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ISMG Client Operations

Intended audience: Staff with Skill Certificate Level III or Lower
Released by GU Product Support Dept.

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Version Description
Version

Date

R1.0

2011-02-01

Author

Checked by

References
1.

iBSC Alarm Management Guide

2.

iBSC Dynamic Data Management Guide

Revision Record
None

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Course Objectives:
To be familiar with the functions of dynamic data
management and fault management
To be familiar with the basic operations of dynamic
data management and fault management

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Contents
Alarm Management
Dynamic Data Management

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Contents

Alarm Management
Basic Concept
Alarm & Notification Query
Creating & Modifying Alarm Rules
Maintenance Suggestion Setting

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Basic Concept Alarm Management

Alarm management is a function group that OMM manages the
alarms and notifications on the devices it manages, including the
following aspects:

Monitor real-time alarms

Present alarms in a visualized way, e.g. sound, light, or alarm box
Customers can acknowledge/unacknowledge alarms
Clear alarms
Notify the person-in-charge of the alarms by emails or short
messages.
View the details of the alarms and related events
Make a summarization about the alarm troubleshooting methods and
save them

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Basic Concept Alarm Classification

Based on property, alarms can be divided into:

Based on time, alarms can be divided into:

Alarm
Notification

Current alarm
History alarm

Based on alarm object, alarms can be divided into

Current alarm
History alarm
Communications alarm
Environment alarm
Processing alarm
Service quality alarm

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Basic Concept Alarm Level

There are four alarm levels, which are indicated in descending order of
severity as Critical, Major, Minor, and Warning

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Alarm Management Interface

1. Main menu 2. Toolbar 3. Resource View, Management View 4.

Realtime Alarm Monitor 5. Status Bar

Alarm Management Operations

Operations

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Description

Synchronization

To ensure the completeness and consistency of the displayed alarm data, the user can synchronize the alarm data of
a specified NE manually.

Acknowledge

After new alarms are generated in the system, the user needs to acknowledge and handle these alarms.

Unacknowledged

If the acknowledgement method or the acknowledgement information is incorrect, the user can use this this function to
restore the alarm to the unacknowledged status.

Clear

After the current alarms are handled, these alarms can be cleared by executing alarm clean-up on the OMM. The
alarms cleared will be saved as history alarms.

Forward

When checking the current alarms, the user can send important alarms to the assigned person-in-charge by emails
or short messages so as to increase the alarm handling efficiency .

Create rules

By the rule creation function, the user can create new alarm rules based on the alarm data existing in the alarm list.
When creating new rules, the system will initiate the parameters corresponding to the newly created rules with
the properties of the alarms selected.

Details

Check the detailed data of an alarm

Specified alarms
monitoring

The user can put the current alarm into a dialog box for monitoring

Locate alarm

By the alarms displayed on the rack diagram, we can locate the board with faults.

Alarm assign

The user assigns current alarms, which will then be handled by relevant engineers. Thus, problems in the system can
be solved the soonest possible. The assignment can be send to the persons-in-charge by either mobile or email.

Go to Topo Map

Click Fault Management > Topology Management, and choose the icon of the NE on which the alarm occurs.

Export All
Columns

By this operation, we can export all alarm notifications or the specified files in the Alarm View opened. The format of
the files exported may be TXT, EXCEL, PDF, HTML, and CSV.

Print

Print the data in the alarm or notification view being opened by the user.

Details

Check the details of a notification.

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Contents

Alarm Management
Basic Concept
Alarm & Notification Query
Creating & Modifying Alarm Rules
Maintenance Suggestion Setting

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Querying Alarm & Notification

Current alarm query

Current notification query
History alarm query
Alarm device query
Combined alarm query

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Querying Current Alarm

On the Fault Management interface, right-click the NE to be

monitored, and choose Show Current Alarm to display the current
alarms of the NE, as shown in the figure below.

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Querying Current Notification

On the Fault Management interface, right-click the NE to be monitored, and choose Show
Current Notification to display the current notifications of the NE, as shown in the figure
below.

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Querying History Alarm Opening the Query

History Alarm Window

On the Fault Management interface, choose Query > View History

Alarms to display the history alarms related to the NE in list, as shown
in the figure below.

