Obsolete OAM Measurements and FTA

Basic OAM measurements are no longer supported from Release 46.3 onward. For measurement collection to occur, either the Measurements Platform feature or the E5-OAM Integrated Measurements feature must be used. To enable the E5-OAM Integrated Measurements feature, use the following commands:

ENABLE-CTRL-FEAT:partnum=893037301
CHG-CTRL-FEAT:partnum=893037301:status=ON

OAM-based measurements are collected by an E5-OAM MASP and are stored on the E5-TDM card.

For OAM-based measurements and the Measurements Platform feature, the rept-meas command sends measurements reports for the NP, GSM MAP screening, LNP, G-Port, A-Port, and IS41 GSM Migration (IGM) features to the file transfer area (FTA). Applications measurements (INP, GSM MAP screening, and LNP) are now supported only by the FTP reporting capability.

The FTA measurements reporting capability is replaced with the FTP reporting capability.

EAGLE continues to support retrieval of the ACTIVE PERIOD for links/linkset for troubleshooting purposes. All the entity types that supported the ACTIVE PERIOD collection without enabling the Measurements Platform feature or the E5-OAM Integrated Measurements feature are still supported.

The EAGLE UI display of measurement reports via the chg/rept-meas and rtrv-meas-sched commands is still supported; either the Measurements Platform or E5-OAM Integrated Measurements must be enabled.

Basic OAM Measurements

Basic OAM measurements are collected by the E5-MCAP control card and are stored on the E5-TDM card. For EAGLE nodes with up to 700 links, measurement reports can be generated either to a User Interface (UI) serial terminal or through the File Transfer Area (FTA), depending on the feature or function.

Basic OAM measurements are available when the E5-OAM Integrated Measurements feature and the Measurements Platform feature are not used in the system.

When basic OAM measurements are in use, the rept-meas command sends measurements reports for TYPE=MTCH (as well as some MTCD reports) to the file transfer area (FTA) rather than to an EAGLE terminal.

When basic OAM measurements are in use, turning on any unsupported feature disables hourly collection for ALL features. The features not supported are:

AIQ
ATINP/PATINP
EGMS
EIR
ENUM
GTT Actions
LNP 384
SIP
S13 EIR
VFLEX

Reports can be scheduled or generated on demand using the following commands:

chg-meas: Used to turn measurement collection on and off, and to schedule automatic generation of measurements reports to a UI terminal.
rept-meas: Used to generate measurements reports on demand.
rtrv-meas-sched: Used to display the measurements collection status and the list of measurements reports currently scheduled to be automatically generated to a UI terminal.

Note:

If a new entity is provisioned in place of a deleted entity, then the measurements for the deleted entity are set to zero. The reported peg counts apply only to the new entity.

The File Transfer Area function supports the transfer of file data between an EAGLE and a remote computer. The function provides the capability to download files from the EAGLE using a data communications link and the following commands:

Activate File Transfer: act-file-trns
Copy to or from Transfer Area: copy-fta
Delete Entry from File Transfer Area: dlt-fta
Display File Transfer Area: disp-fta-dir

Extracting measurements from the FTA requires:

A computer with a VT320 or KSR connection to the system
A communication program that both emulates VT terminals and supports Kermit file transfer
A spreadsheet program that can import Comma Separated Value (CSV) text files