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Network Performance Optimizer | M4

Introduction

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Contents

Preface

Purpose ............................................................................................................................................................................................. xixi

Reason for reissue ........................................................................................................................................................................ xixi

Document pertinence ................................................................................................................................................................... xixi

Audience .......................................................................................................................................................................................... xixi

Assumed knowledge .................................................................................................................................................................... xixi

Product names ................................................................................................................................................................................ xixi

How to comment ......................................................................................................................................................................... xiixii

1 Introduction to NPO

Overview ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 1-11-1

Presentation ................................................................................................................................................................................. 1-11-1

NPO functions ............................................................................................................................................................................ 1-31-3

NPO architecture ....................................................................................................................................................................... 1-31-3

NPO configurations ................................................................................................................................................................. 1-41-4

2 Web iconbox (Wibox)

Overview ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 2-12-1

Presentation ................................................................................................................................................................................. 2-12-1

Procedure 2-1: Start Wibox from Internet browser ...................................................................................................... 2-42-4

Procedure 2-2: Logout Wibox .............................................................................................................................................. 2-52-5

Procedure 2-3: Change user password .............................................................................................................................. 2-62-6

Procedure 2-4: View product information ....................................................................................................................... 2-82-8

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3 NPO main features

Overview ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 3-13-1

QoS analysis ............................................................................................................................................................................... 3-23-2

Alerters ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 3-23-2

Create and execute reports ..................................................................................................................................................... 3-23-2

Reference values ....................................................................................................................................................................... 3-33-3

Rules .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 3-33-3

Diagnosis ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 3-33-3

Tuning ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 3-43-4

Events ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 3-43-4

Cell class editor ......................................................................................................................................................................... 3-43-4

Favorites ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 3-43-4

Network Unavailability and Alarm Reporting Tool (NUART) ................................................................................ 3-53-5

Remote Inventory Data Management (RIDM) .............................................................................................................. 3-53-5

Cartography ................................................................................................................................................................................. 3-53-5

Google Earth export ................................................................................................................................................................. 3-63-6

Free fields .................................................................................................................................................................................... 3-63-6

Log visualization ....................................................................................................................................................................... 3-63-6

Customize login banner .......................................................................................................................................................... 3-63-6

User note ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 3-73-7

Export interfaces ....................................................................................................................................................................... 3-73-7

Web client .................................................................................................................................................................................... 3-73-7

Web publishing .......................................................................................................................................................................... 3-73-7

Common Security Asset ......................................................................................................................................................... 3-83-8

4 Using NPO applications

Overview ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 4-14-1

Procedure 4-1: Open Optimization application ............................................................................................................. 4-24-2

Procedure 4-2: Open Security application ....................................................................................................................... 4-34-3

Procedure 4-3: Open Log application ............................................................................................................................... 4-44-4

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Procedure 4-4: Open Process Monitoring application ................................................................................................ 4-54-5

Procedure 4-5: Open web publishing ................................................................................................................................ 4-64-6

Procedure 4-6: Open web client .......................................................................................................................................... 4-84-8

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2-1 Wibox layout ............................................................................................................................................................... 2-22-2

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List of procedures

2 Web iconbox (Wibox)

2-1 Start Wibox from Internet browser ..................................................................................................................... 2-42-4

2-2 Logout Wibox ............................................................................................................................................................. 2-52-5

2-3 Change user password ............................................................................................................................................. 2-62-6

2-4 View product information ....................................................................................................................................... 2-82-8

4 Using NPO applications

4-1 Open Optimization application ............................................................................................................................. 4-24-2

4-2 Open Security application ...................................................................................................................................... 4-34-3

4-3 Open Log application ............................................................................................................................................... 4-44-4

4-4 Open Process Monitoring application ................................................................................................................ 4-54-5

4-5 Open web publishing ................................................................................................................................................ 4-64-6

4-6 Open web client .......................................................................................................................................................... 4-84-8

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PrefacePreface

Purpose

This document provides an overview of the Network Performance Optimizer (NPO).

It describes the architecture and potential configurations, and introduces key operating

and help concepts.

Reason for reissue

Refer to the following Editions for a list of technical and editorial updates to the current

guide.

In Edition 20

First official release of the document for Release M4 R7.

In Edition 01

First official release of the document for Release M4.

Document pertinence

This document applies to the NPO M4.1 projects.

Audience

This guide is intended for network administrators.

