
• The sub-icon and background pattern drawing rule is defined in the configuration file.
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Full-expanded Mode
Here is an example with 6 cells presented in full-expanded mode.
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Full-expanded Mode
Real example
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Compute Voronoi Maps
• Every night, the Voronoi cells computing is triggered.
• Thanks to this trigger, CCAs are automatically created.
• For each target Voronoi layer, a Voronoi polygon is computed and stored in the database as a
couple.
• Voronoi computation is based on cell localization.
• To check the Voronoi Maps computation, view the traces in the following file:
/alcatel/muse/data/trace/MUSE_VORONOI_JOB_MUSE_0.traces
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Common Cartography Usage
Administrator Tasks
1. Import rasters, vectors and THL Template files in the database via web administration tools.
2. Import RNP planned data files in the Muse database.
Operator Tasks
1. Start the Analysis Desktop, choose a working zone, and open the Cartography browser.
2. Add new graphical layers from the database to display in the cartography viewer.
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Operator Tasks (continuation)
3. Add a set of Network Objects to display, by dragging and dropping them from the topology
classification into the cartography viewport.
4. Perform the needed operations with the displayed result: selecting, panning, zooming,
centering, computing distances, properties display, hiding layers, modifying rendering
properties.
5. Edit the executed thematic layer properties in order, for example, to define how to display
these network objects or change the execution context.
6. Select a set of Network Objects and a thematic layer template in the function browser. Drag
and drop this double selection into the cartography viewer and enter additional execution
context such as: periodicity, start and end time.
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7. Perform the needed operations with the displayed result: selecting, panning, zooming,
centering, computing distances, properties display, hiding layers, modifying rendering
properties.
8. Edit the executed thematic layer properties in order, for example, to define how to display
these network objects or change the execution context.
9. If needed, save the modified executed thematic layer as a thematic layer template in order
to be able to execute it again later without redefining all graphical properties.
10. Select a cell and display incoming and outgoing adjacencies.
11. Launch a wizard to manage the cells adjacencies and choose to add or remove adjacencies
based on the geographical criterion.
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12. Use the Highlight facility to find the set of network objects.
13. Propagate this subset of network objects to the topology manager.
14. Export the graphical results into several raster or vector formats.
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Open Cartography
To open the cartography browser:

A) Select Cartography -> Launch Cartography from the menu bar.
B) Click on from the menu bar
Layer Manager
• During the Cartography start up, layers associated with the working zone and depending on the
user rights are displayed.
• User can select what layers are visible or not.
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Show/Hide Layer (1/2)

Example: To checked the GSM900_Macro
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Show/Hide Layer (2/2)
Example: To checked the GSM900_Macro
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Display Layer Legend
Select a cartography layer and:

• Right click and select from the pop menu Show Legend..., OR
• Select from the menu bar Cartography -> Show Legend...
The legend window is displayed. The following information is displayed:

• Background Layer - MID information for vectors and rasters
• CCA Layer - MID information
• Network Object Layer - List of possible representations of the Object
Type extracted from cartography configuration file:

• Thematic Layer - Thematic layer legend
• Relations Layer - State of the adjacencies
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Background Layer Legend Dialog
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Network Object Layer Legend Dialog
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Modify Display Properties of a Layer
• This case allows the operator to modify a background layer appearance by changing its
contrast, brightness and transparency.
Select a cartography layer and:

• Right click and select from the pop menu Modify Layer Properties..., OR
• Select from the menu bar: Cartography -> Modify Layer Properties...
Then, the Display Properties window appears.
NOTE: If multiple layers of same layer type are selected, the Display Properties window
is opened for the most top selected layer.
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Display Properties of Background Layer
If all layers have the same value, then all their labels are displayed in black.
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Display Properties of THL Layer
If the layers have different values for an attribute, then the label for that attribute is
displayed in blue color, to indicate that the values are not same for all the selected layers.
All the modifications done for the layer are saved as the implicit user preference.
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Modify Order of a Layer
• To modify the order of a layer in the same group, drag and drop it to the wanted
position.
• The order of sub layers belonging to the thematic layers cannot be changed.
• All the modifications done for the layer order are saved as implicit user preference.
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Add Layer in the CCA & Background Layer
1. Select a cartography layer and:

Right click and select from the pop menu Add Layer..., OR
Select from the menu bar: Cartography -> Add Layer...
The "Add Layer to Layer Manager" window appears,

showing the list of imported CCA files (including
computed Voronoi) and background maps.
2. Select the appropriate imported layer,

choose the background or the CCA type,
then click on [ OK ].
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Add Layer in the Network Object Layer
To add layer in this section use can drag and drop the following objects to :
• Cell
• BSS
• Adjacencies
• BTS
A set of layers will be created regarding parameters from the selected network object.
Layers created from a cell

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Add Layer in the Thematic Layer
Thematic layer can be added in the layer manager by executing thematic templates.
1. Drag and drop the appropriate network objects and a thematic template in the Layer
Manager.
2. If a layer is not already there for the thematic template, a new layer is created in the
layer manager and Network objects are sorted in the thematic layer based on the criterion
defined in the THL template.
Green light means that

this value is OK
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Remove Layer from Layer Manager
1. Select the cartography layer(s) you want to remove, and:

• Right click and select from the pop menu Remove Layer..., OR
• Select from the menu bar: Cartography -> Remove Layer...
The selected layer(s) is removed from the layer manager tree and the memory is freed.
The layer is also removed from the Cartography viewport.
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Export Displayed Layers/Viewport
Users can export layers and viewports to an external file.
1. Select the appropriate cartography layer(s) and:

• Right click and select Export..., OR
• Select from the menu bar: Cartography -> Export...
Then, the "Export" window appears.
Choose the export type and press OK
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2. Select the appropriate export format, then click on [ OK ].
The following table presents the available export formats for different types of cartography
files:
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Google Earth Export - Presentation
The cartography information can be exported in order to be displayed in Google Earth through
the KML interface.
Google Earth KML 2.1 permits to:

• Specify icons and labels to identify locations on the earth
• Create different camera positions
• Use image overlays attached to the ground or screen
• Define styles to specify feature appearance
• Write HTML descriptions of features, including hyperlinks and images
• Use folders for hierarchical grouping of features
• Set level of details for each placemark.
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Example of Site Exported in Google Earth at Level of Detail Expanded

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Example of Site Exported in Google Earth at Level of Detail Collapsed
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Cartography Navigation
Toolbar – In cartography toolbar, NPO user has a set of icons corresponding to a set of
features.
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Toolbar features
• Single select – Select object with a single click

• Circular select – Select object in a circular mode
• Panning – Move the current viewport
• Zoom Minus/Plus/Rectangular – Zoom in, out or in a rectangular mode the current viewport.
• Compute distance – Check the distance between two points.
Compute distance example

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Toolbar features
• Center viewport – To center the current viewport
• Show/Hide mini map
• Navigate Backward/Forward – To go back and forward in the viewport history
• Save viewport – A viewport can be saved and recalled via back or forward navigation
• Adjacency wizard – Create and delete adjacencies based on distance between cells
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Display Network Objects Properties
To open the properties, select the appropriate network object from the viewport, then two
options are available:
• Right click and select View Properties...
• Select from the menu bar: Cartography -> Object Properties....
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Add Network Objects in Viewport
• To add network objects in the viewport, select them from the topology tree and drop them in
the rendering viewport or layer manager.
• Only the cells with defined geographical coordinates can be displayed.
• If the dragged BTS or BSC have no coordinates, their coordinates can be calculated depending
on the coordinates of the cells declared to them.
• Only the parameters of the object with all its enumerations are displayed in the layer
manager.
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Add Network Objects in Viewport
For the network objects that do not have coordinates or they cannot be calculated, an error
dialog appears, displaying the uncomputed object ids.
Depending on the user preferences, when new objects are added to the viewport, their
operational value or planned value are displayed first
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Remove Network Objects from Viewport
• Select one or several network objects in the viewport, right click and select Remove.
• The selected objects are removed from the viewport and from the THL Layer (if any) in the
layer manager.
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Remove Network Objects from Viewport
For network objects:
• If there are no more network objects in the site, the site is removed from the viewport
• If there are no more network objects in the layer manager, the layer is removed from the layer
manager
• If there are no more network objects on an Azimuth line, the Azimuth line is removed
• If the removed network object was co-localized, the co-localized group is updated and the
viewport is refreshed. If the collapsed group has only one object in it, the collapsed object is
replaced by the expanded object
• Incoming relations and outgoing relations of the removed network objects are also removed
from the adjacency layer and from the rendering viewport.
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Highlight Network Objects
• In NPO, it is possible to highlight objects in cartography depending on the relation between the
objects.
1. Select one or several network objects in the viewport, then right click and select Highlight, or
select from the menu bar: Cartography -> Highlight.
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2. Select as appropriate one of the following options:
• All Parent Objects
• All Children Objects
• All Incoming Adjacencies
• All Outgoing Adjacencies
• All Adjacencies
• Interfered -> Co-channel Probability, to highlight all cells that are interfered by the current
selected cell with co-channel probability.*
• Interfered -> Adjacent Channel Probability, to highlight all cells that are interfered by the
current selected cell with adjacent channel probability.*
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2. Select as appropriate one of the following options (continuation):
• Interfering -> Co-channel Probability, to highlight all cells that can interfere with the current
selected cell with co-channel probability
• Interfering -> Adjacent Channel Probability, to highlight all cells that can interfere with the
current selected cell with Adjacent channel probability
* An interference matrix provided by RNP is used in order to analyze potential interference

