Alcatel-Lucent 5620 SAM
S e r v i c e A w ar e M a n a g e r | R e l e as e 6 . 0 / 6 . 1
One unified platform for element, network and service management of converged IP/Ethernet/MPLS
multiservice networks
Streamlining IP/MPLS
network management
The Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service Aware
Manager (SAM), Release 6.0/6.1 is a
single management platform offering
element, network and service manage-
ment for advanced Layer 2 and Layer 3
network solutions and services based
on the Alcatel-Lucent converged IP,
Ethernet and Multiprotocol Label
Switching (MPLS) networking
portfolio:
• Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router
(SR), Releases 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 and 6.1
• Alcatel-Lucent 7710 SR, Releases 5.0,
6.0 and 6.1
• Alcatel-Lucent 7450 Ethernet Service
Switch (ESS), Releases 4.0, 5.0, 6.0
and 6.1
• Alcatel-Lucent 7250 Service Access
Switch (SAS), Releases 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0
• Alcatel-Lucent 7705 Service Aggre-
gation Router (SAR), Release 1.0
• Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6400
(as of R6.1), 6850, 6855 (as of R6.1),
Release 6.3
• Telco T5C 24G, 24GT, 24T, 24F and
48T variants running BiNOS 6.3
• Third-party equipment using the
generic network element (GNE)
feature for session launch, configu­
ration, alarm surveillance, and
topology display
Overcoming service delivery
and assurance challenges for
operational excellence
The 5620 SAM helps service providers,
cable multiservice operators (MSOs)
and enterprise customers address the
key challenge of ensuring operational
excellence while they converge services
over their IP/MPLS network-infrastruc-
tures and introduce advanced IP-based
services to customers, including busi­­
nesses, residential subscribers and
partners. The 5620 SAM has evolved
beyond the traditional element-man­
agement-system fault, configuration,
accounting, performance and security
(FCAPS) functions to tightly integrate
equipment, routing, network and
service management.
The 5620 SAM sets the standard in
automating and simplifying each
aspect of the service-deployment life
cycle: from robustly managed network-
infrastructure growth through con-
tinually increasing platform scalability,
to expansive service provisioning that
allows for increased productivity, to
heightened assurance that proactively
prevents problems and quickly isolates
those that arise, to vital statistics for
service billing. It also allows for strate-
gic product evolution with the Alcatel-
Lucent product portfolio that facilitates
entrance into new business opportuni-
ties in managed virtual private network
(VPN) business services, triple play,
metro Ethernet aggregation, mobile
aggregation/backhaul and enterprise
Ethernet access.
High performance,
highly modular
The 5620 SAM, Release 6.0/6.1 consists
of four functional modules:
• SAM Element Manager (SAM-E):
Element management providing
traditional FCAPS functionality
• SAM Provisioning (SAM-P): Network-
infrastructure management, scripting,
service provisioning and customer
management
• SAM Assurance (SAM-A): Physical-,
network- and service-topology
views; operations, administration
and maintenance (OAM) service-
diagnostics tools (fault/service/cus­
tomer correlation and configuration-
change management)
• SAM OSS Interface (SAM-O):
Operations support system (OSS)
interface gateway
The 5620 SAM is the cornerstone of the
Alcatel-Lucent SR management port­
folio and is used in combination with
other applications to deliver seamless
solutions.
The 5650 Control Plane Assurance
Manager (CPAM) offers real-time
control plane visualization, proactive
control plane surveillance, configura-
tion validation and control plane
diagnosis, and with the 5620 SAM,
enables service providers to assure
network and service availability
against control plane misconfigura-
tions, malfunctions and undetected
routing updates, and also accelerates
service problem resolution over an IP/
MPLS infrastructure.
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In the Alcatel-Lucent leading Triple
Play Service Delivery Architecture
(TPSDA), the 5620 SAM is integrated
with the Alcatel-Lucent 5750 Subscriber
Service Controller (SSC) to offer dynamic
policy provisioning and session access
control (SAC) based on bandwidth
availability. This capability arms service
providers, cable MSOs and enterprise
customers with the flexibility to offer a
variety of residential subscriber services
through self-care portals without impact-
ing the quality of experience of other
users. The 5620 SAM also plays a critical
role in management for aggregation
in the Alcatel-Lucent Metro Ethernet
Network Architecture (MENA) and
Mobile Evolution Transport Architec-
ture (META).
Key features
Network commissioning
automation and assurance
Network commissioning and assurance
encompass the equipment, routing
and service-tunnel provisioning and
troubleshooting necessary for prepar-
ing the network to deliver services.
Automation for these tasks can signifi-
cantly prevent misconfiguration so
that services can be delivered faster.
Assurance provides network visibility
so that problems are easily detected
and isolated for quick resolution during
and after the commissioning process.
The 5620 SAM offers four methods of
automating commissioning, thereby
increasing the speed and reducing the
risk of errors during the network-
commissioning phase:
• Concurrent, multiple-object edit-
ing using a GUI-driven, form-based
configuration method
• Predefined configuration steps
guided by wizards
• Managed command line interface
(CLI) scripting that extends configu-
ration to third-party devices
• Policy-driven configuration and
object autocreation
The 5620 SAM also provides network-
configuration assurance using policy
auditing, which reports deviations from