Assumed knowledge

You must have a basic understanding of the following:

Oracle database administration

OMC administration

Solaris operating system and administration

Network protocol techniques.

Product names

This document uses the following NPO naming convention: 9959 NPO and the generic

term NPO refer to the Alcatel-Lucent 9959 Network Performance Optimizer.

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How to comment

To comment on this document or indicate an error, please contact your customer

representative.

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1 1Introduction to NPO

Overview

Purpose

This section provides an overview of the NPO architecture.

Contents

Presentation 1-1

NPO functions 1-3

NPO architecture 1-3

NPO configurations 1-4

Presentation

The NPO offers a full range of multi-standard QoS Monitoring and radio network

optimization facilities, including:

QoS analysis

QoS decrease cause diagnosis

Radio resource configuration tuning

Cartographic telecom management

Hardware inventory management

User environment customization.

The NPO supports GSM, W-CDMA, WiMAX and LTE Radio Access Networks (RAN).

This product includes a powerful Oracle database containing performance measurements

and calculated indicators which ensure rapid detection of QoS degradation. The NPO also

proposes the appropriate correction tasks and an improved logical configuration for the

radio network, even in multi-standard environments.

Performance measurements ensure:

Efficient planning and optimization of the network

Usage statistics

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Detailed investigation of past problems

Realtime analysis.

Note: The NPO can be delivered by Alcatel-Lucent as an integrated part of different

products, like different OMC-Rs. Depending on the customer's product and the

commercial options, not all modes and technologies may be available.

For more information about Refer to

The NPO component Network Performance Optimizer User Guide

NPO Administration User Guide

Data source types and declaration:

Param - For Design and Logical

Parameters

Qos - For Counters and

Indicators

Tuning - For Tuning Operations

Laser - for Availability (Laser)

RNP - For Radio Network

Planner

PCMD- For Per Call

Measurements Data

WCT- For W-CDMACall Trace

NPO Administration User Guide

The platform and specifically:

User management and security

Process monitoring

Backup and restore procedures.

NPO Platform User Guide

Note:Client applications (either web or java applications) display local time (client

station time zone).

The NPOAdministrator can declare data sources using:

The Graphical User Interface - This allows the administrator to enter only

mandatory information; all other fields are automatically filled in

The Command Line.

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NPO functions

The NPO enables you to optimize/check:

QoS analysis

Reference values

Rules and diagnosis

Events

Configuration parameters

Tuning

Network stability and availability

Alarms

Cartographic display

Thematics

Free field

Log

Web client

Web publishing

User environment.

NPO architecture

The following figure provides an overview of the NPO architecture.

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The NPO architecture is a Server/Client application composed of several machines which

communicate via HTTPS protocols inside a LAN network.

The NPO HMI server is an optional machine in the NPO architecture.

NPO configurations

This section provides an overview of the different NPO configurations.

NPO server

An NPO server runs on a dedicated machine.

The NPO server mainly hosts the Oracle database, NPO software, documentation and

Corba/Apache services.

The following software and third party software are installed on the server:

SPARC Solaris / x86 Linux

NPO software

Oracle Database

Jacorb

ACETAO

Apache

Tomcat.

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NPO client

The NPO client represents a PC machine running on the Windows XP Professional SP2

or Windows Vista operating system.

Java 1.6 (JRE and JDK) and the Flash Player software must be installed on the NPO

Client.

Note: It is mandatory to install the JDK. If only the JRE is running, then some

features of the Analysis Desktop will not work (for example, exports of Microsoft

Excel files).

The RAM memory must be:

Minimum 2 GB in size for a full Client

Minimum 1 GB in size for a light Client.

NPO printer

The printer must be declared on the NPO client.

It must have a 10/100 Ethernet interface with a standard TCP/IP port. At least one color

printer must be available to print the content of the Microsoft Excel reports.

The installation and configuration of the printers is of the responsibility of the customers

system administrator.

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2 2Web iconbox (Wibox)

Overview

Purpose

This section describes how to use the Wibox applications running directly from the NPO

client Wibox.

Contents

Presentation 2-1

Procedure 2-1: Start Wibox from Internet browser 2-4

Procedure 2-2: Logout Wibox 2-5

Procedure 2-3: Change user password 2-6

Procedure 2-4: View product information 2-8

Presentation

The Web iconbox is a web application opened in an Internet browser window, which

allows the Muse desktop to access specific technology and multi-technology applications.

