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Release Notes Compatible with ProVision Software Version 6.5.4 Build 46

August 31st, 2010

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Contents Scope and Purpose ......................................................................................................................... 4

Software Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 4

Documentation ................................................................................................................................ 5

Functionality and Features .............................................................................................................. 5

Supported Functionality ............................................................................................................... 5

Licensed Features ..................................................................................................................... 10

Enhancements .............................................................................................................................. 11

Enhancements in ProVision 6.5.4 ............................................................................................. 11




Closed Significant Issues .............................................................................................................. 21

Closed Significant Issues in 6.5.4 ............................................................................................. 21




NBI Changes ................................................................................................................................. 24

Known Issues ................................................................................................................................ 26

Supported Systems ....................................................................................................................... 27

Compatibility .............................................................................................................................. 27

Devices and Firmware Versions Supported .......................................................................... 27

Craft Tools Supported ............................................................................................................... 30

Java Supported ......................................................................................................................... 30

Operating Systems Supported .................................................................................................. 31

Generic Device Packages ......................................................................................................... 32

Server Loading Values .................................................................................................................. 33

Minimum Hardware Specifications ................................................................................................ 35

Minimum Server and LAN Hardware Specifications ................................................................. 35

WAN Client Server and WAN Client Specifications .................................................................. 36

LAN Client to Server Latency Specification .................................................................................. 37



Scope and Purpose

This document provides software release information on supported functionality, compatibility, and known customer affecting issues, relating to the released software versions. The intended users of this document are:

Aviat Networks Customers

Aviat Networks Value Added Resellers

Aviat Networks Value Added Service Providers

Aviat Networks Product Support staff

Aviat Networks Field Service staff

Software Introduction

As of August 31st, 2010, Aviat Networks, Inc. (Aviat) has released this version of ProVision which includes Server and Client software for Windows, and Server software for Solaris. There are separate installation files for each version. The StarView Migration tool is also bundled with each release of ProVision.

Product Part Number Version Number

Build Number

ProVision Software

614-200005-060504 6.5.4 46

To help users upgrading from 6.4.1/6.4.3, these release notes include information about versions 6.5.4, 6.5.3, 6.5.2, and 6.5.1.

This release, 6.5.4, build 46, building on 6.5.3, includes the following significant enhancements:

New Platform Capabilities:

Custom Reports

Eclipse Security Report

User accounts expanded with 6 user security profile groups

Eclipse Auto-Provisioning via MTOSI NBI

User authentication via a RADIUS server, the ProVision AAA Server, including user single sign-on to both Portal and ProVision

New Device Support:

E-Link 1000 EXR Enhancements to Supported Devices:

Eclipse 5.1 and 5.3 firmware supported

Ethernet circuit interface provisioning

Eclipse circuit provisioning implementation and enhancements

TRuepoint supported with configuration backup/restore, software loading, software loading verification, software load of RFU.

ASN-C supported with: configuration backup and restore, software loading, Configuration Manager, ASN interface performance management, software loading, Ethernet performance management, and 5.2 and 5.3 firmware releases

WiMAX Network Health Report for ASN-C and BS devices

WSG-R Juniper supported with: configuration backup/restore, software loading, Ethernet performance management, and 1.2 and 1.3 firmware releases

Software Tools:

ProVision 6.4 to 6.5 database migration



Documentation

The following ProVision documentation is provided with this release of ProVision.

ProVision Windows Quick Start Guide – A short 2-page guide to installing ProVision on a Windows

server.

ProVision Solaris Quick Start Guide – A short 2-page guide to installing ProVision on a Solaris

server.

ProVision Installation and Administration Manual – The manual for installation, configuration, and

administration of ProVision.

ProVision User Manual – The manual for day-to-day operation of ProVision.

Technical Notes – Short overviews of exceptional ProVision functionality.

Online Help Set – A searchable online help set with complete ProVision documentation.

Functionality and Features

Supported Functionality

The following headings list functionality that is currently supported by the ProVision 6.5.4 software. New functionality is highlighted in bold italics.

Device Support (in alphabetical order) ADR 155c

ADR 2500 (SAGEM) eXtra

Altium 155

Altium MX (155 and 311)

Altium MX 2+0

ASN-C (Expanded firmware support, configuration backup/restore, performance

management, software download)

Aurora

Constellation (Network auto discovery)

Constellation via FarScan Proxy (Network auto discovery)

Control Alarm Unit (CAU)

Controller ASN-C GW

DART

DVA

DVM 45 (Can create 2 RF links for DVM repeater)

DVM xT (Can create 2 RF links for DVM repeater)

DXR 100

DXR 200 / SMA

DXR 700 / SMA

E-Band E-Link 1000EXR

Eclipse 100

Eclipse 300 (IDU) (IRU600 configuration supported)

Eclipse 300 (INU) (IRU600 configuration supported)

Eclipse 300 (INUe)

Eclipse Edge IDUspe

Eclipse Optimization Gateway

EfficientSite Controller (Asentria based controller, user configurable dashboard polling rate,

updated dashboard values)

Generic Devices



Juniper M7i/M10i WSG-R (Expanded firmware support, configuration backup/restore,

performance management, Junos and WSG-R software downloads)

LE3000

LE3200

MegaStar 1+1, M:N

Microstar Type I, II, III

RADWIN WinLink 1000

SAGEM-LINK

SPECTRUM II SNMP

StarMAX 6100 Base Station (Added 4.2.1 firmware support)

StarMAX 6400 Base Station Blade (Added 4.2.1 firmware support)

StarMAX Subscriber Station

TNet Proxy devices (inc. SPECTRUM II, Quantum, M-Series, etc.)

TRuepoint 4000 (Added software download and RFU software download

enhancement)

TRuepoint 4040 (Added software download, configuration backup and restoration,

and RFU software download enhancement)

TRuepoint 5000 (Added configuration backup and restoration, RFU software

download enhancement)

TRuepoint 6400 (Added configuration backup and restoration)

TRuepoint 6500

Velox

WiChorus SmartCore

XP4 16/E3/T3

XP4 2/4/8x

Fault Management SNMP Trap Based Event Collection

SNMP Polling Based Event Collection

Automatic Clear Correlation of Network Events

Manual Clear of Network Events

Manual Acknowledge Network Events

Event Pre Filtering

Event Name Customization

Diagnostic Controls

Event Notifications email, SMS etc.

Event Browser

Event Scoreboards

Eclipse Helpdesk RMA Fault Reports

Sleep/Wake Radio



Configuration Management Automated configuration backup – Eclipse, ASN-C Juniper M7i/M10i WSG/R, TRuepoint

4040, 5000, 6400

Automatic database backup synchronization between Primary and redundant Standby

server

Bulk Configuration profiles – Constellation, DART, Eclipse, TRuepoint 400, 4040, 5000,

6400, LE3000, LE3200, RW2000, WL1000, XP4

Chassis Based Equipment Configuration Views

Configure Customer Data Fields

Configure Networking Settings – IP address, SNMP version and Community Strings

Define Network Topology

Create / Delete / Rename Network Element

Eclipse Capacity Reports

Find / Map Topology Search tools

Geographical containment Network View using customer’s chosen map image

Logical containment Network View

SNMP based Network Element Auto Discovery

Network Element Configuration Summary Screens

View/Print/Save Configuration Summary Report Software download and activation -

Eclipse, Juniper M7i/M10i WSG/R

Software download and activation (ASN-C Eclipse, Juniper, StarMAX base stations,

TRuepoint 4040, 5000)

Software download scheduled activation (Eclipse)

StarView Migration tool

System View (for EfficientSite Manager)

