The present document is part of a TS-family covering the 3rd Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group Services and System Aspects; Telecommunication management; as identified below:
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TS 32.331: "Notification Log (NL) Integration Reference Point (IRP): Requirements"
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TS 32.332: "Notification Log (NL) Integration Reference Point (IRP): Information Service (IS)"
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TS 32.336: "Notification Log (NL) Integration Reference Point (IRP); Solution Set (SS) definitions"
The present document describes the requirements and information model necessary for Telecommunication Management (TM). The TM principles and TM architecture are specified in
TS 32.101 and
TS 32.102.
A communications system is composed of a multitude of Network Elements (NE) of various types and, typically, different vendors, which inter-operate in a co-ordinated manner in order to satisfy the network users' communication requirements.
The occurrence of faults in an NE may cause deterioration or loss of this NE's function. Fault Management is the functional area, which allows the operator to detect the occurrence of faults in the network in real-time. Configuration Management and Performance Management are two more functional areas, which require the operator to be alerted to certain conditions in the network.
A standard general-purpose mechanism for the management of logs containing selected notifications from the network is required to provide an ability to perform historical analysis on faults and conditions, which occurred in the network.
The TS 32.33x-series, constituting the Notification log IRP, sets forth such a mechanism - and the present document contains the IS definition.
The present document specifies the Information Service for the Notification Log Integration Reference Point (NLIRP) as it applies to Itf-N.
This IRP IS defines the semantics of operations (and their parameters) visible across the Itf-N in a protocol and technology neutral way. It does not define the syntax or encoding of the operations and their parameters.
