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RELEASE 8.0
The Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM) provides unified service and application-aware network
management of IP/MPLS and Carrier Ethernet networks.
CATEGORY FEATURES
Base platform • Distributed, high-availability architecture for redundancy and fast system failover
• In-band and out-of-band management
• Subnet-based auto-discovery of network elements and their configuration
• Third-party network element and interface discovery
• Real-time synchronization with network element changes
• Equipment and network inventory administration, with browsing and querying capabilities
• Configurable MIB polling policies and schedules – for OAM tests, for example
• Telnet, Secure Shell (SSH) and web-interface session launch
Fault management • Scalable alarm and SNMP statistics collection
• Multiple instances of alarm windows with custom filters and direct navigation to objects with alarms
• Comprehensive array of physical or logical network views
Configuration management • Easy-to-use, GUI-based device and network configuration:
¬ Physical resources, such as media dependent adapters (MDAs) and ports
¬ Logical ports, Link Aggregation Groups (LAG) and network interfaces
¬ Access port and network Quality of Service (QoS) policies and parameters
¬ Buffer, queuing and scheduling policies, including hierarchical QoS policies
¬ QoS marking and forwarding policies based on Layer 2, 3 or 4 fields
• Rules-based backup, restore and upgrade of device software
• Enforce custom naming of objects, such as services and tunnels, and specify numeric ranges for IDs
Security management • Operator-profile management, including support of functional access domains and user roles:
¬ Scope of command: Allow/prohibit specific user functions within the scope of the network
¬ Span of control: Allow/prohibit user access to specific network elements or groups of elements
• Logging of user and OSS interface client activity
• RADIUS/TACACS+ user authentication and authorization or local password-based access
• SNMPv3 trap authentication
• Secure access to devices using SSHv1/v2 and secure file transfer using Service Control Points (SCPs)
CATEGORY FEATURES
CATEGORY FEATURES
Topology maps • Highly scalable topology maps with support for third-party resources:
¬ Physical topology, including support for 802.1ab link adjacencies
¬ LSP topology with LSP cross-connect topology
¬ Service tunnel and SDP topology
¬ Service topology to view status of underlying network objects involved in the delivery of a service
¬ Composite service topology – combining multiple services in a single view for end-to-end assurance
- VPRN (IP-VPN) to VPLS
- VLAN connections to a H-VPLS
- IES spoke into a VPLS
- VPLS connected to two CPE Ethernet rings
• Advanced layout algorithms
• Extensive grouping and filtering capabilities
• Dynamic maps that display and overlay additional troubleshooting information, such as OAM test results
and trace highlighting after point-and-click execution of OAM monitor tools from map
Alarm management • Service alarms: Instant propagation of physical and logical resource alarms to affected services
• Direct navigation from alarms to affected and related objects
• Advanced alarm correlation to identify root cause
• Extensive alarm filtering and search capabilities
• Customizable alarm information fields
• Flexible definition of rules for fault escalation, de-escalation and severity assignment
• Integrated with leading OSS vendors for multivendor fault management (SAM-O required)
Service Test Manager (STM) • Verification of end-to-end services and underlying network layers
• Concurrent tests of groups of objects
• Grouping of OAM tests in an integrated test suite for concurrent execution
• Scheduled OAM test suites to proactively monitor configurable metrics such as latency, delay, packet
loss and threshold-crossing alerts
• Automatically generated OAM tests based on object or topology changes
Performance management • Distributed, load-balanced statistics-collection platform for:
¬ Performance statistics
¬ Accounting data including Server Assignment Answer (SAA)
• Real-time statistics collection and graphing
• Historical statistics archival and graphing
• Definition of performance-monitoring thresholds
• Service accounting policies per service or per port
• Integrated with 5670 RAM, which provides application traffic flow collection, warehousing and analysis
for residential subscribers and business VPN sites
• Integrated with leading OSS vendors for billing, performance and SLA management (SAM-O required)
Additional troubleshooting capabilities • Hierarchical navigation tree with extensive parameter filtering and searching capabilities
• Tracking of changes from baseline configuration to current state
• Auditing and reporting of network configuration deviations
• Network and routing policy auditing
• Traffic engineering tool for path optimization
• Integrated with 5650 CPAM, which provides control plane visualization for proactive detection and rapid
