Index

Also containing description of Abbreviations, Acronyms and Terms.

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Comment notation

A

AAA

Acronym for Authentication (identify user), Authorisation (provide corresponding rights), Accounting (bill/audit trail); see SM NAD/FAD

Access Control (see SM NAD/FAD)

Access domain (Interworking)

Accessibility of management info (SM)

Accounting Management (AM: MFA)

ACSE

Association Control Service Element (Components)

Active

Usage state (SMF State mgt)

Actors (Interworking)

Administrative state (SMF State mgt)

Agent

- functionality (Concepts)

Manager/- relationship (Concepts)

Alarm

-s flooding the TMN (Issues)

- handling (MFA FM)

- outstanding: Alarm status (SMF State mgt)

- status (SMF State mgt)

- Reporting function (SMF X.733)

- Resynchronization (SNMP differences)

AM

Accounting Management (MFA)

ANSI

American National Standards Institute (Stand.Org)

Architecture

Logical Layered - (LLA)

ASN.1

Abstract Syntax Notation 1 (Components)

ATM

Asynchronous Transfer Mode

ATMF

ATM Forum (Stand.Org)

Attributes

Status - (SMF State mgt)

Availability status (SMF State mgt)

Avalanches, Alarm - (Issues)

B

Backbone domain (Interworking)

Bearer service (Intro)

BER

Bit Encoding Rules (Components)

Bibliography (Stand.Org)

Billing (MFA AM)

Blocks

TMN Function - (Components)

BML

Business Management Layer (BML)

- Generic interfaces (q, x, f)

BPR

Business Process Re-engineering (Intro)

Bussines Management Layer (BML: LLA)

- Generic interfaces (q, x, f)

Business Process Re-engineering (BPR: Intro)

Busy

Usage state (SMF State mgt)

C

CAC

Connection Admission Control (PM Capacity Mgt)

Call Detail Records (CDR: AM)

Capacity Management (MFA Process Cycle)

Cascading of MAFs (Concepts)

CCITT

Commité Consultatif International de Télégraphique et Téléphonique
now called ITU-T.  (Stand.Org)

CDR

Call Detail Records (AM)

Centrex

Public switch functioning as PABX with facilities (SML)

Charging (MFA AM)

CIA

Acronym for Confidentiality, Integrity and Accessibility (SM)

Citation reference (TMN top)

Client

-/Server relationship (Concepts)

CM

Configuration Management (CM)

CME

Conformant Management Entity (SMF Trouble)

CMIP

Common Management Interface Protocol (Components)

CMIS

Common Management Interface Service (Components)

CMISE

Common Management Information Service Element (Components)

CMOT

CMIP over TCP/IP (Components)

CNM

Customer Network Management (Interworking)

Confidentiality of management info (SM)

Cold standby

Standby status (SMF State mgt)

Comment notation (TMN top)

Common Management Interface Protocol (CMIP: Concepts)

Common Management Interface Service (CMIS: Concepts)

Communication

Data - Function (DCF: Components)

Message - Function (MCF: Components)

Compliance (Stand.Conformance)

Configuration Management (CM: MFA)

Conformance suites (Stand.Conformance)

Conformant Management Entity (CME: SMF Trouble)

Contract (Interworking)

Control

- status (SMF State mgt)

- versus Management (EML)

- versus Monitoring (Interworking)

Traffic - (Capacity Management)

CPE

Customer Premises Equipment (Components)

Critical (fault)

Alarm severity (SMF Alarm Reporting function)

Alarm status (SMF State mgt)

Customer

- contract (Interworking)

- domain (Interworking)

- Network Management (CNM: Interworking)

- Premises Equipment (CPE: Components)

- versus Provider (Interworking)

- versus User (Interworking)

Cycle

Capacity Management - (MFA)

Equipment life- (MFA)

Fault life- (MFA)

Service life- (MFA)

D

Data

- Communication Function (DCF: Components)

Protocol - Unit (PDU: Components)

DAVIC

Digital Audio Visual Interoperability Council (Stand.Org)

DCF

Data Communication Function (Components)

DCN

Data Communication Network (LLA)
the network used by TMN to communicate internally and to the Network Elements.

