The Network Management Services (NMS)

The Q3ADE 3G Network Management Services (NMS) component offers a range of service functions for building a network management system to monitor and manage large IT infrastructures containing equipment based on many different technologies.

The Q3ADE 3G NMS offers a range of tools to rapidly alert the operational staff of system problems and hence reduce the time to detect and resolve problems in the IT Infrastructure.

System status information are presented to the operator by the graphical map views of the NMS, which provides a comprehensive navigable and yet easy to perceive view on the IT infrastructure.

The availability of equipment and services are monitored 24*7 and alarms are invoked when equipment/services become unavailable. The alarms may be forwarded to any number of internal or external applications or to selected individuals via e-mail or SMS.

The NMS not only act as a monitoring application, but also offers a wide range of ways to impose operational changes on the system, e.g. to restart services or interactively change parameters in the monitored equipment/services.

The Q3ADE 3G NMS reduces the initial deployment phase by means of advanced auto-discovery and auto-detection functions. After deployment, the NMS enables automatic detection of configuration changes in the monitored equipment.

Automatic Autodiscovery of equipment and services

The first step in establishing an overview of your system in the NMS is to configure the network, the  equipment  and the services. The Autodiscover function of NMS assists you in establishing the initial overview by automatically detecting equipment and services available on the network.

Whenever possible, the Autodiscover function will attempt to determine the type of equipment/service and then load any available management components into the Q3ADE 3G  server which may be relevant to the type of equipment and/or services discovered. E.g. if a MS Windows Server is discovered, then it may load the MS Windows specific management components.

Availability Monitoring

A primary service of the NMS is the monitoring of the availability of services by periodically polling the service. When a service becomes unavailable (i.e. not responding to polls), the NMS will issue an alarm, which is logged by the Alarm Management Function and displayed in the Alarm List View. The alarm state is also indicated on the domain map views.

A history log is kept of the changes in availability. Based on this information, the availability during the last 24 hours, the last 7 days, the last 30 days and the last 365 days are calculated. The information is displayed on the Service Availability View. 

Domain Map Views

The NMS maintains a graphical view of the system architecture in the form of "Domain Map Views". These Views display key information about the equipment and their alarm state. The Domain Map Views may also be designed and modified interactively by the operator to reflect specific needs.

GeoLocation and Google Maps Integration

The GeoLocation feature supports registration of the geolocation of equipment, which may be a repeater station, and antenna, a power station or whatever. You may invoke Google Maps to show the actual geographical location of the euqipment on Google Maps. You may even have a route suggested, if you got a GPS attached to your Q3Browser client. Very useful for the technician in the field. The GeoLocation information is also used by the Incident Manager to match the geolocation of the equipment affected by an incident with the location of technicians as to select the technician closest to the equipment .

More Information

Read the NMS presentation folder.

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