Planning Guide

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PLANNING GUIDE
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Alcatel-Lucent 5620
SERVICE AWARE MANAGER
PLANNING GUIDE
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1 — Introduction 1-1
1.1 Overview .................................................................................1-2
1.2 Purpose...................................................................................1-2
1.3 Intended audience......................................................................1-2
1.4 Document changes......................................................................1-2
2 — Product deployment overview 2-1
2.1 5620SAM architecture .................................................................2-2
2.2 5620SAM Auxiliary Statistics Collector..............................................2-6
2.3 5620SAM Auxiliary Call Trace Collector.............................................2-6
2.4 5620SAM Client Delegate..............................................................2-7
2.5 5620SAM key technology overview ..................................................2-7
Java Virtual Machine.................................................................2-7
Oracle Database......................................................................2-8
2.6 Redundancy architecture..............................................................2-8
Redundancy and 5620SAM Auxiliary workstations.............................2-10
2.7 Redundancy deployment considerations for 5620 SAM...........................2-14
Redundancy with collocated 5620SAM Server/Database:....................2-14
Redundancy with distributed 5620 SAM Server and 5620 SAM
Database:.......................................................................2-14
Redundancy with distributed 5620 SAM Server and 5620 SAM
Database and 5620 SAM Auxiliary workstations:..........................2-15
3 — Operating systems specifications 3-1
3.1 Oracle Solaris............................................................................3-2
3.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) .....................................................3-2
3.3 Microsoft Windows......................................................................3-3
3.4 Operating system summary............................................................3-4
3.5 5620SAM Client or Client Delegate software requirements......................3-4
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4 — Platform requirements 4-1
4.1 Hardware platform requirements overview.........................................4-2
4.2 Hardware platform and resource requirements using Virtualization ...........4-3
VMware Virtualization...............................................................4-3
VMware Features.....................................................................4-4
KVM Virtualization ...................................................................4-5
4.3 Minimum hardware platform requirements.........................................4-5
Minimum hardware platform and resource requirements .....................4-6
HP or Oracle x86 hardware configuration with Solaris x86....................4-6
HP x86 hardware configuration with RHEL Server x86-64 .....................4-7
Virtual Machine hardware configurations for Labs..............................4-8
Virtual Machine RHEL resource requirements ...................................4-9
Scaling limits for collocated configurations.....................................4-10
Minimum platform requirements for 5620 SAM Auxiliary.....................4-10
Minimum platform requirements for 5620 SAM Auxiliary Database .........4-11
Platform requirements for 5620SAM Client Delegate workstations.........4-11
4.4 5620SAM-O 3GPP Interface ..........................................................4-13
4.5 5620SAM GUI Client platform requirements.......................................4-13
4.6 Determining hardware platform requirements for larger networks............4-14
4.7 Storage considerations................................................................4-15
Using RAID technologies............................................................4-16
Using SAN storage...................................................................4-16
Virtualization I/O requirements ..................................................4-17
5 — NE maintenance 5-1
5.1 Mechanism to maintain current state of network elements......................5-2
5.2 IP connectivity (ping) verification....................................................5-2
5.3 SNMP connectivity verification........................................................5-2
5.4 SNMP traps...............................................................................5-3
5.5 SNMP trap sequence verification.....................................................5-3
5.6 Scheduled SNMP MIB polling...........................................................5-3
5.7 Network outages ........................................................................5-3
6 — Network requirements 6-1
6.1 Network requirements .................................................................6-3
6.2 Connectivity to the network elements ..............................................6-3
6.3 Bandwidth requirements for collocated 5620SAM installations.................6-3
6.4 Bandwidth requirements for distributed 5620 SAM installations ................6-4
5620SAM Auxiliary Call Trace Collectors.........................................6-7
6.5 Bandwidth requirements for 5620 SAM GUI Clients................................6-8
6.6 Bandwidth requirements for displaying 5620 SAM GUI Clients on X
displays ............................................................................6-8
6.7 Bandwidth requirements for 5620 SAM-O OSS Clients.............................6-8
6.8 Bandwidth requirements for the 5620 SAM Auxiliary Statistics Collector
workstation........................................................................6-9
6.9 Bandwidth requirements for the 5620 SAM Call Trace Collector
workstation........................................................................6-9
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6.10 5620 SAM bandwidth requirements for communicating with network
elements..........................................................................6-10
Details on the bandwidth requirements.........................................6-11
Possible consequences of insufficient bandwidth..............................6-12
Determining total bandwidth requirements for 5620 SAM-managed
networks........................................................................6-12
6.11 Network latency considerations .....................................................6-13
Common geographical location of 5620SAM workstations ...................6-14
Optimizing throughput between 5620 SAM workstations .....................6-14
Additional 5620SAM Database throughput optimizations.....................6-15
6.12 Network reliability considerations ..................................................6-15