Topology import from XML file

Inventory Management View/Save/Print Radio Inventory Report

View/Save/Print Network Inventory Report

Performance Management Enable and Disable Performance Data Collection

Performance Data Graphical Trend analysis

Performance Data Graphical History analysis

Performance Data Thresholds with user defined event severity and Description

Network Health Reports (new WiMAX Network Health Report)

Ethernet Bandwidth Utilization view

Security Management Radio login authentication – XP4, DART

Create / delete / change User Details

Security Profiles (extended to support 6 user security profile groups)

Security Groups

Eclipse Portal auto login (extended for Eclipse 5.3 security)

Network-wide Eclipse Portal Locking/Unlocking

RADIUS Client user authentication via the ProVision AAA Server

SNMPv3/strong security support for TRuepoint

View Security Events (User Activity)



Help Help Desk Reports inc. Server-NE and Server-Client Communication Diagnostics

Complete print manual set available

Complete online help available

View Event Properties, including probable cause and proposed repair action

View Customer Support Details

View Program Details

Craft Tools and/or Diagnostic Controls Altium / Spectrum II WMT

DXR NET

Eclipse Portal (Version 5.0 packaged with PV Server)

LE3000 Manager

Memotec CX-Tool

RADWIN Manager

StarMAX BS EMS

TNet Web

TRuepoint WebCIT

Velox NCT

XP Web

Telnet and SSH

Logical Containers Create / Maintain Logical Containers

Delete Logical Containers

Deploy Service Link

View Logical Containers Events

Eclipse Circuits Bulk commission/decommission

Bulk name synchronization

Circuit management (supports Adaptive Modulation, scalable for 50,000 end to end circuits)

Circuits auto discovery

Circuits view and trace

Circuit Provisioning (redeveloped on 6.5 framework, requires Eclipse 5.0 or later,

Ethernet Interface provisioning now included)

Invalid circuits treated as “reserved”

New ports identified by color

Database Management Automatic event data purge

Automatic performance data purge

Automatic database redundancy synchronization

Help Desk Report with optional database save

Manual and scheduled backup

Restore mechanism

Licensing Management Eclipse licensing in bulk

Evaluation and permanent license keys

Feature licensing

License key encryption

Node count licensing (6,000 Server Loading value)

End User license agreement



Network Element External Interfaces Fixed LAN connection

FTP and TFTP device file loading

NBI FTP port can be configured

HTTP, Telnet, SSH and Windows based craft tools

ICMP Ping based device presence polling

SNMP v1 , v2c, and v3 device management

Configuration/Inventory NBI XML file based (Eclipse only)

Configuration/Inventory for StarMAX BS

Fault Management NBI SNMP v1, and v2c Trap based

ASCII text file based

TCP port based

Automatic resynchronization supported

Heartbeat traps

NBI test tool

Performance Management NBI

ASCII text file based

Automated data export

Automatic purging of old NBI file data

Topology NBI XML file based

Automatic data export

MTOSI NBI Eclipse Auto-Provisioning (for Eclipse 5.0 or later, verified for INU, RAC 60, RAC 6X)

ProVision Server Server performance management

Up to 20 clients supported by 1 server

Automatic database redundancy synchronization

Virtualization support (Server or Client supported on VMware, or Solaris 10 zones)

Reporting Eclipse Capacity Report

Eclipse Fault Report

Eclipse Security Report

Help Desk Report

Network Device Configuration Report

Network Health Report

Network Inventory Report

Fuel Usage Report (for EfficientSite only)

Custom Reports (with basic parameters selection options)



Licensed Features

The following features are licensed by individual feature licenses:

Feature License Description

Capacity Planning Ethernet Bandwidth Utilization

Capacity Reports (utilization and planning)

Eclipse Circuit Provisioning TDM and Ethernet end-to-end circuit provisioning

EfficientSite EfficientSite Hybrid Field Server (AVIAT) and Controller (Asentria) support

Generic Device Packages Pre-configured event data for Generic Devices (12+ Multiple device typesSNMP-based agent interfaces for OEM equipment available, custom development also available)

Generic Device Support (Level 2) Event collection from SNMP based devices

Launch Windows craft tools

IF-MIB band equipment view

NBI - MTOSI MTOSI TMF854 v2.0 based NBI provides Eclipse auto-provisioning interface.

NBI - Basic Event, Performance, Topology, Configuration

Network Health Reports Presents health of:

Each RF path in the network

WiMAX ASN-C and BS network performance

SNMPv3 Advanced Privacy TDES and AES128, AES192, AES256 SNMPv3 privacy / encryption and security

Standby Server Provides standby protection for the Primary ProVision Server



Enhancements

This section of the Release Notes includes enhancements for the following ProVision versions:

6.5.4

6.5.3

6.5.2

6.5.1

This is to help users updating from 6.4.1/6.4.3 to review all version changes.

Enhancements in ProVision 6.5.4

These are listed by functional area:

Backhaul Systems

Framework

BACKHAUL Enhancement Description

Circuits Deleting circuits automatically decommissions tributaries

Circuits Locks object during circuit deleting.

Custom Report Changed the Security Status report to use the new securityMode MIB.

Circuit Provisioning Eclipse circuit auto-provisioning enhancements and fixes have been incorporated.

MTOSI All XML examples valid.

MTOSI Added containers to createManagedElement.

MTOSI createManagedElement enables discovery of Eclipse class

MTOSI DAC-GE Link Status Propagation (LLF) is configured.

MTOSI Circuit table commit time is consistent and performs a circuit collection.

MTOSI MTOSI NBI is now included in the installer.

FRAMEWORK Enhancement Description

Custom Report Changed the Security Status report to use the new securityMode MIB. This allows the report to indicate whether Eclipse Portal access control is enabled or not

Manager Added thread count to PvManager object performance collection.

Migration Migration support for 6.5.1, 6.5.2, 6.5.3 to 6.5.4.




This table details all enhancements and new functionality introduced since ProVision 6.5.2.


Backhaul Systems

Framework

WiMAX Systems


Eclipse: Circuits Support for provisioning end-to-end circuits in Eclipse networks has been re-introduced using the new framework in PV 6.5. Note, in PV 6.5.1 / 6.5.2, circuit visualization and diagnostics were added. PV 6.5.3 completes the implementation of circuit mgmt on the new PV 6.5 framework.

Eclipse: Circuits When end-to-end provisioning Eclipse Ethernet circuits over TDM (N x E1/E3/etc backplane timeslots), PV now fully configures the DAC GE or DAC ES interfaces. Previously the channel size (bandwidth) between the port and the backplane had to be independently configured via Portal.

Eclipse: Firmware ProVision now includes Eclipse support for 05.01 and 05.03 firmware releases.

E-Link Support added for E-Band E-Link 1000EXR. This includes: 1) Event collection 2) Configuration viewer 3) Craft tool launch

TRuepoint Added Configuration backup and restoration for TRuepoint 4040, 5000, 6400. Note that TRuepoint 4000 doesn’t support this capability.

TRuepoint: RFU The user can now select to upgrade the TRuepoint 4000, 4040, and 5000 RFU directly, avoiding the need to use WebCIT.

TRuepoint: Software Loading

Users can now verify that TRuepoint software loading has completed successfully for each card by checking the software version.

TRuepoint: Software Loading

TRuepoint 4000 & TR4040v1 now support software loading.




MTOSI NBI ProVision can now interface with MTOSI 2.0 TMF854 NBI with the ability to auto-provision Eclipse devices. This is verified with INU, RAC 60, RAC 6X only.

