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NetAct OSS4.2

Global Reporter 4.8 CD1 ReleaseNotes

©Nokia Siemens Networks 1 (22)

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OSS4.2 Release Notes

2 (22) ©Nokia Siemens Networks

The information in this document is subject to change without notice and describes only the productdefined in the introduction of this documentation. This documentation is intended for the use of NokiaSiemens Networks customers only for the purposes of the agreement under which the document issubmitted, and no part of it may be used, reproduced, modified or transmitted in any form or means

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Contents


Contents

1

Introduction to NetAct ...........................................................................5

1.1 Global Reporter Overview........................................................................5 2 Release Acceptance...............................................................................7 3 OSS 4.2 / GR Release Overview............................................................9 3.1 Global Reporter 4.8 CD1 Release Overview............................................9 3.2 Restrictions and Limitations ...................................................................10 3.3 Global Reporter 4.8 CD1 Release Compatibility....................................10 3.4 Fault Management and Maintenance.....................................................10 4 Global Reporter 4.8 CD1 Testing ........................................................13 4.1 Test Environment...................................................................................13 4.2 Test Results ...........................................................................................16 4.2.1 Correction Testing..................................................................................16 4.2.2 Regression Testing ................................................................................16 4.2.3 Software Update Installation Testing......................................................17 4.3 Remaining Open Faults..........................................................................17 5 Global Reporter 4.8 CD1 Customer Documentation .........................19 6 Delivery Description.............................................................................21 6.1 Delivery Media Content..........................................................................21

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OSS4.2 Release Notes


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Introduction to NetAct


1 Introduction to NetAct Nokia Siemens Networks NetAct™ is a network and service managementframework that addresses the operator challenges to handle more network

elements, larger networks, greater complexity and explosive growth in trafficand data expected in future networks.

NetAct can manage both the network and services in a centralized manner,meaning that the operator can view all network element failures, service qualityindicators and traffic from one single screen.

The ability to collect, integrate and utilize the information about the status andperformance of all network elements and services is the cornerstone of NetAct.Fluent alarm handling, reporting capabilities as well as network optimizationfunctionality minimize the network downtime and congestion, optimize thenetwork capacity and create the basis for efficient network operations.

NetAct is a total OSS package including common network functionalities as wellas sophisticated tools for service assurance and optimization.

1.1 Global Reporter Overview

Global Reporter is the NetAct solution for long-term performance managementdata storage and reporting available in the NetAct Global Cluster. It providesaccurate information on network wide performance, usage and quality as well

as fault and configuration parameter history.

The Global Reporter allows the operators to view and analyze the networkperformance, with data coming from multiple sources. Raw data is translated tomeaningful information that is visualized in graphical and textual reports.

The solution provides both regional and national performance managementdatabases as well as reporting tools for the creation of ad-hoc and on-demandreports at regional and national levels. Performance alarms based on variousthreshold criteria support the network management in an efficient manner.

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The Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are the most important indicators of network performance. By producing KPI reports on a regular basis or on

demand it is possible to detect the first signs of performance degradation andprevent the development of critical network problems. KPIs on network levelcan be used, for example, for analyzing performance trends, on RNC level forlocating problems and on BTS level for troubleshooting specific BTSs. GlobalReporter provides a comprehensive set of reports based on predefined KPIs. The predefined KPIs can also be used by creating customized reports withtools.

Global Reporter is optimized with respect to scalability & performance toefficiently handle large networks & data volumes.


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Release Acceptance


2 Release Acceptance Product Component Release Code

NetAct TM Framework Global Reporter 4.8 CD1

Acceptance proposed by:

29.10.2008, Axel Luft

Nokia Siemens Networks

NetAct™ GR 4.8 Program Manager

Generic release accepted by:

29.10.2008, Axel Luft

Nokia Siemens Networks

NetAct™ GR 4.8 Program Manager

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OSS 4.2 / GR Release Overview


3egional Clusters. OSS4.2 Global Monitor for

.2

OSS4.x release. GR4.8 CD1 is based on OSS4.2 CD-Set 1 with SU1. The nextrelease for Global Reporter, GR4.8 CD2, is planned to happen on February 2009.

3.1

The Gl al Rfault re ctio

• Oracle 10g Database Support – Global Reporter 4.8 CD1 supports bothOracle release 9i and the upgrade to Oracle release 10g.


OSS4.2 is a new NetAct release for RGlobal Cluster is also included in the OSS4.2. For more information about OSS4

please check OSS4.2 Release Note.Global Reporter 4.8 is developed separately and installed on top of the related

Global Reporter 4.8 CD1 Release Overview

ob eporter 4.8 CD1 release includes the following new features, beyonddu n:

• A faster GUI response time for editing reports in Reporter Builder andReporter Explorer.

