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NSP Network and
Service Assurance

Course number: OS00103-W
Course duration: 2 hours
Price: €200

Course overview

This self-paced e-learning course explores how the NSP’s assurance tools help to triage, prioritize and troubleshoot multiple network and service type issues.  Discover how the NSP provides efficient and effective alarm monitoring, network and service health visualizations, dashboards and complete root cause and impact analysis.  Learn to use KPI summary views to provide a top-level assessment of overall network and service status.  See how to closely monitor a shortlist of network objects and view a full event timeline for any objects of your concern.  Understand how to access and use integrated analytics and OAM tools to provide a complete, end-to-end solution for management of Service Level Agreements.

Course objectives

 After completing the course, students should be able to:

 

  • Summarize the NSP Network and Service Assurance functions
  • Perform the necessary tasks for on-boarding NSP assurance functions
    • Configure the NSP polling interval
    • Configure NSP assurance settings
    • Configure email policies
  • Demonstrate functionality of the following cornerstone assurance views
    • Network Health
    • Network Map
    • Network Inventory
    • Subscriber Management
    • 5G Transport Slices
  • Explain and demonstrate the following tasks that are associated with monitoring network health;
    • Review overall network health
    • Customizing dashboards
    • Closely monitor a shortlist of NEs and services
    • Configure the map layout
  • Explain and demonstrate the following tasks that are associated with managing network alarms;
    • Manage alarm list types
    • Display graphic alarm views for the managed network
    • Root cause tree and impact analysis
  • Explain the demonstrate the following tasks that are associated with troubleshooting network objects;
    • Review a centralized view of network equipment and service performance
    • Display and review an event timeline
    • Review the service topology map
  • Demonstrate using “Object Troubleshooting” to focus on specific network objects
  • Describe and demonstrate OAM test options
  • Demonstrate a best practice approach to troubleshooting a service
  • Demonstrate a best practice approach to troubleshooting a network element

Course modules

Module 1 – NSP Assurance

  • Overview of NSP assurance functions
  • NSP assurance Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)

Module 2 – NSP Assurance On-boarding tasks

  • NSP polling interval
  • Alarm settings
  • Email policies

Module 3 – Network and Service Assurance Views

  • Network Health Dashboard
  • Network Map View
  • Network Inventory View
  • Subscriber Monitoring View
  • 5G Transport Slices View

Module 4 – Monitoring Network Health

  • Dashboard customization
  • Managing the Watchlist
  • Configure the map layout
  • Analytics reports

Module 5 – Managing Network Alarms

  • NSP alarm management overview
  • Manage alarm list types
  • Troubleshooting with graphic alarm views

Module 6 – Troubleshooting Network Objects

  • Object Troubleshooting View
  • Event Timeline
  • Service Troubleshooting Map
  • Service troubleshooting use case
  • Network Element troubleshooting use case