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1. pop up blocker for the NSP site The NSP login screen opens Note Before you can start NSP you must first have a userid and password assigned to you by your NSP system administrator 3 Type your username assigned to you in the Username field Type your password in the Password field 5 Click OK The NSP Application Board opens gt 6 Click on the ProPerf icon to open the application 21 ProPerf s Functionality ProPerf has two major functions they are Editing enables you to perform the following Create a dashboard Create a panel line chart bar chart pie chart or table Define xDRs to be displayed data source as source session column and line display properties for a chart like color symbols etc Display enables you to perform the following Leave a dashboard in a new page Print or save a dashboard page e Zoom in or out to change the Reference Duration of the current view View historical data for a given date and time View the dashboard in real time Opening ProPerf ProPerf is part of the NSP Toolkit and is opened from the NSP Platform Note To log into ProPerf you must first have an Network Software Platform NSP userid and password For more information contact your network administrator Once you have logged into NSP the NSP Application Board opens shown in Figure 8 NSP Application Board with ProPerf and ProPerf Configuration Icons There are two entry points i2. regulations As such the use duplication disclosure modification and adaptation shall be subject to the restrictions and license terms set forth in the applicable Government contract and to the extent applicable by the terms of the Government contract the additional rights set forth in FAR 52 227 19 Commercial Computer Software License December 2007 Oracle America Inc 500 Oracle Parkway Redwood City CA 94065 This software or hardware is developed for general use in a variety of information management applications It is not developed or intended for use in any inherently dangerous applications including applications that may create a risk of personal injury If you use this software or hardware in dangerous applications then you shall be responsible to take all appropriate fail safe backup redundancy and other measures to ensure its safe use Oracle Corporation and its affiliates disclaim any liability for any damages caused by use of this software or hardware in dangerous applications Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and or its affiliates Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International Inc AMD Opteron the AMD logo and the AMD Opteron logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices UNI
3. 00 Asia India Phone 91 124 436 8552 or 91 124 436 8553 TAC Regional Support Office Hours 10 00 a m through 7 00 p m GMT plus 5 1 2 hours Monday through Saturday excluding holidays Singapore Phone 65 6796 2288 TAC Regional Support Office Hours 9 00 a m through 6 00 p m GMT plus 8 hours Monday through Friday excluding holidays 17 PIC Documentation Library PIC customer documentation and online help are created whenever significant changes are made that affect system operation or configuration Revised editions of the documentation and online help are distributed and installed on the customer system Consult your NSP Installation Manual for details on how to update user documentation Additionally a Release Notice is distributed on the Tekelec Customer Support site along with each new release of software A Release Notice lists the PRs that have been resolved in the current release and the PRs that are known to exist in the current release Listed is the entire PIC documentation library of user guides Security User Guide Alarms User Guide ProAlarm Viewer User Guide ProAlarm Configuration User Guide Centralized Configuration Manager Administration Guide Customer Care User Guide Alarm Forwarding Administration Guide Diagnostic Utility Administration Guide ProTraq User Guide ProPerf User Guide e ProPerf Configuration User Guide System Alarms User Guide ProTrace User Gu
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5. T OMe Cy Privacy Read Write eXecute as default Apply Figure 7 Privacy Page The Privacy page is displayed 3 Click the appropriate box to select Read Write or eXecute If you want the role to have no access to the selected object s ensure that no box is checked 4 Click Save as default Toreset all the tabbed pages to default settings click Reset 6 Click Apply The settings are saved ol Customer Care Center The Tekelec Customer Care Center is your initial point of contact for all product support needs A representative takes your call or email creates a Customer Service Request CSR and directs your requests to the Tekelec Technical Assistance Center TAC Each CSR includes an individual tracking number Together with TAC Engineers the representative will help you resolve your request The Customer Care Center is available 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year and is linked to TAC Engineers around the globe Tekelec TAC Engineers are available to provide solutions to your technical questions and issues 7 days a week 24 hours a day After a CSR is issued the TAC Engineer determines the classification of the trouble If a critical problem exists emergency procedures are initiated If the problem is not critical normal support procedures apply A primary Technical Engineer is assigned to work on the CSR and provide a solution to the problem The CSR is closed when the problem is resolved Tekelec Te