• Display the Report Results using Value Based criteria where you canpresent the results in six different forms.

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3.2 Restrictions and Limitations

The following restrictions and limitations are applicable:

The feature “Report Distribution”, as seen in the GR SAT manual, will only beavailable based on a customization request.

Nokia 3G RAN partitioning is a customized option and has to be requestedseparately.

Nokia 3G RAN Hourly / Monthly aggregation feature is a customized option and hasto be requested separately.

Oracle 10g Database upgrade is supported as a separate CD.

In NetAct there are open defects which are listed in Generic Failure Report.

3.3 Global Reporter 4.8 CD1 Release Compatibil ity

GR4.8 CD1 compatibility matrix is updated on a monthly basis. It is available forcustomers through an Account, Care Manager or Product Manager.

3.4 Fault Management and Maintenance

Change Delivery

Corrections to the GR4.8 CD1 release are delivered mainly in separate CDs. Alsopriority correction deliveries and hot fixes or other workaround solutions can bedelivered for urgent severe problems. GR4.8 CD1 CDs and priority correctiondeliveries will be published in NOLS.

Technical Note

A Technical Note (TN) is a workaround solution for the problem. If there is a knownproblem in some supported system that requires no change of physical entities(binaries, text files etc) and can be fixed by the means of configuring, a TechnicalNote can be created. Technical Notes are available in NOLS.


http://www.online.nokia.com/




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Generic Failure Report

The NetAct Generic Failure Report is a summary of outstanding system faultscontaining the problem description and the target correction schedule. By defaultopen critical and major (“A” and “B” class) faults at the release date (start of volumedeliveries), “A” and “B” class faults reported by customers and selective othersignificant faults are included in this report. Most of the faults related to OSS4.1upgrade performed by Nokia Siemens Networks installation engineers are excluded. Those faults will be fixed as soon as possible in the upgrade tools and documents.NetAct GFR report is updated and published in NOLS once a month.



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Global Reporter 4.8 CD1 Testing


4ings made.

he following table summarizes the amount of test cases.

ase test cases


This chapter presents the testing results for GR4.8 CD1 including the find

T

Test Ph Number of

Correction Testing NA (*1)

Regression Testing

Feature Testing (*2)

SW Update Installation Testing NA(*3)

Total

(*1) All corrections have been tested by original NOK creator following the descriptionin STEFA fault tracking tool. No separate Test Cases have been designed for this.

(*2) The majority of the new features visible from the User Interface have been tested

(*3) Software update and installation testing has been done by system administrationteam for each iteration of the software. No own test cases are created for this.

4.1

ed is described here on a general level. In the table below,

Here an overview about the used Lab setup. All Labs have been used for testing.

by Explorative Testing techniques by an experienced Testing team. This way of testing does not have dedicated Test Cases for tracking.

Test Environment

The test environment usthe release/upgrade /update levels used in the network elements of the testenvironment are listed.

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Installation / Upgrade have been tested for the following paths:

OSS4.2 CD Set 1+ GR4.8 ⇨ OSS4.2 SU1⇨ GR4.8 CD1

Oracle 10g support

The testing has been done against an Oracle 9i and Oracle 10g database.

There are no dependencies to Network Elements in this testing - instead testing is doneagainst NetAct Regional Clusters forwarding PM-Data from NEs or simulators.

Regional Cluster Release/upgrade/update level

spip / nestor OSS4.1 SU1

mango / apple / banana (fruits cluster) OSS4.2 CD-Set1

finland / sweden / norway (scandic cluster) OSS4.2 CD-Set1

juice / flupke OSS4.2

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4.2 Test Results

4.2.1

4.2.2

Correction Testing

All individual corrections have passed sub-system testing.

All individual corrections have passed entity testing.

Regression Testing

Regression test verifies the unchanged parts of a product after parts of the producthave been changed. It is a way to ensure that the change did not affect anything elseand that there are no unexpected side effects.

The results of regression testing are presented in the following sub-sections.

General Regression and Core test cases

Test case title Status

Core: 1.0 Verifying NetAct background processes in the GC OK

Core: 1.1 Verifying the internal alarms in the GC OK

Core: 1.2 Verifying the name resolution and the DNS in the GC OK

Core: 1.3 Verifying the SSH between RC and GC OK

Core: 1.4 Verifying the Oracle alert log in the GC OK

Core: 1.5 Verifying the automatic topology replication from RC to GC OK

Core: 1.6 Verifying the LDAP referral from the GC to the RC OK

Core: 2.1 Verifying the forwarding of meas. files from the RC(s) to GC OK

Core: 2.2 Checking the trace files of cosprcmx.pl in the GC Impossible

Core: 2.3 Verifying ReportBuilder OK

Core: 2.4 Verifying ReportBrowser part of the Report Explorer OK

Core: 2.5 Verifying KP I Browsing part of the Report Explorer OK GR Reg: 1 Excel IF: export OK

