[75286] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Status of FCAPS model? Useful? Obsolete?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Irwin Lazar)
Wed Nov 10 15:00:09 2004
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:59:28 -0500
From: Irwin Lazar <ilazar@burtongroup.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <BDB67553.A745%christian.kuhtz@bellsouth.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
We see a lot of interest among enterprises in ITIL for IT service
management, which I'm guessing would overlap the FCAPS framework. Is anyone
investing it for the SP side?
(what's ITIL? - http://www.ogc.gov.uk/index.asp?id=2261)
Irwin
> From: Christian Kuhtz <christian.kuhtz@BELLSOUTH.COM>
> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 13:23:31 -0500
> To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, "Hannigan, Martin"
> <hannigan@verisign.com>
> Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
> Subject: Re: Status of FCAPS model? Useful? Obsolete?
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> Seems the latest cluster of hype is around (e)TOM from the TMF, much more
> than strict FCAPS etc.
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> On 11/9/04 1:13 AM, "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
>>>> Does the FCAPS model still hold currency among network
>>>> managers/engineers
>>>> today?
>>>
>>> What's FCAPS?
>>
>> I suppose that answers the question whether FCAPS holds currency
>> among network managers/engineers.
>>
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>> It is an ITU-T developed network management model composed of
>> Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, Security (FCAPS).
>>
>> Some people think it is a mandatory specification for how to
>> manage a network; other people think it is an antiquated view
>> of telecom network management; and yet other people think it is
>> as relevant as the ISO 7-layer network model.
>>
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