established policies. These policies are
used by operators or OSS applications
to bulk-configure parameters on various
objects. Changes to policy parameters
are applied to all objects using the
policy, thus reducing the amount of
time required to update a configura-
tion. Policies can also be used to auto-
create objects based on a set of rules.
Autocreation of service tunnels in a
group of routers, according to a user-
defined topology, is an example of
rule-based policy commissioning.
The 5620 SAM policy management
enhances standardization and network
predictability. Troubleshooting is also
simplified with managed CLI scripting
for third-party device configuration, in
which the system compares new scripts
with records of standard configurations.
Layer 2/Layer 3 VPN and
composite service-provisioning
acceleration
The 5620 SAM supports the following
services, which follow the same provi-
sioning model to ensure consistency
and reduce operator errors:
• Internet enhanced services (IES)
• Ethernet virtual local area network
(VLAN) services
• Virtual private wire services (VPWS),
also known as virtual leased lines
(VLL) (Ethernet, ATM, frame relay,
IP pseudo-wires), including pseudo-
wire switching and redundancy
• Virtual private LAN services (VPLS)
• Multicast virtual private LAN services
(MVPLS)
• Virtual private routing networks
(VPRN), also known as IP-VPN
• Service mirroring
Service providers, cable MSOs and
enterprise customers can define service
policies, bind them to service templates,
and eliminate repetitive and error-prone
data entry. This enables providers to
customize and standardize their service
offering, allowing operators to provi-
sion services rapidly and consistently.
The 5620 SAM features GUI point-and-
click service creation. Service templates
and workflow wizards guide operators
step-by-step through the process of
specifying customer information, select-
ing service endpoints, and predefining
service policies and their attributes (for
example, per-service or per-subscriber
quality of service [QoS], access control
list [ACL] filters, and schedulers).
For operators that manually bind sites
to service tunnels, the 5620 SAM can
automate service-tunnel bindings in
the opposite direction. For accelerated
activation, a service can be instanti-
ated through automatic mesh binding
between sites. The newly activated
service can be tested by simply trigger-
ing one of the tools in the service test
suite. Individual component tests related
to the newly provisioned entity are
automatically created, with detailed
test results containing numerous test-
specific data — response states and
values, target/source information,
probes, timeouts, loss, jitter, average/
min/max/standard deviation, sum-of-
squares, round-trip times and more —
for the specified test (chosen from
numerous ping, trace and other tests).
Test success or failure is reflected with
a separate operational status flag. For
flow-through provisioning, templates,
policies, automatic binding and auto-
matic post-testing are also available.
In addition to the services listed above,
the 5620 SAM supports composite ser-
vices that combine multiple services,
such as:
• VLAN connections to a hierar­
chical VPLS
• IES spoke into a VPLS
• VPLS connected to two customer
premises equipment (CPE)
Ethernet rings
• VPRN (IP-VPN) to VPLS intercon­
nection to form a new end-to-
end service entity
This multiservice association is auto-
instantiated using service-connection
points, correlated with any faults
found on the embedded service com-
ponents and displayed on the service
topology map.
View of all physical and logical
layers of the network
The 5620 SAM offers a comprehensive
array of physical-network or logical-
network views that support operators
during configuration and subsequent-
ly during troubleshooting. Service-
affecting problems can range from
simple to complex for quick diagnosis
and resolution; for example:
• A physical hardware problem leading
to a down-port state
• Misconfigurations of port-mode,
encapsulation, or MTU size
parameters
• Failing to add a service access point
(SAP) to a service
• An OSPF, IS-IS or BGP routing-instance
network-interface misconfiguration
that causes a lack of interface peer-
ing, causing MPLS label switched
paths (LSPs) to go down, that in turn
cause service tunnels (session distri-
bution points [SDPs]) to go down,
and so on
Even with a fully redundant Alcatel-
Lucent SR network with configured
service resiliency, there is always a risk
that problems may surface. The 5620
SAM is ready to alert and make the root
cause of these problems visible so that
corrective actions can be taken quickly.
In addition to the traditional equip-
ment view and physical topology, the
5620 SAM offers OSPF and IS-IS views,
which are organized by areas and show
routing adjacencies. Also available is a
network view, in which operators can
drill down into any network element
(NE) to view its configured protocols
(OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, Label Distribution
Protocol [LDP] and MPLS) and their
associated interfaces, administrative
status and membership area.
The topological maps graphically depict:
• Physical topology
• LSP topology
• Service-tunnel topology between
nodes
• Service topology, including color-coded
active/standby paths, deduced VPRN
topology, and end-to-end composite
services maps
The service-topology maps are invalu-
able for operators who need to visual-
ize all resources traversed by a service,
including the actual routes across
the network.
Root cause and service-
impact analysis
The 5620 SAM offers integrated fault
and service management: alarms gen-
erated by a network object are propa-
gated to higher-level objects in the
managed-object hierarchy. This imme-
diate correlation of network events
with services enables service providers,
cable MSOs and enterprise customers