problems.
• Frequency Reusing Objects, to highlight all cells that are reusing frequency in a specified
radius around the corresponding network object
• Highlight CCA.
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Example of Highlight Interfered with Co-channel Probability
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The highlight color of the network objects can be configured in the user preference.
All the highlighted network objects except for CCA objects can be converted into selection.
You can append to the current selection list or choose to reset all and select on the highlighted
objects.
To convert one (or several) highlighted object(s) into selected one(s), right click on them and
select:
• Convert to Selection -> Append to Selection, to add the selected object(s) to the selected
list
• Convert to Selection -> Replace Selection, to make the previously selected object(s) lose the
selection and the new object(s) to be selected.
To unhighlight objects, right click on them and select: UnHighlight All.
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Filter Network Objects in a Layer
For the network objects, the layer manager tree contains two checkboxes:
• S, which stands for Select
• V, which stands for Visible.
The network objects that are the children of the selected node in the tree are also selected or
shown in the viewport.
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NH Hopping Mode Not Visible

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NH Hopping Mode Visible
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Thematic Layer Template (THL)
Presentation
• The thematic layer is the equivalent of an executed view in cartography.
• It alows to display graphically the values of logical/design parameters, QoS indicators,

diagnosis, rules, geographic and customer data.
• This visual analysis can help you determine the best configuration and optimization
characteristics to apply to the group.
• NPO offers a default Thematic Layer when installed, but customer can create, modify and
delete his own thematic layers using the Thematic Temlate Editor
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Thematic Layer Template (THL)
Presentation
Thematic layers are available only when you are working with one of four types of network
objects listed below:
• Cells
• Adjacencies
• BTS
• BSC
Thematics contain sorted objects given criteria with a specific rendering.

Example: a selection of cells whose colour depends on the call drop.
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Display THL Properties (1/6)
Select a THL template from the function tree, right click and select Display THL Properties.
The THL Properties page is opened in a HTML Browser.
The following properties pages can be displayed:

´
• Generic Thematic Layer Template definition
• Attributes of rendering mode
• Graphical properties of a THL
• Attributes of interval distribution (steps and colors)
• Graphical properties of adjacency.
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Propagate THL to Function Tree
Select one or more THL Templates from a function tree, then drag and drop them to another
target function of the same mode.
A THL can be propagated to:
• Indicators - to retrieve all indicators referenced in the selected Thematic Layer Templates
• Design and Logical Parameters - to retrieve all the parameters referenced in the selected
Thematic Layer Templates
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Thematics Template Editor
To open the THL Editor, in the Alcatel-Lucent Analysis Desktop window:
1. Click on the icon
2. Select Data -> THL... from the menu bar
3. Press Ctrl+K.
Then, the Thematic Template Editor opens.
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Create THL Template
To create a THL template:
In the "Thematic Template Editor" window, click on create button ( )
On the right panel, the system shows:

• Available indicators sorted by structure type and then by family, both visible and
non-visible can be selected
• Available design/logical parameters sorted by family/sub-family
• Available rules.
On the left panel, the existing THL templates are displayed.
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Create THL Template
Fill in the appropiate fields, as described in the next table.
Field Name Description
Name Name of the thematic template.
Access Rights Access rights for Public or Private
Title Title of the thematic template, displayed in the layer manager of the cartography
Visible A flag that indicates if the THL template is visible in the function browser.
System A THL Template can be System or Customer.
Type The type of the thematic template. The supported values are Standard and Specific
(Default:Standard)
Description Text box to be filled in with operator description for the current thematic template.
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Field Name Description
Families Each row in the table is a family.

The first column is always the family name and each sub sequent columns are
the sub-families. One family can have maximum of four sub-families.
Template For Object Type of the Thematic Layer
Availability Domain The availability domain for the THL template.
Special rendering •Positioning algorithm - to specify which algorithm is used to calculate the
mode position of the mobile icon or the rectangular box
•Shapes: “Mobile” and “Standard deviation” are available in the graphical
properties, if this mode is selected.
•Show line: This option is enabled only when the “Mobile” or “Standard
deviation” rendering mode is selected.
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Create THL Template
Criteria Definition
A minimum of one criterion and a maximum of two criteria can be defined.

To add a new criterion to the thematic template, click on [ Add Criterion ].
In criteria panel, customer can define the following attributes.
Name Name of the criterion.
Function id Function to be applied while executing the thematic template. Drag and drop a
function (indicator, logical/design parameter, rule) in this field. This field is
greyed if “Density” is selected.
Use Planned In case a design/logical parameter is added in the “Function id” field, you can
choose whether to display its Planned value or not.
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Parameter Name Description
Applied To The target object on which the thematic should be executed.

The supported values are: SELF, PARENT, CHILD, SOURCE, TARGET.
(Default Value: SELF)
Target policy The computation policy to be applied during the execution of the template.
The supported target policy are: MIN, MAX, AVG (Default Value: AVG)
Evaluate Density Indicates whether to use the distance factor or to use the functions for executing
the template.
If the density is on, then the user is not able to specify any function in the function
id field (it is greyed).
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Create THL Template
Thematic Criteria panel
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Create THL Template
Click on to open the Criterion Graphical Properties window.

Graphical Properties can be set in this window.
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Criterion Graphical Properties
In the Label panel, customer can define the following attributes
Parameter Name Name Description
Font Color The Color of the font when displaying labels. This is a RGB value. (Default
Value: Black)
Font Size The size of the font to be displayed in the viewport when a label is displayed.
The values are from 8 to 15. (Default Value: 9)
Font Style The style of the font to be used when drawing the label.
Font Transparency The transparency of the font. The values are from
0 to 1 (Default Value: 0.5)
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Criterion Graphical Properties
In the Graphics panel, customer can define the following attributes
Parameter Name Name Description
Shape The shape to be displayed for the criterion.

