NetAct Performance

Manager

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NetAct Performance Manager
Main functionality Benefits
• Centralized resource and service reporting for • Reduced OPEX and increased efficiency –
multi-technology and multi-domain networks comprehensive, centralized reporting toolset
• Time Overlay reporting • A unified and scalable reporting environment for
• Report scheduling whole NSN network, over all
technologies/domains
• Open i/f: export data, integration to 3rd parties
• Extension with advanced SW features, data
• Data availability reporting and alarms storage & reporting
• Dashboards and GIS support • COTS adaptation and content reduce the time-to-
• Real-time Performance Monitoring market for new technologies
• Long Term reporting
• KPI Thresholding and Profiling
• Reporting Suites

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Stay on top of your network performance
• One tool for umbrella and regional cluster level
• Web based, avoids need of client-side SW
installations
• All reporting tools in one
• Reporting Suites 
• Report Creator
• KPI Creator
• Threshold and profiler 
• NetAct Self Monitor reporting
• Time Overlay reporting: Compare report values
based on time within same report
RTPM
• Grouping and filtering in reports based on CM • NT HLR • PCS-5000
parameters  • One-NDS • Flexi NG
• Option to enlarge data storing time  • One-AAA • For LTE in Traffica
• CMS-8200 FE (HSS FE)
• Real-time PM with Dashboards  • CMS-8200 SLF
• CMS-8200 DRA
• CFX-5000 (CSCF)

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Performance Manager applications overview

Access reports and KPIs

- Report definition through a centralized reporting
- KPI definition portal
- Dashboards, multiple
- Public / private chart types,
permissions Geographical views,
tables

- Content Browser
- Report Browsing
- Nokia know-how
- KPI Browsing delivered as ready-made - Adjust to your internal
- Drilling KPIs & reports processes

- Report creation on - Subscription to Nokia - Delivered as service/

existing KPI Operations Portal to get customization
always the latest
updates.

Turning data into meaningful information

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KPI publishing:
set default status public/private for new KPIs

Description Benefits

• The administrator can define the general policy for

• The administrator can define the general
the KPI visibility: private or public. By default all the
policy for KPI creation
KPIs are created as private
• Saves time in administration tasks, specially
• This is done via configuration file and applicable to
for the cases where the operator policy is to
all the new KPIs created after the configuration
publish all the KPIs
change
• If the policy is to have KPIs as public, the
administrator doesn’t need to go to the KPI
publisher tool to set that manually for each KPI. But
afterwards it is not possible to revert the status of
the existing KPIs to private
• If the policy is set to private (default), it is always
possible for the administrator to go to KPI
publisher and publish some KPIs

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Customizable presentation pattern for measurements,
counters and KPIs

Description

• The administrator can set the presentation pattern

for Measurements, Counters and KPIs centrally in
the configuration file
• This pattern is then used throughout the
Performance Manager

Benefits

• Increased level of customization, which allows

NetAct administrator to configure the application
according to the specific needs
• Improved visualization, as there is the possibility
to rationalize the information to be presented to
the user
=> decreased horizontal scrolling needs

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Usability enhancements in Report Creator

• Search input fields added in the Technology and

Hierarchy section to increase navigation speed
• In order to skip one step, on selecting one option
on Hierarchy, Object Level is automatically
selected. User is able to change it afterwards, if
needed.
• Resizable selection boxes for KPI/counter selection

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Easy creation and edition of Reports and KPIs
Description

• Report Creator/Editor tool: creation of reports

and dashboard through a wizard.
• KPI Creator tool: creation of KPI formulas
through a wizard.
• Personal reports / KPIs
• Shared reports / KPIs
Benefits

Customer quote:
“When we deploy a new adaptor, we have the ability to tune/create KPIs, tabular reports, charts [ ...] right away
allowing much of the content customization development to be done internally and very quickly, reducing time to
market.”
“We provide central default content, however we empower users to be able to modify that content and make it their
own. They can choose how they want to visualize the data by editing any report/KPI, merging reports, sharing
reports, altering chart KPIs and chart arrangement, etc.
Daily report workflows can be as well saved and customized by adding drills into reports.”