Denotation of Comments, Citations and References (TMN top)

Degraded

Availability status (SMF State mgt)

Dependency

Availability status (SMF State mgt)

Development

TMN - issues (Issues)

Disabled

Operational state (SMF State mgt)

Distribution of Information (LLA Summary)

Document

Standards - (Stand.Bibliography)

Domains

- in networks (Interworking)

Duty

Off -, Availability status (SMF State mgt)

E

EB

Electronic Bonding (SMF Trouble)

ECC

Embedded Control Channel
A communication channel for operations and management purposes embedded in the transmission system (typically SDH)

ECMA

European Computer Manufacturers Association (Stand.Org)

Electronic Bonding (EB: SMF Trouble)

Element Management Layer (EML: LLA)

- Generic interfaces (q, x, f)

Element

Network - Function (NEF: Components)

EML

Element Management Layer (EML)

- Generic interfaces (q, x, f)

Enabled

Operational state (SMF State mgt)

Ensembles (Stand.Conformance)

Equipment life cycle (MFA)

ETSI

European Telecommunications Standards Institute (Stand.Org)

Examples

Focussed Overload (MFA PM Traffic Control)

Customer/Provider chain (Interworking)

Business Process Re-engineering (Introduction)

F

f reference point (Components)

FAB

Fulfilment, Assurance & Billing (by NMF SMART Issues)

FAD

Functional Access Control (SM)

Failed

Availability status (SMF State mgt)

Fault

- Correlation (MFA FM)

- Management (FM: MFA)

- life cycle (MFA)

FCAPS

Fault-, Configuration-, Accounting-, Performance- & Security-management: the Management Functional Areas (M.3400: MFA)

- versus Logical Layered Architecture (MFA vs LLA)

Flooding network management (Issues)

FM

Fault Management (MFA FM)

Focussed Overload, example of - (MFA PM Traffic Control)

FSN

Full Service Networks
A network providing a broad variety of services (typically on ATM) and therefore requiring integrated management.

FTAM

File Transfer, Access and Management (Components)

Function

- Blocks (Components)

Data Communication - (DCF: Components)

Mediation - (MF: Components)

Message Communication - (MCF: Components)

Network Element - (NEF: Components)

Operations Systems - (OSF: Components)

Q Adaptor - (QAF: Components)

State management - (SMF State mgt)

System Management - (SMF)

WorkStation - (WSF: Components)

G

g reference point (Components)

GDMO

Generic Definition of Managed Objects (Components)

General management (MFA)

Generic States (SMF State mgt)

Generic Network Information Model (GNIM)

general purpose Information Model, defined in M.3100

GNIM

Generic Network Information Model
general purpose Information Model, defined in M.3100

H

Hierarchy

Logical - or Information - (LLA)

- Generic interfaces (q, x, f)

HMI

Human/Machine Interface (Components)

Hot billing

Real-time provisioning of telecom bill (MFA AM)

Hot standby

Standby status (SMF State mgt)

I

IAB

Internet Architecture Board (Stand.Org)

ICS

Information Conformance Statement (Stand.Conformance)

Idle

Usage state (SMF State mgt)

IEC

International Electrotechnical Commission (Stand.Org)

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (Stand.Org)

IESG

Internet Engineering Steering Group (Stand.Org)

IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force (Stand.Org)

IM

Information Model (Concepts)

Anti-parallel -s (Concepts)

Cascading of -s (Concepts)

- versus MIB (Concepts)

IN

Intelligent Networks (Intro VAS)

In test

Availability status (SMF State mgt)

Incumbent

In this context a telecom operator which has established itself for decades, i.e. the (ex-)monopoly in telecom (national PTT).

Information

- distribution (LLA Summary, Issues)

- hierarchy (LLA Summary)

- Model (IM: Concepts)

Initialization required

Procedural status (SMF State mgt)

Initialized

Not -, Procedural status (SMF State mgt)

Initializing

Procedural status (SMF State mgt)

Installed

Not -, Availability status (SMF State mgt)

Integration in the TMN, Issues … (Integration)

Integrity of management info (SM)

Interface

See also 'Reference point'

Generic -s (q, x, f)

Inter-operability (Stand.Conformance)

Interworking schemes between operators (Interworking)

IP

Internet Protocol (Components)

IRSG

Internet Research Steering Group (Stand.Org)

IRTF

Internet Research Task Force (Stand.Org)

ISO

International Standards Organization (Stand.Org)

ISP

Independant Service Provider
Service provider (commonly for Internet access) not owned by the major telecom provider

IT

Information Technology (Components)

ITU

International Telecommunication Union (Stand.Org)
usually ITU-T:  ITU-Telecommunication standardization sector;  formerly known as CCITT.