GR Reg: 2 Save chart as PNG file OK

GR Reg: 3 formula creation OK

GR Reg: 4 edit/change formula OK

GR Reg: 5 create report out of formula OK

GR Reg: 6 Help buttons linked to help system OK

GR Reg: 7 Report Creation OK

GR Reg: 8 Report Editing OK

GR Reg: 9 Walk through TreeSearch OK

GR Reg: 10 Common find features OK


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Test case title Status

GR Reg: 11 Different Report Types OK

GR Reg: 12 Show description for any fact or formula OK

GR Reg: 13 Show SQL query OK

GR Reg: 14 Edit Report Description OK

GR Reg: 15 Create URL OK

GR Reg: 16 Delete URL OK

GR Reg: 17 Create a copy of an existing report OK

GR Reg: 18 Report Scheduling and Caching OK

GR Reg: 19 Scheduling Absolute Reports OK

GR Reg: 20 Scheduled Report Icon OK

GR Reg: 21 Scheduling Parameters NOK

4.2.3 Software Update Installation Testing

The verification of the update/installation procedures and instructions has been donewithout any dedicated test cases.

All installations/ updates have been performed according to the official installationinstructions. Any findings have been corrected in either the procedure or inside thedocument.

4.3 Remaining Open Faults

Fault Severity Number of Faults

B2 1

C3 24

C4 103

D5 27

TOTAL 155

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Global Reporter 4.8 CD1 Customer Documentation


5 Global Reporter 4.8 CD1 Customer Documentation

The NetAct customer documentation for Global Reporter 4.8 CD1 is available:

• In NED 5.4 with the NetAct software installation

• In Adaptation Information Browser (AIB) in NetAct software installation.AIB is a new application in OSS4.2 and Global Reporter 4.8 CD1including Radio Network parameter descriptions and selectedMeasurement Database descriptions and their release changeinformation.

• In NOLS: as browseable and downloadable NED 5.4, and asdownloadable PDFs.

Detailed information about the release-specific contents of the document set can befound in the Release Information subcategory, under About this Publication in NED.

For a list of the parameters and measurements/counters available in AdaptationInformation Browser and the full content of the document set, refer to NetAct OSS4.2Release Note available fromNOLS.

In addition updates specific to Global Reporter have been made in the followingdocuments:

About this Publ ication

Release Information

Global Cluster System Impact (Global Reporter 4.8 CD1) dn70239072

Descriptions

Operating Princ iples Reporter and Performance Management Principles dn9784605

Product Principles Getting Started with Global Reporter dn70200612

Trouble Management Troubleshooting Performance Management Problems dn04186062





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Administ rat ion

NetAct System components Administering Reporter and Performance Management dn04184349

Reference

Technical ReferenceReporter and Performance Management TechnicalReference Guide dn01768

The NED library has been updated for GR4.8 CD1 release. The next NED libraryupdate will be done for GR4.8 CD2. In addition to the documents in the NED library, online helps are available directly

from the applications Report Builder, Report Explorer and Reporter Admin Toolkit. The content of these helps is up-to-date for GR4.8 CD1.


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Delivery Description


6 Delivery Description

The Global Reporter 4.8 CD1 delivery contains software and customerdocumentation available via NOLS.

Before GR4.8 CD1 installation can be started on Global Cluster, NetAct must be on

Latest INST_TOOLS depot has to be installed on HP-UX.

6.1 Delivery Media Content

NOTE: tion.

CDs need to be downloaded fromNOLS

OSS4.2 CD-Set 1 + SU1 level in all Global Cluster nodes.

The CDs are ordered separately and are not included in OSS4.2 installa

and installed according to thisdocument.

edia:

SS4.2 Global Reporter 4.8 CD1 list

Y (OSS4.1)

OSS_CD_1672 REPORTER INSTALLATION FRAMEWORK

OSS_CD_1856 T&P VERSION 2.1 COMPATIBLE WITH GR4.7

This delivery consists of the following m

O

Tier3 HP-UX:

OSS_CD_1347 THRESHOLD AND PROFILE FUNCTIONALIT

ENHANCEMENTS

OSS_CD_2104 GLOBAL REPORTER 4.8 CD1 (TIER 3)

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LinAs:

OSS_CD_1333 CHANGES TO SUPPORT US DAYLIGHT SAVING CHANGE(Needed for updating J ava version to 1.4.2.SR6)

OSS_CD_2103 GLOBAL REPORTER 4.8 CD1 (TIER 2)

OSS_CD_1856 T&P VERSION 2.1 COMPATIBLE WITH GR4.7

OSS_CD_2119 CUSTOMER DOCUMENTATION UPDATE FOR GLOBALREPORTER 4.8 CD1


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