GladiatorTrainingD3_5.1

© 2010 Gladiator Innovations LLC

G Station

Ericsson


Contents

Day 1

o Installation (30 min)

o Introduction (30 min)

o Start up - 6 steps (120 min)

o Basics of G-Station (180 min)

o Q&A (60 min)

Day 2

o Revision of Day 1 with Exercise (60 min)

o Worksheet (30 min)

o System View/System Schemes (45 min)

o Loading OSS parameter dump (30 min)

o Toolbox Introduction ( 15 min)

o GSM and UMTS Tool Box Case of study with exercise (210 min)

o Import/Export (30 min)

o Q&A (30 min)

Day 3

Revision of Day 1&2 with Exercise (60 min)

o OSS Interfaces (60 min)

o KPI Monitoring Center (150 min)

o OSS Toolbox (60 min)

o Support (15 min)

o Other Platform Features (30 min)

o Administration of G-Station (15 min)

o Q & A (60 min)


Contents – Day 3


OSS Interfaces (60 min)

KPI Monitoring Center (150 min)

OSS Toolbox (60 min)

Support (15 min)

Other Platform Features (30 min)

Administration of G-Station (15 min)

Q & A (60 min)


Contents – Day 3





Support (15 min)



Q & A (60 min)


Contents – Day 3





Support (15 min)



Q & A (60 min)


OSS Interface

What are the different sources of data that can be loaded in Gladiator?

How to load these data?


Supported different data sources

Switch Dump (CAN parameter configuration)

Counters (Hourly/daily – 2G/3G)

Traces (GPEH/RPMO/CTR/UETR/NCS/WNCS/MRR/WMRR)

Alarms (2G/3G)


CNA Dump

How to load CAN Dump?

This was presented in D2 morning session – Loading OSS parameter


Counters

Defining Database Model

Importing Counter Data 2G/3G

Database Maintenance


Counters

What is Database Modeling?

Why to use database Model?

The different ways to define the database Model.


Counters

Importing Counter Data 2G/3G

sgw for 2G

xml for 3G


Counter – ESPA Import

There is a specific application to load other MS SQL database tables/information

ESPA Counters are imported using this application


Database Maintenance

What is database maintenance?

Why to do a database maintenance?

Possible data types - real, int, varchar


Traces

What are the supported formats?

How to import the traces?


Traces

Supported format

GPEH – *.tab (bin format is underdevelopment)

CTR/UETR/MTR – same as GPEH *.tab

NCS/MRR/WNCS – *.msmt + *.conf

WMRR – *.txt

RPMO/FAS – to be developed


Traces

Importing the traces


Alarms

Supported format – 2G xls file / 3G tab file and txt file sample are below.

Hot to import the alarm information?


Files for Exercise

Data folder

o Alarms

o Counters

2G counters

3G Counter

object_definitions

o System_and_Dumps

o Traces

GPEH

NCS

WNCS

Gladiator folder

o CDC_Report

o Plug-In (Paste the information on “C:\ProgramData\Application Data\Qualitest\Gladiator\PlugIns” folder

o Presentation


Contents – Day 3





Support (15 min)



Q & A (60 min)


KPI Trend Viewer Training

Summary

- Workspace overview

- KPI Creation

- Setting the analysis range

- System under performance

- Analysis Output

- General Options

- Filters

- Results Visualization

- Workspace functions

- Generating tables and maps

- Report Creation


To open the KPI Trend Viewer environment click in Tools then select KPI trend Viewer

KPI Trend Viewer


Environment Overview

•System selection area •Results module


•Filter creation and configuration area

•Range analysis configuration




•Layout and report generation

•Graph functionalities

•OSS counter Import/Export


Creating a KPI

•To create a new KPI click on the Edit KPI’s icon located on the KPI trend Viewer tool bar.

•Press the Add button in the Edit KPI window.

•Named the KPI and press OK


KPI Creation

•On the KPI edition zone the user needs specify:

- KPI category ( optional)

- KPI source

-User have a list of the available frame clicking on the narrow down icon

- Select the KPI match condition for the System and for the Frame source


KPI Creation

•Since the user configure the KPI source and match condition the next step is to write the KPI formula.

•The KPI trend viewer has a dedicated environment for the KPI formula creation

•The user can also combine SQL2008 commands on the KPI formula.