The Wibox displays icons which give the user access to the applications via navigation

objects. Its main page content depends on the profile of the user and on the installation

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The Wibox main window is divided into five areas:

Banner area contains: the Alcatel-Lucent logo, the title of the product (given in the

xml configuration file), the user who is logged in and the X icon used for logging

out from Wibox

Application area contains the icons of the applications which can be launched from

Wibox

Figure 2-1 Wibox layout

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If there are more applications, a navigation system is available to navigate to the

second page, similar to the first one, where the rest of applications are displayed. A

filter mechanism (Domains in the Command area) is used to see only some

applications.

Navigation area contains the Arrow buttons used to navigate through the pages of the

Wibox

Custom area contains applications that the user wants to access frequently. It is filled

by drag and drop from the Application area. The maximum number of contained

applications is four.

If an application is already displayed in the Custom area or if the Custom area is full,

an error message is displayed.

Applications can be removed from the Custom area by dragging them to the

Application area.

The user settings for the Custom area are saved locally, on the client PC, for each

user.

Command area contains the Domains and Status icons.

The Domains icon is used to filter the applications visibility in the Application

Area. If the Wibox contains only one Domain, the corresponding icon is not

displayed.

When clicking on the Domains icon, a list of the filtering options is displayed. The

content of the Application area is updated and refreshed according to the option

selected from the list.

For example, to see in the Application area only the Optimization applications, from

the Domains list, deselect all the options, except Optimization.

The Status icon is used to open a window which contains the date and time of all

the launched applications.

When the mouse is on top of an application icon, a tooltip is displayed, showing the

domain to which the application belongs.

The Wibox application uses:

ACommon Security Asset (CSA) server to retrieve the token and access rights of the

user, in order to access the applications integrated in the Wibox

An HTTPS server to obtain the required configuration files.

You can access the Wibox display through an Internet browser (for example Internet

Explorer, Firefox) on the client PC.

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Procedure 2-1: Start Wibox from Internet browser

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1 From the Windows Client PC, type the corresponding server IP address or the server

hostname in an Internet Explorer browser bar:

https:// or

Note: If you use the hostname, it must be added in the hosts file located in the

C:/WINDOWS/system32/drivers/etc directory.

If a Security warning page opens, click on Continue to this website (not

recommended).

Result:The Alcatel-Lucent CSA login window opens.

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2 In the Alcatel-Lucent CSA window:

1. Type the appropriate user name and password

2. Click on Login.

Note: If the Convergent Security Asset (CSA) warning window opens, click

Continue.

Result:The Alcatel-Lucent Welcome page appears.

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3 In the Alcatel-Lucent Welcome page, click on START.

If a Warning - Security window appears, check Always trust content from this

publisher and click Run.

Result:The Wibox application opens.

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Procedure 2-2: Logout Wibox

From the application

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1 Click on the icon from the Banner area of the Wibox.

Result:The Exit confirmation window appears.

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2 In the Exit confirmation window, click on Yes.

Result:The Wibox application closes.

From Internet browser

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1 Click on X in the top right corner of the Internet browser window.

Result:A confirmation window appears.

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2 In the confirmation window, click on OK.

Result:The Wibox application closes.

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Procedure 2-3: Change user password

Password policy

You must enter exactly the same password in the Password and Confirm fields. These

fields are case sensitive.

Note: The program does not verify if the new password differs from the previous

password by more than three characters and that the new password is not equal to a

configured number of old passwords.

The password must:

Contain at least seven characters and at most one hundred characters

Contain at least two letters of the alphabet (one in upper case and one in lower case)

Contain at least one Unicode special character and at least one number

Not contain blank spaces

Not be equal to or contain the user name. Also, it must not be a double repeat or a

reverse of the user name. For this comparison, a lower case letter and its

corresponding upper case are equivalent.

Not contain sequential ascending or descending strings of alphabetic or numeric

characters equal to or longer than four characters (e.g. 1234 or dcba are not

accepted). For this comparison, a lower case letter and its corresponding upper case

are equivalent.

Not contain more than three of the same characters in a row. This condition is

managed through a configuration variable (enabled / disabled).

Not contain substrings of at least four characters that match with whole words of the

defined dictionary. This condition is managed through a configuration variable

(enabled / disabled).

Procedure

Change your password according to the password policy.

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2. Click on Login.


Continue.


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4 Click on the Change password icon.

Result:The Change your password window opens.

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5 Define the new password:

1. In the Change your password window, type:

For Old password, enter the current password

For New Password, enter the new password

For (Re)New Password, enter the new password again.

