HUAWEI iManager U2000

Pre-sales Specialist Training

Version: V1.0 (20130605)

1 Market Overview andClick to add Title
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Features Introduction

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U2000 for NGN
Unified Management Visible Maintenance
Smooth Evolution Expert Diagnosis

Decreasing TCO

Unified Network
Management System (NMS)

Green NMS Global Cooperation

Energy Reduction Fast Integration

Target: The U2000 provides End-to-End (E2E) operation and maintenance solutions with the lowest
Operating Expenditures (OPEX) in Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC) and ALL-IP transformation.

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Network Position
Business Management Layer
BMS

SMS
Service Management Layer

Huawei iManager
NMS
Network Management Layer
U2000

EMS EMS EMS

Network Element Management Layer

Network Element Layer

Access
U2000 LCT
Transmission Data
U2000 Unified NMS: Transmission, IP, Access Network Unified Management, Element Management
1 Layer (EML), and Network Management Layer (NML) functions are converged.

The U2000 meets the management requirements for the transformation from a Vertical Network to
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a Flat Network.

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Highlights
Comprehensive Extensive Network Management, Increasing Network Efficiency
 Management capacity expands to 20,000 Enterprise Network Elements (ENEs),
covering a city with more than 30 million people.
 The first unified network management solution in the industry provides a single
set that can unify management for the aero-amphibious network.
Rapid Service Provisioning and Fault Location Smooths All-IP Evolution in the
Simple Transport Network
 Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) and Packet, Automatically Switched Optical
Network (ASON) and Non-ASON mixed service provisioning satisfy the diverse
needs of operators.
 Service status diagnosis accurately displays the service’s health status.
Localized Localized O&M Product, Close to the Customer
 The Tomcat network interface provides all-service intelligent cutover, uniformly
ensuring rapid network expansion.
 From planning to deployment, time to market for new services is shortened,
helping customers seize opportunities.

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Unified NMS for Smooth Evolution
Smooth Transition to Multi-Domain Management
Cost Savings Smooth Backward
Upgrades Compatibility

Can running on the old No impact on original data Backwardly compatible

server to manage No interruptions to with diverse equipment
existing network network monitoring versions

The U2000 is a unified NMS from T2000, N2000 DMS, and N2000 BMS

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Giant Network Management Capacity
Management Capacity 20,000
UNIT: Equivalent NEs
15,000

6,000
2,000
500

Small Common Middle Large Super-large

Smooth expansion of management

1 capabilities to cover all network sizes
Maximum
Equivalent NEs
Maximum Physical

Transport ≤20,000 ≤15,000

Additional software module to implement
2 Access ≤20,000 ≤1.2 M ONTs
unified management IP ≤20,000 ≤15,000

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Protect Your Investment:
High Availability Solution
Switch Conditions
• Key Process Down • Hardware Failure
• OS Failure • Core Link Failure
Disk Array Primary Secondary Disk Array
Heart Link
Duplicate Link
NMS Server NMS Server
HA 1:1 Remote Hot Backup
DCN
Network
Client
1 HUAWEI’s HA solution adopts 1:1 hot protection. Switchover time is less than 15 minutes.

By using the disk array, network data storage is more secure and reliable, with a higher
2 system I/O efficiency.
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3-1
Network service management capacity is a major highlight in the U2000. It
can manage transmission and IP domain service as E2E and the GUI operation
interface to decrease training costs and enhance O&M efficiency.

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U2000 E2E Service Management Features

1 Visualization
Graphical network service creation and presentation reduce operator
training costs.

2 Efficiency
Network services can be developed efficiently through E2E
for Transport and IP.

3 Integration
Alarm and performance management modules can be
integrated through E2E, keeping pace with network
services.

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Lower Input and Learning Requirements
Command Line
Graphical Interface
Interface

PE-B
PE-A VPN Tunnel

PE-C

• Four-step Click-and-Play for services improves efficiency by 80 percent

compared to a Command Line Interface (CLI).

• Graphical operation eliminates the need for a command line, reducing

learning difficulty by 80 percent compared to CLI.

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Efficient Network Service Deployment
Template
Provides Tunnel / L3VPN / VPLS / PWE3 / QoS parameter template for service
creation, reducing input parameters by 80 percent.

Duplication
Selects new nodes to implement service duplication. This feature is used for
service development when the service module is the same, improving efficiency
by 30 percent in specific scenarios.

Batch
Tunnel development based on the logical network module to increase efficiency 2 to
3 times.

Import
Service can be input to and output from an Excel file.

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Trailblazer: SDH and MSTP
2000 2001 2002 ...... 2011 ASON
Full Graphics

Alarm WDM
SDH

Performance
Microwave
MSTP

MSTP E2E service management is implemented via visualization, eliminating CLI, reducing
1 O&M challenges and costs, and improving O&M efficiency.