Reports ProVision now includes a new generic network reporting table view called Custom Reports. Initially the user can select from a basic set of parameters to report on. This includes Eclipse NTP configuration. In future the parameter set will be expanded.

Reports A new Eclipse Security Report is provided via the new custom reports framework.

Security Support for PV user authentication via a RADIUS server, through the introduction of RADIUS client support.

Security Where strong security is enabled on Eclipse, PV automatically logs the user into Portal and automatically authenticates with Eclipse when backing up the Eclipse configuration.

Security The previous set of user profiles (Admin, NOC Engineer, Portal Engineer, NOC Operator) have been replaced with a new set of 6 user profiles (ViewOnly, Maintenance, Configuration, Upgrade, Administration, Security). During upgrade / migration from earlier versions of PV, the old profiles are mapped to the equivalent new profiles.

Virtualization ProVision now supports virtualization VMWare, ESX 4.0.

Virtualization ProVision now supports Solaris 10 containers and zones.

WIMAX SYSTEMS Enhancement Description

ASN-C Now includes performance management for ASN-C data, available through: 1) Performance Trends 2) Performance Thresholds

ASN-C Now includes: 1) Configuration backup and restore for the ASN-C configuration file. 2) Software loading for upgrading the ASN-C firmware. 3) Support for 5.2 and 5.3 firmware releases.

ASN-C The ASN-C now has Configuration Management available. This feature synchronizes the ASN-C and BS configurations, avoiding the use of the ASN-C command line and BS craft tool.

ASN-C For the ASN-C, Ethernet Performance management with collected data, available through: 1) Ethernet Performance 3) Performance Thresholds 2) Ethernet Bandwidth Utilization

ASN-C New WiMAX Network Health Report summarizes the performance of the ASN-C and BS devices in the network. The data is collected from the ASN-C.

Juniper WSG-R Now includes: 1) Configuration backup and restore for Juniper configuration file 2) Support for upgrading WSG-R firmware and the JunOS firmware. 3) Support for 1.2 and 1.3 firmware releases.

WSG-R 1.1 requires JunOS 9.5.

WSG-R 1.2 - 1.3 requires JunOS 10.0.

Juniper WSG-R Now includes performance management for the Juniper WSG-R Ethernet ports. This includes collection of IF-TABLE performance parameters, available through: 1) Ethernet Performance




2) Performance Thresholds 3) Ethernet Bandwidth Utilization

StarMAX BS Now includes support for 4.2 firmware release.



FUNCTIONAL AREA

Enhancement Description

Eclipse Security

Administrator level users can now enable or disable a new Portal Locking feature, to lock/unlock Eclipse device editing via Portal. This feature provides the following capability: 1) NOC Engineer can enable TIMED Portal write access to Eclipse devices. This blocks Provision configuration changes & allows Portal write access. 2) Admin can enable or disable this feature entirely. 3) Admin can set the reboot lockout time for a device. 4) A platform event is raised when locking enabled / disabled.

EfficientSite Dashboard

Previously, the EfficientSite dashboard read values displayed by default. Now the dashboard feature has been enhanced to retain the last reading for each sensor in the database. These readings are used in place of the default nil value when first displaying the dashboard. To ensure that old retained readings are not confused for recent readings, readings older than 1 hour are shown grayed out on the dashboard.

Event Notification

Added the ability to pass the following parameters to scripts in the Event Notification script function: %date - formatted YYYY/MM/DD %time - formatted HH:MM:SS %nodeName - short name of device %eventDescription - event description %eventState - event status (Active or Cleared) %eventSeverity - Warning, Critical, etc. %ipAddress - IP Address of device %notificationName - Name of notification rule %reminder - will add the string Reminder if this is a reminder for a notification, otherwise will substitute an empty string. %nodePath - full path of device including name %eventUser - user name associated with event

Rebranding All instances of Harris Stratex Networks are now replaced with Aviat Networks. This also applies to logos, artwork, and contact details.

Upgrade Migration

The upgrade migration importer for 6.5.2 has been changed to specify versions that can be imported. This means that the old migration.jar can be used to migrate 6.4.1 and 6.4.3 systems into 6.5.1 and 6.5.2. Database backup / restore can be used to migrate from 6.5.1 to 6.5.2 systems.

Map Viewer The Map Viewer has been improved: 1) On any map the user can select between the full-size and small icons, independent of the zoom feature. 2) This user selection is saved for each map view independently, allowing a mix of full-size or small icons based on user selection. 3) The zoom-to-fit button has been changed into a toggle option, enabling the user to zoom-to-fit by default on every map.

Fuel Usage Report

Users can now use EfficientSite data to generate a Fuel Usage report.






Backhaul Systems

Framework

WiMAX Systems

Energy & Security


Configuration Viewer The following values are now in the configuration viewer for all TRuepoint variants: 1) Netcom & Ethernet IP addresses. 2) Routing Table.

Configuration Viewer Changed the behavior of the configuration viewer for all TRuepoint variants, to be similar to that of Eclipse. It now saves to database, reads from database, and refreshes from the radio.

Configuration Viewer Changed the behavior of the configuration viewer for all Constellation variants, to be similar to that of Eclipse. It now saves to database, reads from database, and refreshes from the radio.

Configuration Viewer Constellation changes in the Configuration Viewer: (1) In the Information tab, changed FarScan Address to FarScan NE Address. (2) In the Link tabs, add A or B prefix to the modem. (3) Presenting the Modem A1 / A2 settings notation more clearly.

Constellation Added Network Auto Discovery for Constellation devices.

Craft Tools: Portal Eclipse Portal 5.0 is included in ProVision 6.5.1. Note that the new version now uses Java 1.6 and requires us to run the Portal.exe file rather than invoking the JAR file due to JVM configuration that is done in the exe file.

Craft Tools: WebCIT Users can now to open multiple CIT craft tool sessions from TRuepoint devices.

Craft Tools: XPWeb Users can now open multiple XPWeb sessions on different XP4 radios.

DVM Users can now create 2 RF links for DVM repeater configuration.

Eclipse Added support for Eclipse 5.0 firmware. This includes the following: 1) Support for new alarms. 2) Support of latest capacity definitions. 3) Add latest capacity license file definitions.

Eclipse Circuits Improved visualization and identification of rings and invalid rings. In particular: (1) Type column indicates circuit is part of a ring. (2) Status indicating whether configured correctly. (3) Circuit map presents "a point to point" for invalid rings.




Eclipse Circuits Eclipse circuit management has received feature usability & performance improvements. This resulted in complete redevelopment of the existing feature and addition of Adaptive Modulation support. Note that in 6.5.1 support for circuit provisioning (writing) has been dropped, and the new circuit provisioning capability added in next 6.5.x release. The scope includes the following: 1) Circuit visualization redevelopment. 2) Circuit diagnostics redevelopment. 3) Support for Adaptive Modulation added. 4) Scalability for support of up to 50K circuits.

Eclipse License Added a button to Eclipse License screen to export table data to a CSV file.

Eclipse License The following enhancements have been made to the Eclipse license loading feature: (1) Allows single file selection when browsing for license files. (2) Allows multiple file selection when browsing for license files. (3) Allows folder selection when browsing for license files. (4) Transfers all licenses in single zip file between client and server, to speed up the transfer process. (5) Added serial number of current active license to the License table. (6) Allows maximizing and minimizing of the window. (7) Added license loading task to the Task Manager. (8) Loads licenses into radios asynchronously, to speed up loading.

Eclipse Licensing Eclipse NODE-based licensing is available in Eclipse 5.0 firmware and now supported (also retaining support for the original RAC based scheme) by the following ProVision features: 1) Inventory reports. 2) Capacity reports. 3) Eclipse license loading.