Reliability between 5620 SAM components .....................................6-15
5620SAM Server to NE network reliability......................................6-16
6.13 GNE, Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch, 9471 WMM, eNodeB, and 5780 DSC
considerations ...................................................................6-17
7 — Scaling 7-1
7.1 Scaling guidelines.......................................................................7-2
5620 SAM Performance Targets....................................................7-5
7.2 Scaling guidelines for 5620 SAM OSS Clients........................................7-6
5620SAM OSS Clients using JMS....................................................7-6
5620SAM 3GPP OSS Client..........................................................7-7
7.3 Scaling guidelines for statistics collection..........................................7-7
Statistics collection definitions....................................................7-7
Determining the number of statistics records that will be collected........7-8
Performance statistics...............................................................7-8
Performance statistics collection and network latency........................7-9
Accounting statistics.................................................................7-9
5620SAM Database hardware platform requirements.........................7-11
Simultaneous collection of performance and accounting statistics
records..........................................................................7-12
Determining the number of performance and accounting statistics
records being collected by 5620 SAM ......................................7-12
7.4 Scaling guidelines for scheduled tests (STM) ......................................7-12
Guidelines for maximizing STM test execution:................................7-14
Accounting file STM test configuration..........................................7-15
Examples of STM test configuration..............................................7-15
Factors impacting the number of elemental tests that can be
executed in a given time frame.............................................7-16
Possible consequences of exceeding the capacity of the system to
perform tests ..................................................................7-16
Disk space requirements for STM test results...................................7-17
7.5 Scaling guidelines for call trace .....................................................7-17
Disk space requirements for Call Trace and Debug Trace....................7-18
8 — Security 8-1
8.1 Securing 5620 SAM......................................................................8-2
8.2 Operating system installation for 5620SAM workstations........................8-2
Required Solaris services............................................................8-3
8.3 5620SAM software installation .......................................................8-3
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8.4 5620SAM network element communication........................................8-3
8.5 5620SAM and firewalls.................................................................8-4
8.6 Port Information.........................................................................8-5
8.7 FTP between the 5620 SAM Server and 5620SAM Auxiliary Statistics
Collector and the managed network.........................................8-13
8.8 Firewall and NAT rules................................................................8-14
5620SAM Server firewall and NAT rules.........................................8-15
5620SAM Database firewall and NAT rules......................................8-20
5620SAM Auxiliary Server firewall and NAT rules .............................8-21
5620SAM Auxiliary Database Firewall Rules....................................8-26
5620SAM Server to delegate workstation ......................................8-26
5620SAM Client to managed network communications ......................8-26
9 — Deploying 5620 SAM with multiple network
interfaces/IP addresses 9-1
9.1 Deploying 5620 SAM with multiple network interfaces/IP addresses...........9-2
9.2 5620SAM Server multiple IP addresses deployment scenarios...................9-2
9.3 5620SAM Auxiliary Statistics Collector multiple IP addresses
deployment scenarios ...........................................................9-3
9.4 5620SAM Auxiliary Call Trace Collector multiple IP addresses
deployment scenarios ...........................................................9-4
9.5 Using Network Address Translation ..................................................9-7
9.6 Configuring 5620 SAM Server to utilize multiple network interfaces ...........9-9
9.7 Use of hostnames for the 5620 SAM Client.........................................9-10
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1 — Introduction
1.1 Overview 1-2
1.2 Purpose 1-2
1.3 Intended audience 1-2
1.4 Document changes 1-2
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1 — Introduction
1.1 Overview
The 5620SAM Planning Guide details the following aspects of the Alcatel-Lucent
5620SAM product:
• Product deployment overview
(cid:129) Supported operating systems specifications
(cid:129) Hardware platform requirements
(cid:129) Network requirements
(cid:129) Scaling guidelines
(cid:129) Workstation configuration
(cid:129) Firewall information
1.2 Purpose
This document consolidates the technical information related to the deployment of
the Alcatel-Lucent 5620SAM Release 12.0 product. This document does not focus
on the functionality offered by 5620SAM Release 12.0 but instead presents the
reader with pre-installation information required to plan a successful deployment.
The 5620SAM Planning Guide is not a comprehensive list of technologies supported
or not supported by 5620SAM or the platforms hosting it. The Alcatel-Lucent NSM
Product Group should be consulted for clarification when uncertainty exists.
1.3 Intended audience
This document is intended for network engineers, planners and IT staff who are
familiar with the functionality of the 5620SAM and are planning a product
deployment.
1.4 Document changes
This section highlights the key differences between this release of the 5620SAM
Planning Guide and the 5620SAM Planning Guide, Release 11.0. Minor differences
between the documents, such as updating release version references, are not listed.
(cid:129) Remove client support with Windows 2003, Windows XP, and Windows Vista
(cid:129) Added native RHEL Firewall support
(cid:129) New port for TCP Streaming
(cid:129) Updated port details for web server (8087)
(cid:129) Added new port for web server (8088)
(cid:129) Increased 5620 SAM OSS-JMS Client limits
(cid:129) New port for OpenFlow (6633)
(cid:129) Updated GUI client minimum bandwidth
(cid:129) Firewall port updates
(cid:129) Port 8400 moved to port 80
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(cid:129) Port 9400 moved to port 443
(cid:129) Increased minimum RAM requirements for Solaris
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