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Easy data drilling with one click

Description

• Navigate between different time levels

(example: month → day → hour)
• Navigate in the network object hierarchy
(example: PLMN → BSC → BTS → TRX)
• See the counter values used to calculate a
KPI.
• Drill from one report to another passing
context information.

Benefits

• Support of operations workflows.

• Quicker and more efficient analysis of
performance data.
• Start with one report and go up/down to
where needed.

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Report filtering

Description

• Powerful tools to quickly calculate:

• Runtime peak busy hours
• top-N/bottom-N reports
• Filter report tables based on KPI
values.

Benefits

• Quickly assess the status of the

network finding the best performers
and the top offenders.
• Quickly spot the data you are
interested in by filtering the display of
the report data.

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Dynamic Working Set support

Description

• Users are able to access all the working sets created

in NetAct, regardless of their type, in a seamless way
(pre-requisite: WS must include at least one valid
PM object).
• When selecting a working set as an aggregation
level, dynamic WS are part of the report results
• Object instances from a dynamic WS are selectable
as an object filter for the report.

Benefits

• More flexibility by using dynamic WS for filtering or

aggregating data in PM reports.
• Less manual work to update WS, as dynamic WS
are able to adapt to the network topology,
according to the rules contained in their definition.

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Define once, use everywhere!
Performance Software /
Configurator NetAct Monitor Manager License Manager
TraceViewer
• Select objects • Quick NE selection • Network element • Network element • LTE Cell Trace
quickly and drag & drop selection in selection based activation based
• Filter Object tree • Search for items report creation on Working Sets on Working Sets
with/without and attributes
children within Working Set
• Object export and • Alarm correlation
upload (static)
• Mass CLI operations • Alarm filtering
• Intelligent Feature (dynamic and
Activation static)

Execute operations in key NetAct applications for network layered by Working Set definition.

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Data Availability/Reliability information

Description

• PM reports are often used as a basis for decision making.

However, data may be missing because of inactive
measurements or collection and failures in data forwarding
from network elements.
• Data availability information allows the identification of
existing gaps in the data flow process.

Benefits

• Reliable reporting data supporting decision making.

• Take necessary corrective actions in due time before the
quality of the reported information gets compromised.

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Scheduler

Description

• Define specific timings to run each report.

• The reports can be sent by e-mail or exported
to a specified folder in a Excel spreadsheet or
CSV formats.
• The schedules of the reports are managed via a
intuitive schedule browser.

Benefits

• Fast and efficient delivery of the right reporting

content to the right user at the right time and in
the right place.
• Faster retrieval of pre-calculated reports in the
application UI.
• Better system load balancing. Run heavy reports
during off peak hours.

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Report explorer (import/export)
Description

From report explorer you can:

• Double click a report to trigger its execution.
• Double click on report folders to drill in to their
content.
• Delete reports and folders from the system.
• Create new report folders.
• Rename reports and report folders.
• Export the report definition to an XML file.
• Upload report definitions (XML files) to the server.

Benefits

Efficiency increase by:

• Managing the replication of report definitions
across system instances quickly.
• Easily manage the tree layout of reports and report
folders according to the target audiences.

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Backend highlights

• Short term storage (14 days) of network performance data covering NSN KPIs
THNDROP
PDTCH
network elements
…
• Pre-aggregation of data in several dimensions saving storage space and
improving overall reporting performance
• Feature highlights: Time bsc_i_drop_in hourly
Aggregation
• Parallel aggregation (configurable number of threads used for aggregation) daily

• Selective re-summarization. Aggregation takes place for only those managed daily busy hour

objects from which delayed data arrived weekly

weekly busy hour
• Parallel export/import of data during replication raw data
• Parallel raw data fetch
• Oracle partitioning support
• Detailed system log information Object Wcell
counters
Aggregation RNC
• Statistics data on performance of reporter processes in terms of capacity can be Wcell value
viewed with Admin toolkit counters
Wcell
• Timings of data loading and warehousing processes as well as database data counters RNC
volume can be logged into files (CSV) Wcell
value
counters

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Time overlay reports
Compare the evolution of a KPI within different time periods in only one chart
Description

• Compare a KPI from different time periods in the

same chart.
• Perform overlay comparisons using different
criteria such as week comparisons using either
absolute or relative values.
• Perform drills at the object, KPI and time levels
from a selected point in the chart.

