[75201] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Status of FCAPS model? Useful? Obsolete?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Mon Nov 8 23:55:15 2004
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 23:54:39 -0500
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> Subject: Status of FCAPS model? Useful? Obsolete?
>
>
>
> Someone at Forrester research wrote an article in 2003 that
> said FCAPS was
> an obsolete model because
> it was conceived during a time when mainframes were in use.
> I haven't
> read the article but the
> premise of it seemed a bit overboard to me.
>
> Does the FCAPS model still hold currency among network
> managers/engineers
> today?
What's FCAPS?
-M<