The supported shapes are: circle, rectangle, square, triangle, Voronoi, Mobile,
Standard deviation. (Default Value: )
Layer Name When “Voronoi” is selected in the “Shape” field, you have to mention from
which layer file the Voronoi shape is picked.
To select a layer name, click on [ Browse ] and choose a layer from the opened
layer browser.
Shape Background Color The background color of the shape.
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Create THL Template - Criteria Definition
For the Boundary Parameters:
• If “Static” bound determination is selected, you must also enter the values for min & max
interval distribution
• If “Dynamic” bound determination is selected, then min & max values are disabled. In this
case, the values are dynamically calculated at execution time.
The Interval Distribution is used to create automatic step values and colors.
• Select one of the possible values: Linear, Logarithmic, Exponential.
• Select also the “Number of Intervals” if you want to compute steps automatically.
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Execute THL Template
To execute a THL template:
1. Select the appropriate network object(s) from the topology tree and one THL template from
the function tree, then drag and drop them in the cartography viewport.
2. The ’Execution Context’ window appears. Enter the appropriate information, as presented in
Execution Context
3. Click on [ Execute ] to execute the THL template.
The executed thematic layer is computed and all the network objects that were dropped along
with the THL template are added to the viewport.
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Executed THL Template
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Executed THL Template
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Show THL Legend
Select a THL and:

• Right click and select from the pop menu Show Legend..., OR
• Select from the menu bar Cartography -> Show Legend...
The legend of the executed thematic layer contains information about the split and the
rendering properties. It is a graphical representation of the criteria definition in the THL
template.
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Frequency Reuse
• This feature is used to make a graphical analysis regarding the re-use of one of the frequencies
of the selected cell by comparing the other cells inside a geographical area.
• The geographical area is a circle centred on the selected cell. The radius of this circle is
defined by the min and max values of the U_TIMEADVANCE parameter of the cell multiplied by
a scaling factor (from 0.5 to 2.0).
• The frequency reuse analysis is performed on all frequencies of the selected cell except in the
case where RH or NH/RH is used (i.e. only BCCH frequency is checked).
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Frequency Reuse
For every non RH hopping frequency of the studied cell, the same check is performed on all
cells Ncell that satisfy the geographical criterion, i.e. cells inside the circle defined above:
• If Ncell is using RH or NH/RH, only BCCH of Ncell is checked
• If Ncell is using NH or BBH, all frequencies of Ncell are checked.
According to the following legend, Ncell is displayed with the highest colour
code (red > orange > yellow > green):
• Red - Ncell BCCH is a co-channel frequency with at least one frequency of studied cell
• Orange - Ncell TCH is a co-channel frequency with at least one frequency of studied cell
• Yellow = Ncell BCCH is an adjacent channel frequency with at least one frequency of studied
cell
• Green = Ncell TCH is an adjacent channel frequency with at least one frequency of studied
cell.
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Frequency Reuse
• Co-channel frequencies are those with identical ARFCN.

• Adjacent channel frequencies are those for which: ABS(ARFCN1 – ARFCN2)= 1.
1.Select a network object in the viewport, then right click and select Highlight -> Frequency Reusing Objects.
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Frequency Reuse
2.Type the appropriate radius of the circle that forms the geographic area under which you want to have the
frequency reuse.
The distance unit is meters.
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Example of highlight using Frequency Reuse
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Adjacencies - Presentation
• The Cartography Module offers the adjacencies analysis functionality.
• Graphic tools enable you to view existing and forecasted adjacency additions and deletions for
a cell.
The following actions are applicable within the adjacencies analysis tool:
• Propose a choice of geographical discrimination: Circle, CCA buffer, U-Time-Advance for 2G
• Analysis: primitive returning adjacencies list (refer to Diagnosis (Section 20))
• Find all target cells corresponding to the discrimination criteria
• Show some statistics about candidate selection
• Display a specific caption
• Automatically suggest adjacencies to be added or removed
• Allow the user to change the default proposal (by removing or adding any other
adjacencies,…).
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Adjacencies - Presentation
Here is an example how the adjacencies are seen in Cartography.
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Adjacency Representation - Stand-alone Links
Bi-directional Adjacencies Representation Single Adjacency Representation
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Adjacency Representation
Non Co-localized Cells in Full-expanded/Expanded Rendering Mode
Co-localized Cells in Full-expanded Rendering Mode
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Packed Links for Collapsed Source/Target Objects
• Due to the amount of links to display (up to 32 outgoing adjacencies per UMTS cell for
example), when more than one link have the same graphic source and same graphic target, the
links are drawn in a packed mode showing a double link, the direction and the number of
packed links.
The graphic source/target is the rendering mode of an object:

• Full Expanded co-localized objects
• Expanded co localized objects
• Collapsed objects
• Object icon.
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Packed Links for Collapsed Source/Target Objects
Packed Links for Co-localized Cells in Collapsed Rendering Mode
Packed Links for Co-localized Cells in Expanded Rendering Mode
Cartography
Packed Links
• The packed links are used to render also the

adjacencies between sectors or between sites. In
this case, packed links can be bi-directional.
Packed Links Between Sectors and Sites
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Select Adjacencies
You can select an adjacency by clicking on it.
• For a single direction adjacency, click on the line or on the arrow to select it.
• For a bi-directional adjacency, if you click on the arrow of the adjacency, one direction
adjacency (source or target) is selected.
If you select the right line from a cell, the outgoing adjacency is selected.
If you select the left line from a cell, the incoming adjacency is selected.
• For packed links, the all the links in one direction are selected, like bidirectional links.
To select one or more links inside the packed links objects, Open Packed Link Content window
and select one or more links inside the list.
If you select the right line from a site, the outgoing adjacencies are selected.
If you select the left line from a site, the incoming adjacencies are selected.
Cartography
Display Adjacencies
To see the adjacency, select the cell whose adjacencies you want to display, and use one of
the following options:
• Select Cartography -> Display Adjacencies from the menu toolbar
• Right click and select Show Adjacencies -> Incoming/Outgoing/Both
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Display Adjacencies
NPO user can check the adjacencies listed in a window.

To perform this action, select the cell and press List Adjacencies from the right-click menu.
Cartography
Display Adjacency Properties
To check the Adjacency properties customer can use one of the following options:
• Select an adjacency in the cartography viewport.
• Right click and select View Properties… from the popup menu
The Relation Properties window opens with the properties of the selected adjacency.
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Display Adjacency Properties
Parameter Name Description
Relation Type The type of the displayed relation: ADJ
RELATION ID The ID of the displayed relation
EXTERNAL ID The External ID of the displayed relation.
SOURCE TYPE The type of the displayed source relation.
SOURCE EXTERNAL ID The External ID of the displayed source relation.
TARGET TYPE The type of the displayed target relation.
TARGET EXTERNAL ID The External ID of the displayed target relation.
FRIENDLY NAME Friendly name of the relation.
Cartography
Display Packed Content Properties
1. Select an adjacency in the cartography viewport.

2. Right click and select Open Packed Content from the popup menu
The Packed Link Content window opens with the properties of the selected adjacency.
If the packed link contains more than one type of adjacency (combination of planned and
operational), then that adjacency is displayed in a pre-defined color, which is configurable.
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Display Packed Content Properties
Packed Link Contents Window

Cartography
Adjacency Analysis Wizard
The objective of this task is to make a proposal for the creation/deletion of adjacencies based
on the topological distance between the cells. Based on this proposal, a tuning session can then
be applied and exported to the OMC-R.
1. To open the "Adjacency Analysis Wizard" window, select the cell with the packed adjacencies
you want to display, then:
• Select Cartography -> Adjacency Wizard... from the menu toolbar, OR
• Right click and select Adjacency Wizard..., OR
• Click on icon from the Cartography toolbar.
The "Adjacency Analysis Wizard" window opens.
All adjacencies for the selected cell are

displayed in the cartography viewport
with the default adjacency color.
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In this wizard, customer can defined the following attributes.
U_TIMEADVANCE: Operational Operational value of the U_TIMEADVANCE of the selected cell (in unity,
and in parentheses the equivalent values in meters).
The operational value is multiplied by the radius, and is considered as
the radius for the Adjacency wizard calculations.
U_TIMEADVANCE: Planned Planned value of U_TIMEADVANCE of the selected cell (in unity, and in
parentheses the equivalent values in meters).
Circle: Center The circle center is either the site location or the Voronoi barycentre. If
there is no Voronoi map, the choice is the site location (by default the
site is proposed).
Cartography
Circle: Radius The default value of radius associated to the cell class of the selected cell.
The operational value is multiplied by the radius, and is considered as the radius for
the Adjacency wizard calculations.
“Cell Class Radius” - writes the distance associated to the cell class.
An edit area allows to enter the value in meters for the circle radius.
By default, this edit box contains the value in meters associated to the operational
U_TIMEADVANCE value.
This value is then considered as the radius for Adjacency wizard calculations.
HO traffic filter When the “With HO filter” checkbox is activated, the type of traffic density becomes
editable.
If the default traffic density “Low Usage” is checked, you can choose among one of
the two possibilities proposed on the left of this checkbox. The OFF position resets
the filter. HO traffic is grayed for UMTS.
Adjacency Analysis This area summarises the information concerning the last analysis applied, with the
number of adjacencies removed, added, and the total of forecast ones.
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2. Update the appropriate parameters, as explained in the previous tables.
3. Click on [ Update ] to save the new values.
Cartography
After press [Update], new relations and remotions can be displayed.
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Remove proposed relations
Customer can remove proposed candidates by the Analysis Wizard.
To perform this action, user must select the proposed relation (green line) and press in
Remove from the Proposal from the right-click menu.
Then, this adjacency will not be present in the Tuning Session.