to quickly determine which customers
are affected by a network event.
A service alarm can be further lever-
aged to determine the sites and ser-
vice components that are affected.
A state cause, such as a binding or
MTU mismatch, can be found against
the affected components, pointing to
the root cause of the impacted service
and enabling operators to quickly
identify the cause of the outage.
The 5620 SAM, Release 6.0/6.1 offers
enhanced alarm correlation that can
dramatically reduce the number of
alarms in the alarm window by collaps-
ing correlated alarms into a single
correlating alarm for easy determina-
tion of the root cause of the problem.
An object life-cycle status has also
been introduced, allowing further
filtering on in-service alarms for
Network Operations Center (NOC)
operations or maintenance/commis-
sioning alarms for those performing
provisioning tasks.
Service verification and
proactive SLA testing
The 5620 SAM has a number of leading
service-aware diagnostic tools to verify
all aspects of operation, both end-to-
end and across all IP, Ethernet, MPLS
and transport layers. Test suites, com-
bined with an ordered series of service-
aware OAM tests, simultaneously test
every aspect of a group of services or
network objects such as routers, LSPs
or tunnels. The 5620 SAM automatically
creates all necessary individual OAM
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tests for each entity contained in the
group. In addition, tests are automati-
cally updated when objects are added
to or removed from a group.
Test suites can also be scheduled for
each service and compared to configu-
rable parameters, such as jitter, delay
and packet-loss metrics, to proactively
detect service and network degrada-
tion. Rule-based alarm notification
further automates service assurance
and adherence to service level agree-
ments (SLAs) by directing the opera-
tor’s attention and escalating alarm
severity when a test suite fails certain
criteria over a defined period of time.
User security with Scope of
Command and Span of Control
In a time of corporate mergers and
acquisitions, outsourcing and organi-
zational change, service providers are
being pushed to cross corporate and
global boundaries to fulfill expanding
mandates and responsibilities. Networks
may now be used by others worldwide,
and change management and secure
access are critically important and/or
even demanded by government regu-
lations and policies.
With the 5620 SAM Span of Control,
providers can subdivide their networks
to the lowest level of NEs to assign
clear ownership with enforcement
using security privileges (for example,
subdivide by geographic location, orga-
nizational groups, role/job function,
or on an individual basis).
The 5620 SAM, Release 5.0 introduced
Scope of Command to allow only spe-
cific users the privilege of using specific
functional operations and commands.
Now, the 5620 SAM, Release 6.0/6.1  that is correlated with end-to-end
introduces Span of Control to protect
against prohibited user functions
within the scope of the network and
to assign service-management respon-
sibilities by allowing only specific users
to access specific NEs.
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Mediation for OSS applications Upgrade service
The 5620 SAM functionality is fully The upgrade of the 5620 SAM software
accessible through an open OSS inter- components in a network requires a
face. The open OSS interface uses thorough understanding of 5620 SAM
Extensible Markup Language (XML) system administration and operating
and Java Messaging Service (JMS) to system (OS)-specific requirements. The
seamlessly integrate with external OSS upgrade procedure must be planned,
applications for flow-through process documented, and tested in advance on
automation of frequent management a lab system that is representative of
tasks such as inventory management, the target live network. Alcatel-Lucent
service activation, performance man- offers an upgrade service that should
agement and fault management. OSS be engaged for upgrades.
systems can also create and execute
CLI scripts to configure, activate and The 5620 SAM upgrade service ensures
retrieve faults for third-party devices, that proper planning is done to allow
thereby reducing costs by providing a for a successful upgrade. It allows for
single and stable integration point for the necessary preparation, including
a large number of NE types. an assessment of upgrade require-
ments for network implementation
At the time of each new 5620 SAM of the 5620 SAM software, method of
release, the 5620 SAM-O further reduces procedure (MOP) development, and
OSS integration time and cost by certi- lab-environment testing that delivers
fying a number of established brand consistent, repeatable upgrade results.
products from industry-leading indepen- The upgrade service also includes
dent software vendors (ISVs), such as technical support from experienced
Axiom, Cariden, EMC (formerly Smarts), Alcatel-Lucent subject-matter experts,
HP, IBM (formerly Micromuse and who are available to assist and answer
Quallaby), InfoVista and Subex Azure questions during or after the upgrade.
(formerly Syndesis), through the Alcatel-
Lucent Connected Partner program.
Custom Service Portal
and OSS toolkits
The Alcatel-Lucent Custom Service
Portal and OSS toolkits enable service
providers, cable MSOs and enterprise
customers to create or supplement an
existing customer portal by using the
Alcatel-Lucent Portal Development
Service (PDS) to fully leverage the 5620
SAM-O interface. The service-aware
nature of the 5620 SAM and the avail-
ability of all services through the 5620
SAM-O interface provide a compre-
hensive, end-to-end customer view
operational status and supported by
extensive testing capabilities.
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Feature BenefitS

