Network Management
As more and more organizations automate their business processes, the burden on the IT networks increases. Managing networks and monitoring them to ensure that they have the capability to thrive under current condition is a daunting task for any company. With this in mind, Calsoft Labs offers a rich portfolio of Network Management Services to meet your every need from developing a new NMS/EMS system or upgrading your current one and testing to integrating with OSS. We offer solutions to our customers in the following areas:
NMS Development and Sustenance:
- Element Management systems
- Network Management systems
- TMN Compliant FCAPS Solutions
- Web based Management solutions
- Policy based solutions
- TL1/SNMP/CORBA gateway solutions
- Third-party NM platforms/frameworks
NMS Testing and Automation :
- Verification and validation expertise-FCAPS
- Automation of Test cases in PERL/TCL/TK, Winrunner /SILK for GUI
- Design and development of Regression Platform
- Development of tools for Automation Environment
NMS Frameworks :
- XML-based management framework with netconf support
- TMF 814 A and related frameworks
Network/Element Management Expertise
Calsoft Labs Technology skills in the NMS space is given below:
Tool Kits:
- NMS: HP OpenView -NNM, OpenNMS
- EMS : Adventnet-WebNMS
- SNMP Agent: SNMP Research’s EMANATE Toolkit, Net-SNMP, Adventnet -SNMP Agent Toolkit
- SilverCreek - SNMP Test Suite
- Vmware VCS integration
Management Platforms : HP-Open View, AdventNet WebNMS, Cabletron Spectrum, Client specific frameworks
Languages : C, C++, MFC/VC++, Java, J2EE, EJB, Perl, Epilogue SNMP toolkit, WinSNMP, NDS, JNDI1.1, Java API, NetSNMP
Standards and Protocols : DMTF’s CIM and WBEM, NetConf, SNMP, CMIP, TL1/CLI,LDAP, Corba PCIx based IO virtualization, IETF Policy Based Management Framework
OS : Unix (various flavors), Windows, VxWorks, pSOS
Protocol Gateways : CORBA-CMIP adapter, CORBA-SNMP adapter, TL1-SNMP adapter, TMF-814 framework
OSS Integration Expertise
Calsoft Labs has worked with customers to provide solutions based on MTOSI based Northbound Interfaces. Developed using Java, Apache CXF (Web Services framework) , Apache Tomcat (Servlet Container), RMI (Southbound interface to EMS), Calsoft’s solution have a service oriented architecture and use SOAP based Web service framework to implement TMF’s Multi-Technology Operations System Interface (MTOSI) 1.1 Standard and additional vendor-specific extensions.
FCAPS Expertise
Calsoft Labs’ professionals know that an effective NMS/EMS system must be backed by sound FCAPS functionality and have worked in several areas of FCAPS.
Fault Management:
- Fault Management support on the Agents. Event collection, correlation, filtering
- Fault Integration with Open Network Management Systems. HP- Openview, Adventnet WebNMS
- Integration with trouble ticketing systems
- Alarm display on Application and Web based GUIs
Configuration Management:
- Configuration and provisioning of multiple types of devices
- End-to-End service provisioning
- Equipment and Network Layout diagrams, and Drag and Drop Provisioning
- Integration with other components like Inventory
Accounting Management:
- Billing subsystem module implementation in Agent and Manager
- Integration with 3rd Party Billing Mediation.
- Integration of Billing and CRM modules
Performance Management:
- Definition of Performance parameters for the devices and application Integration
- Retrieval of performance statistics from the Network elements
- Support for threshold crossing alerts
- Performance reporting
Security Management:
- Authentication and Authorization
- User based views
- User based access :
- SSL, Web Security
- LDAP and Netscape Directory server
- JNDI