Cartography
Add new relations

Customer can add new relations to the list genereted by Analysis Wizard.
To perform this action, customer must select the source/target cell and press in Add to
Addition List from the right-click menu.
Two adjacency types are available: Incoming and Outgoing
Then, this adjacency will be present in the Tuning Session.
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Customer can set the Adjacencies Analysis into a Tuning Session in order to be applied in the
OMC-R.
To perform this action, select a opened Tuning Session and press [Send to tuning] from the
Adjacency Analysis Wizard window
A Relation Tuning window will appear with the new relations to add in the Tuning Session.
Cartography
Customer can set the Adjacencies Analysis into a Tuning Session in order to be applied in the
OMC-R.
To perform this action, select a opened Tuning Session and press [Send to tuning]
A Relation Tuning window will appear with the adjacencies to add/remove in the
Tuning Session.
New relations to add
Relations to remove
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Exercises
1. See all the adjacencies for cell 1/19 in the

viewport.
Check also the list of these adjacencies.
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2. Create an Adjacency tuning from Adjacency

Wizard based on the following information.
Cell: 1/n
Circle center: Site Location
Circle radius (U_TimeAdvance): 8000m
No HO Filter.
HO direction: Bi-directional
Apply the reference values for parameters.
Don’t make any check.
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DAY 5
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Agenda
1. Laser
2. Laser - Exercises
3. Export Interfaces
4. Export Interfaces - Exercises
5. NPO Administration
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Laser
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Laser Agenda
1.1 Introduction
• Network Stability Assessment
• Tool Objectives
• Tool Chain
1.2. Laser Concepts
1.3. NPO-Laser presentation
• New Modules overview (NUART,RIDM,AD)
• NPO improvement Vs Legacy Laser
1.4. NUART
1.5.RIDM
Agenda
1.6. AD
1.7. Examples of Correlation between QOS and RNO
2 Laser - Exercises
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1.1 Introduction
Introduction
Network stability assessment
The BSS stability assessment helps to get an idea of the network health and so to evaluate
the network quality.
Network quality can be assessed through:
y Quality Of Service, measured from the user point of view thanks to A9156 RNO tool.
y System Quality which:
– measures the BSS system capability to run without problems.
– Is represented by telecom resources availability and by BSS equipment stability.
Unavailability and instability are the two main indicators representative of the system
quality
y Represent the lack of functioning of the system. or, more frequently, a non-efficient follow-up of
system operation methods and processes.
Unavailability and instability impacts
y For the end users:

– Incapability to call
– Loss of on-going calls
– Loss of network capacity
y For the operators:
– Loss of revenue
– Loss of supervision
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Introduction
These problems have to be processed in real time to be corrected immediately.

Post processing of these problems allows the operator to remain aware of them and to
investigate more deeply some periodic or important faults detecting alarm that appears
frequently.
This is the best way to highlight the weak points of the network and to focus the operator’s
efforts on real problems.
Introduction
The BSS equipment stability follow-up can lead to:

Better correlation between QoS indicators values and the events (actions/alarms) handled
on the network.
Evaluation of the BSS equipment efficiency.
Better comprehension between events, alarms, operator commands and network availability
indicators.
Gaining a real evaluation of transmission node efficiency and reliability.
Analysis and reporting of detected incidents, and elaboration, with the customer, of plans
improvement.
computing telecom availability for a part of, or the whole network.
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Introduction
Unavailability Definitions
A telecom resource is unavailable when it is completely unable to perform its task: for instance a mobile
subscriber can not make a call to another subscriber.
Such a resource is characterized by the administrative state, which is ‘locked’ or by the operational
state which is ‘disabled’. These states of the resource are retrieved from the state change files, which
are part of the OMC-R data.
Laser distinguishes 2 types of unavailability:
· If the operator decides to set its resource telecom into an unavailable state (whatever the
context, Laser cannot cope with the contextual aspect of each operator’s action), he will do the
operation Lock via the OMC-R then the resource will get the Administrative state to ‘Locked’
for a period, during this period the unavailability status of this resource is considered as
‘planned’.
In this case the origin of the un/availability is an operator command.
· If the resource goes to an unavailable state during a period independently the initiative of the
operator, it is considered as an ‘unplanned’ unavailable status for this period.
Remarks:
The Administrative State for TRX is not defined. Only the Operational State is used
OMC View
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LASER : the solution
Tool Objectives
Monitor & Detect System Quality

Telecom Events definition
degradation (Telecom unavailability – Unavailability
System stability) at cell / BTS / BSC / TC
/ Trans level Statistics on
System A9157 - LASER alarms and
Isolate/highlight the main causes Instability events
of Network unavailability
Correlation
Facilities for Root Cause Analysis of Reports generation
Metrics for Quality Management Alarms
Alarm Synthesis at a network level Interface

InterfacetotoA9156-RNO
A9156-RNO
Automation of the reporting

Optimise the maintenance process
When introducing a new
To measure specific software release
Regularly for network indicators defined in an or a new hardware
quality monitoring acceptance protocol generation
Tool Chain
From Legacy to NPO
Network Performance Optimizer (NPO)

y Merge of NPA/RNO/LASER (previous tools)
y Unique expert tool on the market
y Based on Oracle (was on Metrica with B9 NPA)
y Report network QoS, diagnose and solve QoS problems
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1.2 Laser Concepts
Laser scope
LASER stands for Lucid network Availability, Stability and Events Reporting.
Laser main scope is monitoring of the system stability and availability, gathered under the
generic terminology of ‘system quality’. System is BSS part of a GSM network managed by
one or several OMC-R in charge of supervision of voice and data telecom traffic (GSM and
GPRS) on an operational region.
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Main processing overview
OMCR
Topology
Alarms,
States
BSC
BTSs
Operator commands
LASER
ANALYSING
32%
42%
REPORTING
12%
14%
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Input of main processing:

From each OMC-R:
9BSS and MFS alarms included BSS events, in X733 format.
OMC operator commands.
9Resource current state and state changes (TRX, cell, BSC, GPRS cell, MFS, N7).
9BSS and MFS topology (configuration).
Stored in LASER database, customizable by user and applied for all OMC-R:
9List of alarms and OMC operator commands enabled to produce telecom unavailability.
9Rules to detect events.
9Definition of busy/non busy hours.
Output of main processing:
9BSS/MFS topology (configuration).
9Historic of alarms, OMC operator commands, events, basic unavailability.
9Resource unavailability indicators.
9Export to NPA, no more in NPO as all are linked to one database
Main processing:
After uploading of data files from each OMC-R, LASER parses these data and stores remaining
ones. It generates new events from imported alarms according to detection rules and detects
basic TRX / cell / BSC / GPRS cell / MFS / N7 unavailability from resource state changes.
Generated events and basic unavailability are stored in database.
From basic unavailability, LASER computes unavailability indicators for all network, each OMC-R,
each BSS, each BTS and each cell.
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1.3 NPO-Laser
New Modules overview (NUART,RIDM,AD)

Laser in NPO
NPO has 3 Modules for monitoring the network

1.NUART.
2.RIDM.
3.AD
Laser is divided in these modules; each module provide us with part of Laser reports.
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NPO improvement Vs Legacy Laser
LASER features in NPO
LASER features integrated in B9and B10 MR2 NPO

y Network Availability reporting
y Alarm statistics
y Remote inventory database
Main enhanced functionalities

y Indicators and reports with other data sources than pure PM data
– Correlation of QoS problems with Network Element availability
– Mix QoS indicators with supervision information like alarms and logs
y Flexible reports generation thanks to NPO reporting facilities

y Network filtering based on working zone (replace subnetwork LASER concept)
LASER desktop
Reports
Functions
Topology
browser
This is Legacy Laser Desktop.
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Integration into NPO (1)
Snapshots
NP
Implemented by HTML views O-
L as
Integrated in NPO by a menu NUART er
Reports and Top N