6. The User Preferences page is displayed 2 Click the Point Code tab The Point Code page is displayed The red asterisk denotes a required field User preferences Point code Hexadecimal display Decimal display Split format Bit groups Separation minus v Group 0 Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Reset for Point code Save as default Apply Figure 4 Point Code Tab 3 Select either Hexadecimal display or Decimal display 4 Select or de select Split format If Split format is checked the Bit groups settings in the box below are active If Split format is not checked Bit groups settings are not applicable If you selected Split format above go to the next step If you did not select Split format go to step 72 In the Bit groups panel use the drop down box to select the Separation type Type in values for Groups 0 3 Toreset the point code preferences to default settings click Reset for Point code The bottom Reset button resets all the tabbed pages to default settings oN O Ul 9 Click Apply to save your settings 12 Setting CIC Preferences The Circuit Identification Code CIC provides a way to identify which circuit is used by the Message Signaling Unit MSU This is important in ProTrace applications Use the User Preferences feature to set the CIC settings for your system Complete these steps to set the CIC preferences 1 e ouem Click User Preferences in the Application boar
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8. a few minutes to browse through these tasks and become acquainted with the layout of this guide to become familiar with the headings and subheadings that allow you to find the information you need About the Performance Intelligence Center The Performance Intelligence Center PIC is a monitoring and data gathering system that provides network performance service quality and customer experience across various networks technologies protocols etc Beyond monitoring performance and gathering data the solution also provides analytics actionable intelligence and potentially an intelligent feedback mechanism It allows Service Providers to simultaneously look across the Data Link Network Transport and Application layer traffic to better correlate and identify the impact of network problems on revenue generating applications and services PIC functionality is based on the following general flow The Integrated Message Feeder IMF is used to capture SS7 and SigTran traffic The Probed Message Feeder PMF is used to capture both SS7 and IP traffic Both products forward Probe Data Units PDUs to the Integrated xDR Platform IXP The IXP stores this traffic data and correlates the data into detailed records CDRs IPDRs TDRs etc The IXP then stores the data on the system for future analysis The Network Software Platform NSP provides applications that mine the detailed records to provide value added services such as network performance
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10. analysis call tracing and reporting PIC centralized configuration tasks fall into one of two categories Data Acquisition and Processing the configuration of the probes routing of PDUs to the xDR builder setup KPI generation data feeds etc PIC System Administration the configuration of monitoring sites configuring PIC Servers setting up permissions etc Note For more information see Centralized Configuration Manager Administration Guide This is a graphic overview of the PIC system Networks Performance Management Key Performance Surveillance Troubleshocting Indicators A Data ediati Mediation Feeds Data Collection ck cf FUNTS cf oF A oF Figure 1 PIC Overview Setting User Preferences Users can set certain User Preferences that apply to the following NSP applications Alarm Forwarding Audit Viewer ProAlarm Configuration ProAlarm Viewer ProPerf e ProPerf Configuration ProTraq Security System Alarms These User Preferences include Time specifications date format time zone etc Directory names for exporting uploading and downloading Enumeration values numerals vs text Node name and node link display Point code specifications CIC specifications Default alarm colors Default object privacy privileges Setting Time Format Follow these steps to set the time format 1 Click User Preferences on the Application board T
