Telecommunication management; Configuration Management (CM); Part 2: Basic CM Integration Reference Point (IRP) information model
The present document defines a component of an Integration Reference Point (IRP) through which an 'IRPAgent' (typically an Element Manager or Network Element) can communicate basic Configuration Management related information to one or several 'IRPManagers' (typically Network Managers).
This version of the IRP is mainly intended for “passive management” of high-level network configuration and status information as required by a Network Manager.
The Configuration Management (CM) area is very large. The intention is to split the specification of the related interfaces in several IRPs – as described in the Introduction clause above. An important aspect of such a split is that the Network Resource Models (NRMs) defined in different IRPs containing NRMs are consistent, and that NRMs supported by an IRPAgent implementation can be accessed as one coherent model through one IRP Information Service. The Basic CM IRP: IS defined herein provides one such Information Service.
Thus, to summarize, the Basic CM IRP: IS defined in the present document has the following main purpose: to define an interface for retrieval of Configuration Management information.
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