FOXMAN-UN, one of the elements in Hitachi ABB Power Grids' comprehensive NMS suite, is a powerful toolset providing all the essentials of a Network Management System, such as network status, alarm notification, and enhanced circuit provisioning functionality.
The graphical user interface presents the deployed network on many different levels, from an overview of the entire network down to equipment ports. Detailed status information can also be retrieved directly from alarm list entries.
Special views, such as Synchronisation Status, support the configuration and maintenance of your communication network, while context-sensitive menus, an intuitive operating concept, and an online help system, make FOXMAN-UN easy to use.
FOXMAN-UN is a modular system, generally used for networks having more than 10 elements. It can be expanded to manage networks with up to 5,000 elements and offers features for access and backbone networks.
CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
FOXMAN-UN automatically discovers the communication network for network elements that have recently been inserted. At the same time, their position, type, cross connection tables, interface parameters, etc. are uploaded into the FOXMAN-UN database and can be displayed on the screen. FOX515 networks can also be configured without direct connection to the system. Entire networks with FOX515 network elements, their interconnections (sections, paths), their geographical positions, all their parameter settings and cross connection tables, etc. can be prepared offline for download to the FOX515 when the networks are installed.
GRAPHICAL
FOXMAN-UN supports a graphical and hierarchical representation of the network. There are no limits on the number of hierarchical levels, and any number of customer-specific background bitmaps may be selected. Different domains can be created which controls access for specific users to corresponding parts of the communication network.
FAILT MANAGEMENT
he fault management capabilities of FOXMAN-UN reduce the effects of errors on the service quality by means of functions for alarming, error retrieval, and testing. The alarms in all network elements (e.g. loss of signal, loss of synchronization, loss of frame, etc.) are continuously supervised to detect state changes.
FOXMAN-UN supports five different alarm severity levels according to the TMN standards; the severity of individual alarms may be modified by the operator.
Network elements and sections are displayed in different colors, according to their alarm state. If an alarm is detected, the color of the icon is changed. The operator can get more information about the alarms by clicking on the icon.
Alarms can be traced down to the smallest replaceable unit (e.g. card), and further down to channel/ subunit level.
SECIRITY MANAGEMENT
The FOXMAN-UN security management ensures that unauthorized persons do not have access to data and functions of the system by providing configurable, fine grained access control features for individual user accounts, and network partitioning.
Network partitioning functionality is fully supported by FOXMAN-UN. This means that communication networks can be segmented into several independent partitions with access to each partition restricted to a defined group of operators.