resolution of control plane issues
CATEGORY FEATURES
Table 5. Alcatel-Lucent 5620 SAM, Release 8.0 feature and benefits summary
FEATURE BENEFITS
• New Wireless Packet Core solution-specific applications for: • Simplifies management of Alcatel-Lucent IP/MPLS-based Wireless Packet
Provisioning: Core service
¬ Tracking area and control-plane bearer creation • Provides unique ability to relate mobile services (Packet Core and E-UTRAN)
to underlying transport connectivity, OSI layers 1 to 3 such as ports, physical
¬ Creation tool for step-by-step configuration of Serving Gateway (S-GW)
links and routed network
and Packet Data Network Gateway (PDN-GW)
• Enables operators to perform cross-domain mobile service-aware
¬ Rules-based configuration audit
management by providing:
Assurance:
¬ Streamlined provisioning to turn-up mobile services quickly
¬ Multilayer management views including control-plane and
¬ Proactive assurance for the mobile-network infrastructure to prevent
user-bearer topologies
problems before they impact services
¬ Failure impact analysis and alarm correlation
¬ Reliable mobile-service-specific troubleshooting tools that allow
¬ Bearer path OA&M testing and control plane thresholds operators to isolate whether problems exist in packet core or underlying
¬ Proactive and on-demand IP reachability monitoring by leveraging IP transport network
the 5650 CPAM ¬ O perational efficiency and flexibility for ease of integrating existing
¬ Performance management including bearer context and service data systems, workflows and processes
flow (SDF) statistics
OSS integration:
¬ Enhancements to northbound OSS interface
• Multicast VPN provisioning and assurance for business services Simplifies management of multicast business VPNs
• Service CAC support Dynamically control bandwidth allocated to services based on CoS assignment
• Increased platform scalability to support network and service growth Increased operational efficiency and operator productivity
• Map enhancements for executing OAM and displaying results information
on topology
• Span of control user-privilege enhancements to restrict views of read-only
users for topologies and lists
• New user security for restricting functions by customer and service
• Enhanced support of managing routers over IPv6 for discovery, switching
from IPv4, trap handling
• Increased end-to-end management visibility for IPSec VPN assurance and
simplified IPSec configuration of public and private service pairs for an
IPSec VPN
• Support for new releases of previously supported equipment and new Continuous access to new equipment features through the 5620 SAM
equipment
• Integration with: Access to the latest management capabilities for control-plane assurance and
¬ 5650 CPAM, Release 4.0 application-level reporting for business VPNs
¬ 5670 RAM, Release 3.0
• Support for new partner-application releases certified through the Alcatel- Extended OSS integration support
Lucent OSS Connected Partner Program
Table 6. Minimum hardware requirements for Alcatel-Lucent 5620 SAM, Release 8.0 running on a Sun Solaris 10 platform
5620 SAM main server: • 2 CPUs (dual-core) • 2 CPUs, 1 GHz or higher N/A
• It is recommended that the • 8 GB RAM • 4 GB RAM
5620 SAM server be installed on • 2 disk drives, minimum 73 GB each • 2 disk drives, minimum 73 GB each
a workstation separate from that
of the 5620 SAM database for
large-scale deployments
5620 SAM database: • 2 CPUs (dual-core) • 2 CPUs, 1 GHz or higher N/A
• Includes Oracle® 10 g database • 8 GB RAM • 4 GB RAM
• Stores network objects and • 2 disk drives, minimum 73 GB each • 2 disk drives, minimum 73 GB each
configuration
• 5620 SAM server can be installed
on a workstation separate from
that of the 5620 SAM database
for large-scale deployments
5620 SAM auxiliary server: • 2 CPUs (dual-core) • 4 CPUs, 1.5 GHz or higher • 1 CPU (4-core), 1 GHz or higher
• For statistics collection • 8 GB RAM • 8 GB RAM • 8 GB RAM
• Dedicated server only required • 4 disk drives, minimum 73 GB each • 4 disk drives, minimum 73 GB each
for large-scale deployments
5620 SAM client: • 1 CPU, 1 GHz or higher • 1 CPU, 1 GHz or higher N/A
• GUI presentation front-end • 1 GB dedicated RAM • 1 GB dedicated RAM
• Only one client should be installed • 1 GB available disk space • 1 GB available disk space
per platform • 1280 × 1024 display resolution • 1280 × 1024 display resolution
5620 SAM client delegate and third- • 4 CPU cores • 4 CPU cores • 1 CPU (4-core), 1 GHz or higher
party remote display server: • 16 GB dedicated RAM • 16 GB dedicated RAM • 8 GB RAM
• Single client install for multiple • 1 GB available disk space • 1 GB available disk space
GUIs for multiple users
For a maximum of 15 concurrent GUIs. For a maximum of 15 concurrent GUIs.
• Citrix is recommended third-party Increased hardware specifications are Increased hardware specifications are
remote display software required as number of concurrent required as number of concurrent
GUIs increases. GUIs increases.