Fully integrated as new
views and reports available
in NPO
Legacy Laser

Integration into NPO (2)
Remote inventory and CAL management

Implemented through HTML views
Integrated in NPO from the iconbox
Management
Fully integrated as part of the NPO administration
Legacy Laser
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Reports
Operational report
Management report
Alarm synthesis report
Evolution report
Alarm evolution report
Daily summary transmission report
Global transmission report
Transmission troubleshooting
Topology
Total duration per alarm
Legacy Laser
Basic Unavailability indicators
NPO-Laser
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LASER indicators (existing in B9 RNO)
NPO-Laser
1.4
Network Unavailability and
Alarm Reporting
Tool-NUART
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NUART
NUART include:
Basic unavailability snapshot
Alarm snapshot
Operator command snapshot

Basic unavailability snapshots
Basic unavailability snapshot

y Raw unavailability
y Produce a list of Mos and unavailability period
– Filtered by
– Start/stop time
– Sorting order
– Hours type (all/busy/non-busy)
– Unavailability type and origin
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LASER features
LASER desktop – basic unavailability snapshot

Basic unavailability
Dedicated view for basic unavailability display
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Basic Unavailability
Display suspected origin of Basic Unavailability
LASER features
Alarm snapshot
Alarms snapshot
y Generate a list of alarms according to a filter (raw data output)
– Choice of start and stop time
– Choice of the selected sorting order
– Filters alarms according to the hours type (all/busy/non-busy), MO according to
friendly name, alarm filter (event type, probable cause, specific problem or
severity)
Direct access to alarm description in HTML from reports

y To ease analysis of a fault
y Access to alarm definition/description
y Propose corrective actions
Not yet implemented
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Alarms and logs
Alarms and logs display

Alarms and logs
Filtering for Alarms and logs display
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Alarms and logs
Sorting Alarms and logs
1.5 Analysis Desktop-AD
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Analysis Desktop-AD
In AD, All Laser reports are provided.

¾Management report
¾Evolution Report
¾Operational Report
¾Alarm Synthesis Report
¾Top N Report
¾Transmission Report
Laser in AD
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Laser in AD

Management report
Management Report
y Provides global view of the BSS or MFS availability
y Displays:
– total unavailability per resource type
– Percentage unavailability per resource type
– Total number of alarms per TRE and per day
– Total number of alarms per day
– Cut-off on Air interface per TRE and per day
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Management alarm report
Management Alarm Report

y Provides global view of the BSS or MFS Stability
y Displays:
– Total number of alarms per TRE and per day
– Total number of alarms per day
– Cut-off on Air interface per TRE and per day

Global network report (operational report)
Global network report (« operational report »)
y Alarm split per severity
y Alarm split per event type: communication, QoS, equipment, …
y Details for BSC alarms
– split per event type,
– For each event type, split per probable cause
y Same for BTS, TC, MFS
y Top n occurences of alarms of same specific problem / MO
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Evolution reports
Evolution reports
y Evolution of availability indicators and stability per NE type
y Average number of alamrs per TRX
y Average cut-offs on Air and A interface per TRX

Alarm Evolution reports
Alarm evolution reports

y Provides an evolution graphic with the number of specific alarms filtered per cause,
friendly name, severity, specific problem or event type.
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Transmission reports
Not yet implemented
Daily summary transmission report

y Most frequent issues observed in a BSS network are transmission failures
Only for one day
Using a specific filter
Nb of Alarms
Unavailability in seconds

Global transmission evolution Reports Creation

Transmission failures can be analysed for a period:
Several days
and top N Value
Nb of Alarms
Unavailability in seconds
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Transmission troubleshouting Reports Creation

Some transmission failures can be analysed by A, Abis or Ater interfaces .
Several days
Chose your interface
You can use also a specific filter

Top N reports
Top N Alarms reports

y Provides number or duration of alarms for one or more Mos per category (equipment,
communication, QoS, environment, processing)
Top N Operator commands
Top N Basic Unavailability report

y Provides decreasing bar chart per number of occurrences or per duration for the worst
alarm causes
Top N Unavailability report
y Provides decreasing bar chart of a specfic resource (BSC, Cell, TRX…) for a specified level
(network, OMC, …)
Top N cell Unavailability report
y Provides decreasing bar chart showing worst cells for availability
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Top N reports
1.6 Remote Inventory Data Management

RIDM
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Hardware inventory
Hardware inventory

Hardware inventory
Display end of warranty
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Hardware inventory
Search for boards by criteria

Hardware inventory
Statistics/Summary of board types
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Hardware inventory
History of adding/removals boards items

Hardware inventory
Display of the Customer Acceptance List (CAL):

The Customer Acceptance List (CAL) is the list of items (boards or any hardware referenced by
part numbers) that are supported by a given release. It is quite important to be able to determine
the items present on the network that would not accept a new release in order to determine
possible impacts for a deployment of a new release.
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Hardware inventory
Display boards not in CAL
1.7
Examples of Correlation
between Laser and RNO
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IOM Disconnection Alarm Study
T-Mobile/ OMC Lepzig 1
Observation Area & Period
This assessment is covering OMC Leipzig 1 located in Motorola swap area which is
having the following resources:
y 1334 TGT09
y 6 TGT18
y 163 TAGHE
y 3 TRAGE
The observation period is covering the period from 1st August to 21 21st August (3
weeks).
Note:
y The number of resources mentioned above are the ones found on 21st August. It should be
noted that the number of TRXs is changing day by day depending on the swap days.
y For best overview of the IOM alarms is to have a stable OMC without changes and perform
the analysis on it.
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IOM Disconnection Alarm Evolution
Number of IOM Disconnect alarms on TWIN TRX during the observation period is 262.
The evolution during the observation period is as below:
Number of IOM disconnect alarm per TWIN during 21 days = 262/ (1334+6) = 0.2
Number of IOM disconnect alarms per TWIN per day = 262/ (1334+6)/21 = 0.0093
Note again that this number can be less than the real as the number of TWIN TRXs is
increasing day by day; so this means that on 1st August we don’t have this total number of
TRXs.
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OMC and the CDR due to BSS.
Better correlation can be obtained from analysis on cell level from next slides.
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Checking hourly data on day 21st on which the alarm occurred twice as shown in slide 5 it can be seen that
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Conclusion
The main observed impact for the IOM disconnection alarm is the increase of Call
Drop due to BSS internal.
The number of call drops depend on the traffic handled by the cell and the time
of occurrence of the alarm whether it’s in busy or non busy hour.
No main degradation is observed on the incoming HO failures.
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BSC Dortmund71I
BSC Availability
BSC availability is 100% before and after the introduction of MX.
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Cell Availability
MX
introduction
Cell availability is affected by TRX availability (refer to next slide).
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TRX Availability
A direct correlation can be

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availability, RTCH available
average, traffic increase and MX
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Excerise#1
Create Working Zone for 1 BSC.

Open this Subnetwork:
What is the unplanned/ planned availability of this
BSC in 4 days?
How many objects are there?
How many N7 and TRX in service?
Excerise#2
Create a working zone

How many alarms occurred on this BSC?
How many alarms occurred on BTSs of this BSC?
Is there any cell with VSWR alarm?
Are there FU restart? Which cell?
Are there Transmission Alarms?
• Which TSC trunk alarms?
• How many number
Can you give a Corrective Action for a specific alarm?
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Excerise#3
Create a working Zone

Is there a Cut Off in the Air/A interface?
What are the Stability alarms appeared on this working
zone?
Excerise#4
In the Remote Inventory function:

Check the board Statistics and History
Check the date of warranty of the Boards
Check the CAL
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Excerise#5
For 10 days; per Occurrences;

Alarm Top = Specific Problem
How many Alarms?
How many second?
Is it possible to see all cells name in the TopN
report for CELL_Loss_Of_All_Chan Problem?
Select the worst cell and execute an Evolution
Report for this cell
for 10 days.
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Export Interfaces
EQL (Extensible Query Layer)

