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TMN Layered Architecture

The document discusses the layered architecture of TMN services, which includes network element, network element management, network management, service management, and business management layers. It also describes the key functions of fault management, configuration management, accounting management, performance management, and security management.

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TMN Layered Architecture

The document discusses the layered architecture of TMN services, which includes network element, network element management, network management, service management, and business management layers. It also describes the key functions of fault management, configuration management, accounting management, performance management, and security management.

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TMN layered architecture:

The TMN services are grouped and presented as TMN layered architecture, as
shown in Figure1.
ii. The lowest layer is the network element layer comprising network elements
such as switches, routers, bridges, transmission facilities, etc.
iii. The next layer, the network element management layer, which manages the
network elements.
iv. The third layer is the network management layer, which manages the
network. The network management functions in this layer include bandwidth,
performance, and quality of service, end-to-end flow control, and network
congestion control.
v. The network element layer and network element management layer is vendor
dependent, whereas the network management layer is not.
vi. The service management layer is concerned with managing the services
provided by a network service provider to customers or to other network service
providers.
vii. They include services such as billing, order processing, complaints, and
trouble ticket handling. The top layer is the business management layer. It is
concerned with managing the operations of a communications business,
including fiscal considerations, human resource needs, project management, and
customer needs and satisfaction.
viii. The TMN reference point between the various service layers is q3. It is the
standard interface between the operations system, network element, and
mediation functions.
ix. TMN management services are classified by OSI system management
functional area. These areas are the five OSI application functions,
configuration management, fault management, performance management,
security management, and accounting management.
x. The TMN management services and the system management functional areas
are presented in Figure2.

xi. The four TMN management services—business, service, network, and


element—are at the top of the hierarchy. They invoke the system management
functions defined as the five components comprising the system management
functional areas: configuration, fault, performance, security, and accounting.
xii. The management applications in the system functional areas perform either
system management functions or TMN functions. The TMN function blocks
OSF, WSE NEE ME and QAF consist of TMN functional components such as
the NMF and MIB. The data communication function (DCF), although not part
of the TMN function blocks, is included for completeness.
xiii. The system management functions include object management and alarm
management. In Figure 3, we could have embedded the system management
functions in TMN function blocks and TMN functional components, but we
show them separately in order to present a non-OSI environment.
xiv. Figure3 also shows the OSI primitive services of M-GET, M-SET, and so
on. Equivalent SNMP services are GET-REQUEST, SET-REQUEST, and so
on. The TMN environment is a distributed environment.
xv. The applications communicate remotely with the communication transport
service by means of the RPC. In the OSI model, the RPC is accomplished with
ROSE and ACSE. The former does the remote operation and the latter
establishes and releases the application association. In the SNMP management
model, the remote operation is accomplished by using the RPC and TCP/IP.
The TMN services are grouped and presented as TMN layered architecture, as
shown in Figure1.
• The lowest layer is the network element layer comprising network elements
such as switches, routers, bridges, transmission facilities, etc.
• The next layer, the network’s element management layer, which manages the
network elements.
• The third layer is the network management layer, which manages the network.
The network management functions in this layer include bandwidth,
performance, and quality of service, end-to-end flow control, and network
congestion control.
• The network element layer and network’s element management layer is
vendor dependent, whereas the network management layer is not.
• The service management layer is concerned with managing the services
provided by a network service provider to customers or to other network service
providers.
They include services such as billing, order processing, complaints, and trouble
ticket handling. • The top layer is the business management layer. It is
concerned with managing the operations of a communications business,
including fiscal considerations, human resource needs, project management, and
customer needs and satisfaction.
The TMN reference point between the various service layers is q3. It is the
standard interface between the operation system, network element, and
mediation functions.
• TMN management services are classified by OSI system management
functional area. These areas are the five OSI application functions i)
Configuration management, ii)Fault management, iii)Performance management,
iv)Security management, v)Accounting management.

• The TMN management services and the system management functional areas
are presented in Figure2.
• The four TMN management services—business, service, network, and
element—are at the top of the hierarchy. They invoke the system management
functions such as: configuration, fault, performance, security, and accounting.
i) Fault management—
• Detect, isolate, notify, and correct faults encountered in the network.
• Furthermore, it uses trend analysis to predict errors so that the network is
always available. This can be established by monitoring different things for
abnormal behavior
ii) Configuration management—
• Configure aspects of network devices, such as configuration file management,
inventory management, and software management.
• Configuration management is concerned with monitoring system configuration
information, and any changes that take place.
• This area is especially important, since many network issues arise as a direct
result of changes made to configuration files, updated software versions, or
changes to system hardware
iii) Accounting management—
• Collect usage information of network resources.
• Accounting management is concerned with tracking network utilization
information, such that individual users, departments, or business units can be
appropriately billed or charged for accounting purposes.
• Accounting is often referred to as billing management. Using the statistics, the
users can be billed and usage quotas can be enforced. These can be disk usage,
link utilization, CPU time, etc.
iv) Performance management—
• Monitor and measure various aspects of performance so that overall
performance can be maintained at a defined level.
• It enables the manager to prepare the network for the future, as well as to
determine the efficiency of the current network, for example, in relation to the
investments done to set it up. The network performance addresses the
throughput, network response times, packet loss rates, link utilization,
percentage utilization, error rates and so forth.
v) Security management—
• Secure access to network devices, network resources, and services to
authorized individuals.
• The confidentiality of user information is maintained where necessary or
warranted.
• Security systems also allow network administrators to control what each
individual authorized user can (and cannot) do with the system.

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