Eclipse Licensing Also implemented several customer requested improvements to Eclipse license loading. 1) Provide table sort. 2) Add Path to the table. 3) Provide save / copy ability.


Memotec CX-U is now the Eclipse Optimization Gateway, now deployed from the Eclipse family.

Eclipse Support Added support for Eclipse RAC 60/6X. Inventory reports now indicate the type of RAC, e.g. indicating whether RAC 60 or RAC 6X

Eclipse Support Added support for Eclipse INU or INUe based IRU600 configurations. The changes include the following: 1) Present RFU objects instead of ODU objects in the configuration and inventory features. 2) Added support for new alarms.

Megastar Added MegaStar performance data collection of AGC receive level values.

PCR Integration Added integration of PCR and MSUU applications. This includes the ability to launch PCR collector, PCR viewer and MSUU applications used with former-MCD devices.

Performance Data Added collection of Eclipse XPIC XPD parameters covered by performance management, including 1) Data collection 2) History




3) Thresholds 4) NBI

Radwin Added trap destination profile for Radwin devices: LE3000, WinLink 1000, LE3200.

Radwin LE3200 Added support for the LE3200. 1) Event collection with resynchronization. 2) Configuration Viewer. 3) Interface view (IF-MIB based). 4) Windows based craft tool integration. 5) RF performance data collection. 6) Event customization. 7) Network Health Reports. 8) Network Inventory Reports.

Reports: Inventory Report

Eclipse feature licensing is available in Eclipse 5.0 firmware. Added each licensed feature into PV inventory collection and reporting, providing the ability to identify licensed features in an Eclipse network.

Reports: Network Health

Added Eclipse XPIC XPD parameters to the Network Health Report.

Reports: Network Health

Added the ability to generate NHR on logical container circuits. In PV 6.5.1, circuit management has been redeveloped to provide a circuits table view. With this change you are no longer able to add circuits into a logical container. You are however able to generate a Network Health Report from a circuit selected in the new circuit table view.

Software Download Added software download support for TRuepoint 5000 & 4040v2. Support added for bulk software download with strong security disabled.

Software Downloads Added software download support for TRuepoint 4000 & 6400.

TRuepoint Added Netcom IP address to IP address table for TRuepoint.

TRuepoint Added Network Auto Discovery support for TRuepoint devices. This includes 4000, 4040, 5000, 6400 and 6500 variants.

TRuepoint 6400 Event customization: added support for TRuepoint 6400 alarm inputs.

TRuepoint 6500 For TRuepoint 6500, added support for new v6.9 firmware This includes adding support for new RF Type and Description objects presented in the ProVision configuration viewer.

TRuepoint 6500 Added TX power collection for TRuepoint 6500 performance data.

TRuepoint 6500: Alarms

TRuepoint 6500 data now includes SD and Unprotected Failure alarm distinctions: reporting of the Unprotected Failure alarm is now based on the state of the RX Level Down alarms and the radio provides SD (space diversity).


Backups ProVision is now excluding performance NBI from backup.

Backups ProVision is now including collected device config files in backup.

Backups NBI files can now be included the backup as an option.

Configuration Viewer Config viewer: Save to DB, read from DB, refresh from radio Change the behavior of the config viewer for all devices, to be the same as the Eclipse config viewer

Data Migration Now provides database migration from 6.4.1 or 6.4.3 to 6.5.1.

Data Migration Now prevents users from restoring incompatible databases. Blocks and warns the user from attempting to restore an incompatible database version.




Events Improved containment filter selection in the Events Filter.

Events Event Notifications now has a test email button on the actions tab to test for missing email server configuration.

Events Event Notifications: users can now deactivate notifications.

Events Event Notifications: Add sorting ability to Edit Notifications tab

Events Event Customization: now has an independent window to improve usability.

Events Event Notifications: different notification rules and different users can now have different audio alerts.

Events The event notifications feature has been redeveloped in order to address issues with usability and performance. By simplifying, the configuration the scalability has also been improved. The following capability is now provided with notifications: (1) Email, pop-up, audio and script execution notifications. (2) Test integration with email server. (3) Unlimited number of notification rules can be created. (4) Rule includes event filter, event duration and guard period trigger conditions. (5) Duration indicates how long event condition must be active before notification triggered. (6) Guard period prevents the notification being repeated for a specified period. (7) Option to send reminder notification after specified period. (8) Option to notify once event condition has cleared. (9) SMS actions supported via email – SMS gateway. The known issues with the previous version of this feature are also addressed.

Events In Event Prefiltering, all event types now in alphabetic order by family.

GUI Added an Edit Application menu option to all supported device types.

GUI Improved the device object menu to correctly support multiple object selection.

GUI The Map viewer now supports different map images in physical and flat views.

GUI Enhanced the Search feature to provide for searching for (and highlighting) objects on the Map.

Java Version Updated the Java version in server and client to 1.6.0_16. Latest version includes updated time-zone information as well as other bug fixes.

Licensing Added support for the following devices in the evaluation license: 1) Sagem-Link 2) EfficientSite Controller 3) EfficientSite Field Server

Licensing Added support for new 6.5.1 devices in the license: 1) Juniper M7i/M10i WSG-R 2) EfficientSite Controller & EfficientSite Field Server 3) Radwin 2000 4) LE3200

NBI Now providing NBI acknowledgement for SNMP southbound Inform trap.

Network Auto Discovery

Network Auto Discovery now provides support for CSV file definition of the discovery IP address ranges.

Reports The Reports repository has been moved to the pv root directory.

Reports: Capacity The Capacity Report feature now purely reports from the database. This ensures that a report can be generated where a




radio is offline (and reporting information previously captured).

Reports: Inventory The Inventory Report now has an improved user interface

Security NOC Engineers can now access the Security Log.

Server ProVision now controls the ports allocated for RMI services on the ProVision server, such that port 5558 onwards are used. Port 5888 is assigned to the redundant server feature.

Server Updated MySQL from 4.0.20a to version 5.0.83. MySQL 5 supports new features such as compressed tables, transactions and other advanced features.

Sleep/Wake The user is now able to schedule the sleep period. This can be done through setting date & time or setting number of hours.

Software Download Radio status is now refreshed every minute in the software download window.

Software Download Extended the software download feature to support other devices types. This includes refactoring work for Eclipse.

User Account Added user account sorting / filtering to improve usability.

ENERGY & SECURITY

Enhancement Description

EfficientSite: Data Collection Asentria

Users can now configure the dashboard polling / update rate. The selections are 15sec, 1min, 3mins (default for IHS), 15mins, and Manual (with Refresh button).

EfficientSite: Expanded device support

Support added for the Asentria 550 based EfficientSite. This includes the following capabilities: 1) Deployment including discovery of installed configured sensors and grouping. Rediscovery occurs every 24 hrs. 2) Event collection including auto resync every 6 hrs. 3) Dashboard / system view (Open Device menu selection). 4) This device has licensed node count of 1.

EfficientSite: GUI Changed the Dashboard alarm normal/off icon to green color.

EfficientSite: GUI To reduce bandwidth consumption (because EfficientSite will likely be used over a GPRS modem connection) the dashboard now requires a user refresh rather than auto-polling every 10 seconds. This change applies to both the Field Server and Controller devices.

EfficientSite: GUI The EfficientSite Dashboard interface has been improved with: 1) Summary data presenting a 24-hour summary from the previous daily performance bin (rather than the summary from boot). 2) Added Generator Savings %, calculated as the amount of time the hybrid system was on when compared to total time for hybrid and generator time. 3) Added HVAC Savings %, calculated as the amount of time the AC is off compared to total time. 4) Added Fuel Savings %, calculated as the difference between a user configured baseline value and the instantaneous average usage.