• Public Web interface through which data can be retrieved
(XML/HTML API)
• External applications are able to retrieve data through HTTP requests
(Web-browsers (IE, Firefox,…); Web-enabled applications (Excel))
NPO client installation not

needed (data is accessible
through the Web)
Export Interfaces
EQL Interfaces
• Security:
Services available over HTTPS
Basic Authentication: Username and Password
Certificates to encrypt data during transmission
• GMT Time:
Only GMT time supported
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MUSE Data Query on Indicators
• Retrieving:
QoS indicators
• Restrictions:
Only Hourly, Daily, Weekly and Monthly data available
Objects number limited (200)
Indicators and radio telecom parameters limited (50)
QoS query result size must be less than 2 Mega byte
Vector and Matrix indicators supported in M2 only for CSV and XML format
• Output Formats:
HTML, XML, CSV, SCSV, Excel(XLS & IQY)
Export Interfaces
Executing MUSE Data Query on Indicators
• Arguments to provide:
Object type
List of external identifiers
Periodicity
Date Interval
QoS indicator short or long name or Radio Telecom parameters name list
Interpolation method (optional and only for Q0S indicators)
Output format (HTML, XML, CSV, SCSV, Excel (XLS & IQY))
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Executing MUSE Data Query on Indicators

• URL generic format:
https://<server_name>:<server_port>/maat/report?otype=<type>&
eids=<extid0,extid0,...>&periodicity=<period>&firstdate=<date>
[&seconddate=<date>]& datalist=<data0,data1,...>[&interpolation=<method>]&
format=<output_format>
<server_name> host name with Tomcat running

<server_port> TCP port (8443)
<type> Network object type
<extid0, extid0,...> list of network external objects identifiers
<period> {h|d|w|m} for Hourly, Daily, Weekly and Monthly
<date> date in format “YYYY.MM.DD HH24.MI
<data0, data1,...> QoS indicators short or long name or Radio Telecom parameters name
list (prefixed by PARAM_)
<method> Interpolation Method (DEFAULT, NONE or LINEAR)
<output_format> html | xml | csv | scsv | xls | iqy | pdf
Export Interfaces
MUSE Data Query on Indicators - Examples

• Multiple Network Object and single indicator:
https://nposerverpt2:8443/maat/report/?otype=CELL2G&eids=999/F77/4450/44505,99
9/F77/4450/44506,999/F77/4450/44507,999/F77/4450/44508,999/F77/4450/44509
&periodicity=d&firstdate=2007.11.28 0.00&seconddate=2007.11.30
00.00&datalist=GSDAVAN&format=html
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•Single Network Object and multiple indicators:
https://nposerverpt2:8443/maat/report/?otype=CELL2G&eids=999/F77/4450/44505&per
iodicity=d&firstdate=2007.11.28%2000.00&seconddate=2007.11.30%2000.00&datalist=GS
DAVAN,GQSCDR,GQSCDRR,GHOIRCAR,GHOIRCGR&format=html
Export Interfaces

• CSV, SCSV, XLS,IQY and PDF output formats:
https://nposerverpt2:8443/maat/report/?otype=CELL2G&eids=999/F77/4450/44505& ....
&format=CSV|SCSV|XLS|IQY|PDF
Open URL query in the Web

Browser and save the file
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MUSE Data Query Reports
Customer can also get QoS reports through EQL.
• Restrictions:
Warning reports not supported
• Output Formats:
HTML, XML, CSV, SCSV, Excel or PDF
Export Interfaces
MUSE Data Query Reports
Report Template Name
Object type
Periodicity
Date Interval
Schedule date (optional)
Output format (HTML, XML, CSV, SCSV, Excel or PDF)
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Executing a Report
https://<server_name>:<server_port>/maat/report?reporttemplatename=<rName>&
otype=<type>, eids=<extid0,extid0,...>&periodicity=<period>&firstdate=<date>
[&seconddate=<date>&format=<output_format>
[&scheduledate=<schedule_date>&reportname=<name>]

<rName> Report template name
<output_format> html | xml | csv | scsv | xls | iqy | pdf
<schedule_date> date in format YYY.MM.DD (used as sufix in
filename)
<name> output filename prefix
Export Interfaces
Executing a Report example (1/9)

https://nposerverpt2:8443/maat/report/?reporttemplatename=Alc_Mono_Call&otype=CEL
L2G&eids=999/F77/4450/44505,999/F77/4450/44506&periodicity=d&firstdate=2007.11.28
00.00&seconddate=2007.11.30 00.00&format=html
In the next slides, it is presented all the

views retrived by web browser for this
report: All_Mono_Call
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Executing a Report example

• CSV, SCSV, XLS and PDF output formats:
https://nposerverpt2:8443/maat/report/?reporttemplatename=Alc_Mono_Call&...&forma
t=CSV|SCSV|XLS|IQY|PDF

Export Interfaces

• Scheduling a Report
%2000.00&seconddate=2007.11.30%2000.00&format=pdf&scheduledate=2007.12.05&report
name=seminar_test_AlcMonoCall
Open URL query in the Web Browser and

wait for Success Message
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Export Interfaces

• Get scheduled Reports:
https://nposerverpt2:8443/maat/report/scheduled_reports
Note: The output repository is different from the repository used by AD
Export Interfaces
Parameter Export
• Retrieving:
Query some or all parameters of a given network object type
• Output Formats:
XML, CSV, SCSV
Object type
Parameters list
Output format
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Parameter Export

https://<server_name>:<server_port>/maat/report/export?otype=<type>&
datalist={<data0, data1,…>|ALL&technology=<techno>}&format=<format>
<data> name of a radio telecom parameter prefixed by PARAM_
<techno> optional parameter used when ALL parameters are requested
(UMTS|GSM|WIMAX)
<output_format> xml | csv | scsv
Don’t forget to put PARAM_ before the parameter refname:

Ex: For EN_EGPRS customer should use PARAM_EN_EGPRS
Export Interfaces
Parameter Export
• Example:
https://nposerverpt2:8443/maat/report/export?otype=CELL2G&datalist=PARAM_EN_GPRS,P
ARAM_MAX_EGPRS_MCS,PARAM_EN_EGPRS,PARAM_MAX_GPRS_CS,PARAM_TBF_UL_INIT_MCS,
PARAM_N_EXTRA_ABIS_TS_MAIN,PARAM_N_EXTRA_ABIS_TS_SECONDARY&technology=GSM&fo
rmat=scsv

Open saved
file
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Dynamic Excel Web Query

• Retrieving:
Excel Web Query file (IQY file)
• Restrictions:
Indicators and radio telecom parameters limited (50)
QoS query result size must be less than 2 Mega byte
Warning reports not supported
Vector and Matrix indicators are not supported in M2
• Output Format:
HTML
Export Interfaces
Object type
Date interval
QoS indicator short or long name or Radio Telecom parameters name list
Interpolation method (optional)
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https://<server_name>:<server_port>/maat/report/dynamicquery?otype=<type>,
eids=<extid0,extid0,...>&periodicity=<period>&firstdate=<date>
[&seconddate=<date>]&datalist=<data0, data1,…>[&interpolation=<method>]

<data> name of a radio telecom parameter prefixed by PARAM_
<method> Interpolation Method (DEFAULT, NONE or LINEAR)
Export Interfaces

• Example (1/3):
https://nposerverpt2:8443/maat/report/dynamicquery?otype=CELL2G&
eids=999/F77/4450/44505&periodicity=d&firstdate=D-7&seconddate=D-5&
datalist=GSDAVAN,GQSCDR,GQSCDRR,GHOIRCAR,GHOIRCGR

Browser and save IQY file
Open IQY file in a

text editor
IQY file content
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• Example (2/3):
Open
Query
Open IQY file in Excel
This window will appear inside Excel
Proceed with
certificate
Login in
the server
Export Interfaces

• Example (3/3):
Final Result
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• Remarks:
IQY file can be edited to ask user for the input parameters
Edit from ...&param_name=param_value&... to ...&param_name=[“Caption”]&...
Open IQY file with a

text editor
Edit parameter value to a caption (for example to the user be asked for the netwok object
type). Replace CELL2G by [“Network Object Type:”]
Export Interfaces

