Ushus Technologies has immense experience in executing various projects in the Network Management System/Element Management System for various product manufacturers in the telecommunication industry. We expertise in FCAPS (Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, Security) based EMS application development/testing (with a focus in Fault management and Configuration management) and tool development and testing.

FCAPS based application development
In Fault Management, we have worked on projects that require advanced fault detection of SNMP traps, analysis of the cause and to provide solutions/corrective measures. We also have extensive know-ledge on advance modification capabilities, such as, mask, severity, duplication, forwarding, threshold, clearing and formatting required in a Fault management system/module. Our capability in Fault management spans across various modules/functionalities, such as,

• Recognition
• Isolation
• Correction
• Fault logging
• Alarm and trap handling
• Event generation and processing
• Test and acceptance
• Polling service
• Monitoring of different levels of statistics

In Configuration management, we have developed comprehensive point-and-click GUI with realistic representation of the devices and functionalities for network control. The module tracks configuration changes, including the display of exact alarm locations. Various functionalities covered in this area are;

• Offline configuration for large devices
• Testing of the device ports
• Role based security mechanism for users

Tool development:
Ushus has successfully executed various plug-in development projects. Few plug-in development projects are;

1. Development of Legacy Fault Management plug-in which supports more than 100 devices. An Automated Parser application was added to support huge amount of traps and to convert these into events. Apart from general functionalities, options for vendor and device specific functionalities was developed.
2. Development of Fault Management plug-in for different vendors of the client.
3. Development of Custom Modem Manager Applications for specific customers. The application will provide an overall view of port customer assignments, their configurations, port utilizations, etc. It also performs well defined Accounting management.
4. Development of Server plug-in with CORBA interfaces for supporting customer specific NMS/EMS applications. This CORBA northbound interfaces were used as it can easily integrate into a third-party umbrella system (OSS).
5. Development of device specific GUI applications based on FCAPS. We have successfully executed more than 10 similar projects for different customer products. The application provides multi-user support for network operations, maintaining a centralized data base and network partitioning.

NMS Azzist
Ushus has developed an in-house SNMP device simulator for the development and testing purpose, called NMS Azzist. In addition, the tool has a MIB manager module which allows users to manage and use the MIBs efficiently. The MIB Manager allows users to easily compile and browse the MIB files. Also, NMS Azzist allows users the flexibility of importing/exporting device and MIB entries. It also supports advanced search options to find MIB variables using both OID and name. An additional search feature is that the tool allows searching the MIB variables easily through index searching and bookmarks.





NMS Azzist Features:

• Supports of both Windows and Linux OS and has new generation look and feel.
• Inbuilt support of standard MIBs.
• Support of SNMPv1, v2c and v3 (USM and VACM) agents for simulation. It allows developers and testers of NMS applications; efficiently do their jobs even in the absence of original device. It simulates agents that support different SNMP versions, such as,
  
  • SNMP V1
  • SNMP V2c
  • SNMP V3 No-Auth
  • SNMP V3 Auth- MD5
  • SNMP V3 Auth-SHA
  • SNMP V3 PriAuth- MD5
  • SNMP V3 PriAuth-SHA
• Custom replication of existing agents.
• Import and exporting of devices and MIBs both online and offline.
• Run devices simultaneously in multiple port support.
• Replicates the original agents and provides better performance.
• Can act like real SNMP agents and are more flexible in testing purpose, as the MIB values of simulators can be easily modified to simulate different test scenarios.
• Full featured MIB compiler, previewer and browser with SMI V1 and V2 Support.
• Advanced MIB processing capability with Indexed Search and Bookmarks.

Tools and Technologies

1. Java
2. SNMP, CORBA
3. Oracle and Informix Database
4. Net-snmp, nttrapsender
5. IDEs – Eclipse, JBuilder
6. Tools – SNMPc, Ethereal,
7. Configuration management - Synergy and SVN