EfficientSite: Navigation

Added an application menu and also showing the configured applications on the dashboard / system view (Open Device).




Juniper WSG-R Added support for Juniper M10i & M7i Junos (Juniper OS) based routers by integrating with the Junos MIBs. This includes: 1) Manual deployment. 2) Event collection. 3) Config viewer. 4) Craft tool integration / launch - CLI and J-Web.

StarMAX BS: Backup Added ability to restore backed up configurations for StarMAX base stations. Note that the ability to automatically backup configurations was added to 6.4.1.

StarMAX BS: Configuration View

Extended the configuration viewer for StarMAX base stations.

StarMAX BS: Inventory

The following inventory management capability has been added for StarMAX base stations: (1) Automatic collection of inventory data (based on entity-MIB) for all managed base stations. (2) Ability to generate device and network inventory reports for base stations (as provided for Eclipse).

StarMAX BS: Licensing

Changed the StarMAX base station node licensing to a per BS sector (PMP) model, where each base station PMT (or sector) has a Node License Value of 1.

StarMAX BS: NBI Added inventory / configuration NBI for StarMAX base stations with: (1) Inventory / configuration NBI forwarding support. (2) Also refactored existing Eclipse support.

StarMAX BS: Performance

Added Ethernet Bandwith Utilization feature support for the StarMAX base station. This applies to both 16d and 16e (3.x and 4.x firmware) variants.

StarMAX BS: Performance

The following performance management capability has been added for StarMAX base stations: (1) 15-minute and Daily performance data collection. (2) Collect IF-MIB packet counters. (3) Collect sector performance (uplink and downlink data rates). (4) Render collected data in Ethernet Performance History. (5) Support Performance Thresholds for collected data.

StarMAX BS: Reporting

Added StarMAX base station chassis information to the Inventory report.

StarMAX BS: Software Download

Activate button added to SW download for StarMAX enabling user to reboot the base station. This is necessary to execute the new firmware.

StarMAX BS: Software Download

Added the ability to bulk software upgrade the StarMAX base stations in the network. Note that the base station device is hard coded to use only FTP port 21, whereas the PV Server uses 5555 by default. The FTP port therefore needs to be reconfigured on the PV server.



Closed Significant Issues

This section of the Release Notes includes closed significant issues for the following ProVision versions:

6.5.4

6.5.3

6.5.2

6.5.1

This is to help users updating from 6.4.1/6.4.3 review all version changes.

Closed Significant Issues in 6.5.4

GCAS # /Trouble Ticket

Defect or Enhance

Issue Description

GCAS 43399

Defect Performance data collection was failing for Eclipse protected links; fixed.

GCAS 30014

Defect For TRuepoint 6500, no GP2 information displayed in the configuration viewer or the Inventory Report. This has been fixed by reconfiguring GP2 configuration collection.

GCAS 40604

Defect TRuepoint configuration autodiscovery did not discover the software version, preventing the Software Table from presenting the version.

GCAS 43397

Defect Users were unable to login to the Provision server; if login succeeded, icons were missing in the ProVision client GUI. Tomcat web server was shutting down on receiving command from Windows when last user logged out.

GCAS 43542

Defect Could not save Bandwidth Utilization report to file when threshold events were configured for a device.

GCAS 43543

Defect Server sometimes didn’t start on some machines. Caused by the Provision service starting up before a network connection had been established.


The following table lists significant software field issues that are fixed by the 6.5.3 release.


Defect or Enhance

Issue Description

GCAS 27637 Enhance A network security report for Eclipse is provided via the new custom reports framework.

GCAS 34593 Defect Generic event details were not being migrated. This has been fixed.

GCAS 34777 Defect The TRuepoint 6400 radio log was getting filled with login messages. This has been fixed.

GCAS 36127, 36283

Defect For Eclipse., Ethernet Bandwidth Utilization was not correctly calculating throughput. This resulted in the throughput in Mbps being incorrect. This has been fixed with correct calculation values of 15 minutes between collection polls.

GCAS 36776 Defect In the Network Health Report, XPD values were being displayed incorrectly. This has been fixed.

GCAS 37731 Enhance The Custom Reporting framework is now available. Users can



select from a basic set of parameters to report on. This includes Eclipse NTP configuration. In future the parameter set for the custom reports will be expanded.




Defect or Enhance

Issue Description

GCAS 32072 Enhance Administrator level users can now enable or disable a new Portal Locking feature, to lock/unlock Eclipse device editing via Portal. This feature provides the following capability: 1) NOC Engineer can enable TIMED Portal write access to an Eclipse device. This blocks Provision configuration changes and allows Portal write access. 2) Admin can enable or disable this feature entirely. 3) Admin can set the reboot lockout time for a device. 4) A platform event is raised when locking enabled / disabled.

GCAS 34526 Enhance Added the ability to pass the following parameters to scripts in the Event Notification script function: %date - formatted YYYY/MM/DD %time - formatted HH:MM:SS %nodeName - short name of device %eventDescription - event description %eventState - event status (Active or Cleared) %eventSeverity - Warning, Critical, etc. %ipAddress - IP Address of device %notificationName - Name of notification rule %reminder - will add the string Reminder if this is a reminder for a notification, otherwise will substitute an empty string. %nodePath - full path of device including name %eventUser - user name associated with event

GCAS 34840

Defect Resolved problems launching remote Portal sessions and static routing.

GCAS 35081 Defect Invalid Eclipse events were occasionally being raised during a resynchronization.




Defect or Enhance

Issue Description

GCAS 18085

Defect Performance NBI discrepancies for Altium MX 2+0: fixed template so that B side RSSI now appears in the trends and NBI.

GCAS 18610 Enhance Added ability to open multiple XPWeb sessions on different XP4 radios.

GCAS 20379, 21118

Defect License expiry events were occurring after switching to a permanent license. Fixed.




Defect or Enhance

Issue Description

GCAS 22882 Enhance Eclipse circuit management feature usability & performance improvements. This required complete redevelopment of the existing feature and addition of Adaptive Modulation support. Note that in 6.5.1 support for circuit provisioning (writing) will be dropped, and the new circuit provisioning capability added in next 6.5.x release. The scope includes the following: 1) Circuit visualization redevelopment 2) Circuit diagnostics redevelopment 3) Support for Adaptive Modulation added 4) Scalability for support of up to 50K circuits

GCAS 26040 Enhance Added ability to create 2 RF links for DVM repeater configuration

GCAS 27216

Defect The event queue was processing events slowly, related to event queue thread processing of custom alarms details from Eclipse. At least once such AUX plug-ins was raising as many as 60,000 events per day; has been fixed.

GCAS 28296

Defect TRuepoint 6400 was experiencing event resync problems when event list empty. Active events were not clear correlated when an empty events list was read from the radio by the event resync mechanism.

GCAS 28296 Defect Generic Device resync was not working properly; has been fixed.

GCAS 28558, 29132, 31704

Defect Links were not always displayed correctly. The following problems were observed and have been fixed: 1) Often when trying to discover new link, the link is indicated as already existing. 2) Sometimes unable to delete object as link property points to a non-existent link. 3) Sometimes link object is deleted but both ends of link are point to deleted link. 4) Sometimes duplicate links created during server startup.

GCAS 29409 Enhance TRuepoint 6500 SD and Unprotected Failure alarms now identified.

GCAS 30019 Defect Changes to the active event panel filter were not being saved.