If the text in the (Re)New password field is not identical to the text in the New

password field, the following message appears:

The repeated password is not the same !!!

Re-type the correct information.

2. Click on OK.

Result:The old password changes to the new one and an Information window

appears, with the following message:

The password was successfully changed

Note: If the new password does not respect the password policy, an error message

appears.

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6 Click on Ok.

Result:The Information window closes.

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Procedure 2-4: View product information

To view information related to the installed product, access the About window from

Wibox.

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2. Click on Login.


Continue.


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4 Click on the About icon.

Result: The About window appears, displaying:

Product name

Version of the product.

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5 To close the About window, click on Close.

Result:The About window closes.

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3 3NPO main features

Overview

Purpose

This section presents the main features of the NPO.

Contents

QoS analysis 3-2

Alerters 3-2

Create and execute reports 3-2

Reference values 3-3

Rules 3-3

Diagnosis 3-3

Tuning 3-4

Events 3-4

Cell class editor 3-4

Favorites 3-4

Network Unavailability and Alarm Reporting Tool (NUART) 3-5

Remote Inventory Data Management (RIDM) 3-5

Cartography 3-5

Google Earth export 3-6

Free fields 3-6

Log visualization 3-6

Customize login banner 3-6

User note 3-7

Export interfaces 3-7

Web client 3-7

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Common Security Asset 3-8

QoS analysis

The NPO collects periodical measurements of the radio traffic, radio resource usage, and

handover behavior from the network elements through the declared OMCs. These

measurements serve the quality of service monitoring at the NPO, and back-office

activities such as network optimization and network planning.

Users can create their own counters and indicators, and customize system data. The data

can then be analyzed in QoS reports. Special functions allow identification of the worst or

best cells related to a QoS indicator, to get reports on the QoS evolution, and to compare

the service quality of different cells. By comparing QoS indicator values with predefined

thresholds, the NPO ensures rapid verification of the quality of service in each single cell.

For more information, refer to Use counters and indicators in the Network Performance

Optimizer User Guide document.

Alerters

Alerters are defined to detect QoS problems and generate QoS alarms in the OMC, on the

basis of reported Performance Measurement data. They are calculated from

counters/indicators.

Optionally, SNMP trap can be sent when a threshold is crossed.

For more information, refer to Alerters in the Network Performance Optimizer User

Guide.

Create and execute reports

The NPO operator can view the results of QoS analysis in the form of reports for a

selected set of network resources and the defined report period.

They contain both tables and graphs (several functions graphically displayed

simultaneously). The customer can also customize reports.

For more information, refer to Reports in the Network Performance Optimizer User

Guide.

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Reference values

Reference values are recommended values of parameters. They allow a quick audit of the

network and permit the operator to detect which objects do not follow recommendations

for parameter values. The reference values for a parameter depend on different criteria,

such as cell type, cell class, frequency, and BTS type.

NPO is delivered with a default set of reference values, which can be customized.

For more information, refer to Use reference values in the Network Performance

Optimizer User Guide.

Rules

Rules are Excel files that express the dependency between two or more parameters of a

given object, and which are stored in the Oracle database.

Conditions and expressions regarding other parameters are defined inside the rule,

indicating when a rule is applicable.

For more information, refer to Use rules in the Network Performance Optimizer User

Guide.

Diagnosis

The NPO investigates and diagnoses QoS problems. Depending on the raised problem, it

proposes some corrective actions and / or extra investigations.

In order to benefit directly from any optimizer's field experience, the NPO allows

integration of new diagnosis scenarios. Therefore, the network optimizer can rely on the

diagnosis rules supplied by Alcatel-Lucent, and also on the rules derived from their own

optimization experience.

Whenever a QoS indicator reaches its alert threshold, the NPO offers the diagnosis

feature to the optimizer, in order to find out the possible cause of the QoS degradation.

For more information about the diagnosis scenario creation and diagnosis editor, refer to

the NPO Diagnosis Development User Guide.

For more information about diagnosis scenario execution and scheduling, refer to

Diagnosis in the Network Performance Optimizer User Guide.

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Tuning

After a network optimization session is completed, a radio parameter tuning is performed

using the NPO. This is done in order to correct network misbehavior and uses monitoring,

checking and diagnosis functions. The NPO user can prepare radio resource configuration

modifications, frequency changes and neighborhood modification and apply them through

the managed OMCs.

For more information, refer to Tuning in the Network Performance Optimizer User Guide.