Continued evolution with the Alcatel-Lucent equipment portfolio, The 5620 SAM is tightly integrated with the SR-release portfolio cycle and
with the following new equipment support: continues to evolve with new releases of the SR platform, as well as expanding
its breadth of support for the greater Alcatel-Lucent portfolio, including
• 7750 SR, R6.0 and R6.1
strengthening of the META solution in mobile Radio Access Network (RAN)
• 7710 SR, R6.0 and R6.1 aggregation/backhaul with support of the 7705 SAR, and in enterprise
• 7450 ESS, R6.0 and R6.1 Ethernet access for metro/triple play applications with support of the
OmniSwitch 6400 (as of R6.1), 6850, and 6855 (as of R6.1).
• 7250 SAS, R3.0
• 7705 SAR, R1.0
• OmniSwitch 6400 (as of R6.1), 6850, 6855 (as of R6.1), R6.3
Continued growth, to manage even larger networks with increased scalability: Enables support of increasingly large networks on a single 5620 SAM
server pair, complemented by distributed servers for collection of
• Tripled the network size the 5620 SAM can manage, reducing the need for
processing-intensive statistics.
multiple 5620 SAM installations
• Increased the number of supported media dependent adapters (MDAs),
from 8000 to 16,000
• Increased the concurrent OAM tests by 1150% (2300), from 200 to 2500
• Increased the performance statistics collected each 15 minutes by 25%
(100,000), from 400,000 to 500,000
• Increased the accounting statistics collected each 15 minutes by 650%
(5,200,000), from 800,000 to 6,000,000
• Distributed statistics-collection platform
Heightened service availability with enhanced assurance: Alarm correlation, when applied, can dramatically reduce the number of
alarms in the alarm window by collapsing correlated alarms into a single
• Alarm correlation and suppression
correlating alarm for easy determination of the root cause of the problem.
Heightened service availability with enhanced assurance: Object life-cycle status allows further filtering on in-service alarms for NOC
• Object life-cycle status (in-service, maintenance/commissioning) operations or maintenance/commissioning alarms for those performing
provisioning tasks.
Heightened service availability with enhanced assurance: Detect and resolve faults preventatively when using scheduled IEEE standard
• Service test manager/OAM test enhancements: OAM tests to monitor network services end-to-end.