GCAS 30456 Enhance Added performance data collection of Eclipse XPIC XPD. Including data collection, history, thresholds, and NBI.



NBI Changes

This section records the history of NBI changes made since ProVision 6.1.1.

NBI Function Defect / Enhance

Change Description

Changes in 6.1.1:

Performance Defect New 5-min and 15-min performance NBI files were sometimes generated more frequently than expected.

Performance Defect MegaStar performance data was not written to the performance NBI.

Performance Defect Eclipse IDU performance data was not saved correctly.

Performance Defect For the performance NBI Single File option, sometimes only one entry would be generated for Eclipse, XP4 and Altium devices.

Changes in 6.2.1:

Configuration Issue The far end radio IP address was not always populated in the cross-connect section.

Changes in 6.2.2:

Events Enhance Added the option to send the probable cause description in the event NBI SNMP trap based interface.

Configuration Defect Fixed minor errors that occurred with comments fields when parsing the NBI trap forwarding MIB.

Changes in 6.3.1:

Performance Enhance Improved performance NBI output file heading for remote managed XP4s.

Performance Defect Too many files for “per device type”; performance data problem occurred with Constellation, Velox, Altium and TNet.

Events Enhance Added new option to provide simple SNMPv1 format traps to simplify

integration with 3rd

party SNMP Manager (e.g. SNMPc).

Changes in 6.4.1:

Event Enhance Resynchronization destination improvement: When processing a resync request, ProVision uses the pvSBSourceIPAddress object to determine the destination for the event traps. This provides the ability for Northbound Manager A to send a resync request on behalf of Northbound Manager B.

SNMP Defect NBI Traps and Configuration Profiles date/time/time zone value had become corrupt: this is fixed.

Changes in 6.4.3:

SNMP Defect Enabling SNMP Event NBI traps disabled SNMP managed devices.

Topology Defect Control characters in topology names caused topology exports to fail: this is fixed.

Changes in 6.5.1:

Event Enhance SNMP southbound inform traps now provide acknowledgement.

Changes in 6.5.2:

Event Defect Altium daily NBI RSSIa had been missing; this is fixed.

Changes in 6.5.3

MTOSI Enhancement Added Eclipse auto-provisioning via the MTOSI NBI. This has been verified with the INU, RAC 50, and RAC 6X Eclipse devices.

Changes in 6.5.4



MTOSI Defect API documentation link was missing from main pvweb page; this is fixed.

MTOSI Enhance All XML examples are valid.

MTOSI Defect Documentation now describes which resources are valid for CommonResourceProvisioning.

MTOSI Defect Null pointer exception while writing NBI performance fixed.

MTOSI Defect Exceptions for circuits have been expanded.

MTOSI Defect Caching connectable table issue fixed.

MTOSI Defect Issue fixed with allowing IP_Address or IP Address to be passed to create ME.

MTOSI Defect Issue fixed with NullPointer when running 250 threads on createME.

MTOSI Enhance Added containers to createManagedElement.

MTOSI Enhance createManagedElement now allows discovery of Eclipse class.

MTOSI Enhance Now has configured DAC-GE Link Status Propagation (LLF)

MTOSI Enhance Circuit table commit time is now consistent and does a circuit collection.

MTOSI Enhance MTOSI NBI has been added to the installer.

MTOSI Defect MTOSI installer wasn’t installing in correct directory on 64-bit machine



Known Issues

The following table lists known issues in this release. All issues have a severity level of Medium or less. Workarounds and GCAS numbers are noted if available.

Embedded Software Issues Area Issue

TRuepoint 6500 On refreshing the TRuepoint 6500 equipment view MSTUs then appeared in P, W1 and W7 slots. This was diagnosed as a problem with the 6500 device MIB interface. The WebLT correctly presented only P and W1, however using a MIB Browser it could be seen that the P1 module inventory details were repeated in W7. Workaround: reset the SV module.

DVM SNMP communications with DVM devices are sometimes unreliable. In particular, when accessing performance data the device sometimes returns a Null response.

Security A problem with Eclipse 5.3 firmware prevents the Security Status Report from indicating whether Portal security has been enabled. The provided MIB object always reports False. The fix is planned for Eclipse 5.4 firmware.

ProVision Issues Area Issue

Capacity Reports The Capacity Report doesn't show OC3 data-rate. The data rate is presented as STM-1 instead of OC3.

Circuits Circuit Provisioning is slow for long circuits. The plan is to investigate speeding up the write process by writing to multiple nodes in parallel.

Data Collection Daily performance collection timestamp is GMT midnight not local midnight resulting in timestamp inaccuracy.

NBI GCAS 36529: For the NBI Config file, an update event is generated daily. This informational event should only be generated when a change is detected since last reading the configuration file. Workaround: Create a text filter to filter out these events.

Performance Data ProVision and Portal performance data time stamps can differ by up to 1 day due to the way ProVision calculates performance sample timestamps. ProVision is not correctly taking account of the time zone when calculating the timestamp for the performance sample.

ProVision Client If network communications is lost between Server and Client, the Client shuts down. This problem also occurs where a Client session is running on the Server and the Ethernet cable is unplugged from the Server. Workaround: Keeping the Server plugged into an Ethernet switch prevents a Client session on the Server from shutting down. There is no ability to run the Client on a separate machine without a connection to the Server.

ProVision Server (Solaris)

The Clients must be connected to the Solaris Server HME0 Ethernet adaptor, or else the Clients will be unable to connect to the Server.

Reports When generating Custom Reports on a large network containing thousands of devices, the report takes a long time to render and during this time the Client is unresponsive. Workaround: Run the report on smaller numbers of devices.

Reports Network Health Report timestamps are not aligned on midnight boundaries, resulting in date/time confusion.



Supported Systems

Compatibility

Devices and Firmware Versions Supported

The following table details the devices and the associated firmware versions supported.

Device Version Notes

ASN-C 5.0 – 5.3

Altium 1 2.2 Build 3 2.3 Build 1

Altium MX 3.1 Build 9 Includes MX 155, 311, 2+0 variants.

Aurora See below

CAU See below

Constellation 5.3

Constellation via Farscan Proxy

See below

DART See below

DVA See below

DVM See below

DXR SMA / 700 2.1h / 3.0d Earlier versions also likely to be supported.

DXR SMA / 200 2.1h / 5.6d Earlier versions also likely to be supported.

DXR 100 NP / NMI 2.2g / 2.6c Earlier versions also likely to be supported. NMI required.

DXR 100 P / NMI 2.4a / 2.6c Earlier versions also likely to be supported. NMI required.

E-Band E-Link 1000EXR

2.0.7 Not compatible with earlier versions.

Eclipse 300 INU 2.1.18 – 5.3 Not compatible with earlier versions.

Eclipse 300 INUe 2.1.18 – 5.3 Not compatible with earlier versions.

Eclipse 100 2.1.18 – 5.3 Not compatible with earlier versions.

Eclipse OG 2.1 Rebadged Memotec CX-U

EfficientSite Hybrid 0.1 Based on AVIAT controller

EfficientSite Controller 2.05.520 AVIAT01

Based on Asentria 550 controller

Juniper WSG-R JunOS 9.5 WSG-R 1.1 and JunOS WSG-R 1.2 – 1.3

M7i & M10i series

Megastar See below

Microstar See below

LE3000 1.770

LE3200 1.9

Radwin WinLink 1000 1.800

Radwin 2000 2.3

Sagem ADR155C See below

Sagem ADR2500 See below

SAGEM-LINK See below

SPECTRUM II SNMP 2.06 build 2 This build applies to SII radio and NMCC.