L

Layering of MAFs (Concepts)

Legacy (systems)

In this context Operation Support Systems which are inherited from old times.  New OSSes have to interface to the legacy systems (according to non-standard interfaces) or to replace them.

Life cycle

Capacity Management - (MFA)

Equipment - (MFA)

Fault - (MFA)

Service - (MFA)

LLA

Logical Layered Architecture (LLA)

- versus FCAPS (MFA vs LLA)

- Generic interfaces (q, x, f)

Locked

Administrative state (SMF State mgt)

Part of services -, Control status (SMF State mgt)

Log full

Availability status (SMF State mgt)

Logical Layered Architecture (LLA: M.3010)

- versus Management Functional Areas (MFA vs LLA)

- Generic Components & Interfaces (q, x, f)

M

M.3010 Principles for a Telecommunicatons Management Network

Logical Layered Architecture

TMN Concepts

Generic Components & Interfaces

M.3400 TMN Management Functions MFA or FCAPS

m reference point (Components)

MAF

Management Application Funtion (Concepts)

Cascading of -s (Concepts)

Peer to peer -s (Concepts)

Major (fault)

Alarm severity (SMF Alarm Reporting function)

Alarm status (SMF State mgt)

Managed

- Object (MO: Concepts)

- Object Conformance Statement (MOCS: Stand.Conformance)

Management Funtional Areas (MFA: M.3400)

- versus Logical Layered Architecture (MFA vs LLA)

Management

- Application Function (MAF: Concepts)

- Information Base (MIB: Concepts)

- versus Control (EML)

Common - Interface Protocol (Concepts)

Common - Interface Service (Concepts)

Customer Network - (CNM: Interworking)

Object - Function X.730 (SMF)

Simple Network - Protocol (SNMP: Components)

State - function (SMF State mgt)

System - Functions (SMF)

Manager

-/Agent relationship (Concepts)

- functionality (Concepts)

MAP

Management Application Protocol (Components)

MCF

Message Communication Function (Components)

MCS

Management Conformance Statement (Stand.Conformance)

Mediation Function (MF: Components)

Meetering

Registration of usage data (MFA AM)

Message Communication Function (MCF: Components)

MF

Mediation Function (Components)

MFA

Management Functional Areas (MFA)

- versus LLA (MFA vs LLA)

MIB

Management Information Base (Concepts)

- versus IM (Concepts)

Minor (fault)

Alarm severity (SMF Alarm Reporting function)

Alarm status (SMF State mgt)

MIS

Management Information Service
Set of OSI/ITU recommendations

MO

Managed Object (Concepts)

MOCS

Managed Object Conformance Statement (Stand.Conformance)

Monitoring versus Control (Interworking)

MRCS

Managment Relationship Conformance Statement (Stand.Conformance)

MSAF

Multimedia Service Affiliate Forum (Stand.Org)

MSAN

Multi-Service Access Node (Eaxamples of Integration)

N

NAD

Network Access Control (SM)

NAP

Network Access Point (LLA SML)

NE

Network Element (NEL)

NEF

Network Element Function (Components)

NEL

Network Element Layer (NEL)

Network Management Layer (NML: LLA)

- Generic interfaces (q, x, f)

Network

- Element (NE: NEL)

- Element Function (NEF: Components)

Customer - Management (CNM: Interworking)

Simple - Management Protocol (SNMP: Components)

NMF

Network Management Forum (Stand.Org, Issues)

NML

Network Management Layer (NML)

- Generic interfaces (q, x, f)

Notation of Comments, Citations and References (TMN top)

Not initialized

Procedural status (SMF State mgt)

Not installed

Availability status (SMF State mgt)

O

Object

- Management Function X.730 (SMF)

Managed - Conformance Statement (MOCS: Stand.Conformance)

Off duty

Availability status (SMF State mgt)

Off line

Availability status (SMF State mgt)

OMNIPoint

Open Management Interoperability Point (Stand.Org)

Open System

? OSI definition ?