11. chnical Assistance Centers are located around the globe in the following locations 15 Tekelec Global Email All Regions support tekelec com USA and Canada Phone 1 888 FOR TKLC or 1 888 367 8552 toll free within continental USA and Canada 1 919 460 2150 outside continental USA and Canada TAC Regional Support Office Hours 8 00 a m through 5 00 p m GMT minus 5 hours Monday through Friday excluding holidays Caribbean and Latin America CALA Phone USA access code 1 800 658 5454 then 1 888 FOR TKLC or 1 888 367 8552 toll free TAC Regional Support Office Hours except Brazil 10 00 a m through 7 00 p m GMT minus 6 hours Monday through Friday excluding holidays Argentina Phone 0 800 555 5246 toll free Brazil Phone 800 891 4341 toll free TAC Regional Support Office Hours 8 30 a m through 6 30 p m GMT minus 3 hours Monday through Friday excluding holidays Chile Phone 1230 020 555 5468 e Colombia Phone 800 912 0537 Dominican Republic Phone 1 888 367 8552 e Mexico 16 Phone 001 888 367 8552 e Peru Phone 0800 53 087 e Puerto Rico Phone 1 888 367 8552 1 888 FOR TKLC Venezuela Phone 0800 176 6497 Europe Middle East and Africa Regional Office Hours 8 30 a m through 5 00 p m GMT Monday through Friday excluding holidays e Signaling Phone 44 1784 467 804 within UK Software Solutions Phone 33 3 89 33 54
12. d The User preferences page is displayed Click the CIC tab The CIC page is displayed The red asterisk denotes a required field User preferences CIC Hexadecimal display Decimal display Split format Bit groups Separation Group 0 Group 1 Reset for CIC Save as default Apply Figure 5 CIC Page Select either Hexadecimal display or Decimal display Select or de select Split format If Split format is checked the Bit groups settings in the box below are active If Split format is not checked Bit groups settings are not applicable If you selected Split format above go to the next step If you did not select Split format go to 13 In the Bit groups panel use the drop down box to select Separation type Type in values for Group 0 and Group 1 If you want to reset CIC preferences to the default click Reset for CIC The bottom Reset button resets all the tabbed pages to default settings Click Apply to save your settings Setting Alarms Preferences Use the Alarms tab in User Preferences to define the default colors that indicate alarm severity The colors are displayed in the Perceived Severity column of alarms tables and on object icons in maps Follow these steps to modify alarm status colors 13 1 Click User Preferences in the Application board The User preferences page is displayed 2 Click the Alarms tab The Alarms page is displayed The red asterisk denotes a required field User prefere
13. e links Clicking on these links opens the Dashboard configuration and Panel List pages respectively Dashboard Display Note You can only view dashboards that you are authorized to view For more information see the chapters on Privacy in the NSP Administrator s Guide To display a dashboard click the Name The Dashboard opens in a separate page An example of a dashboard with a 2 1 configuration is shown in Figure 10 Dashboard Screen with 2 1 Configuration 24 Myis41Panet MyTestPanell Coll esti marnoi map Linef anet o up Figure 10 Dashboard Screen with 2 1 Configuration Note Real time dashboards are automatically refreshed according to default settings Note Resulting graph displays an exact value as tooltips when cursor is on a point of a curve 25 Chapter 3 Using ProPerf Topics e Overview e Using the Dashboard Toolbar 910 5953 001 Revision A May 2011 26 Overview This section describes the procedures used in ProPerf These descriptions include Viewing dashboards in historical and real time display Using the zoom function Using the previous and next view Using the Dashboard Toolbar You can use the dashboard toolbar to zoom in and out to change the reference duration choose the display date view previous and next time periods in historical data and chose the real time or historical view Choosing a Date You can choose a date to display information f
14. e probes and or defined with the ProTraq application The data is stored into statistical sessions within remote applications such as IXP or DataServer and managed using Centralized Configuration Manager CCM The following indicators can be displayed in ProPerf SS7 network performance indicators according to ITU Q 752 Customer traffic indicators based on ISUP and links analysis in real time Realtime indicators based on Traffic or IP service Quality monitoring Load indicators on IN transactions per link and reprocessed for all links per SCP INAP MAP CAP transaction efficiency duration operation and global title Volume efficiency split of cause values for GPRS Session Management Mobility Management SMS management Using ProPerf enables you to see failures and overloads instantly In addition trends can be easily estimated according to the shape of the curve Scope and Audience This user s manual provides information about the ProPerf application It is designed to be both a beginners guide to working with performance indicators as well as an intermediate and advanced user s reference to general concepts This guide is designed around performing common tasks such as Understanding ProPerf dashboard and panel layouts to create statistical sessions Working with dashboards and panels Creating line charts pie charts and bar graphs Modifying privacy settings to share your information with other users Take
