Element Management System
Titan.ium’s Network Management (Observability Management Framework) offers our customers a flexible easy to use Fault and Performance Management solution with Configuration, Log Management, and Inventory capabilities for Titan.ium Products.
The Element Management System (EMS) is a Fault and Performance Management solution for Titan.ium Products. It addresses customer fault and performance needs to assure full technical stack monitoring from infrastructure, through network and signaling stack layers up to application and business services.
EMS provides network element management and business service assurance across all the protocols and components supported by Titan.ium’s applications. It is a flexible, easy-to-deploy solution, based on telco grade Zabbix framework, with a visually appealing user interface, common inventory, and data model.
Solving your organization and management issues are critical.
Efficiency is critical to your business. EMS can be used to quickly determine the quality of the services being managed for a specific customer or specific service.
Need for the ability to see everything through one pane of glass – Titan.ium EMS can monitor all solution layers from infrastructure to networking through operating system to applications and services. This will help you get to the root of the problems faster and without the need for looking into different tools.
The Titan.ium Element Management System Solution
Core network platforms have historically been managed by highly skilled engineers using a command line interface and proprietary platform tools. In the drive to improve efficiency and lower costs, while increasing revenues and improving customer experience, management systems and automation have gained wider use. As Communication Service Provider (CSP) networks increase in complexity and scale, it is essential that they adopt the most efficient processes and tools available to stay responsive to customer services and demands. These tools will provide instant access to and visibility of the performance of the core platform, critical to business operations.
Titan.ium solutions enable carriers to accelerate implementation of new services across multiple generations of networks using a single unified platform, while dramatically simplifying the core network and reducing operating costs. The EMS solution takes a step further in fully optimizing the user experience and ease of operation for our customers worldwide.
Element Management System (EMS) Applications
EMS provides device management and service assurance across all the protocols and components supported by our platform. It provides network operators with monitoring and performance management, auto-discovery and change management and is customizable.
ELEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FEATURES
- Comprehensive, graphical views of the entire TITAN.IUM’s infrastructure, from the topology to the network element level, with centralized performance, status, inventory, and fault information.
- Automated discovery and change management with up-to-date displays of TITAN.IUM Platform objects (links, adjacent, routes, peers, clients, access lists etc), events, states, and changes.
- Light GUI with multilayer visualization.
- Fault management for the Titan.ium based infrastructure with event correlation.
- Configuration management for our platform nodes.
- Centralized Log Management for your networks.
- Proactive health monitoring, including hardware, NNOS, network-level alarms, threshold crossing alerts (TCAs), metrics collection, and performance reporting.
- Multilayer management and performance monitoring across all our platforms.
- Monitoring capacity and performance data collection of signalling stacks.
- Out-of-the-box integration with all our platforms.
ELEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM KEY BENEFITS
OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY
Increased operational efficiency through centralized, integrated Network Element operations and assurance. Topology maps bringing attention to the most critical aspects of the solution stack. Contextual dashboards displaying only the most relevant information for fast and efficient management and remediation.
PROACTIVE SERVICE MONITORING
Proactive service monitoring and highly effective fault management with trend information helping Service Providers to avoid future service disruptions. Alarm generation based on predicted future faults.
AUTOMATED LIFEYCLE MANAGEMENT
Simplified solution lifecycle management using key tasks automation. Automation includes monitoring tasks, configuration backups, health checks and others allowing solution management throughout complete deployment lifecycle process.
MODULAR ARCHITECTURE
Due to its modular template-based architecture, EMS is very easy to install and upgrade with minimal impact on operations. Monitoring templates are applied through the management system GUI. During the upgrade process and templates patching, EMS is fully operational unless an overarching structural or database change is necessary.
- Increase operational efficiency and effectiveness through pre-integrated signaling network operations
- Acquire reliable insight into signaling network investment, reduce processes and manual oversight
- Inherit holistic visibility of the signaling stack from network equipment to applications and functions
- Maintain end-customer experience with accurate and timely problem management
- Minimize the risk of future service disruptions with proactive service monitoring and trend identification
- Tailor the solution to your users and network requirements with high-levels of customization
ELEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM KEY CAPABILITIES
Enhanced platform User Experience
The intuitive role-based EMS user interface, provide comprehensive, graphical views of the Titan.ium platforms, applications and architecture. EMS operates from the topology of the node, with centralized performance, status, inventory and fault representation. EMS improves the effectiveness of system engineers, solution architects and operations.
Auto-discovery and Change Management
EMS includes auto-discovery of the broad Titan environment from hardware to applications, including links, routes, interfaces, disks, elements, databases and more. It facilitates collection of data and events, identification of equipment status and change management. EMS includes flexible discovery, rule creation for environment-specific data collections rules and communication preferences.
Problem Management
Fault and problem management for the infrastructure include time-stamped event correlation and reporting. EMS applies performance and utilization thresholds and communication failures as triggers for event reporting, highlighting the affected application or root cause event.
Monitoring and Performance Management
EMS continuously observes resource utilization data, performance metrics and traffic analysis, allowing you to pre-empt quality issues and pro-actively identify traffic growth, decline or anomaly spikes. EMS also includes options to compare counter and KPIs to deliver trends and predictions.
EMS monitors the message traffic across nodes and links. This monitoring essentially helps operators make informed decisions on capacity and required investment for the core infrastructure, while maintaining the best customer experience.
Out-of-the-box and Customizable
EMS includes off-the-shelf integration with the platform with pre-defined templates linked to applications, nodes and hosts. Operators use EMS to align to user-specific roles and responsibilities. The EMS template-based monitoring rules with in-flight upgrading and patching only require a restart on major system updated. In addition, EMS leverages the extensive 3-rd party open-source Zabbix template library, to easily customize platform requirements for complex, operator specific signaling networks.
Custom Dashboards
EMS provides the ability to create customized dashboards for network monitoring. This can be done autonomously by the customer or via Titan.ium’s specialized Professional Services teams.