Events

Events show when the key information of a cell has changed. There is a different event

per type of parameter (identifier, BSC, frequency, etc.) or topology change (for example,

Move BTS). The event can be displayed in reports or in a dedicated tabular viewer.

For more information, refer to Use events in the Network Performance Optimizer User

Guide.

Cell class editor

This feature allows the operator to change the cell class of a cell compared to the cell

class imported from RNP. The user can create a new cell class that inherits its

characteristics from the system defined cell class.

For more information, refer to Use network object class in the Network Performance


Favorites

This feature provides a shortcut to select the indicator or report (similar to the best of in

RNO). Each operator can save favorites.

For more information, refer to Use favorites in the Network Performance Optimizer User

Guide.

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Network Unavailability and Alarm Reporting Tool (NUART)

The Network Unavailability and Alarm Reporting Tool (NUART) analyzes and reports

system quality degradation, detects the impact on stability and unavailability, highlights

faulty equipment, and extracts unavailability related to managed objects for a specified

time period, filter and sort statistics.

Based on the reported PM data, alerters detect QoS problems and generate QoS alarms.

For more information, refer to the NPO Unavailability User Guide.

Remote Inventory Data Management (RIDM)

The Hardware Inventory application consists of Remote Hardware Inventory

management and Customer Acceptance List management to compare it with what is

actually deployed on the field.

Using the Remote Hardware Inventory, data is collected for the entire equipment rapidly

and precisely, without the need to go onsite. The operator can then use the information to

determine the exact number and locations of boards to be replaced (for example, before

the introduction of a new release) or the detailed characteristics (especially the functional

variant and ICS or correction status) of a faulty board requiring intervention.

For more information, refer to the NPO Remote Inventory User Guide.

Cartography

The cartography feature allows the geographical display of cells, adjacency and of other

objects (BSC, etc.) rasters and vector maps with the same coordinate system, computed

maps and network objects. The coordinates can be imported from RNP data, operational

data or data entered by the operator.

Thematic layers allow the user to visualize QoS information on the geographical

representation. Its purpose is to color parts of the geographical representation, according

to user requests on the QoS indicators, parameter values, analysis results, etc.

The adjacencies analysis functionality, by the means of graphic tools, enables the user to

view existing and forecasted adjacency additions and deletions for a cell, and decide

whether to add the forecast to a tuning session.

For more information, refer to Cartography in the Network Performance Optimizer User

Guide.

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Google Earth export

The cartography information can be exported in order to be displayed in Google Earth

through the Keyhole Markup Language (KML) interface. The KML is an XML grammar

and file format for modeling and storing geographic features such as points, lines, images

and polygons for display in Google Earth.

For more information, refer to Google Earth Export in the Network Performance


Free fields

For each customer object type, a set of additional free fields can be defined. Then, an

object can be associated with a set of free fields values.

Free fields can be generalized for all network objects, but are basically used with the

cells.

For more information, refer to Use free fields in the Network Performance Optimizer

User Guide.

Log visualization

The log visualization feature offers the basic features for handling the generated logs:

Viewing

Filtering/sorting

Importing/exporting

Saving

Purging.

For more information, refer toManage Log Files in the NPO Platform User Guide.

Customize login banner

This feature provides the possibility to customize the disclaimer for:

Wibox

For more information, refer to Customize login banner in the NPO Platform User Guide.

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User note

This feature allows the operator to add comments on network object and functions.

Comments are shared between operators.

For more information, refer to Use user note in the Network Performance Optimizer User

Guide.

Export interfaces

The NPO offers a public web interface called EQL, used to retrieve data through external

tools such as web-browsers (Mozilla, Internet Explorer) or web-enabled applications

(Excel). This can be done by executing queries or report requests.

The command line access to EQL is supported fromWindows and Unix.

For more information on how to execute a data query, report request, or dynamic Excel

page, and about global parameter exports, refer to Export interfaces using EQL requests

in the NPO Export Interface User Guide.

Web client

This feature allows the operator to browse the NPO topology and functions, and to

execute classical views and reports for a quick analysis of daily checks without running

the NPOAnalysis Desktop.

The search facilities of the Web Client help the operator perform their selections and the

selections can be stored as favorites.

Web client introduces the concept of the selection cart, which is a preset of topology

elements and function elements in order to ease the use of selection lists.

For more information, refer to the NPO Web Client User Guide.

Web publishing

This feature enables the light client to display computed views and reports in a web

browser, accessible from any PC with a web browser, without having to launch the

Analysis Desktop.

