Midas Management Platform (mView) supports complete FCAPS based device management and other value added features which help the operator manage his network in a trouble-free and elegant manner.

Management support is provided in two flavors:

• GUI OMC

  Manages single Network Element Co-located with the Network Element itself Used as a GUI replacement for LCT Supports complete device management

• Element Management System

  Manages multiple Network Elements Can be co-located with multiple NEs Can be centrally located to manage remote NEs Supports basic device management and other value added services (like performance analysis tool etc.,) Supports Java API based North Bound Interface

The Management Platform is built on client-server architecture. The Server comes with warm standby redundancy support to ensure maximum uptime of management services. The following figure explains the overall management platform:

The Management Architecture diagram presents the different sub-systems that constitute the Management Platform and their interfaces.

On top of basic FCAPS support, the Midas Management Platform offers the following useful features:

Client GUI

• Simple, Elegant and Intuitive GUI: reduces training curve

• Look and Feel similar to Browser and Windows Explorer

• Intuitive organization of views based on FCAPS functionality

• Multi-Level drill down support

• Comprehensive User Input Validation with help messages

• Comprehensive User Manual

• Client runs on both Windows XP and Linux (Redhat EL, CentOS)

Ease of Maintenance

• Manage Network Elements of different flavors (ULC, CULC, DIAS 24A etc.,) and different software versions from single GUI

• Crash Recovery: Easy Rollback to automatically backed up configuration in case of crash of any Network Element or the Management System itself

• Ability to remotely push down and activate images and configuration on NEs

Ease of Commissioning

• Template based management: Create configuration and QoS (Quality of Service) templates one time and push down to various devices at any time

Ease of Use

• Fully functional event correlation engine to reduce number of events that the operator needs to act on

• Online Configuration Management: Do real-time, online configuration on all managed elements

• Map based topology support (add-on)

User Privilege Management

• Role based security rights for users and Super Administrator

QOS Management

• System supports automatic, background polling of any configurable set of NE parameters. This data can be analyzed offline to identify performance bottlenecks, QOS level etc

High Availability

• Automatic and manual active-standby EMS server fail-over support

North Bound Integration

• Java API based NBI support for easy integration with any NMS/PMS application

Figure 1 : Shelf View of ULC system

Figure 2 : Typical Performance Management view

Figure 3 : Typical Provisioning Management view

Figure 5 : Simple interface for configuration (Ex. VLAN)

Figure 6 : Typical Summary Report in Performance Analysis Tool