Conference azur::mcc

1828.0. "MCC now managing European Easynet!" by ENUF::GASSMAN () Tue Nov 19 1991 11:04

                  I N T E R O F F I C E   M E M O R A N D U M
    
                                        Date:     18-Nov-1991 02:52pm CET
                                        From:     Al ALBANO @GEO
                                                  ALBANO AT GVA02A1 @EHQMTS @GEO
                                        Dept:     European Telecom
                                        Tel No:   DTN 821-4723

TO: See Below

Subject: I:DECmcc is Managing the European EASYnet


    Congratulations to our country and plant Data Service Managers, their 
    teams, ENOC, ETTS and Giancarlo who assisted in implementing DECmcc 
    across our European Wide Area Network. Your tremendous team effort 
    means that we are now managing the European portion of our network 
    through Digital's flagship DECmcc product. Your effort provides 
    Digital's sales and marketing teams with a powerful demonstration of 
    Digital's EMA leadership.
    
    
    regards,
        Al Albano
        European Telecoms  
    
    
                     This message is from GIANCARLO DUELLA
    
    
    As discussed at our last Geography Tools Group meeting, find below a 
    short DECmcc V1.1 implementation status report for Europe. A number of 
    DECmcc V1.1 installations exist in Europe (from Portugal to Sweden) but 
    I am going to restrict myself to report on the original scope of the 
    DECmcc implementation project: Management of the EASYnet WAN circuits.
    
    General:
    
    DECmcc V1.1 is currently implemented and used as a network management 
    tool in 9 out of our 12 EASYnet areas (even the circuit and routers 
    serving Area 52, which is Hungary, are managed by DECmcc V1.1).
    
    The three remaining Areas are working on the implementation of DECmcc 
    V1.1 and will complete it by the 30 November 1991.
    
    What is monitored:
    
    Each Area has set up its DECmcc V1.1 installation and configuration 
    according to its needs (e.g. circuits ups/downs are reported directly 
    to IDN operations in REO). This is an overview of what is being 
    monitored:
    
    o All national and international EASYnet WAN circuits and routers.
    
    o Bridges (e.g. TransLAN, LANbridge), MUXSERVERs and terminal servers 
      are also systems that are frequently monitored. DECmcc V1.1 will be 
      monitoring the FDDI ring in REO.
    
    o DECnet/OSI routers in Area 42 (REO) are monitored by DECmcc V1.1.
    
    What is it used for:
    
    o Alarms (circuit availability and congestion/performance, different 
      types of error, reachability, etc). In some cases, alarms trigger 
      mail messages and change colors on specific maps.
    
    o Traffic statistics. Two reporting packages (at least) exist in 
      Europe: One developed in Valbonne by Marc LATOUCHE and the other one 
      developed in Geneva by Gregory DARMON. Graphs produced by Gregory's 
      tool can be found in VTX (go to the European VTX page then press 
      <FIND> GEOMCC).
    
      Note that Gregory has compared statistics produced by DECmcc V1.1 and 
      NMS, a home developed network management tool. Both statistics are 
      similar, which gives us some confidence on what DECmcc collects (NMS 
      statistics validity have already been assessed).
    
    Next steps:
    
    o Early December 1991, announce that the European EASYnet is managed 
      using DECmcc V1.1. I will write an article for the European Sales 
      Update publication stressing the DECmcc expertise acquired by the 
      EASYnet community in Europe.
    
    o ENOC to compare the two reporting packages mentioned earlier and make 
      a recommendation on which one to use.
    
    o Field test DECmcc V1.2.
    
    o Implement DECmcc V1.2 (in fact upgrade DECmcc V1.1 to V1.2). DECmcc 
      V1.2 will become, if the field test results are satisfactory, the 
      recommended integrated data network management platform used on the 
      European EASYnet (for DECnet Phase IV, DECnet/OSI and TCP/IP).
    
    o As far as suitable, phase out DECmcc MSU.
    
    o Work on a standard DECmcc V1.2 pre-configured kit that could be 
      distributed through the EASE process (the EASE process is currently 
      used for distributing standard pre-configured software environment 
      used on VMS systems, which include the new VMS release, business 
      applications, etc).
    
    Voil�. I hope the above gives you an idea of what is happening and what 
    is planned to happen in the DECmcc space in Europe. If you have any 
    question, please contact me.
    
    Cheers,
    
    Giancarlo.
     

    As you read the base note, notice the pointer to the VTX infobase that
    offers statistics.  I checked it out, and found the output useful, and
    easy to obtain.  It's an extension of tools that already exist (CIRCREP 
    output has been put to VTX files for years) - and shows that MCC can act 
    as a management server to help replace older tools - with the potential
    of a much broader scope. 
    
    bill

    If you use the instructions in the previous note, they will not work.
    I get into vtx, then I see europe listed under 30, I press that, I do
    not see a way to do a find geomcc.
    
    Can someone explain this further.
    
    Sounds like I could use this info if I could get my hands on it.
    
    Thanks Dave
    

    I figured out how to get to the right place, by doing the following
    from vtx
    
    type in - vtx emt   -this will put you into the right place,
    then do - find geomcc  - this will put you into the right conference
    
    This looks very well done. Can someone tell us here in the note file
    what you had to do to put the information in the graph form that you
    have in VTX?
    
    Thanks Dave
    

The graphs are produced in the following way:

	- The data is EXPORTed by MCC to an RDB database
	- Datatrives then produces the required summary reports
	- DECgraph is then used to output REGIS graphs
	- VTXprep is used to update the VTX database with the graphs

   Greg.

    Re. note 1
    I need someone that is familiar with what is going on with the DECmcc 
    network that is setup in Europe, to give me a call off line or send me
    mail so that I can talk to you about a sales opportunity.
    
    dtn 445-2077
    vmsmail  f18::robert
    
    Thanks Dave