Each published view/report is stored in a web file repository in its existing XML format.

For more information, refer to the NPO Web Publishing User Guide.

NPO main features User note

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Common Security Asset

The Common Security Asset offers a Single Sign On and Access Control mechanism at

different levels to provide a highly secured operating environment. This includes an

entry-level login and password mechanism.

All system users have an associated user profile that defines their user ID, password, and

access privileges.

System administrators assign maintenance personal access profiles based on the

management functions that they perform.

The CSAGUI allows you to manage users, user sessions, groups, IP address and

subnetwork access on the CSA.

It also enables you to view the list of all users, user groups, entities, entity groups, tasks,

task groups and criteria on the CSA.

Use the User and Session Manager to carry out the following user administration tasks:

Create and remove users, user groups, entities, entity groups, tasks, and task groups

Assign users to user groups

Assign entities to entity groups

Assign tasks to task groups

Assign entities or entity groups to user groups

Assign tasks or task groups to user groups

Monitor user sessions using the monitoring tool

Enable or disable IP address and subnetwork access to CSA.

For more information, refer to the User Administration Handbook.

NPO main features Common Security Asset

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Overview

Purpose

This section describes how to use the NPO applications.

Contents

Procedure 4-1: Open Optimization application 4-2

Procedure 4-2: Open Security application 4-3

Procedure 4-3: Open Log application 4-4

Procedure 4-4: Open Process Monitoring application 4-5

Procedure 4-5: Open web publishing 4-6

Procedure 4-6: Open web client 4-8

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Procedure 4-1: Open Optimization application

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2. Click on Login.


Continue.


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4 Select one of the following:

Analysis Desktop

Data Management

Import/Export Management

Diagnosis Editor

Remote Inventory

Unavailability.

Result:The corresponding tool opens.

Using NPO applications Procedure 4-1: Open Optimization application

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Procedure 4-2: Open Security application

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2. Click on Login.


Continue.


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Access Right Defs

Change Password.


Using NPO applications Procedure 4-2: Open Security application

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Procedure 4-3: Open Log application

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2. Click on Login.


Continue.


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Log Viewer

Detailed Logs files viewer.


Using NPO applications Procedure 4-3: Open Log application

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Procedure 4-4: Open Process Monitoring application

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2. Click on Login.


Continue.


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4 Select Process Monitoring.

Result:The Process Monitoring page opens.

Using NPO applications Procedure 4-4: Open Process Monitoring application

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Procedure 4-5: Open web publishing

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1 Open an Internet browser.

Result:The Internet browser opens.

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2 Type the following URL:

https://:8190/maat/report/npowebviewer

Result:The following window appears.

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Procedure 4-6: Open web client

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1 Open an Internet browser.

Result:The Internet browser opens.

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2 Type the following URL:

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Result:The following window appears.

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Title pageLegal noticeContentsList of figuresWibox layout

List of proceduresStart Wibox from Internet browserLogout WiboxChange user passwordView product informationOpen Optimization applicationOpen Security applicationOpen Log applicationOpen Process Monitoring applicationOpen web publishingOpen web client

PrefacePurposeReason for reissueDocument pertinenceAudienceAssumed knowledgeProduct namesHow to comment

1 Introduction to NPOOverviewPurposeContents

Presentation

NPO functions

NPO architecture

NPO configurationsNPO serverNPO clientNPO printer

2 Web iconbox (Wibox)OverviewPurposeContents

Presentation

Procedure 2-1: Start Wibox from Internet browser

Procedure 2-2: Logout WiboxFrom the applicationFrom Internet browser

Procedure 2-3: Change user passwordPassword policyProcedure

Procedure 2-4: View product information

3 NPO main featuresOverviewPurposeContents

QoS analysis

Alerters

Create and execute reports

Reference values

Rules

Diagnosis

Tuning

Events

Cell class editor

Favorites

Network Unavailability and Alarm Reporting Tool (NUART)

Remote Inventory Data Management (RIDM)

Cartography

Google Earth export

Free fields

Log visualization

Customize login banner

User note

Export interfaces

Web client

Web publishing

Common Security Asset

4 Using NPO applicationsOverviewPurposeContents

Procedure 4-1: Open Optimization application

Procedure 4-2: Open Security application

Procedure 4-3: Open Log application

Procedure 4-4: Open Process Monitoring application

Procedure 4-5: Open web publishing

Procedure 4-6: Open web client

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