Operational state (SMF State mgt)

Operations

- Support System (OSS: Components)

- System (OS: Components)

- Systems Function (OSF: Components)

Operator

- contract with customer (Interworking)

- versus Customer (Interworking)

- versus Provider (Interworking)

Service - (SML)

Organizations

Standards - (Stand.Org)

OS

Operations Systems (Components)

OSF

Operations Systems Function (Components)

OSI

Open Systems Interconnection;
Model for communications defined by ISO (Stand.Org)

- stack (Components)

OSS

Operations Support Systems (OSS: Components)

Overload, example of Focussed - (MFA PM Traffic Control)

P

Part of services locked

Control status (SMF State mgt)

PDU

Protocol Data Unit (Components)

Performance Management (PM: MFA)

PICS

Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (Stand.Conformance)

Piramid (LLA Summary)

PM

Performance Management (MFA PM)

POP

Points Of Presence (SML)

Power off

Availability status (SMF State mgt)

Priorities of ITU for Information Modelling (Standards)

Probable Cause

- of an Alarm (SMF Alarm Reporting function)

Procedural status (SMF State mgt)

Process

Business - reengineering (Intro)

- Cycles

Protocol

- Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS: Stand.Conformance)

- stack (Components)

Common Management Interface - (CMIP: Concepts)

Management - (Components)

Simple Network Management - (SNMP: Components)

X.25 - (Components)

Provider

- versus Customer (Interworking)

- versus Operator (Interworking)

Providing service

Standby status (SMF State mgt)

Provisioning

Provisioning consists of procedures necessary to bring an equipment into service not including installation (M.3400: MFA CM; there is also a less restrictive interpretation of provisioning).

PTO

Public Telecom Operator (LLA)

PTR

Provider Trouble Report (SMF Trouble )

Q

Q Adaptor Function (QAF: Components)

q reference point (Components)

Q₃ interface (Components)

q₃ reference point (Components)

QAF

Q Adapter Function (Components)

Reverse - (SMF Trouble)

QoS

Quality of Service (MFA PM)

Quality of Service (QoS: MFA PM)

q_x reference point (Components)

R

Rating

Part of (AM) Charging process

RDN

Relative Distinguished Name

Reference

- documents (Stand.Biblio)

- notation (TMN top)

Reference point

f - (Components)

g - (Components)

m - (Components)

q - (Components)

q₃ - (Components)

Q₃ - (Components)

q_x - (Components)

x - (Components)

- overview (Components)

Regional domain (Interworking)

Relationship

Manager/Agent - (Concepts)

Repair

Under -, Alarm status (SMF State mgt)

Reporting

Alarm - (SMF Alarm Reporting function)

Procedural status (SMF State mgt)

Reserved for test

Control status (SMF State mgt)

Resynchronization of Alarms (SNMP differences)

Reverse QAF (SMF Trouble)

RFC

Request For Comment (Stand.Org)
This may sound innocent, but they achieve the status of (MoD) standard for Internet.

Roles, Customer versus Provider

Root Cause (MFA FM)

ROSE

Remote Operation Service Element (Components)

RPOA

Recognized Private Operating Companies

S

SAP

Service Access Point (LLA SML)

SDH

Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
Standard for synchronous transmission. The hierachy refers to the multiplex levels.

Security Management (SM: MFA)

Self-management (MFA General Mgt)

Serializing of MAFs (Concepts)

Server

Client/- relationship (Concepts)

Service Management Layer (SML: LLA)

- Generic interfaces (q, x, f)

Service

- Access Point (LLA SML)

- domain (Interworking)

- interactions (Interworking)

- Level Agreement (SLA) or

- Level Guarantee (SLG: MFA PM)

- life cycle (MFA)

- Management, Automation and Re-engineering Team (SMART: Stand.Org)

- Operator (SML)

- Order (Service cycle)

- Provider (SML, roles: Interworking)

- Providers' Integrated Requirements for Information Technology (SPIRIT: Stand.Org)

Bearer - (Intro)

Supplementary - (Intro)

Tele- (Intro)

Value Added - (Intro)