Benefits

• Quickly check performance degradation

• Easily compare the evolution of the network’s KPIs
over different periods of time and within the same Ex: Display 1st, 2nd and
display area without having to generate different 3rd week curves in the
reports or changing the time filters of a report. same chart.

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Chart export to Microsoft Excel
Enhanced MS Excel export
Description

• Export regular reports and dashboards to Microsoft Excel.

• Support of xlsx format (~1 Mio rows) and Microsoft Excel
2007 or greater.
• Charts are exported as Microsoft chart objects allowing
further manipulation in Microsoft Excel.
• Allows export to PDF from Microsoft Excel 2010 or greater.

Benefits

• Easily export reports that are consumed by other

tools.
• Easily share reports with other departments and
management.

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Multi-tech reports
Advanced Visualization for Radio/Core
Description

• Mix different technologies in the same report.

• Domain agnostic network performance view.
• Drill-in from agnostic view to technology specific
reports.
• Correlate KPIs from different technologies.

Benefits

• Holistic and harmonized view of the network combining

seamlessly all technologies and vendors. Customer quote:
• Reduced complexity of operations processes. “Without combined reporting this would be very time
• Centralized performance management of the whole consuming process for an engineer to do on a daily
network with a single tool. basis, even more so if you want to trend it.”

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GIS
Advanced Visualization for Radio
Description

• Visualize cell status color based on KPI thresholds.

• Pick a degraded cell and launch detailed reports directly
from the map.
• Display handover statistics on the map for optimization
tasks.

Benefits

• Improved usability.
• Get the most important indicators in one easy to
read and intuitive map screen.

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Data Availability Alarms
Advanced Visualization for Radio/Core

Description

• Integrate NetAct PM with a NetAct Monitor system for alarm NetAct Monitor
forwarding:
• Data Availability alarms
• PM internal alarms
• Automatic cancelation when the alarming condition is cleared.
• The system administrator can configure the conditions that raise
missing data alarms and define monitored time interval and object
granularity. NetAct Performance Manager

Benefits
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• Proactive data reliability monitoring with alarm capability Availability Alarms
for both data Flow and data Processing. Alarms
• Operator’s process automation. Operations departments
are actively alerted on problems.

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Advanced Visualization for Radio/Core
Description

• Add / remove panels of different technologies, object and

time levels to / from a dashboard.
• Define table or chart views on a per panel basis.
• Rearrange panels with drag and drop. Panel naming.
• Automatic refreshable.
• Drills supported on all panels.

Benefits

• One view to performance KPI's updated

automatically.
• Freely combine multiple technologies and
time periods in the same dashboard.
• Improved usability supporting drag and drop
of dashboard panels.
• Online performance monitoring capabilities
with automatic refreshable dashboards.

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Open interface for third party applications
Advanced Visualization for Radio/Core

Description NAdM SQM BI tools Web browser

• Drill to NPM reports from other applications, passing Open PM reports directly
the report parameters in the URL.
• Bookmark the most used reports to be run directly
from the internet browser (added to Favorites or
NetAct PM
Bookmarks lists).

Benefits

• Operator’s process automation. Make PM part of the

tool ecosystem integrated with other systems that
consume PM reports.
• Faster work processes for end users.
• Have one common PM tool, with one repository for
performance KPI's.

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CM parameters support in reports
Grouping and filtering in reports based on CM parameters
Description
• Group objects in reports per CM
parameters and aggregate PM data for
each group.
• Correlate CM changes with PM.
• Filter network elements that has a given
configured parameter value.
• Filter based on multiple CM parameters.

