Need some info on network management
Hi, I am a Post Graduate student from India and network management is my area of interest. I have been browsing through the net on different network management tools available in the market. In all of them, accounting management which is one of the FCAPS functionality is not supported on any of the NMS's. So I thought it would make sense if I contact a network operations group regarding this. Can you please throw some light on the following - 1. Why is "accounting" not part of most of the NMS's? 2. What do service providers use for billing their customers? It would be great if you could help me on this. Thanks a lot for your valuable time! Regards, Savitha ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Education Special: Study in the UK now. Go to http://in.specials.yahoo.com/index1.html
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, [iso-8859-1] Savitha Kumar wrote:
them, accounting management which is one of the FCAPS functionality is not supported on any of the NMS's.
I think you have your networking models confused. FCAPS is part of the ITU model for TMN-layers. You need to look at ITU networks, such as the telephone network, which extensively collects accounting data. Trying to apply ITU network models to the Internet will just make your head hurt.
So I thought it would make sense if I contact a network operations group regarding this. Can you please throw some light on the following - 1. Why is "accounting" not part of most of the NMS's? 2. What do service providers use for billing their customers?
Because most Internet providers have a different billing model. In the Internet, accounting is usually part of AAA systems not NMS systems. Of course, on the Internet NMS systems are not the same thing as NMS in the ITU model either. I'm not arguing one model is better than the other, but its a bad idea to try to apply the wrong model to the wrong network.
Thanks! What are the capabilities that are looked for, in a NMS for Internet?? --- Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote: > On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, [iso-8859-1] Savitha Kumar
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them, accounting management which is one of the FCAPS functionality is not supported on any of the NMS's.
I think you have your networking models confused.
FCAPS is part of the ITU model for TMN-layers. You need to look at ITU networks, such as the telephone network, which extensively collects accounting data.
Trying to apply ITU network models to the Internet will just make your head hurt.
So I thought it would make sense if I contact a network operations group regarding this. Can you please throw some light on the following - 1. Why is "accounting" not part of most of the NMS's? 2. What do service providers use for billing their customers?
Because most Internet providers have a different billing model. In the Internet, accounting is usually part of AAA systems not NMS systems.
Of course, on the Internet NMS systems are not the same thing as NMS in the ITU model either. I'm not arguing one model is better than the other, but its a bad idea to try to apply the wrong model to the wrong network.
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