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Well, this article doesn’t take you into any depth of management software solutions. However, this article gives a broad insight into the current industry trends in management software solutions. When we say a management system we are using very vague term in fact. There are many different management systems to achieve different goals. As per my knowledge so far the NMS software particularly meant to manage the devices from a single vender does have most of the FCAPS functionalities in it. Which means single software is used to achieve Configuration management, performance management, fault management & monitoring, Security management & Accounting management in few cases. However, the management software which supports multiple vendors may be different for different FCAPS functionalities. Suppose one software for Network monitoring for multiple vendor NEs(ex. EMC smarts), one for Configuration management for multiple vendor NEs(Ex. HP openView), one for performance man...

An element management system (EMS) manages one or more of a specific type of telecommunications network element (NE). Typically, the EMS manages the functions and capabilities within each NE but does not manage the traffic between different NEs in the network. To support management of the traffic between itself and other NEs, the EMS communicates upward to higher-level network management systems (NMS) as described in the telecommunications management network (TMN) layered model. The EMS provides the foundation to implement TMN–layered operations support system (OSS) architectures that enable service providers to meet customer needs for rapid deployment of new services, as well as meeting stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements. As recommended by ITU-T, the Element Management System's key functions are divided into five key areas - Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance and Security (FCAPS). Portions of each of the FCAPS functionality fit into the TMN mode...

Well, When the NMS/EMS server comes to halt at any point of time, how would you proceed with the analysis? As per my experience working on three different NMS product, i'd proceed with following steps: 1. Check the connectivity to NMS server using ping from client.     If this is OK, then go to next step.Else fix the network connectivity issue. 2. Login to the NMS server and check the NMS processes using ps -aef  | grep "name-of-nms-server.*"     If this is ok, then Go to next step.Else restart the NMS server. 3. Check the NMS log file and see if any errors in log file.     If this is ok, then go to next step.Else take the corrective actions according to the error information in log. 4. Check the firewall status using " service iptables status"     If Firewall is not running then go to next step.Else stop the firewall using "service iptables stop" 5. Check if  the /etc/hosts.conf file is corrupted     If /etc/hosts....