• Remarks:
Save and reopen file in Excel. The user will be asked to enter the Network Object Type.
Then, type the network Object Type that you want to see and press [OK].
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• Remarks:
Dynamic date representation (relative to current period)
Periocicity Valid Date Expression
h firstdate=H&secondary=H-x
d firstdate=D&secondary=D-x
w firstdate=W&secondary=W-x
m firstdate=M&secondary=M-x
Example (daily values from last 10 days):

Periodicity: d (daily)
1st date: D-10 periodicity=d&firstdate=D-10&seconddate=D
2nd date: D (current day)
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Excerises
1. Using EQL, obtain the operational value of

EN_DTM parameter for all the 2G cells. Use
scsv format.
2. Using EQL, retrieve Call_drop_rate and

Call_Success_Rate for cell 4455/44645 for
the last 11 days since yesterday. Use HTML
format.
3. Based on the previous exercise, retrive the

same data for s306 BSC using the Dynamic
Excel Web Query.
User should be able to insert the network
object type and the external id of the
network object.
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NPO Administration
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NPO Administration
Presentation
NPO provides to customer a web interface to manage the NPO Server and all the related data
used in Analysis Desktop.
Using this web interface, Administrator can perform the following tasks:
• User Management
• Process Monitoring Administration Facilities
• Backup / Restore
• Data Configuration
NPO Data Management
• Data Administration
• Dictionaries Management NPO Import / Export Management
NPO Administration
Administration Facilities
To open the Administration Facilities use the following path from the iconbox:
MUSE Applications -> Platform and Administration -> Platform and Administration
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NPO Administration
This is the initial page before access to Administration Facilities.
• Only Administrators can access to Administration Facilities

• User Facilities are used by Regular Users
• Login is required on both cases
NPO Administration
• Main Page
User Management
To manage NPO Users
Process Monitoring
View NPO server status
Backup/Restore
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NPO Administration
These are the available tasks on User Management:
Add User
List of Users
Reset User Password
Change User Characteristics
Lock/Unlock User Account
Delete User
Configure Global Parameters
User Management Page
NPO Administration
In Process Monitoring page, Administrator can perform these tasks:
Check NPO server status

Start and Stop services
Process Monitoring Page
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NPO Administration
In Backup/Restore page, Administrator can perform these tasks:
Backup / Restore
Configure Legato Server
Backup and Restore Page
NPO Administration
Regular users can see the process monitoring of the NPO Server (User Facilities)
Initial page of User Facilities
• Regular Users do not have access to User Management and Backup / Restore tasks.
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NPO Administration
Checking the NPO server status in Process Monitoring is the only task allowed for regular users
NPO Administration
Clicking on npo server host name in Processes tab, customer can check the status of some
process runing.
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NPO Administration
Customer can check the resources status in Resources tab.
NPO Administration
Customer has access to the log history in Log Browsing tab.
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NPO Administration
NPO Data Management
To open the NPO Data Management web page use the following path from the iconbox:
MUSE Applications -> Optimization -> Data Management
NPO Administration
NPO Data Management
Login Page
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NPO Administration
NPO Data Management
PRINT SCREEN START NPO ADMIN
Initial Page
NPO Administration
NPO Data Management
These are the 2 Administration Menus available in this interface.
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NPO Administration
Configuration Menu
In System Scheduling, Administrator can check
• List system scheduled tasks

• Enable/disable scheduled tasks
NPO Administration
Configuration Menu
System Scheduling
Scheduled
Tasks
Consolidation Consolidation (spatial and temporal aggregation), LAC/CI processing (2G only) and
Purge
Job Computation Scheduled reports execution
Import Parameters Automatic load data for parameters
Planned Data Import of planned data
Laser Job Automatic load of Laser data.
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NPO Administration
Configuration Menu
• Modify UA Origin List
Administrator can enable or disable the

reception of alarm logs in this section
NPO Administration
Configuration Menu
Administrator can modify relevant hours.
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NPO Administration
Configuration Menu
• Manage RMS Template
Administrator can manage RMS

templates and its threshold values
NPO Administration
Manage RMS Template Select Template
Select Group
View parameters list
Edit: Edit RMS Thresholds

Export to OMC: Send thresholds to the OMC
End: End RMS managing (back to Home)
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NPO Administration
Edit RMS Template
Select Template
Select Group
Change Name
Select Interpolation Method
Edit current thresholds values
Save Template
Save Template and export to OMC
Cancel editing
NPO Administration
Configuration Menu
• Manage GPRS Thresholds
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NPO Administration
Configuration Menu
• Manage GPRS Thresholds
View current parameters settings
Edit: Edit GPRS Thresholds

Export to OMC: Send thresholds to the OMC
End: End GPRS managing (back to Home)
NPO Administration
Edit GPRS Thresholds
Select threshold
Set/change threshold name
Select Interpolation Method
Edit current thresholds values
Save Template
Save Template and export to OMC
Cancel editing
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NPO Administration
Configuration Menu
• Data Source
Main Taks:
• Declare a new OMC
• Update OMC
• Delete OMC
• Declare a new RNP
NPO Administration
View OMC details (1/4)
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NPO Administration
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NPO Administration
Declare new OMC (1/6)
Set OMC name
Set OMC type which varies with:

Capacity: from small (few cells) to xxlarge
(lot of cells)
Release: B9 or B10
OMC Description (optional)
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NPO Administration
Select Domains to add
Select Domains to remove
NPO Administration
Set hostid
Set OMC hostname
Set the OMC IP address
Set OMC external identifier
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NPO Administration
• Check configuration parameters of defined domains
NPO Administration

• Check configuration parameters of defined domains
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NPO Administration
Advanced button allows Administrator

to change default settings
Parameters allowed to be changed in

advanced mode
NPO Administration
New OMC created and is listed in Data Source main page
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NPO Administration
Update OMC
Update steps are the same as declaring a new OMC, but with an existing OMC
NPO Administration
Delete (undeclare) OMC
To delete na OMC, Administrator has to select the appropriate OMC and press [Delete].
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NPO Administration
Delete (undeclare) OMC (2/2)
• Confirm the deletion
• Wait for the successful OMC undeclaration message
NPO Administration
Administration Menu
• Mark Inactive Network Objects
Administrator can mark

inactive objects in NPO
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NPO Administration
Mark Inactive Network Objects (1/3)
This is an example to mark

objects as inactives
Object to
mark as
inactive
Step 1
Select object to mark as inactive
Step 2
Press [Mark Inactive]
NPO Administration
Step 3
Wait for the end of the process
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NPO Administration
Step 4
Check the Result and
press [End] to go in Home
page
Object is now marked as inactive
NPO Administration
Administration Menu
• Consolidation UA On Demand
• Consolidation UA on Demand is useful when automatic

consolidations for some reason are not executed.
• Failled consolidations are listed on this page and can be executed

manually from here.
• The example shows that the last 6 consolidations were successfuly

executed.
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NPO Administration
Administration Menu
• Consolidation Follow Up
• Page where consolidation tasks status can be checked

• Manual consolidation allowed
NPO Administration
Administration Menu
• Consolidation Follow Up
Consolidation
To do a Manual date Status: Type:
Consolidation: Failed Consolidate
Types:
OK On Going Recover
1.Select available days Type:
Not
Performed YES
2. Press [Consolidation] Failed NO
On Going
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NPO Administration
Administration Menu
• View Licenses
This Page lists all the

installed licenses
NPO Administration
Administration Menu
• Import Follow-Up
Page that list the last 6 days and current day of import follow-up
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NPO Administration
Import Follow-Up
Data files related with PM files
(counters)
• Domain Type:
Laser files
Network parameters
RNP Data
NPO Administration
Import Follow-Up Per Root Loading Object:

Load files per source network
• Display Type: object (OMC, BSC, MFS)
Per Data Source:

Load files per OMC
• Data Source:
Data source:
Select OMC data source
(only available if “Per Data Source” is
selected in Display Type)
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NPO Administration
Import Follow-Up
• Examples (a1/2):
Color legend
MFS object Counters

automatically from MFS
selected
NPO Administration
Import Follow-Up
• Examples (a2/2):
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NPO Administration
Import Follow-Up
• Examples (b1/2):
NPO Administration
Import Follow-Up
• Examples (b2/2):
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NPO Administration
Import Follow-Up
• Examples (c1/1):
NPO Administration
Import Follow-Up
• Examples (d1/2):
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NPO Administration
Import Follow-Up
• Examples (d2/2):
NPO Administration
Administration Menu
• Managed Scheduled Jobs
Administrator can perform these two tasks:

• Check scheduled Reports and Diagnosis
• Delete Jobs
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NPO Administration
Scheduling a Report
Ex: All_Mono_Call report Step 1 – Select na object and Alc_Mono_Call report

Step 2 – Drag and Drop report in Report Browser
NPO Administration
Scheduling a Report
Step 3
Execution Context dialog is shown.
Select “To Be Scheduled” option
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NPO Administration
Scheduling a Report
Step 4
In Date Tab:
Choose Completion Date
NPO Administration
Scheduling a Report
Step 5
In General Tab:
Set a Job Title

Select the Output Format
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NPO Administration
Scheduling a Report
Step 6
In General Tab:
Set a repetition time (Day)
Set a frequency (1= Everyday)
Set the end date
Execute Report
NPO Administration
Scheduling a Report
Step 7
Check in NPO Administration the scheduled report (Managed Schedule Jobs page)
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NPO Administration
Administration Menu
• Managed Jobs Results
• This page allows to check executed jobs (reports or diagnosis)

• Actions allowed: Download or Delete
NPO Administration
Administration Menu
Tasks performed in this page:

• Check Result Status
• Dowload Scheduled Reports
• Delete Scheduled Reports
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NPO Administration
Administration Menu
From Analysis Desktop
Reports which have the output format

as Analysis Desktop, would be set as
EXECUTED, but it will be pending in AD.
A message will be shown when starting
AD
NPO Administration
Administration Menu
• Metadata Inventory
This page presents all dictionaries loaded in NPO
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NPO Administration
NPO Import/Export Management
To open the NPO Import/Export Management web page use the following path from the
iconbox:
MUSE Applications -> Optimization -> Import/Export Management
NPO Administration
Login Page
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NPO Administration
Initial Page
NPO Administration
NPO Import/Export Management Menus
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NPO Administration
Import QoS Dictionaries
Browse for a dictionary

to import
List selected
dictionaries to import
NPO Administration
Export QoS Dictionaries
Select a dictionary to
export
Dictionary will be saved in a XML file
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NPO Administration
Delete QoS Dictionaries
Select one or more

dictionaries to delete
NPO Administration
Import Reports Dictionary
Browse for a Report

dictionary to import
List selected
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NPO Administration
Export Reports Dictionaries
Select a Report
dictionary to export
Dictionary will be saved in a XML file
NPO Administration
Delete Report Dictionaries
Select one or more

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NPO Administration
Import Parameters
Browse for a
Parameters dictionary
to import
List selected
NPO Administration
Import Parameter Rules
Browse for a Parameter

Rules dictionary to
import
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NPO Administration
Export Parameter Rules
Select a Parameter Rules

NPO Administration
Delete Parameter Rules
Select one or more

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NPO Administration
Import Parameter Reference Values
Browse for a Parameter

Reference Values
NPO Administration
Export Parameter Reference Values
Select a Parameter Reference Values

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NPO Administration
Delete Parameter Reference Values
Select one or more dictionaries to

delete
NPO Administration
Import THL Template
Browse for a THL

Template dictionary to
import
List selected
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NPO Administration
Export THL Template
Select dictionary to export
NPO Administration
Import Diagnosis
Browse for a Diagnosis

List selected
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NPO Administration
Export Diagnosis
Select dictionary to export
NPO Administration
Delete Diagnosis
Select dictionary to delete
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NPO Administration
Import Customer Object Types
Browse for a Customer Object Types dictionary to import
NPO Administration
Delete Customer Object Types
Cutomer needs to import Object Types before delete them.
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NPO Administration
Import Laser Dictionary
Browse for a Laser dictionary to import
NPO Administration
Import Planned Data (1/2)
Choose the format type

of planned data
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NPO Administration
Import Planned Data (2/2)
Browse for the Planned Data file

to import
List selected files to import
NPO Administration
Delete Planned Data
If Administrator press [OK], all the planned data will be deleted.
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NPO Administration
Import Parameter Values
NPO Administration
Import GPRS Distribution Threshold
Browse for the GPRS

Distribution
Threshold file to
import
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NPO Administration
Export GPRS Distribution Threshold
Select file to export
NPO Administration
Import RMS Template
Browse for the RMS

Template file to import
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NPO Administration
Export RMS Template
Select file to export
NPO Administration
Import Raster File
Set layer name
Browse for the Raster

file to import
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NPO Administration
Import Vector File
Set layer name
Select layer
type
Select
technology
Browse for the Raster

file to import
NPO Administration
Delete Cartography File
Select Layers
to delete
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NPO Administration
Import Customer Topology Objects
Browse for Customer Topology

Objects file to import
NPO Administration
Import Free Fields
Browse for Free Fields

file to import
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NPO Administration
Import Laser Files On-demand
This is the initial page to import Laser data
NPO Administration
5 types of Laser files are available to import:

• Topology
• Basic Unavailability
• Alarms
• Logs
• Hardware Inventory
Administrator can select the files from this 5 types in order to be imported.
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NPO Administration
Topology files
If this box is selected, all the files will be selected as well.
NPO Administration
Basic Unavailability files
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NPO Administration
Alarm files
NPO Administration
Log files
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NPO Administration
Hardware Inventory files
NPO Administration
Administrator must select the pretended files to import and finally should press [Next >>]
An overview is presented
in the step 3.
Press [Next >>] to
continue.
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NPO Administration
The import will be processed…
Finally, the result will appear describing the import satus
NPO Administration
Import Customer Acceptance List
Browse for the Planned

Data file to import
Browse for the Planned

Data file to import
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NPO Administration
Delete Customer Acceptance List
NPO References
NPO User Guide

3BK 21216 AAAA PCZZA
NPO Administration Guide

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2. Differences between NPA/RNO and NPO

3. Getting Started with Analysis Desktop

4. Organization and concepts

6. Propagate Network Objects

7. Topology Object Properties

NPO (Network Performance Optimizer) offers a full range of multi-standard QoS

NPO includes the multi-standard version of the previous products deployed in

NPO supports GSM, UMTS and WiMAX Radio Access Networks.

This product includes a powerful Oracle™ database containing performance

Performance measurements ensure:

• Efficient planning of the network

Indicators combining all data sources

Differences between NPA/RNO and NPO

Why a new tool like NPO was necessary?

To provide enhanced functionalities

To reach higher capacity

New design for managing all standards (GSM, UMTS, WiMAX)

Network Performance Optimizer (NPO)

Differences between NPA/RNO and NPO

Flexibility and ability to customize the tool

Generalization/Extension of RNO functions

Differences between NPA/RNO and NPO

Improvement in the QoS analysis process

• Spatial and temporal roll-up / drill-down by a single click

• Granularity period of 15min PM data available

• Indicators of the current day can be displayed

• Views are available

• Mixing parameters, counters and indicators in one single view

• Easiness to create customer indicators based on counters (or other indicators)

All administrative functions accessible through web

Easy and secured back-up

• SQL interface (planned)

Differences between NPA/RNO and NPO

Single tool and database architecture

• All data in one database

• One hardware server instead of 2 or 3

Dimensioning and Hardware configurations

• Same hardware for NPO as for NPA in B9

• Possibility to reach higher capacities: up to 24000 cells

• LASER remains an external product in B10 MR1

A9159 250 cells 10500 cells /

Differences between NPA/RNO and NPO

remote clients remote clients

RNO / LASER NPO HMI

• RNO and LASER main servers can be

Differences between NPA/RNO and NPO

A9159 NPO = Merge of NPA + RNO + LASER

• All functionalities included in one tool with one database

• Providing enhanced functionalities and higher capacity

• Generalizing concepts used in RNO

• Removing limitations of the previous toolchain

Getting Started with Analysis Desktop

Analysis Desktop Functions

• QoS analysis through counters, indicators and reports

Initialize Analysis Desktop

• Starting from M2.3, NPO Client (Analysis Desktop) is installed on client by a

To download the client start up file use the following link:

Getting Started with Analysis Desktop

To launch iconbox just click on webstart.jnlp.

Getting Started with Analysis Desktop

Iconbox – Optimization menu

Iconbox – Security menu