StarMAX BS 16d 3.0 6100 and 6400 Base Stations. Note that launching BS EMS/craft tool is only supported on 3.1.1.3 and later firmware.

StarMAX BS 16e 4.0 – 4.2.1 6100 and 6400 Base Stations. Note that launching BS EMS/craft tool is only supported on 3.1.1.3 and



Device Version Notes

later firmware.

StarMAX SS - WiMAX Subscriber Stations

TNet Proxy 6.0.6

TRuepoint See below

Velox IDU / ODU TBD Earlier versions don’t support Event collection.

WiChorus SmartCore 1.3 SmartCore ASN-GW / HA SC20, SC100, SC600

XP4 2/4/8x See below

XP4 16/E3/T3 See below

XP4 2/4/8x Version Notes

NMI (2MB RAM variant)

3.4a

2/4X IDU 4.7c

4/8X IDU 2.4b

2/4X Plus ODU 1.4a

2/4X Classic ODU 4.8c

4/8X Plus ODU 2.2a

4/8X Classic ODU 2.2a

2/4/8X Plus + ODU 3.0a

8X Switch 2.0

XP4 16/E3/T3 Version Notes

NMI (2MB RAM variant)

3.4a

16X/DS3/E3 IDU 1.4c

DS3/E3 IDU 1.5

DS3/E3 Plus ODU 1.4a

DS3/E3 Classic ODU 1.4a

DS3/E3 Plus + ODU 1.4b

E3 NERA-MSU Switch 2.1a

DS3 SU Switch 1.2b

E3 SU Switch 1.2b

E3 ES-MSU Switch 1.2b

E3 NE-MSU Switch 1.2b

DS3/E3 SU Switch 1.3

Notes: Note – The XP4 2MB NMI required. The 1MB NMI card is not supported.

DART Version Notes

NMI 1.0a

ODU 1.3

SAGEM-LINK Version

Notes: Note – These are the SW versions developed and tested with.

Space Diversity (1+1 16xE1)



SAGEM-LINK Version

Notes: Note – These are the SW versions developed and tested with.

NMI AL13411A12AE

IDU AL14341A07

ODU AL13594A08A

Hot Standby (1+1 16xE1)

NMI AL13412A08AE

IDU AL14341A02

ODU AL13594A08A

Non Protected (1+0 8xE1)

NMI AL13411A12AE

IDU AL14331A06

ODU AL13594A08A

TRuepoint

Version

Notes

4000 3.0.8

4040 1.0.5 – 1.0.6

5000 v1 4.0.4 – 4.16.1 With v1 Controller card

5000 v2 6.0.8 – 7.9.2 With v2 Controller card

6400 1.0.9 – 1.2.5

6500 V06L03R01 onwards

Tested with v6.3 and v6.9 firmware. All variants, including Double Terminal configuration.

Microstar Version Notes

Microstar Type I TBD Support all released MIB variants

Microstar Type II TBD Support all released MIB variants

Microstar Type III TBD Support all released MIB variants

FarScan Proxy Device FarScan Proxy Version

Notes

Aurora 6.3 / 3.0.4

CAU 6.3 / 3.0.4 Control Alarm Unit

Constellation 6.3 / 3.0.4 Software Version 6 and later

DVA 6.3 / 3.0.4

DVM 45 6.3 / 3.0.4

DVM xT 6.3 / 3.0.4

Megastar M:N 6.3 / 3.0.4

Megastar 1+1 6.3 / 3.0.4

Sagem Version Notes

ADR155C P2.5 – P5.4

ADR2500 eXtra P2.4.10 Tested with P2.4. In theory all versions supported.



Craft Tools Supported

The in-built craft tools support the following software versions.

Craft Tool Version Notes

Altium and Spectrum II WMT N/A Version determined by radio.

DXR NET 3.0B

Eclipse Portal N/A Version determined by radio.

LE3000 Manager 1.770

TNet Web 1.0.2 Internet Explorer must have Java 1.6 installed

TRuepoint WebCIT N/A Version determined by radio.

TRuepoint 6500 WebLT N/A Version determined by radio.

RADWIN Manager 8.2.01

StarMAX BS EMS N/A Version determined by device.

Velox NCT 3.0.3

XP Web 1.3.1 Internet Explorer must have Java 1.6 installed

Note: The RSL graph, 15-min statistics, and daily statistics will not be shown correctly in XPWeb and TNet Web if Java 1.6 plug-ins not installed. Java 1.6 for Windows can be downloaded and installed from http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp

Java Supported

ProVision incorporates Java 2, Standard Edition (J2SE), version 1.6.0, update 16. This is for Windows and Solaris 9 and 10 installations. It is also referred to as “6.0” by Sun Mircosystems. Note that, if you are running this on a Solaris server, you need to ensure that you are upgraded to Java version 1.6.0.16, provided on the ProVision DVD.

http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp



Operating Systems Supported

Operating System PV Server PV Client Notes

Windows 2000 Pro Yes Yes

Windows 2000 Server Yes Yes Requires Service Pack 2 or later.

Windows XP Pro Yes Yes

Windows 2003 Server Yes Yes Standard and Enterprise Editions supported. SP1, SP2, and R2 versions supported. 32 and 64 bit and versions supported by Server and Client, however craft tools not yet verified on 64 bit. 64 bit version needed for >4GB RAM.

Windows 2008 Server Yes Yes Standard and Enterprise Editions supported. 32 and 64 bit and versions supported by Server and Client, however craft tools not yet verified on 64 bit. 64 bit version needed for >4GB RAM.

Windows Vista Not supported

Yes

Windows 7 Not supported

Not supported

Planned for future release

Solaris 9 (SPARC), 64 bit version 8/03 and 4/04

Yes Not supported

8/03, 4/04 SPARC Platform Edition. No additional patches required. Also requires 64 bit support (default install setting).

Solaris 10, 64 bit version

Yes Not supported

Also requires 64 bit support (default install setting).



Generic Device Packages

The following table lists the devices for which ProVision Generic Device Support (GDS) packages currently available for order. The list is constantly being updated, so for the latest information please contact Aviat Networks.

Each GDS package has been created and tested by Aviat Networks engineers and allows customers to perform fault management and cut through to local craft tools.

Manufacturer Model Name

4RF Aprisa XE 4RF Aprisa XE

Adtran MX2800 Adtran MX2800 Mux

Adtran OPTI-6100 Adtran OPTI-6100 Mux

Adtran Tracer 6000 series Adtran Tracer 6000 series Microwave Radios

Alcatel MDR-8000 Alcatel MDR-8000

Argus Cordex CXC Argus Codex CXC

Asentria SiteBoss S500 series Asentria SiteBoss S500 Series Remote Alarm Unit

Asentria SL81 Asentria SL81 Remote Alarm Unit

Bayly OMNI Flex Bayly OMNI Flex DACS

Bayly OMNI Optix Bayly OMNI Optix Mux (Resync only)

Bayly OMNI Optix Bayly OMNI Optix Mux

Benning MCU Benning MCU Power Supply Controller

C&D Technologies

Sageon Sagenet Interface C&D Sageon Power Supply Controller

CAC Wide Bank 28 CAC Wide Bank 28 Mux

Cisco ASA 5500 Cisco ASA 5500

Eltek Smartpack Eltek Smartpack Power Supply Controller

ETI ADH NETCOM ETI ADH NETCOM Dehydrator

Exalt EXi series Exalt EXi series Microwave Radios

Fujitsu Flashwave 4100 Fujitsu Flashwave 4100 Mux

Harris Intraplex Harris Intraplex

Loop Telecom O9100 Loop Telecom O9100 Mux

MultiTel iS3, Fusion, Mirador, Remote Site Management

MultiTel iS3, Fusion, Mirador, Remote Site Remote Alarm Units

Tejas TJ100 Tejas TJ100 Mux

Tejas TJ1600 Tejas TJ1600 Mux

Telco Systems OTM1000 Telco Systems OTM1000 Mux

Tellabs 8600 Tellabs 8600 Managed Edge System



Server Loading Values

Node License Count (NLC) indicates the license points required to manage a device type. Server

Loading Value (SLV) indicates the relative loading on the ProVision Server through managing a

device type. Max indicates the maximum number of each device type that can be supported by a

single ProVision Server.

