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The document discusses fault management and proactive maintenance in telecommunications networks. It covers topics like fault diagnosis, alarm correlation, health checks, and backup plans. The key aspects are: 1) Fault management involves detecting, isolating, and correcting faults to ensure normal network functioning. It analyzes information and abnormalities during operations. 2) Proactive maintenance aims to reduce errors and prepare for situations where faults cannot be easily fixed. This includes health checks to verify system status and software levels, as well as backup plans for major faults. 3) Other sections provide definitions of terms like faults, alarms, and explain concepts such as fault diagnosis, alarm correlation, health checks and their components, and backup verification.
Fault management presentation
- 1. Fault Management and Proactive Maintenance Ardhita Banu Adji Irnanta wahyu andari Wibisono Juhdi
- 2. Overview • Nowadays it is a matter of a course that you can use your mobile phone anytime almost everywhere. This makes fault management one of the most important aspect of network management. The most of the problems are, but not all. The reason for this is limited amount of time used in the testing and also the fact that these systems will be used in the several different network environments, with different vendors equipments connected to the nodes.
- 3. Chapter 1 : Introduction • Greater demands and the increasing dependency of people in the mobile communications networks are the main driver of creating the better error detection mechanisms for mobile networks. Modern mobile communications networks may produce hundreds of alarms during one day. Fault situations can arise for example from hardware and software failures bor from operational errors • One solution for this problem is that all the alarms are divided into classes so that for example A1 alarm is the most critical alarm class and A2 is the second class of alarms and so on
- 4. Chapter 1.1 :Concept Definitions Fault => a fault is defined as a cause of malfunctioning, Faults are responsible for making it difficult of preventing the normal functioning of a system and they manifest as themselves through errors, that s, deviations relation to the normal operation of the system Alarm => notifications concerning detected faults or abnormal conditions, which may or may not represent an error, an alarm report is a kind of event report used in the transportation of alarm information. Alarms that are defined by the vendors are observable by the network operator.
- 5. Chapter 2 : Fault management • One of the most important areas in the telecommunications network management is the management of fault occurred during the normal operation of these networks. definition fault management is about detection, isolation and correction of faults. The main requirement to perform fault management : 1. Existence of information on the network's real time functioning 2. The abnormalities that occur during the operation
- 6. Chapter 2.1 : Fault diagnosis • Fault diagnosis is a stage in the fault management process which consists of finding out the original cause for the received alarms by formulate a set of fault hypotheses and Finding the root cause of a problem
- 7. Chapter 2.2 : Alarm correlation a conceptual interpretation of multiple alarms, leading to the attribution of new meaning of the original alarm 1. Compression -> reduce multiple occurrences of an alarm 2. Counting -> consists of generating a new alarm 3. Suppression -> temporary inhibition of alarms to a given events 4. Scaling -> alarm is canceled and another is created 5. Filtering -> suppressing a given alarm 6. Generalization -> replacing an alarm by the alarm corresponding to its super-class1. 7. Specialization -> The reversal of generalization
- 8. Chapter 3 : Proactive maintenance Purpose : reduce the errors and faults in the network and also to prepare for the situations where there is no fast or easy way to fix the fault
- 9. Chapter 3.1 : Health check • Health Check : Predefined set of commands to be executed in the system to find out if the system is functioning correctly or not. • Health check script : consists of commands to be executed in the health Check Commands. • Alarms : If there are alarms health check script will write an entity to the result file. • Configuration errors : the most common problems that systems have. • Status of the Software level : checked if there is any newer software level available • Software comparison : between the nodes are compared to verify that those are exactly the same.
- 10. Chapter 3.2 : Backup plans • In case there is a major fault which needs an immediate recovery actions, backups are very essential The more important the device the more often the backups should be taken. After the backups are taken, verification of integrity of the data should be checked in order to be sure that backup is actually valid
- 11. Conclusion Since the demand of demand mobile communication so, the problem occurs more often and sometimes it can leads to the distraction of using mobile communication. In this case, fault management explain about how we can maintain fault management, errors, alarm detection, or maybe software and hardware miss behave on the device.
- 12. Answer And Question 1. Explain why fault management is the one of the most Important aspect in network Management? • Answer : Because it is a matter of a course that you can use your mobile phone anytime almost everywhere, and Modern mobile communications networks may produce hundreds of alarms during one day and for that great number of alarm it is very important to manage all of the fault real time or not and The most of the problems are, but not all. The reason for this is limited amount of time used in the testing and also the fact that these systems will be used in the several different network environments, with different vendors equipments connected to the nodes
- 13. • 2. What cause An alarm ? • Answer : When The detected fault or abnormal conditions occurs in the device. In the ideal situation every fault (hardware, software or configuration) and abnormal situations happening in the network would cause an alarm, and the alarm text would indicate unambiguously where the problem is.
- 14. 3. What is Fault Management ? Answer : Fault management is about detection, isolation and correction of faults by Analyze Existence of information on the network's real time functioning and notice abnormalities that occur during the operation in a device
- 15. 4. Explain fault diagnosis and alarm correlation! Answer • Fault Diagnosis -> stage in the fault management process which consists of finding out the original cause for the received alarms. Before getting to the original cause it may be necessary to formulate a set of fault hypotheses, which will be needed to possibly reproduce and validate the problem. Finding the root cause of a problem is essential for effective fault management • Alarm Correlation -> a conceptual interpretation of multiple alarms, leading to the attribution of new meaning of the original alarm by : 1. Compression -> reduce multiple occurrences of an alarm 2. Counting -> consists of generating a new alarm 3. Suppression -> temporary inhibition of alarms to a given events 4. Scaling -> alarm is canceled and another is created 5. Filtering -> suppressing a given alarm 6. Generalization -> replacing an alarm by the alarm corresponding to its super- class1. 7. Specialization -> The reversal of generalization
- 16. 5. What is the relation between fault management and Pro active management? Answer : In our Opinion The relation of fault management and pro active management is fault management has the task before proactive management do its task because fault management finding detection, isolation and correction of faults and after that with pro active management will help to reduce the error and also to prepare for the situations where there is no fast or easy way to fix the fault so both of them have the task which is related to each other, that is if there is not fault management, how can we reduce or even prepare to the worse case if we don’t know what are the problems.
- 17. What do we do in proactive maintenance? Explain each of these! Answer : Health Check : elements that help reduce fault • Health Check : Predefined set of commands to be executed in the system to find out if the system is functioning correctly or not. • Health check script : consists of commands to be executed in the health Check Commands. • Alarms : If there are alarms health check script will write an entity to the result file. • Configuration errors : the most common problems that systems have. • Status of the Software level : checked if there is any newer software level available • Software comparison : between the nodes are compared to verify that those are exactly the same. Back up Plan In case there is a major fault which needs an immediate recovery actions, backups are very essential The more important the device the more often the backups should be taken. After the backups are taken, verification of integrity of the data should be checked in order to be sure that backup is actually valid Example back up plan : • Sometimes it is possible that there is such a major software fault or fault that is very hard to localize or fix. In these kinds of situations only way for fast recovery is to use existing backups and restore the system from those. The backups should be taken often and should be stored to a place which is remotely accessible