•After the KPI formula creation, user can verify the expression integrity by pressing Check Expressionbutton.


KPI Creation

Add example of SQL commands that useful while adding the KPI formula


KPI Creation

•The last steps on the KPI are:

- Specify the ranking Sort condition (Ascending or Descending)

- Apply a scheme color on the KPI results

- Set a performance Threshold for the KPI results

-To finalize the KPI creation press the OK button.


Selecting a KPI

•Since the KPI is created, its become available on the KPI list box.

•To use a KPI, just select it on the KPI list box and press “ + ”.

•The user can add multiples KPI on the same graphic.

•To add another KPI user just need select the other desired KPI the press “ + ”.


Setting the Analysis Range

•Before running any KPI analysis the user must set the time range and KPI trend visualization.

• Daily report

• Hourly report

• Weekly report

• Ranking report

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•The user must set the time range using the follow method:

-Set the final date range

-Set the last hours range

- Set who many hours/days/mouths will be considered


System and Elements Selection

•The user can be ran the analysis over the entire network or over an specific network element.

•The Last step to run a KPI analysis is to select the system under performance test.


Output format

•To change the output format, user need:

-Right click on the graphic area,

-Choose Type,

-Select the desired output format

-Output result will be automatically update on the screen


Output Analysis

•The hourly, daily, weekly and Monthly output’s are time base results

•Use may change the KPI trend visualization and choose between

• - hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and Ranking


Output Analysis

•The ranking analysis reports the worst case performance elements.

•User can set the threshold, scheme color and the number of worst under performance elements to be reported for a KPI parameter (see KPI creation –Ranking)


Automatically update

•The KPI result are automatically update on the graphic area when user:

- Add/remove networks elements

- Add/remove KPI

- Change the time range parameters

- Change the KPI trend visualization


General Options

•Clicking on General options the user can:

-Set the week days that will be considered on the analysis,

-Create a list of day that will be excluded from the analysis,

-Change the data format for output,

-Set the output graphic format and type,

- Set to automatically update the KPI results,

- Optimize the database performance.


Filter Creation

•Monitoring KPI solution offer a set of powerful filters

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•For Selection and Exclusionfilters, user can set:

Area filters

System filters

KPI filters

Or any combination of those


Area Filter

•The area filter allow the user set an area on the map and apply this area as selection or Exclusion area filter during the KPI analysis.


System Filter

•The system filter allow user to create queries on the cell system and apply this queries as a selection or exclusion filter


KPI Filter

•User can also create filter based on KPI condition


Busy hour Filter

•The user can also include a busy hour filter on the analyses.

•The busy hour range can be defined by user or can be calculated based on the network element and the desired KPI parameter


Results visualization

•The amount of under performance elements can be displayed by:

• - MSC

• - BSC

• - Site

• - Cell

•To visualize the under performance elements from a different network perspective, right click on the result area and choose the desired element



•To visualize the under performance elements the user needs to right click the system and select:

• - Find next underperforming element

•- Find previous underperforming element

- Check only underperforming elements

•User can also copy and past (export) the under performing elements to Excel or Notepad. investigation.



•Under performing elements can be moved to the Drill-down Zone.

•The drill-down zone is a dedicated environment for deeper investigate the under performing elements


KPI Comparison Mode

•On the KPI comparison mode the user can compare multiples KPI’s from different filters and time period

•All the user filter are available on the comparison environment


KPI Comparison Mode

•On the comparison environment user can analyze the network over different filters perspective at the same report


Saving KPI workspace

•User can save his KPI workspace for further use


Opening a saved KPI workspace

•Just click the open graph button to open a saved KPI workspace


Creating a new KPI workspace

•Clicking on the New graph user can clean the workspace environment


Generating Tables and Maps

Right click on the KPI to have the option to generate the maps and tables

The tables are saved on result node and can have :

o Consolidated – The data is aggregated for the overall period

o Detailed – The data is outputted for the period (Hour/Day/Week/Month)


Table output

Consolidated output

A consolidated value for the entire selected period

Detailed output

In the example below is per hour


Map Output

The consolidated and detailed information are the same as the table result

The information is applied to the cell data on the map with the defined display scheme on the KPI formula


Layout Creation

•To create a report layout select “Report Layout”

•Press Add,

•And named your layout

•User can select Rankings and Graphics outputs on the layout configuration

•Network elements breakdown can also be set on the report layout


Running a Report

•Select “Run Report”

•Set the report parameters, choose a location to save the report and press OK

•When the report is read the follow message will pop-up.


