NetMaster’s security management is role-based. It is handled through group administration and user administration functions.
The Group administration view is used when creating new user groups and assigning permissions to each group. A specific group permission is assigned from the combination of the corresponding resource permissions and action permissions.
Group administration
The Resource permission part displays the domains (sub-networks) for the selected group name. Permissions can be changed by checking or un-checking the checkboxes in the Resource permissions tree. The users in a specific group can only see the domains to which the group has been granted resource permissions; all other domains will be hidden.
The Action permission defines to which areas of functionality the selected group is granted permission.
The individual users are defined in the User administration view and assigned to one or several groups. From this view, a user can be created, deleted, blocked or un-blocked, and the user’s password can be changed.
User administration
All user events are logged to the database and can be listed in the User audit view.
User audit view
(2) Set any discovered SNMP equipment to managed state (3) Only NE node it is shown in tree views
(4) Connection polling
(5) Allow configuration of launching of external tools
(6) Allow configuration of alarm handling through Open SNMP Interface view:
(a) Reconcile current alarm table
(b) Reconcile current alarms given as single OIDs
(c) Reconcile current alarms given as single OIDs using a mask (7) Configuration import/export
(8) Report - The NE Types Overview report will display a chart indicating how many elements of open SNMP NE type are managed by NetMaster within the scope of the report.
Open SNMP Interface view
The view consists of an Open SNMP Configurations area containing a tree view with all configurations defined and an area containing details about the currently selected configuration.
Once created, an open SNMP configuration consists of four pages where the user can edit different settings needed to get information from the element:
Open SNMP Configuration
enabled at a time. When a strategy is enabled, the other one will automatically be disabled.
6. System requirements
Please refer to document NetMaster System Requirements for details on supported operating systems, database versions, HW requirements, etc.
7. Functionality table
This section describes the main functionality provided by NetMaster. Detailed support within each function area depends on specific NE type and in some cases the HW/SW version of the NE and its installed modules.
Functionality table Functionality Description
Number of managed network elements
1-10000 (Depending on license)
Client/Server Supported operating systems:
Refer to document NetMaster system requirements for details Communication protocol: Java RMI over TCP/IP
Number of clients:
1-30 (Depending on license) Security management Integrated HTML help
Context sensitive help Group administration User accounts administration Resource permissions
User levels: configurable resource and action permissions
Functionality Description Logging
Performance display Time slider histogram Advanced view filtering Tabular view
Time series chart view Current performance Reset performance counters G.826 registers
G.821 registers Ethernet statistics ACM statistics
Analog values (RF input level, TX output power, Voltage, Current load, Temperature)
Fault management Alarm acquisition
Manual alarm reconciliation Network/NE status Alarm summary Active / Current alarms Acknowledge alarm Un-acknowledge alarm Comment alarm
Fault severities: Critical, Major, Minor, Warning, Indeterminate, Info Historical alarms view with auto refresh option
Time slider histogram of recorded alarms Advanced log filtering
Functionality Description
Custom naming of window titles Optional fault management
features
Audible notifications (Configurable criteria and sounds) Email notifications (Configurable criteria and recipients) Configuration management Network element and topology auto discovery
Serial connections IP connections HW inventory
SW inventory with reconcile SW download
SW Activation/Reset
NE configuration file management (backup and restore)
NE clock synchronization, SNTP server setting (single NE and bulk setting)
Trap receiver setting (Single NE and bulk setting) Launch external tools
Service management TDM Services Ethernet Services Service discovery Service provisioning Auto-routing of services Service alarms
Optional features Northbound SNMP agent (Fault and inventory data) Open SNMP Adapter
Scheduling of report generation to file Export to file: PDF, MS Office formats Graphical user interface Geographical tree view
Logical tree view Hierarchical maps
Filtering and sorting options in most views
8. NE support overview
These tables indicate which features are supported in NetMaster for the various manageable NE types. Please note all footnotes indicated (detailed after the second table).
NE support table (part 1) NE Specific
Supported Features
Evolution
Series FibeAir
IP10 FibeAir
70T FibeAir 1500R Protocols used by NetMaster
SNMP, v1 x
SNMP, v2c x x x x
HTTP x x
FTP x
Q1
NE topology x x x x
NE Specific
Supported Features
Evolution
Series FibeAir
IP10 FibeAir
Analog measurements
Reset counters x
NE Specific
Supported Features
Evolution
Series FibeAir
IP10 FibeAir
70T FibeAir 1500R NE configuration file management x x
Clock sync x
Launch external application x x x x
Service management
Ethernet services x6) x6)
TDM services x6) x6)
Service discovery x6) x6)
Service provisioning x6) x6)
Service alarms x6) x6)
Service editing x6) x6)
Service state monitoring x6) x6) Security, Authentication/Authorization
SNMP: R+RW community names x x x x
NE support table (part 2)
NE Specific
Supported Features
Inter-Link Protocols used by NetMaster
SNMP, v1 x x x x x x
Automatic discovery of links Fault
NE Specific
Supported Features
Inter-Link
Transmitted Power Level (TPL)
CPE statistics x x
Analog measurements x
Reset counters x x x
Ethernet Utilization Configuration
NE Specific
Supported Features
Inter-Link
Footnotes applicable to both of the above NE support tables:
1)Older NL18x not supported
2) On new SU Board only - 2KZ198B
3) On NetLink-III-AU only
4) NE clock should be set to GMT/UTC time in order to avoid ambiguous interpretation of time stamps
5) Only partial inventory
6) On Evolution Series XPAND IP (SW >= R2A00), on IP-10G/E/C/Q (SW >=6.6) and on IP-10 (SW >=6.3)
7) Only RX/TX frequency
8) RX/TX frequency, ATPC, Space diversity for all Evolution Series radios. Bandwidth, Capacity and TDM capacity supported for XPAND