Querying History Alarm Select Query

Conditions

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Click Quick Query, and select the query conditions on the pop-up
window. Then click Ok to start querying history alarm.

Querying Notifications Open the Query

Notification Window

On the Fault Management interface, choose Query > View

Notifications, as shown in the figure below.

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Querying Notifications Select Query

Conditions

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Click Quick Search.

Select query conditions, and click OK to start querying notifications.

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Querying Alarm Device Alarm Rack

The ISMG supports selection of NEs on the resource view. The alarms
of each NE are displayed and queried on the rack diagram.
On the rack diagram, the alarm severity level is displayed by the
indicators flashing in different colors.
Move the cursor to the board with alarms to display the alarm data,
which provides the number of alarms of each severity level and alarm
status of this board.

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Querying Alarm Device Show Alarm Rack

On the Fault Management interface, right-click the NE to be viewed,

and choose Show Alarm rack on the pop-up menu, as shown in the
figure below.

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Querying Alarm Device Show Current Board

Alarm

On the rack diagram of the alarm rack, right-click the board to be queried, and choose Show
Current Board Alarm or Show Current Board Notification to query the current alarms or
notifications of the board.

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Querying Alarms Combined Query

Combined alarm query: The user inputs and saves some query
conditions in advance, and then selects one or more existing
conditions to query alarms.
Steps:
Choose Query > View Current Alarms, as shown in the figure below.

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Querying Alarms Combined Query

On the pop-up Query Current

Alarms window, select query
conditions, and click OK to query
alarms.

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Contents

Alarm Management
Basic Concept
Alarm & Notification Query
Creating & Modifying Alarm Rules
Maintenance Suggestion Setting

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Alarm Rule Management Overview

Most alarm handling operations are based on alarms rules.

Alarm Rules

Specifications

Alarm Persisting
Rule

When the period the alarm lasts reaches the value configured, the system will trigger the
timing alarm, and change the alarm grade or generate new alarms according to the rules
defined.

Alarm Counting
Rule

When the number of alarms reaches the value configured, the system will generate a
new alarm.

Alarm Delaying
Rule

It defines the period within which the alarm will not be reported and displayed if it
disappears automatically. If the alarm still exists within the defined time, it will be
reported and displayed.

Alarm Restraining
Rule

The user needs to define main alarms and the minor alarm. When the main alarms
exist, only the main alarm are displayed on the client, and the minor alarm are restrained
and cannot be seen on the client. Only after the main alarms restored can the minor
alarms be displayed.

Alarm Merging
Rule

All the alarms satisfying the rule are displayed as one alarm on the client.

Alarm Atuto Handle

Rule

After this rule is selected, the alarms satisfying this rule will be kept within the equipment
and will not be reported to the ISMG.

Alarm Compress
Rule

This rule is used to compress similar alarms that appear within a period into one alarm
for reporting.

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Alarm Rules Management Overview

Alarm Rules

Specifications

Alarm User Filtering Fule

This rule determines whether an alarm sent to the client can be displayed on the alarm
list. The rule is effective only to the user who defines this rule, and will not affect the
alarm client logged in to by other users.

Alarm Global Filtering Rule

This rule determines whether an alarm needs to be sent from the server to the client. It is
effective to all users.

Alarm Discarding Rule

If an alarm satisfies this rule, this alarm will be discarded by the alarm module, and the
data will not be stored into the ISMG.

Alarm Forwarding Rule

This rule is used to send the defined alarms to the administrator by short messages or
emails.

Alarm Clearing Rule

The alarms satisfying the rule will be deleted automatically, and saved into the system as
history alarms.

Alarm Acknowledgement
Rule

The existing or restored alarms that are known to the field engineer will be changed to
acknowledged status once they are reported to the ISMG.

Notification Global Filtering

Rule

This rule is used to make some notifications invisible to all users, so as to reduces the
number of notifications that need concern from the users. By this rule, the data will be
stored into the system only for statistics collection and other purpose.

Notification Discarding Rule

The notification satisfying this rule will be discarded by the platform alarm module, and will
not be stored into the ISMG.

