User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About This Guide
- Introduction
- Installation
- Start-Up
- Configuration
- Displays
- Statistics
- Device Management
- Dial Function
- Firmware Download
- Reports
- Session
- Platform/Network Performance Monitor
- Hard Disk and System Recommendations
- NMS Windows Conventions
- Record and Device Locks
- Cabling Requirements
- Data Input Sheets
- Glossary
- Index
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Configuration
4
Configuration Overview
This chapter describes how to set up your network for the first time and how to
maintain it. Network configuration involves building your network database in
three different areas: Network, Alerts and Events, and System.
Before you begin network configuration, you need to gather specific information:
network element names, contact personnel, phone numbers of site locations,
physical and geographic locations, device options, serial numbers, facility names,
and network addresses.
To prepare for network configuration, refer to Appendix D,
Data Input Sheets
.
Photocopy these data input sheets and use them as worksheets to write in the
requested network information. Have the worksheets at your side when you begin
network configuration.
Enter data on a displayed data input sheet to provide the following information:
A description of contact names and network elements, such as sites,
cabinets, carriers, devices, facilities, and device groups (via Network).
The alerts to be monitored and the associated criteria (via Alerts and
Events).
A description of NMS users, the NMS environment, and system options
(via System).
As you enter your configuration information via Network, NMS links the
information between the elements in the network. It is important that you enter
configuration information in a specific order so that NMS can find dependent data
that it seeks.