Opening a Report

•Go to the save path location and open the folder Report One and open the file Index.htm


Contents – Day 3





Support (15 min)



Q & A (60 min)


OSS Toolbox for 2G and 3G

2G

o NCS

o MRR

3G

o WNCS

o WMRR

o GPEH


3G WNCS

Matching analysis

Missing Neighbor

Overshooting analysis


OSS Analysis - UMTS Missing Nb

Analysis with WNCS data

60


OSS Analysis - UMTS CTR Analysis

with CTR data

61

UCTR_MRstats is an Ericsson OSS UMTS based analysis to generate statistics based on the Measurement Reports collected during a CTR.


3G GPEH

All Drive Test UMTS analysis

Customized Analysis


2G Analysis

Matching analysis

NCS

o Missing Neighbor

o Overshooting

MRR

o Time Advance


OSS Analysis – Time Advance

64

Complementary to Drive test cell coverage and trace feature

Helps to identify overshooting cell and co-channel issues based on OSS measurements

Massive amount of data

Possibility to correlate TA with: RxLev, RxQual from the mobile MR


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Support (15 min)



Q & A (60 min)


Sales Support

Support organization

o Telecom 1 provides tier 1 and 2

o Gladiator provides tier 3 to Telecom 1

Telecom 1 will allocate POC for

o Support (Software related issues) (Sudheendra)

o Business development (Account related issues) (Ronnie Philip)

Support Contact Info:

o [email protected] +91 93 4306 7272

o [email protected]

Gladiator website:

www.gladiator-innovations.com

mailto:[email protected]





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Support (15 min)



Q & A (60 min)


Other Features

Flexible State Machine and Alerts

BM Flex

CDC Full

Multi Interface

Event Display Center


Grid Interpolation

69


Grid Interpolation analysis

70


Grid Profile

71


Tx Link Analysis using Grid Info

72


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Support (15 min)



Q & A (60 min)


Gladiator file/folder organization

overview

o Administrator or a user will full administrator privileges can install the Gladiator package

o There are 2 important folder locations needed to be remembered:

Main Application

Any OS - C:\Program Files\QualiTest\Gladiator

User data

XP OS - C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application

Data\Qualitest\Gladiator\

Vista and 7 OS - C:\ProgramData\Qualitest\Gladiator

Note that the entire document will refer to the XP OS path for the “user data”

Gladiator Essentials

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Some important folders

Gladiator executables and dlls are stored in:

C:\Program

Files\QualiTest\Gladiator\

Bin\System

Gladiator functions are stored in the

C:\Program

Files\QualiTest\Gladiator\Bin\

ADS library


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Some important folders cont.

Log files are located in:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application

Data\Qualitest\Gladiator\Logs

And organized by subfolders, such as:

o CDC – logs related with Custom Design Center

o FC – logs related with File converter

o FlexSM – logs related with Flexible state machine

o Gladiator – logs related with general Gladiator evetns

o OSS – logs related with OSS


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Common files are located in:


Data\Qualitest\Gladiator\Common

And organized by subfolders, such as:

o Compress Options – contains .comp files for compression options

o Compression Plans – contains .gpl files for compression plans

o Conversion Plans – contains .cvp files for conversion plans

o Data – contains common and import sql databases

o ExcelSchemes – contains .ess files for importing system data from Excel files

o OSS Configuration Plans – contains .cfp files of OSS configuration plans

o OSS Schemes – contains files for OSS schemes

o ReplayViews – contains .repview files for configuring the Replay view tool

o Schemes – contains cell, celldata, display, groups, neighbordata, site and starmode schemes

o TextImported – contains schemes (.inf files) for the Text Importer tool


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All Gladiator plug-ins created as dlls should be located in:


Data\Qualitest\Gladiator\PlugIn


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An example of plug-ins available

through ADS Plugin Library


Setting Toolbox GUI

User can set the favorites configuration to access the plugin toolboxes


Contents – Day 3





Support (15 min)



Q & A (60 min)