Alarm Regrading Rule

This rule is used to redefine the severity level of a specified alarm within a certain period,
and change the severity level of the alarm satisfying the condition to a new level
defined by the rule.

Alarm Rules Management Adding Alarm

Rules

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Steps
On the Fault Management interface, choose Setting > Management
Rule Setting to open the window for setting alarm rules.

Alarm Rules Management Adding Alarm

Rules

Select a rule type and click the Add

icon on the toolbar, and then the system
will display the alarm rule dialog box, as
shown in the figure on the right.

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Alarm Rules Management Adding Alarm

Rules (1)

Finish all the

configuration items
on the pop-up
window, and click
OK to add an
alarm rule.

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Alarm Rules Management Adding Alarm

Rules (2)

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Alarm Rules Management Shortcut Bar

Shortcut bar: provides buttons for frequently-used functions.

Add: add new alarms rules

Edit: edit existing alarm rules
Delete: delete alarm rules
Activate: start executing alarm rules
Stop: stop alarm rules
Refresh: refresh alarm rule list

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Contents

Alarm Management
Basic Concept
Alarm & Notification Query
Creating & Modifying Alarm Rules
Maintenance Suggestion Setting

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Maintenance Suggestion Setting - Overview

Based on long-term network operation, users can sum up the

experience about how to handle common problems, which can be
used to handle similar problems appearing later. The maintenance
suggestion is from this summed-up experience.

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Maintenance Suggestion Setting Open the

Maintenance Suggestion Setting Window

On the Fault Management interface, choose Setting > Maintenance

Suggestion Setting to open the Maintenance Suggestion Setting
window.

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Maintenance Suggestion Setting Shortcut

Bar

The shortcut bar of the Maintenance Suggestion Setting tab provides

the following functions.
Import
Export
Add
Edit
Delete
Refresh
Search

Maintenance Suggestion Setting Adding

Maintenance Suggestions

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On the shortcut bar of the Maintenance Suggestion Setting tab, click

the Add icon to display the Maintenance Suggestion window, as
shown in the figure below. Finish the configuration items, and click OK
to add a maintenance suggestion.

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Review
How to assist commissioning work with Fault Management?
What operations should be performed, if it is hoped that an alarm
will not be displayed on the ISMG?

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Contents
Alarm Management
Dynamic Data Management

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Dynamic Data Management

Functions of Dynamic Data Management

A Interface Management
N7 Signaling Management
MSC Office Management
BTS Dynamic Data Management
Board Related Operations

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Dynamic Data Management Functions

Dynamic data management is used to fulfill the dynamic

management of ground resources and wireless resources,
including the following operations: Query, Block, Unblock, Active,
Inactive, Equip, Reset, Channel Statistics Query, and some GPRS
related operations, such as, BVC Block, BVC Unblock, BVC Reset,
BVC Signaling Reset, and BVC Status Query
Prerequisites for opening the Dynamic Data Management window
The user has logged in to the Client successfully
The client is connected with iBSC normally.

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Dynamic Data Management Notices

Dynamic data management manages the ground resource and the

wireless resource that have dynamic properties. If the resources do
not have dynamic properties, they will not be displayed on the
Dynamic Data Management window.
Dynamic data management modifies the status of the ground
resources and wireless resources that have dynamic property.
Because the operation involves the iBSC, the communications
between the ISMG and iBSC must be stable.
The operations dynamic data management will affect the status of the
ground resources and wireless resources, and thus affect call quality.
Therefore, the risks should be evaluated before the operations.
Because the iBSC environment affects the dynamic data management
operations greatly, any error of the iBSC operation may cause dynamic
data management failure.

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Dynamic Data Management Opening the

Dynamic Data Management Window

Click View > Dynamic Data Management.

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A Interface Management PCM Management

Open the PCM Management tab, and perform Status Query, Block,
Unblock, and Equip to the PCM on the A interface.

A Interface Management Trunk Line

Management

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Open the Trunk line Management tab, and perform the Status Query,
Block, Unblock, and Equip operations to the trunk on the A interface.
The Monitor function aims to feed the changes of the monitored object back to the
user in time. After the monitor command is sent out, the changes of the monitored
object will be reported to the user immediately until the user stops the monitoring.

