OptiX OSN 7500 
Technical Manual - System Description  5 Software 
 
Huawei Technologies Proprietary 
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Through the hardware interface provided by the SCC board, the communication 
module transmits the OAM&P information and exchanges management information 
between the NM system and NEs, and between NEs themselves. It consists of 
network communication module, serial communication module and ECC 
communication module. 
 
Database management module 
This module is an organic component of the NE software, composed of database and 
management system. Database comprises several sub databases, including network 
database, alarm database, performance database and equipment database. The 
management system manages and accesses the data in the database. 
5.4  Board Software 
The board software runs on each board, managing, monitoring and controlling the 
operation of the board. It receives the command issued from the NE software and 
reports the board status to the NE software through performance and alarm events. 
Its specific functions include: alarm management, performance management, 
configuration management and communication management and so on. It can 
directly control the functional circuits in corresponding boards and implement ITU-T 
compliant specific functions of the NE. 
The board software can be classified into the following types: line software, 
cross-connect software, clock software and orderwire software. 
5.5  NM System 
The NM system implements a unified management over the optical transmission 
network, and maintains all ION, SDH, Metro, DWDM NE equipment in the network. In 
compliance with ITU-T Recommendation, it is a network management system 
integrating standard management information model and object-oriented 
management technology.  It exchanges information with NE software through the 
communication module to implement monitoring and management over the network 
equipment.  
The NM software runs on a workstation or PC, managing the equipment and the 
transmission network. It enables the user to operate, maintain and manage the 
transmission equipment. The management functions of the NM software include: 
 
Alarm management: Collect, prompt, filter, browse, acknowledge, check, clear, and 
statistics in real time; fulfill alarm insertion, alarm correlation analysis and fault 
diagnosis. 
 
Performance management: Set performance monitoring; browse, analyze and 
print performance data; forecast medium-term and long-term performance; and 
reset performance register.