ROSA Network Management System

Functional Areas
ROSA supports the following functional areas:

Fault Management

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Comprehensive visualization of fault conditions is the key to a fast diagnostic and repair cycle. The user must be able to judge the severity of a fault situation immediately. ROSA visualizes alarms by means of both graphical maps and message viewers. The graphical network maps allow for fast visual alarm correlation. The fault management functionality is highly customizable. The message viewer windows can be configured to filter on various criteria. Most devices have programmable alarm thresholds, alarm delay times and programmable alarm severity for each type of alarm. The automation tasks installed on ROSA Network Management Server can also perform alarm correlation and take corrective actions. A palette of automation tasks is available for backup of modulators, receivers and satellite dishes.

Alarm Correlation
The ROSA NMS layer has flexible alarm correlation engines. At different stages in the alarm processing chain, rules and scripts can be used to make alarm messages more comprehensible for the operator and the technician.

 

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Configuration Management
 

Manage the Complexity of your Equipment, Network and Services

ROSA facilitates the set-up and configuration of your equipment, network and services. Setting specific hardware device parameter, or mapping the logical structure of your network, is easy. All device driver set-up screens are designed to be similar in appearance using common Windows type icons, buttons, folder-tabs and pull-down menus. Adding hardware devices or software tasks is just as easy. ROSA automatically detects new hardware on your network and prompts you for inputs on the most important device parameters. The ROSA system also maintains a database, which describes the interconnection between devices. The service level configuration components assist you in introducing and describing the services you receive and provide.

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Performance Management

Is your Maintenance driven by Alarms or by real Pro-Activity?
Prove your Service Quality and Availability

The ROSA system offers powerful performance management functions, capable of generating extensive reports on the performance of your equipment, network and services. Proactive maintenance is only possible when the network management system helps technicians to find the weakest spots in the network. Detecting performance degradation and comparing performance of components installed in different locations are typical targets of ROSA’s proactive performance management tools.

Find the weakest parts of your network
The ROSA system can be configured to periodically log a variety of performance measurements in its performance log database. Using powerful reporting tools, you can then use ROSA to analyze your network performance and drive preventive maintenance actions by focusing on the weakest part of the network. Graphical reports are available for comparing the quality of different services, comparing performance at different network locations and for plotting performance evolution over time. One can start with a very general query involving multiple sites and services and then pinpoint the problem by narrowing down the selection and range of data.

Security Management
ROSA is a secure management system. It allows operators to specify different levels of user access to the software system. User roles, such as “technician” or “administrator”, can be defined in ROSA. These roles can then be assigned to individuals or groups. This provides control over access and the flexibility to change specific access settings as your operation changes or grows. ROSA also provides event logging and tracing capability. If events occur in the network operation that warrants investigation, they can be viewed at an administration level. Event tracing identifies what happened, when it happened, who took action and what resulted.

Customized Security
Users and groups can be defined by job type or location, giving maximum flexibility in assigning authorization, while maintaining a secure network environment.

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