A Interface Management Circuit

Management

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Open the Circuit Management tab, and reset the circuits on the A
interface.

N7 Signaling Management MTP2

Management

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The operations of Status Query, Active, and Inactive to MTP2 can be fulfilled on the MTP2
Management tab, as shown in the figured below.
Active: Only the active links can be in service status, and thus can bear service messages normally.
Inactive: The inactive links are in out-of-service status, and will not bear any service messages.

N7 Signaling Management MTP3

Management

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The operations of Status Query, Inhibit, Uninhibit, Monitor Start and

Monitor Stop to MTP3 can be fulfilled on the MTP3 Management tab, as
shown in the figured below.
MTP3 Inhibition: The link is in service status at the MTP2 layer but is inhibited
at the MTP3 layer, and will not bear any service messages.
MTP Uninhibition: The reversed operation of MTP3 inhibition.

N7 Signaling Management N7 Linkset

Management

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Query the status of the N7 linkset on the N7 Linkset Management

tab, as shown in the figure below.

N7 Signaling Management N7 Office

Management

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Perform the Status Query, Monitor Start, and Monitor Stop

operations to the N7 office on the N7 Office Management tab, as
shown in the figure below.

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MSC Office Management

Perform the Status Query, Enable, Unload, Disable, Reset, and IP Resource Reset
operations to the MSC office on the MSC Office Management tab.
Disable: Disable MSC manually, and then the load of the messages sent to the MSC will
be reallocated immediately.
Unload: The unloaded MSC cannot receive the access request from the initial MS, but the
signaling allocated to the MSC will still be routed to and processed by the MSC.
Reset: Reset the global BSC logically. The BSC releases services and notifies the MSC.

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BTS Dynamic Data Management: Radio

Resource
Management

Cell
Management

Perform the Status Query, Block, Unblock, DSP of PS Cell Query, and Change Cell
to Designed DSP operations to the cell on the Cell Management tab, as shown in the
figure below.
DSP of PS Cell Query: Query the information of the DSP processing the PS services of
the cell.
Change Cell to Designed DSP: Change the DSP processing the PS services of the
cell.

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BTS Dynamic Data Management: Radio

Resource Management TRX Management

Perform the Status Query, Block, Unblock, and TRX IPRBDSP

Query operations to the TRX on the TRX Management tab, as shown
in the figure below.

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BTS Dynamic Data Management: Radio

Resource Management TS Management

Perform the operations of Status Query, Block, Monitor Start, Monitor

Stop, Force Handover, Connect Status Query by Channel, and Connect
Status Query by IMSI to the TS on the TS Management tab, as shown in
the figure below.

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BTS Dynamic Data Management: Radio

Resource Management Module Management

Stop the flow control and adjust the UPUDSP of the CMP module on
the Module Management tab, as shown in the figure below.

BTS Dynamic Data Management: Radio

Resource Management Cell Channel
Query the channel status of the cell on the Cell Channel
Management
Management tab, as shown in the figure below.

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BTS Dynamic Data Management: Radio

Resource Management TRX Group
Query the TRX group IPRBDSP and change the TRX group to the designed
Management
DSP on the TRX Group Management tab, as shown in the figure below.

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BTS Dynamic Data Management: Radio

Resource Management IPRBDSP
Management
Clear the TRX group on the IPRBDSP Management tab, as shown in the
figure below.

BTS Dynamic Data Management: BTS

Equipment Management

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Choose BTS Equipment Management > Abis TS Management >

Abis TS Usage Management, and query the status of the Abis TS
usage.

BTS Dynamic Data Management: BTS

Equipment Management

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Choose BTS Equipment Management > Abis TS Management > Abis TS

Resource Management, and perform the Status Query, Block, Unblock,
Monitor Start, and Monitor Stop operations to the Abis TS resource.

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Board Related Operations

Perform the Normal Reset, Board Reset, Normal Exchange, Force

Exchange, Query CPU Occupation Rate, System Clock Query, and
Resource Info Query operations to the board, as shown in the figure below.

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Review
How to query whether the A interface status is normal or not?
How to query whether the channel status of the cell is normal or
not?

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