¬ LDP Equal Cost Multipath Protocol (ECMP) support, including tree discovery
and display and path probing using the new LDP Tree Trace test
¬ IEEE 802.1ag Ethernet Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) support, includ­-
ing new Loopback Ping, Link Trace, and Continuity Check (CC) Ping tests
¬ Loop detection added for IEEE 802.3ah Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM)
extensions support
¬ New Virtual Circuit Connectivity Verification (VCCV) Trace test added
Heightened service availability with enhanced assurance: Real-time visualization and side-by-side comparison of statistics from
• Real-time statistics collection different objects make troubleshooting easier.

• Historical and real-time statistics graphing

Heightened service availability with enhanced assurance: Statistics-collection granularity enhancement improves scalability by reducing
• Statistics-collection granularity the collection of unnecessary statistics.

Heightened service availability with enhanced assurance: Using statistics in the 5620 SAM is now easier with the new workflow.
• New statistics workflow for top-down and bottom-up flows
Heightened service availability with enhanced assurance: Proactively and reactively resolve crossed thresholds configured in the
• Performance-monitoring thresholds and activating counters 5620 SAM for performance monitoring.

Heightened service availability with enhanced assurance: Much richer GUI display features and map extensions make it easier to
• GUI enhancements and GUI map extensions troubleshoot in increasingly large networks. For example, the new data-
reduced flat map is designed to support scaling to more than 1000 devices.

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 Expanded service offerings, faster, with enhanced scripting development tools
such as the Service Template GUI Builder that supports:
• Widgets (drop-down/selection, filtered, Boolean lists, and so on)
• Calling scripts within scripts for simple cascading
• Output format scripts for changing look-and-feel
Develop CLI/scripts that can be deployed centrally across the entire network
using a sophisticated GUI builder. Develop scripts to easily provision a service
by looking at a map and selecting the multiple endpoints of the service. The
5620 SAM scripting simplifies flow-through provisioning for all service types
with a few templates, using a service topology and common model of all
services, including redundancy and variance.

• Queries displaying 5620 SAM data in template form

Protected the Network with enhanced security: • Block attempts to change equipment/routers by users who are not within
an operator’s profile (for example, for port or site configurations).
• Span of control
• Block attempts to access scripts, templates, and test suites outside of an
operator’s span.
• Add prefiltering to a user profile for common objects, alarms and OSS (for
example, users could only see LSPs terminating on a router inside their span).
• Routers can be added to a span using discovery rules, listing and selection,
or drag-and-drop into a profile.