Total Server Loading Value (MAX) must be < = 6,000.

Device NLC SLV Max Notes

Altium 1 1 6,000

Aurora 1 1 6,000

CAU 1 1 6,000 Control Alarm Unit

Constellation 1 2 3,000

DART 1 1 6,000

DVA 1 1 6,000

DVM 1 1 6,000

DXR 100 / NMI 1 1 6,000

DXR 200 1 1 6,000 SMA Proxy to DXR 200 network.

DXR SMA / 700 1 2 3,000 Average ratio of 2 x 700 per SMA.

E-Band E-Link 1000EXR 1 1 6,000

Eclipse IDU 1 2 3,000

Eclipse INU, INUe 1 3 2,000 Average ratio of 3 x ODU per INU.


1 1 6,000 Rebadged Memotec CX-U

EfficientSite Controller 1 1 6,000 Based on Asentria 550 controller

EfficientSite Hybrid 1 1 6,000 Based on AVIAT controller

Generic Device 1 1 1,000

Juniper M7i/M10i WSG-R 5 5 1,200

LE3000 1 1 6,000

LE3200 1 1 6,000

Megastar 1+1 SPU 2 2 3,000 SPU provides two STM1 radio channels

Megastar M:N SPU 2 2 3,000 SPU provides two STM1 radio channels

Microstar Type I 1 1 6,000

Microstar Type II 1 1 6,000

Microstar Type III 1 1 6,000

Radwin 2000 1 1 6,000

Radwin WinLink 1000 1 1 6,000

Sagem ADR155C 1 2 3,000

Sagem ADR2500 1 2 3,000

SAGEM-LINK 1 1 6,000

StarMAX 6100 BS 1 2 3,000 NLC is per 1 per BS sector

StarMAX 6400 BS blade 1 2 3,000 NLC is per 1 per BS sector

StarMAX ASN-C 5 5 1,200

StarMAX SS 1 1 6,000 Only VIP SS should be deployed

TNet 0 1 6,000

TR4000 1 1 6,000

TR4040 1 1 6,000

TR5000 1 1 6,000

TR6400 1 2 3,000

TR6500 MSTU 1 0.5 12,000 E.g. (3+1) = SLV 2; (7+1) = SLV 4

Velox LE 1 1 6,000

WiChorus SmartCore 2 1 3,000 NLV = 2 per MSC

XP4 1 1 6,000



Depending on the hardware configuration, a single ProVision server can support a maximum SLV of 6,000.

Please refer to the SUN hardware and Windows hardware tables below to see how the node loading value relates to the hardware specifications.

The number of node licenses required to manage a network is based on the number of managed network elements where typically 1 node license = 1 SNMP / IP address deployed into the ProVision server database.

The exceptions to this rule are:

TRuepoint 6500 where each MSTU provides one radio channel and a fully loaded link can support up to 8 radio channels – therefore 8 node licenses per terminal might be required.

MegaStar where each SPU provides 3 radio channels therefore the node license per terminal is 2 instead of 1.

XP4 remote managed links where just 1 NMI card and IP address is used to manage both ends of an XP4 link.



Minimum Hardware Specifications

This section describes the minimum hardware specifications for ProVision.

Specific recommended hardware to meet these requirements is described in the next section.

Minimum Server and LAN Hardware Specifications

The following table lists the Windows server and LAN hardware requirements. The hardware specification is dependent upon the Node Loading Value, described in the previous section.

Total Server Loading Value

Minimum Windows Server specification (* where also running Client session)

Minimum Solaris Server specification

Minimum Windows Client specification

Up to 100 1 GHz (*2 GHz) processor

512 MB (*1 GB) RAM

2 GB (*3 GB) HD space to install and operate

Ethernet LAN card

Sun Blade 150

650 MHz processor

1 GB RAM

2 GB HD swap space

4 GB HD space to install and operate (inc swap space)

Ethernet LAN card

1 GHz processor

512 MB RAM for all except Vista 1 GB RAM

1 GB free HD space to install and operate

Ethernet LAN card

10 Mbps LAN connection per Client connected to Server

17” monitor

Min. display resolution 1024 x 768

32-bit color

100 to 700 2 GHz processor

1 GB RAM

20 GB HD space to install and operate

Ethernet LAN card

Sun Blade 150

650 MHz processor

2 GB RAM

4 GB HD swap space


Ethernet LAN card

2 GHz processor

1 GB RAM


Ethernet LAN card


19” monitor


32-bit color

700 to 3,000

3 GHz processor

2 GB RAM


Ethernet LAN card

Sun Fire V440R

2 x 1.5 GHz processors

4 GB RAM

8 GB HD swap space


Ethernet LAN card

3 GHz processor

1 GB RAM


Ethernet LAN card


19” monitor, 32-bit color


3,000 to 6,000

2 x 3 GHz processor

4 GB RAM


Ethernet LAN card

Sun Fire V440R

2 x 1.5 GHz processors

4 GB RAM

8 GB HD swap space


Ethernet LAN card

3 GHz processor

1 GB RAM


Ethernet LAN card


19” monitor, 32-bit color




Notes:

• When additional features are added to the ProVision product, the RAM requirements may increase for the node counts specified above.

• It is recommended that client sessions are not executed on large server deployments.

WAN Client Server and WAN Client Specifications

The following minimum hardware specification is required to operate a PV WAN (or thin) Client solution:

Total Server Loading Value

Minimum Windows WAN Client Server specification

Minimum Windows WAN Client specification

Up to 6,000 1 – 3 client sessions:

3 GHz processor

Base RAM requirements for Windows or Citrix + 512 MB per PV Client session

Ethernet LAN card 4 – 6 client sessions:

Dual 3 GHz processors


Ethernet LAN card 7 – 15 client sessions:

Quad core Intel Xeon processor OR multiple processor equivalent


Ethernet LAN card

1 GHz processor

512 MB RAM

Ethernet LAN card

19” monitor


32-bit color



LAN Client to Server Latency Specification

It is important to follow the required latency specifications for ProVision. The performance of the ProVision system is affected by the latency between the Client and the Server. In a system with multiple Clients, high latency between the Server and a single Client will affect the performance of all clients, both LAN and WAN based.

Latency in msec Notes

Recommended 10 This is the recommended minimum latency for any ProVision Client connection to the ProVision Server.

Maximum 20 This is the maximum latency for any ProVision Client connection to the ProVision Server. Exceeding this value will result in poor performance.

It is probable that the latency specification may be exceeded when a ProVision LAN client is used remotely (e.g., VPN or WAN connection). When this is the case, a ProVision WAN client solution must be used.

Symptoms of slow latency are:

Slow start-up.

Slow object deployment.

Slow object detention times.

Client intermittently closing.

Client freezing with grey screen.

If you find problems with these release notes, or if you discover a product defect, please contact an Aviat Networks Technical Help Desk. Refer to page ii for Technical Help Desk contact details

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