15. g the Previous and Next view ooooocccoonoccccconoccccnononcncnanoncnnnanonnnc nano nne nnnm nennen nt en nnn ener 28 List of Figures Figure 1 PIC OVOIVIeW i e p p ua dices oda o M o o do eR sd ER ARR n Po Pda 7 Figure 2 Time Formatting Page iine toe Eo EP ABER ERR DER PEDES ERE 9 Fig re 3 Directory Pages s nan are Ee RAPERE PRAEDA 10 Figure 4 Point Code TaD vies cvs sieges no ER ra Ee Ane EU eee Toa wah sts EE EIE EE RR eR A REFERRE Yeah 12 Figure 5 CIC PAGO vrs uio Enn mt RR De Db pP ES 13 Fig re 6 Alarm Page poen e P AREE PRAEDI 14 Fig re 7 Privacy Page ea OE EE a ERE PEDE ADR PERDRE 15 Figure 8 NSP Application Board with ProPerf and ProPerf Configuration ICONS sess 23 Figure 9 ProPert Main Page grate PERDE Ai 23 Figure 10 Dashboard Screen with 2 1 Configuration essit 25 Chapter1 About this Manual Topics e Overview e Scope and Audience e About the Performance Intelligence Center Customer Care Center e PIC Documentation Library e Locate Product Documentation on the Customer Support Site 910 5953 001 Revision A May 2011 5 Overview ProPerf is a specific purpose application that is part of Tekelec s IAS system The ProPerf application enables operators to view performance and quality indicators in real time or using historical data with a dynamic display of curves and graphs Performance or quality indicators calculated with xDRs are provided by th
16. he Mapping tab The Mapping page is displayed User preferences E Mapping Pointcode CIC Alarms Privacy XDR display Translate ENUM values L1 Point Code to Node Name Link Short Name to Long Name Reset for Enumeration Save as default Apply Figure 4 Mapping Page Check Translate ENUM values to display text instead of numerals Enumeration is used by xDRs to display text values instead of numeric For example rather than showing the numeral for Alarm Severity the user interface will show the actual word such as Major or Critical Check Point Code to Node Name to display the custom user defined name of the node Otherwise the Point Code value is displayed Check Link Short Name to Long Name to display the custom user defined link name or the Eagle link name Otherwise the short name is displayed which is the name that begins with an asterisk To reset the Mapping values to the default click Reset for Enumeration The bottom Reset button resets all the tabbed pages to default settings Click Apply to save the changes 11 Setting Point Code Preferences The User Preferences feature enables you to set the Point Code preferences for your system A Point Code is a unique address for a node Signaling Point used to identify the destination of a message signal unit MSU Follow these steps to set the Point Code preferences 1 Click User Preferences in the Application board
17. he User Preferences page is displayed 2 Click the Time tab The Time page is displayed The red asterisk denotes a required field Note Use the tips on the page to help you configure the time format User preferences Directory Enumeration Point code CIC Alarms Privacy time related dispiays Date format dd MIM Aryyy Time format HH mm ss Date and time fields di MM yyyy HH mm ss Duration fields hhhimm ss ms Y Time zone GMT 05 00 America New York Tips above fields represents the format that will be applied lo diferent types of fields Hera is an help about authorized values and their meanings Separators are allowed and will be restituled as is Please note that these tormais are case sensitive yy or yyyy Year number dd Day in month number EEE Day in week string MM or MMMM Month in year respectively number cr string aa AM PM marker string HH Hour in day 0 23 hh Hour in AM PM 1 12 mm Minute in hour number ss Second in minute number Reset for Time MIT Figure 2 Time Formatting Page 3 Enter the format for these time related displays Date format Time format Date and time fields 4 Select the formats for these time related displays by using the drop down arrow Duration fields Time zone Note You must choose your time zone to get local time 5 f you want to reset the time related displays to default se
18. ide Data Feed Export User Guide Audit Viewer Administration Guide ProDiag User Guide SigTran ProDiag User Guide Report Server Platform User Guide Reference Data User Guide Exported Files User Guide e Scheduler User Guide Quick Start User Guide Locate Product Documentation on the Customer Support Site Access to Tekelec s Customer Support site is restricted to current Tekelec customers only This section describes how to log into the Tekelec Customer Support site and locate a document Viewing the document requires Adobe Acrobat Reader which can be downloaded at www adobe com 1 Log into the Tekelec Customer Support site 18 Note If you have not registered for this new site click the Register Here link Have your customer number available The response time for registration requests is 24 to 48 hours Click the Product Support tab Use the Search field to locate a document by its part number release number document name or document type The Search field accepts both full and partial entries 4 Click a subject folder to browse through a list of related files 5 To download a file to your location right click the file name and select Save Target As 19 Chapter 2 Understanding ProPerf Topics e Overview e Accessing and logging into NSP e ProPerf s Functionality e Opening ProPerf The ProPerf GUI 910 5953 001 Revision A May 2011 20 Overview ProPerf is a specific pur
