Managing the TMN
Stelios Sartzetakis, Costas Stathopoulos, Vana Kalogeraki, David Griffin
Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas
Abstract
Whereas the scope of the Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) [M. 3010] is to manage networks and services, the scope of metamanagement is to manage the TMN itself. Although the management of the TMN is identified in the standards as one of the basic TMN management services, it is marked as "for further study" [M. 3200]. In this paper we present the basic requirements of metamanagement, the design and implementation of these TMN metamanagement extensions. The OSI Directory Service is used to store information about the TMN resources, CMIS/CMIP is the basic management service/protocol, and FTAM is used for distribution of software and configuration files. Metamanagement agents communicate with other specialised management processes, providing the TMN metamanagement service, according to the OSI manager/agent model. We show how this model is used to aid the configuration of prototype TMNs and how this can be automated to evolve to a self-managed, self-configured TMN.
Full paper in "Bringing Telecommunication Services to the People," proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Intelligence in Broadband Services and Networks, Clarke, Campolargo and Karatzas, editors, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 1995.