Technical features

5620 SAM-E

Equipment configuration management • Out-of-band management of VPN or in-band management of communication channels
• Node mediation and equipment configuration
• Device and resource autodiscovery
• Configurable polling and management information base (MIB) update policies
• Policy-based backup, restore and upgrade of software on devices
• GUI-based equipment, network and routing-domain views
• Equipment and network-inventory administration, browsing and querying
• GNE and interface discovery, physical-link creation and topology-map display
• GNE Telnet, Secure Shell (SSH) and Web-interface session launch
Security management • Local password-based access or Remote Authentication Dial-In User Server/Terminal Access Controller
Access Control System Plus (RADIUS/TACACS+) user authentication and authorization
• Operator-profile management, support of functional access domains, Scope of Command, and Span
of Control based on user roles
• Authentication and logging of OSS interface and user activity
• SNMPv3 trap authentication
• Secure access to NE interfaces using SSHv1/v2
• Secure file transfer using Service Control Points (SCPs)
Fault management • Multiple alarm window for alarm surveillance and logs, including surveillance of third-party device alarms
• Alarm correlation and synthesis
• Policy-based fault escalation, de-escalation and severity assignment
• Global and private user filters
• Configurable alarm-information field
Performance management • Distributed statistics-collection platform
• Real-time statistics collection
• Historical and real-time statistics graphing
• Setting of performance-monitoring thresholds and activating counters
• Equipment and interface statistics-reporting system management
System redundancy • Redundant management and database server for fast system failover
• Load-sharing statistics-collection platforms

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 5620 SAM-P

Service creation and subscriber management Service templates, policies and workflow wizards to enable the delivery of:
• Point-to-point and multipoint Ethernet services (Ethernet VPWS [VLL] and VPLS):
¬ private data-networking applications such as intranet access and aggregation for residential triple play
(hierarchical VPLS [H-VPLS], MVPLS)
• Multipoint IP-VPN and multicast (MPLS/BGP VPRN, Internet Group Management Protocol [IGMP], Protocol-
Independent Multicast [PIM]- Source-Specific Multicast [SSM])
• IES (extranet and differentiated Internet access)
• Internet BGP peering services
• Mix-and-match access technologies: frame relay, ATM, Ethernet and SONET/SDH for VPWS (VLL) services
• Composite service creation: combination of multiple component services interconnected by SCPs
• Service-mirroring creation
• Automatic bidirectional, meshed SDP bindings during service creation
• D ynamic/static subscriber management, allowing the selection and monitoring of host profiles (bridged or
routed by application type), subscriber-identification policies, and SLA policies
• Access policies: definition and application of QoS policies on subscriber access ports, including anti-spoofing
filters, Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) cache configuration, ACL, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
(DHCP) relay, IGMP proxy
• Network tunnel (SDP), MPLS path and LSP management and visualization
• Routing domain management: IS-IS, OSPF, BGP, RIP, static routes, MPLS IP multicast (PIM) and IP redundancy
(Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol [VRRP])
• Port and interface creation and configuration
• Script manager with GUI builder: managed CLI scripts with version control that can be executed through
custom-designed GUIs built using common widgets and formatted using output format scripts for look-
and-feel
• GNE provisioning using a CLI script applied to third-party CPE devices
• Network policies: definition and application of QoS policies for parameters such as Differentiated Services
Code Point (DSCP), forwarding class, and MPLS experimental (EXP) marking
• Buffer policies for managing buffer pools and weighted random early detection (WRED) slopes
• Queuing and scheduling, including multilevel hierarchical QoS policies
• QoS marking and forwarding policies based on Layer 2, 3 or 4 fields
• Routing policies: routing, MPLS administrative groups, and VRRP priority and control
• Subscriber identification policies to associate dynamic hosts with subscribers

