Telecom network topology

[Ivan Gasparec]

Hello,

I would like to know if it is possible to create and model whole telecom network topology with new DX NetOps/Spectrum system?

I know that I can model topology of standard network devices and servers, but don't know for the telecom devices like this:
- Huawei DSLAM
- Huawei MSAN
- Ericsson BSC
- Ericsson NodeB/eNodeB
- Ericsson RNC
- Nokia MGW/MSC/CDS
- Ericsson SGSN/MME
- Ericsson SGW/PGW
- Nokia HLR/HSS/OneMNP/OneNDS
- Jinny SMSC/VMSC/MCN/MMSC

Thanks!

Regards,
Ivan

[Michael Poller]

Hello Ivan,

The following is the combined Certification Portal for the products under the overall NetOps name.

https://netops-certification.broadcom.com/vendors(default-header:vendors)

That's where we'd seek to determine if the specific vendor devices involved are certified. That will show what data can be expected when managing them with the DX NetOps suite.

This is the documentation site where you can access Performance Management (Performance Monitoring option) or Spectrum (Fault Monitoring option) documentation for NetOps.

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/content/broadcom/techdocs/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/it-operations-management/dx-netops/20-2.html

Hope that helps!

Thanks,
Mike

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Technical Support Engineer IV
Broadcom
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[Catalin Farcasanu]

Most likely these are not supported OOTB. But this does not mean that you cannot model or monitor those, as long as you can get the current status of those devices somehow into Spectrum using Southbound Gateway. You can use EventAdmin and EventModel to model/monitor different devices that you don't have control over.

The full topology layout can be created using REST, as long as you can get the relevant information from a system. 

There's nothing built already in place to monitor all those technologies that you described earlier, but there are tools in place that can be used to achieve monitoring capabilities. It would depend on what capabilities you're pursuing.

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Senior Consultant
SolvIT Networks
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