19. nces Minor Color sFBFFOT Major Color jar CC200 Critical Color FF4500 Cleared Color 00FF11 Warning Color 9BFOE9 Indeterminate Color MFFFFFF Reset for Alarmlist Apply Cancel Figure 6 Alarm Page 3 Click the color palette icon on the right side of the screen associated with the alarm status color s you want to modify A pop up palette window is displayed 4 Click the color you want for the type of alarm The color palette pop up is closed and the color box for the alarm displays the selected color The number for the color is also displayed 5 If you want to reset the Alarm preferences to the default click Reset for Alarmlist The bottom Reset button resets all the tabbed pages to default settings 6 Click Apply The changes do not take effect until you log out of and in again to NSP Setting Default Object Privacy All NSP users can set default access privileges for Objects data they create in NSP applications An owner has full rights to modify or delete the object Other users are assigned to a Profile and have access to these Objects through that Profile s associated Privacy Roles To enter the default Object Privacy data settings follow these steps 1 Click User preferences in the Application board menu 14 The User Preferences window is displayed The Time tab is active by default 2 Click the Privacy tab k User preferences Rr NN lp So UL
20. nto the ProPerf application the ProPerf icon under the Application label and the ProPerf Configuration icon under the Configuration label The ProPerf application only allows the user to display prefedefined dashboards and use the dashboard toolbar The ProPerf Configuration application allows you to create and configure dashboards 22 3 Home Application board pe ta pication E r had PFET a gt pie TA be ta PrsTrare Figure 8 NSP Application Board with ProPerf and ProPerf Configuration Icons To view a dashboard click the ProPerf icon under the Application heading To configure or create a dashboard clicks the ProPerf Configuration icon under the Configuration heading The ProPerf Main page opens displaying the Dashboard list shown in Figure 10 ProPerf Main Page gt Application gt ProPert Dashboard list M4 M 4 44 b DM Ph 44 S3 D Records Per Page 10 02 cm Mame Description Layow Comem Owner Created TestDB TestDash Board 1 2 tpanel tekelet 05 08 2008 Figure 9 ProPerf Main Page The ProPerf GUI ProPerf has the same look and similar functionality as all applications in the NSP Toolkit Note Do not use the Function Keys F1 through F12 when using the NSP Function keys work in unexpected ways For example the F1 key will not open NSP help but will open help for the browser in use The F5 key will not refresh a specific screen but will refresh the entire session and will res
21. or larger 2 The information in the chart is updated with the new time duration and the new reference duration is displayed in the toolbar 3 To reset the zoom factor to the configured duration select the reset zoom button Note The zoom function is only available with the line chart view Using the Previous and Next view When viewing a dashboard you can modify the view to show previous data or next data in historical view To use the previous and next function do the following 1 Select the previous button or next button to see the previous or next data Note If you are currently in real time mode selecting previous will change the view to historical mode and automatic refresh will not happen 2 For line chart views the view will shift by 3 4 of the current time duration to display the previous or next data in the view For Data Tables Pie Charts and Bar charts the view will shift to the previous or next period 3 To get back to the real time view select the real time button Note If the new calculated date is greater than current time the dashboard switch back to real time mode refreshing data automatically every period 28
