Introduction

32.111-63GPPFault ManagementPart 6: Alarm Integration Reference Point (IRP): Solution Set (SS) definitionsRelease 17Telecommunication managementTS

The present document is part of a TS-family covering the 3^rd Generation Partnership Project: Technical Specification Group Services and System Aspects; Telecommunication management; as identified below:

32.111-1 "Fault Management; Part 1: 3G fault management requirements".

32.111-2 "Fault Management; Part 2: Alarm Integration Reference Point (IRP): Information Service (IS)".

32.111-6 "Fault Management; Alarm Integration Reference Point (IRP); Solution Set (SS) definitions".

The present document is part of a TS-family, which describes the requirements and information model necessary for Telecommunications Management (TM). The TM principles and TM architecture are specified in 3GPP TS 32.101 [1] and 3GPP TS 32.102 [2].

A communications system is composed of a multitude of Network Elements (NE) of various types and, typically, different vendors, which inter-operate in a coordinated 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 Annex B of the present document contains the XML definition related to Alarm IRP notifications.