O&M experience and design ideas can be delivered to ASON, Wavelength Division
2 Multiplexing (WDM)/Optical Transport Network (OTN) and microwave domains, adding to
reduced O&M costs and improving O&M operator efficiency.

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Industry Leader: Microwave Management
E-Line & E-LAN Trunk Link
PWE3 Ethernet VC12 Link
Tunnel SDH Service Link

FE/E1
NodeB/BTS
RTN
SDH
RTN SDH
FE/E1
NodeB/BTS SDH
RTN RTN
SDH
RTN Service Link SDH Service Link
VC12 Link
Trunk Link

1 Provides E2E management for Package and Hybrid Microwave (MW), simplifying MW O&M.

Reuses SDH E2E management framework to implement combined management of TDM MW

2 and SDH services.

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Easy and Quick WDM E2E
Client
ODUk
OTS
OMS
Och
VCN
A B C
Service X 1 2
U2000
Displays the OTN trail in hierarchy, making it easy to see the relationship and status of
1 services.

Dual directional trails can be merged into one bidirectional trail, simplifying service
2 management.
Subscribers can check their own service’s status via the Virtual Customer Network (VCN),
3 which is implemented over the Web.

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Smooth MS-OTN O&M
VPLS
PWE3
Tunnel
Client
ODUk
OCh

A B C

Inherits the existing O&M platform to manage the MS-OTN service in E2E, reducing training
1 costs and speeding operation of the MS-OTN network.

2 Supports management of static Tunnel/PWE3/VPLS services in E2E.

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 Intelligent ASON E2E
Control NE_A NE_B

NE_C NE_A NE_B

NE_D
Transmission
NE_A NE_B

NE_C NE_D NE_C NE_D

Provides SDH and WDM ASON E2E management, improving service provisioning and
1 maintenance efficiency.
Provides network resource management capabilities, including resource reservation, link
2 resource warning, Shared Risk Group (SRG), and route optimization, to ensure the network is
fully used.
Provides a Service Level Agreement (SLA) policy to fulfill each subscriber’s requirements,
3 improving customer satisfaction.

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 Unified Monitoring Portal for E2E
PWE3 E2E
IP Tunnel E2E
OTN E2E

Administrator U2000 Trans.

The administrator must check the fault state of the

network service at many service management portals
when network alarms are raised.
......

The U2000 provides a unified fault monitoring portal for E2E service, which includes all types
1 of IP and transport E2E services.

The administrator does not need to jump to each type of E2E management portal to check
2 the fault state of E2E services. The system will display the service’s interrupt state.

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3-2
The U2000 performance management module includes a real-time
performance monitor, historical performance management, Threshold
Crossing Alarm (TCA), and Top N monitoring to provide the most advanced
network performance solution.

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Network Health Assistant
Massive Data
 Mass performance data storage
 15,000 collection instances

Scheduling
 Network performance collection can be managed based on task
and execution can be scheduled.

Template
 Required performance indicators can be managed through a template.

Graphical Display
 Performance can be displayed in a graph or table.

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OSS Integration Interface
 Less Data
Real-time
 Real-time High

 Massive Data
Analysis
 Real-time Low

Program interface: Data transmission efficiency is low, and real-

XML and CORBA time analysis is high.

ASCII interface: Data transmission efficiency is high, and real-time

FTP (ASCII) analysis is low.

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 Summary
1 Current TOP N 1
Performance Performance

Historical Performance
Basic 2
Performance Grade
2
Tool
Function
3 TCA TOP N TCA 3

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3-3
Alarm management is a basic function of NMS, but it also very important in
network O&M, because a high quality alarm management solution can greatly
increase network troubleshooting efficiency.

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Key Points for Network Failures

Available
Too many alarms being displayed make it hard
to locate vital alarms.

Scope
It is difficult to learn the scope of network failures.

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 Mass Alarm Management

Maintenance Status

Transient Analyze

Correlation Analyze

Merger
U2000
Translate Chinese
under graphic

-20% to 30% -70% to 80% -20% -20% to 30% 9%

Maintenance Status Set the project symbol during network building phase to decrease
attention paid to insignificant faults.

Transient Analysis Set the alarm flashing period to decrease the quantity of flashing
alarms and show only one record.

Correlation Analysis Quickly locate root alarms in massive alarms.

Merger Only display one duplicate alarm record’s frequency value in a single
object.