Benefits
• Improved efficiency by combining CM and PM
data associated to the same objects in one tool.
• Streamline operational processes - check CM
parameters changes for the selected time periods
combined with performance metrics.
• Greater flexibility by filtering or grouping NEs with a
common CM parameter value.

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PM Long Term Storage

• Medium-long term storage (beyond 14 days) of network

performance data covering NSN network elements
• Extended raw data storage (e.g. 90 days) RAW
• Historical data support (e.g. 1 year)
Hourly
• Historic data available for reporting, improving the visibility on
the network behavior over a longer period
Daily
• Currently NetAct DB size is limited to 3 TB (Large configuration) Daily_BH
• The DB size depends on several factors like the size of the network and the Weekly
number of counters/hour produced by the NEs
Weekly_BH
• Hardware offer must be properly dimensioned, according to the
Monthly*
storage needs
Monthly_BH*

* Might not be available for all

technologies by default

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Real Time Performance Monitoring
Description

• Real-Time monitoring view of PM counters with at most one minute delay (if
supported by the NE).
• Real time date available for instant or long term reporting.
• Boundary value definition and visualization for counters & KPIs .
• Preview & description of counter values
• Automatic look-back display of counter/KPI values up to two hours at startup
• Compact, tabular view to status of counter values & visualization of their boundary
crossing.

Benefits

• Early recognition of upcoming problems and bottlenecks.

• Prevention of situations leading to service outage avoiding loss of revenue.

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Real-time PM display with dashboards

Description

• Possible to add RTPM reports to the dashboards.

• Dashboards support for 1 minute auto-refresh (configurable).
• Auto-refresh option is saved together with dashboard definition.
• No scrollbars in the dashboard charts, or if they are there, the
location of the bar is memorized.
• Main settings of the dashboard and its panels are kept after
refreshing (e.g. layout, output type, axis limits).

Benefits

• Quick reaction to upcoming problems in core network.

• Avoidance of network outages.
• Abstract PM counter monitoring can be a powerful tool for • NT HLR • CMS-8200 DRA
experienced core network operators, to see dependencies • One-NDS • CFX-5000 (CSCF)
that current automatic threshold tools can not detect. • One-AAA • PCS-5000
CMS-8200 FE (HSS FE) Flexi NG
• Improved user experience. • •
• CMS-8200 SLF

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KPI Thresholding and Profiling
Description

• User can set thresholds on selected KPIs and get

alerts
• Supported threshold definition methods:
• Fixed threshold value
• Profile value
• Possible to combine multiple threshold conditions
• Supported alert types: alarm, e-mail and SMS.
(K)PIs
Benefits
profile
• User friendly. Consistent user experience. updates
DB
• Proactive network performance monitoring by raising alarms
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based on KPI values.
• Minimize customer impacts due to network problems.
• Operator’s process automation - Operations departments are
actively alerted on potential network problems rather than
having to manually analyze the performance reports.

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Rehoming support for 2G and 3G

Description NetAct

• In mobile network operations a rehoming is the reassignment of a

network element to a different parent in the topology.
• Rehoming support enables the operator to have an automatic BSC 28 BSC 36
update on the PM reports every time a network object is moved
from one location to another in 2G and 3G networks. Historical
data is preserved for the rehomed object allowing continuous and
consistent reporting.
BTS rehomed to BSC 36

BTS rehomed to BSC 36

Benefits

• Reports for a region will always reflect the correct data.

• Transparency to the tool end user, no difference noticed
between a rehomed object and a regular one.

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Predefined KPIs and Reports - Reporting Suites

• Reporting Suites provide more than 500 ready- • Wide range of ready
made reports and over 10.000 pre-defined KPIs made KPIs and reports
• Ready-made content covers Capacity, Traffic ready to support CSP
and Mobility, Resources, QoS,… processes and needs.
• Can be used by different operational areas for: • Always up-to-date with
• Capacity Management, latest NE releases.
• Network Dimensioning and Optimization, • Used cross-organization
• Troubleshooting, covering all network
• Traffic Trend analysis for Long term planning,
operation areas.
• Network Performance, Service Usage, …

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