Severity

Alarm - (SMF Alarm Reporting function)

Shared Management Knowledge (SMK: Concepts)

Shutting down

Administrative state (SMF State mgt)

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP: Components)

SLA

Service Level Agreement (SLA: MFA PM)

- creation

SLG

Service Level Guarantee; same as SLA (PM PM)

SM

Security Management (MFA SM)

SMART

Service Management, Automation and Re-engineering Team (Stand.Org, Issues)

SMF

System Management Function (SMF)

SMI

Structure of Management Information (e.g. GDMO). See X.720

SMK

Shared Management Knowledge (Concepts)

SML

Service Management Layer (SML)

- Generic interfaces (q, x, f)

SMO

Scheduled Managed Object (SMF Scheduling: X746)

SMURF

System Management Function (SMF)

SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol (Components)

SO

Schedule Object (SMF Scheduling: X746)

SP

Service Provider (Interworking)

SPIRIT

Service Providers' Integrated Requirements for Information Technology (Stand.Org)

Stack

protocol - (Components)

Standards

Bibliography

- Organizations

Standby status (SMF State mgt)

State

Administrative - (SMF State mgt)

Combination of -s (SMF State mgt)

Generic - (SMF State mgt)

Operational - (SMF State mgt)

Relation with Standby status (SMF State mgt)

Usage - (SMF State mgt)

- management function (SMF State mgt: X.731)

Status

Alarm - (SMF State mgt)

Availability - (SMF State mgt)

Control - (SMF State mgt)

Procedural - (SMF State mgt)

Standby - (SMF State mgt)

Unknown - (SMF State mgt)

- attributes (SMF State mgt)

Subject to test

Control status (SMF State mgt)

Supplementary service (Intro)

Suspended

Control status (SMF State mgt)

System

- management (MFA General Mgt)

- Management Functions (SMF: X.73x)

Operations - (OS: Components)

Operations Support - (OSS: Components)

Operations - Function (OSF: Components)

T

TAP

Test Access Path (MFA FM)

Tariffing

Defining prices for service components (MFA AM)

TCA

Threshold Crossing Alarm (MFA PM)

TCP

Transfer Control Program (SNMP)

Telecommunications Management Network (TMN: Intro)

Tele-service (Intro)

Terminating

Procedural status (SMF State mgt)

Test

In -, Availability status (SMF State mgt)

Reserved for -, Control status (SMF State mgt)

Subject to -, Control status (SMF State mgt)

TINA-c

Telecommunications Information Network Architecture - consortium (Stand.Org)

TMN

Alarms flooding the - (Issues)

- development issues (Issues)

- pricing (Issues)

Telecommunications Management Network (Intro)

- Piramid (LLA Summary)

Traffic Control (Capacity Management)

TL1

Transaction Language 1 (Components)

TRFD

Trouble Report Format Definition (SMF Trouble)

Trouble

A problem in a communications network that has an adverse effect on the Quality of Service as perceived by the network user. (SMF Trouble)

- management function (SMF Trouble: X.790)

TT

Trouble Ticket or Trouble Ticketing (SMF Trouble)

TTCN

Tree and Tabular Combined Notation. X.292

TTR

Telecommunications Trouble Report (SMF Trouble)

U

UDP

User Datagram Protocol (connectionless)

Under repair

Alarm status (SMF State mgt)

Unknown status (SMF State mgt)

Unlocked

Administrative state (SMF State mgt)

Usage state (SMF State mgt)

User

- versus Customer (SML)

V

Value Added Services (VAS: Intro)

VAS

Value Added Services (Intro)

Virtual Private Network (VPN: SML)

VPN

Virtual Private Network (SML)

W

Warning

Alarm severity (SMF Alarm Reporting function)

Work Order (Equipment cycle)

WorkStation Function (WSF: Components)

WSF

WorkStation Function (Components)

X

X.25 (Components)

X.731 IT-OSI-SMF: State management function (SMF State mgt)

X.733 IT-OSI-SMF: Alarm Reporting function (SMF Alarm)

X.746 IT_OSI-SMF: Scheduling function (SMF Scheduling)

X.790 IT-OSI-SMF: Trouble management function (SMF Trouble mgt)

x reference point (Components)

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