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Identify “Meaningless” Alarms
P
NodeB/BTS CE1 PE PE

Cell CE2 P
P’
PE’ PE’
NodeB/BTS’ CE4’

Cell’ CE5’ P’
Decrease
Alarms that occur during network construction are meaningless and will
meaningless 1 affect O&M.
alarms by
By setting equipment status as maintenance, alarms will be generated with
30%.
2
the maintenance symbol, easily alerting the operator of the nature of the
alarm.

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Quickly Find the Root Cause
ExtLink_Down

MplsTunnelDown
Link_Down Port_Down
isisAdjancencyChange
PWVCDown

P
PE PE
CE1

Root Derivative
CE2 P

Reduce time Alarm correlation analysis helps operators find the root alarm and determine
1 the scope, improving troubleshooting efficiency.
to find root
alarms by
The U2000 allows operators to redefine the correlation rules, based on the
20%.
2
current network.

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Transient Alarm Analysis
Flexible Connection Update Alarm
Interval Severity
Element Fault
Generate NM
Duration Alarm
Laser Aging Transient
Alarm Suppress and Generate
NM Alarm
Protocol Shake
Quantity
Dirty Fiber Head ……
Reduce If the alarm interval is active for less than the defined interval, the alarm
transient
1 will be shielded
alarms by

40%. 2 Setting a reasonable interval is necessary to shield transient alarms.

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Merging Alarms: Repeat Analysis
Transient Repeat
Alarm ＜ ≤
Defined
Interval Alarm ①
Alarm Records

Occurrence frequency

Reduce Alarms that last longer than the transient interval are considered repeat
repeat
1 alarms. Excessive repeat alarms will affect troubleshooting and hinder
alarms by historical tracing.

20%. 2 The U2000 can merge multiple alarms into one, showing only the latest
alarm, and can store history and frequency times.

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 Multiple Alarm Notification Methods
OSS
XML Corba SNMP

Northbound

Notiication
Extend
Alarm box
E2E NE
Module Module

SMS Modem
Alarm Message

The received alarm message will be shown in E2E, NE management, etc., and transported to OSS
1 through XML, Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), Simple Network Management
Protocol (SNMP).
Voice and light alerts are supported on the client side, as well as alarm box, SMS, and email, in a
2 comprehensive effort to notify operators of the alarm.

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Template-based Alarm Management

Apply to

Name, Severity, Type, Time,

Equipment, Object Group

Alarm Panel
The alarm management framework is implemented by template. It is easy and convenient for
1 alarm management, and the template can be shared among users.

2 The template contains abundant conditions to apply to different scenarios.

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Service-oriented Fault Location
What is service-oriented fault location?

A: Manage the service alarm.

B: Locate the affected services.

1 Automatically analyzes the affected service by alarm, shortening the manual analysis process.

2 All alarm-influenced services can be viewed with one click, increasing fault location efficiency
by 30 percent.

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3-4
iManager U2000 displays the network clock information as a topology and
shows multiple clocks in a single topology, conveniently informing the
operator of clock relationship and status.

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Clock Visualization
1588 V2 Slave IEEE 1588V2 1588 V2 Master

TC PRC

FE

OC
NodeB OC+BC RNC

TC

The unified clock view supports automatic clock topology searching without requiring other
1
operations.
Clock alarm, tracking relationship, and protection can be monitored in real time, and clock
2
views can be filtered by clock type and equipment.

3 Multiple icons can be assigned to each clock status, improving clock maintenance efficiency.

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Virtual Clock

OC+TC

TC OC+TC

OC+TC OC (Third-Party)

The U2000 provides virtual clock equipment and virtual clock links to help the operator build a
comprehensive clock view.

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Authorization
Client A（R） Client B(W)
To maintain unique services for
Scene 1 Huawei


special operators.
U2000
To manage a large network based
Scene 2


on area.
Service A
Different teams can manage
Scene 3 

different services. Service B

Forbids operation during specified

Scene 4 

times.
U2000 Solution
Authority Domain Time
 To distribute different  To distribute user  Supports configuring

rights for NMS users operation domains to users’ validity during

based on device and restrict management specific times.
E2E service. scope.

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Management by Area
P
PE PE
P
Operator A
Area A
NodeB CE
SW MSE/SR
Enterprise

Area C OLT
Splitter

Government Metro Platform 2 U2000 Operator B

Metro Platform 1
BTS CE
BRAS/SR
Area B
Cell DSLAM
Operator C

It is difficult for individual operators to manage a large network and, without separation, it is
1
difficult for multiple operators to perform network maintenance.

The U2000 supports network management based on area to restrict operator management
2
scope.

3 Operators can assign E2E services to specified users to implement service operation by area.

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Privilege Division

Administrator
U2000

Operator

ME Network

The U2000 provides an ideal user privilege management mechanism to restrict operators’
1
network operation rights.