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 5620 SAM-A

Alarm troubleshooting tools • Service alarms: instant propagation of equipment alarm to services embedding the affected object
• Root cause analysis: alarm view offers alarm cause, affected object list and related object list
OAM tools • ATM ping, LSP ping, LSP trace, LDP ECMP tree trace, IEEE 802.1ag CFM, CFM loopback ping, CFM link trace,
CFM CC ping, MTU ping, SDP ping, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) ping, ICMP trace route,
multicast trace, multicast router information, service site ping, Domain Name System (DNS) lookup, VPRN
ping, VPRN trace, CPE ping, multicast forwarding information base (MFIB) ping, VCCV ping, VCCV trace,
Media Access Control (MAC) populate, MAC ping, MAC trace, MAC purge
Service assurance • Service test manager:
¬ predefine a group of OAM tests in an integrated test suite to concurrently verify the end-to-end service
and the underlying network layers or simultaneously test a group of similar objects
¬ schedule OAM test suites to proactively monitor SLA compliance using configurable metrics such as
latency, delay, packet loss, and threshold crossing alerts (TCAs)
¬ track object or topology changes to automatically generate OAM tests for new entities
• Configuration change management: definition of scripts that retrieve configuration information to compare
to initial node configuration
• Policy audit to automatically detect deviations from the standard configuration
• Service mirroring to centralize service traffic analysis
• Equipment, network and routing views: navigation tree with nested views for:
¬ physical equipment
¬ OSPF areas, router and interface membership
¬ IS-IS areas, interface, neighbors
¬ ring group, VLAN membership
¬ network: all protocols enabled on the NE (for example, BGP, LDP, MPLS, OSPF, PIM, Resource Reservation
Protocol [RSVP]), with drill-down into groups, adjacencies, interfaces and configuration
• Physical and topology maps:
¬ physical topology
¬ LSP topology with LSP cross-connect topology
¬ SDP topology
• Service and composite-service topology, to view network objects involved in the delivery of a service
and their status, including redundant paths
• Searching for and display of the following parameters in any combination:
¬ subscriber, service ID and/or service type
¬ physical chassis, input/output (I/O) module, port or channel (for example, SONET/SDH)
¬ SDP (an access point to a network traffic trunk)
¬ MPLS LSP or Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) tunnel-supporting services
¬ historical statistics: collection and display of statistics for a given period
¬ accounting: collection and display of accounting data for Layer 2/Layer 3 interfaces on selected
or all services
¬ service accounting policies: setting of accounting profile per service/per port

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 5620 SAM-O

• Ten simultaneous 5620 SAM-O applications

• XML interfaces for inventory, provisioning (including third-party devices), monitoring and statistics export
• Media Server (MS) channel for event and alarm monitoring, including alarms from third-party devices
• Software development kit with sample code and developer’s guide:
¬ enables customers to retrieve service information such as services, service status, service alarms and statistics
¬ enables customers to perform predefined OAM tests on their services

Operating environment
The Alcatel-Lucent 5620 SAM, Release 6.0/6.1 operates on:
• Solaris™ 9 or 10 for Scalable Performance Architecture
(SPARC) platforms from Sun Microsystems
• Solaris 10 x 86 for AMD-based platforms from Sun
Microsystems®
• Microsoft ® Windows® 2000/2003/XP Professional/
Vista Business and Ultimate 32-bit editions
• Linux® (for 5620 SAM clients only)

Table 1. Minimum hardware requirements for 5620 SAM, Release 6.0/6.1 running on Windows platform*

Application Platform OS

5620 SAM database • Intel Pentium 4, 3 GHz or higher • Windows 2000

®
• Includes Oracle 10g database • 2 GB RAM • Windows 2003
• Stores network objects and configuration • 50 GB disk space for the database • Windows XP Professional
• Windows Vista Business
• Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit edition
5620 SAM server • Intel Pentium 4, 3 GHz or higher —
The 5620 SAM server is installed on a • 2 GB RAM
workstation separate from that of the
• 15 GB disk space
5620 SAM database workstation.
5620 SAM client • Intel Pentium 4, 2 GHz or higher —
• GUI presentation front-end • 512 MB dedicated RAM
• A maximum of one client per PC • 1.5 GB disk space
• 1280 × 1024 display resolution

*5
 620 SAM, Release 6.0/6.1 platform sizing is available from Alcatel-Lucent. Contact your Sales or Sales Engineer representative for specific platform-sizing
recommendations.

