NAKINA NETWORK TROUBLESHOOTING CONSOLE
Eradicate swivel chair management with a single, consolidated view of your multi-vendor network.
Network operators typically struggle with many element management interfaces, methods, and procedures for managing their multi-vendor networks. The dizzying array of solutions most often don't adhere to the same standards, interoperate with one another, or even appear on the same graphical user interface (GUI).
Displays multivendor Fault and Performance in the context of multivendor topology
Nakina Network Troubleshooting Console provides a consolidated view of your network, aggregating faults and alarm data and displaying multi-vendor network topologies in an easy-to-use GUI. It also serves as a dedicated launch point for all Nakina Network Applications in addition to integrated third party software applications as well as Nakina’s Shelf Level graphics. It is essentially a "mini-NOC" for network operations personnel, making network administration simpler and more powerful for all users.
Inventory Browser
The Nakina Inventory Browser allows you to view and manage equipment in the NE that has either been automatically discovered or otherwise datafilled. Using a flexible query capability to search for NEs under its span of control, users can drill down to shelf-level graphics that include circuit pack and port-level detail.
The Inventory Browser is intended for network operators to have quick access of physical and logical inventory data while conducting operations in the field. Via systems integration through the open Nakina framework interface, service providers can feed collected inventory data available in the Nakina northbound interface into best-in-class inventory management systems such as those available from Amdocs/CRAMER, Telcordia/Granite, and Netcracker, or a service providers’ in-house developed inventory management system.
Fault Manager
The Nakina Fault Manager application is used to configure the collection and management of alarms and events from managed network elements, in addition to setting preferences for dealing with Nakina security violations and application alarms.
Daily automated fault reporting sends files to a Nakina managed file server so that the reports can be used by third-party applications (by the world’s foremost fault correlation applications, like IBM Netcool, EMC Smarts, and HP Openview TeMIP) to perform trend analysis.
For each managed NE, administrators can configure granular preferences, such as those in monitoring the status of active and historic alarms, events, and threshold crossing alarms, color-coding the severity of alarms, and the like.
Performance Monitoring
The Nakina Performance Monitoring (PM) application supports the collection of physical layer, Ethernet, SDH, SONET (etc.) statistics as described in the Telcordia GR0253 standard, and as supported by a vendor’s network element and its adapter. Network element performance data from any number of different element types is collected by the Nakina solution and made available through a single integration point to performance monitoring OSS applications like IBM/Vallent and Infovista.
The PM application further supports the collection of proprietary, non-standard counts, such as power levels, when supported by the NE and its adapter. PM groups are automatically loaded into Nakina when a network element is added under management, and administrators are able to further refine the configuration of PM groups collected for that model of NE, including parameters such as the frequency with which old PM data is removed.
As a single point of integration into the northbound performance monitoring applications, Nakina dramatically simplifies integration costs and accelerates the adoption of new network element types to the benefit of service providers and equipment vendors alike.