22. pose application that is part of Tekelec s IAS system ProPerf makes it possible for you to view performance indicators in real time and from historical data with a display of curves and graphs These indicators calculated with message based counters are provided by the probes and or defined by the ProTraq application Data is stored in statistical sessions organized as matrix of column and line filter results This matrix defines cells named KPI Key Performance Indicators ProPerf is based on a dashboard concept that is a single page display of multiple KPI s in associated charts and tables set up in Panels determined according to predefined layouts ProPerf offers two main dashboard functions Dashboard Editing Allows you to configure a dashboard to display as an independent page and automatically refresh it in real time Note Accessible to users in the group NSPConfigPowerUser Dashboard Display Allows you to use global settings to display a dashboard to specific properties of the KPI s used Note Accessible to users in the group NSPBusinessUser Accessing and logging into NSP To access and log into NSP follow these steps 1 Open your Web browser 2 In the Address bar type the following Uniform Resource Locator URL for NSP http nspserver nsp where the nspserver is the IP address of NSP Note NSP only supports versions of IE 7 0 or later and Firefox 3 6 or later Before using NSP turn off the browser
23. rom a historical record by doing the following 1 Select the history button The date input screen appears 2 Enter the date and time or select it from the calendar tool 3 Click OK The information in the chart is updated to display historical data for the new date Note If the display period of a graph includes the time when there is a switch between Daylight Savings Time and Standard Time the data after the change may be offset by one hour Viewing in Real time If you are currently viewing historical data you can switch to the real time display by doing the following 1 Select the real time button 2 The information in the chart is updated with the real time data Note When a dashboard is first opened it s default viewing mode is real time Note If the display period of a graph includes the time when there is a switch between Daylight Savings Time and Standard Time the data after the change may be offset by one hour Using the Zoom function When viewing data as a line chart you can you can zoom in or out to change the time duration for the current view You can zoom in to 1 of the current configured duration and out to 400 of the current configured duration To use the zoom function does the following 27 1 Select the zoom in button to see shorter time duration or the zoom out button to see a larger duration Each successive click of the zoom in or out button will result in the view being updated one increment shorter
24. ttings click Reset for Time The bottom Reset button resets all the tabbed pages to default settings 6 Click Apply to save settings Setting Directory Preferences Use the User Preferences feature to set the Export Upload and Download directory paths for your system These paths define where xDR s dictionary files and other elements are stored 1 Click User Preferences on the Application board The User Preferences page is displayed 2 Click the Directory tab The Directory page is displayed The red asterisk denotes a required field User preferences Directories Export directory Upload directory Download directory Warning above directories must exist on server side No check is done by application ii is user responsability to do so Reset for Directory Save as default Apply Figure 3 Directory Page Follow these steps to set the directory preferences 3 Type in the following 10 Export directory Upload directory Download directory If you want to reset the directories to default settings click Reset for Directory The bottom Reset button resets all the tabbed pages to default settings Click Apply to save your settings Setting Mapping Preferences You can set the Mapping settings using the User Preferences feature Follow these steps to set Mapping preferences 1 Click User Preferences in the Application board The User Preferences page is displayed Click t
25. ult in a loss of any entered information Page Layout The page is divided into the following Links to applications configuration applications and surveillance located in the top left hand corner Menu bar contains two menus 23 Your Dashboard that shows dashboards you created or ones that you have been given access to Help has two options Help that provides an online help system About that provides basic information about the current ProPerf release Toolbar that provides navigation and function buttons Note For other GUI features refer to the NSP Platform Guide Dashboard list a table that lists the configured xDR sessions in panels For more information on using the Dashboard see Using the Dashboard Toolbar Dashboard Layout As mentioned in the section above Dashboards are presented in table format The table has seven columns Dashboard Columns Name shows the name of the dashboard Description shows the description if any of the dashboard Layout shows the panel configuration in columns and rows for example 1x3 means one column and three row layout 1 2 means one row has one column and the second row has two columns There are eight possible configurations Content shows how many panels are presently in the dashboard configuration Owner shows who created the dashboard Created shows when the dashboard was created Dashboard and panel Links The Name and Panel columns ar
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