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Table 2. Minimum hardware requirements for 5620 SAM, Release 6.0/6.1 running on Sun Solaris*

Application Platform Platform SPARC™ T1 Platform Sun AMD Opteron

(UltraSPARC III, IIIi, IV, or IV+) (Solaris 10 only) (Solaris 10 only)

5620 SAM database • 2 CPUs, 1 GHz or higher • 1 CPU (4-core), 1 GHz or higher • 2 CPUs (dual-core)
• Includes Oracle 10g database • 4 GB RAM • 8 GB RAM • 8 GB RAM
• Stores network objects and configuration • 2 disk drives, at least 73 GB each • 2 disk drives, at least 73 GB each • 2 disk drives, at least 73 GB each
• Solaris 9 or 10
5620 SAM server • 2 CPUs, 1 GHz or higher SPARC T1 (Solaris 10 only) • 2 CPUs (dual-core)
The 5620 SAM server is installed on a • 4 GB RAM • 1 CPU (4-core), 1 GHz or higher • 8 GB RAM
workstation separate from that of the
• 73 GB available disk space • 8 GB RAM • 2 disk drives, at least 73 GB each
5620 SAM database.
• Solaris 9 or 10
5620 SAM • 2 CPUs, 1 GHz or higher
Distributed Statistic Collection Platform • 4 GB RAM SPARC T1 (Solaris 10 only) • 2 CPUs (dual-core)
• 73 GB available disk space • 1 CPU (4-core), 1 GHz or higher • 8 GB RAM
• Solaris 9 or 10 • 8 GB RAM • 2 disk drives, at least 73 GB each
5620 SAM client • 1 CPU, 1 GHz or higher
(UltraSPARC III or IIIi)
• GUI presentation front-end — ­­—
• 512 MB dedicated RAM
• Only one client should be installed
per platform • 1 GB available disk space
• 1280 × 1024 display resolution
• Solaris 9 or 10
• 5 sessions: 1 CPU, 2 GB RAM
• 10 sessions: 2 CPUs, 4GB RAM
• 20 sessions: 4 CPUs, 8 GB RAM

*5
 620 SAM, Release 6.0/6.1 platform sizing is available from Alcatel-Lucent. Contact your Sales or Sales Engineer representative for specific
platform-sizing recommendations.

Table 3. Minimum hardware requirements for 5620 SAM, Release 6.0/6.1 clients running on Red Hat ® Linux*

Application Platform OS

5620 SAM client • 1 CPU, 2 GHz or higher • Red Hat Enterprise WS 3.0 Linux
• GUI presentation front-end • 1 GB RAM
• Only one client should be installed per platform • 1 GB available disk space
• 1280 × 1024 display resolution

*5
 620 SAM, Release 6.0/6.1 platform sizing is available from Alcatel-Lucent. Contact your Sales or Sales Engineer representative for specific
platform-sizing recommendations.

Table 4. 5620 SAM, Release 6.0/6.1 scalability limits per 5620 SAM server

Item description Release 5.0 limits Release 6.0/6.1 limits

MDA 8000 16,000

Services 1,000,000 1,000,000
SAP 5,000,000 5,000,000
Simultaneous operational 5620 SAM GUI clients 100 100
Outstanding alarm-list entries 50,000 50,000
GNE 10,000 10,000
Concurrent OAM tests (per 10 min.) 200 2500
Performance statistics (per 15 min.) 400,000 500,000
Accounting statistics (per 15 min.) 800,000 6,000,000
Statistic collection Allows separate 5620 SAM server and statistics- Allows separate 5620 SAM server and statistics-
collection Distributed Statistic Collector Platform collection Distributed Statistic Collector Platform

Please refer to 5620 SAM 6.0/6.1 Planning Guide for the most up-to-date detailed information on scalability and scalability limits.

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