2 The module can distribute rights within user groups to simplify security operations.

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Access Time Limitations
8:00-16:00
Operator A
U2000
16:00-0:00
Operator B

0:00-8:00
Operator C Network

There may be many different roles for O&M; therefore, to avoid operation conflicts among
1
roles, access time limitations are needed.

The U2000 can set user access time, and time availability for any given day can be specified
2
by week.

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NMS User Management
User This includes account validity period, Maximum online users: 100
minimum length of a user name, automatic
Maximum total users: 500
unlocking time, maximum number of login
attempts, and timeout period upon a login Maximum user groups: 50
or unlocking failure.

Password The password rules include password

length limit, maximum password reservation
period, password validity period, and
password naming conventions.

Session Supports user and user group maximum

and maximum number of sessions.

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ACL(Access Control List)
User A IP Address White List
129.9.0.0 to 129.9.255
129.9.4.3
User B 10.71.0.128 to 10.71.0.255
10.70.3.0 to 10.70.3.255
10.71.0.88
User C …….

10.70.3.87 User D
NMS Server
×

192.168.0.46
Set the system and user Access Control List (ACL) to create user access to the NMS server in a
1 specified IP address list.

2 Operator can set ACL for a specified user.

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3-6
The U2000 software management module, also called the Data Center(DC),
provides software management and database operations for all equipment.

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Software Management Solution
1 Task
 Software upgrade operations can be managed based on task and can be
executed by policy.
 The upgrade procedure can be redefined.

2 Reliability
 Multiple methods ensure software upgrade success.
 Scheduled equipment database backups help minimize network costs.

3 Efficient
 Software is automatically upgraded after a new board (card) is connected.

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Updates Based on Workflow and Task

Task-based software update management improves update efficiency.

Task
Software update workflow can be customized, improving efficiency and
Workflow reliability.

Support for scheduling automatic update execution reduces manual

Policy intervention.

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Package Diffusion
A G B
Limited bandwidth between the NMS and
equipment reduces software update
efficiency. NMS

New Method: Package Diffusion D C

What is “Package Diffusion”?

The NMS transports the software package to the specified Gateway NE (GNE), and the GNE replicates the
package to other NEs through an inbound link.

1 In a large network the package diffusion function can improve efficiency and reduce occupied bandwidth.

Lower Data Communication Network (DCN) bandwidth requirements ensure timely network
2
notifications, enhancing network reliability.

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Automatic Board Updates
Check whether the board version matches
3
the Switching Control Center (SCC)
version.
Obtain software
4 1 Online message
package from library.

2 Get the board version.

Software U2000
5 Execute board update.
Library

When the board is online, this function automatically checks the board version and executes the
1
update, improving O&M efficiency.

2 Total time of the NMS process is less than 10 seconds.

3 All board update operations run in the background, reducing any impact on other operations.

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Data Backup and Recovery
What is more important in O&M?
Customer Requirements Marketing
Network Utilization Design
Configuration Data O&M

Manpower
Back up the network
data by manpower
immediately. U2000
Backup Recovery Database fault
Schedule
Schedule network data
backups.

LCT
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Quickly Find Differences
Operators need tools to help them find the
1 differences between backup data to recover
configurations.

When the network fails, differences between

2 configuration data can be used for troubleshooting.

1 Quickly mark differences.

Color-code differences, enhancing readability.

2 Compare any objects.

Compare configuration data with historical data
and equipment.

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3-7
The iManager U2000 is compatible with mainstream OSS providers, and the
versatile Northbound Interfaces can fulfill every scenario.

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Global Cooperation

Partnership with top Independent Software Developers (ISVs)

OSS Integration Solution

Supports customized requirements based on Supports mainstream ISV integration with the
modularized design using the Northbound flexible and standard Northbound Interface
Interface

U2000

HSI Soft Switch

VoIP PE-AGG Internet
IPTV CPE
Access
CPE UPE MSTP/WDM POP IP Core Video

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Abundant NBIs
SNMP CORBA XML FTP

•Supports alarm •Supports alarm, •Supports alarm, •Customizable

management inventory, and inventory, •Supports
performance performance, and performance
•SSL provisioning.
•JMS/SOAP

1 Provides SNMP, CORBA, XML, and FTP for different OSS integration requirements,
improving OSS integration efficiency.

2 Complies with the latest standards.

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Standards Supported by NBI
NorthBound

CORBA XML SNMP

• TMF MTNM Solution Set • TMF MTOSI Solution set • SNMPv1
v3.5 2.0 • SNMPv2
• TMF 513 • TMF 517 • SNMPv3
• TMF 608 • TMF 608
• TMF 814 • TMF 854
• TMF 814A

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