siness Case for Inventory Management Contents 10.3 Network Inventory Domain Object Models Inventory Load and Reconciliation 10.5 Inventory Service Architecture 10.6 Network Inventory OSS Implementation and Integration 10.7 TMF Network Inventory Process Outline 10.8 Overview of Inventory Management Products 10.8.1 Telcordia Inventory Management 10.8.2 Visionael Inventory Management Partnering Between Consultants and OSS Vendors for Inventory Solutions 10.9.1 Visionael and AFO 10.9.2 DMR and NetCracker 10.10 Inventory Management for IP VPNs 10.10.1 Netscient 10.10.2 Fujitsu 10.11 Functionality of Inventory Management Product 10.12 Asset Location Configuration Management 11.1 Introduction Configuration Management Implementation 11.2.1 Product Installation Cycle 11.2.2 Product Architecture 11.2.3 Configuration Server Database Schema 11.2.4 Tasks 11.2.5 Using the ConfigClient 11.2.6 Security Implementation 11.2.7 Rollback 11.2.8 Synchronizing the Inventory Database 11.2.9 Debugging 11.2.10 Trivial File Transfer Protocol - TFTP 11.2.11 Server Framework 11.2.12 Client Framework 11.2.13 NAR Packager 11.2.14 MIB Browser 11.2.15 Working with Batch Configuration Configuration Management Implementation Conclusion Fault Management 12.1 Introduction 12.2 Events 12.2.1 Event Generation 12.2.2 Events and Information Flow Contents Traps in SNMP Devices 12.4 TL1 Notifications 12.5 Configuring Notification Reception TL1 Autonomous Messages 12.7 Filtering and Processing Notifications 12.7.1 Trap Parser Configuration 12.7.2 Trap API Customizing Event Processing 12.8.1 Extending Events 12.8.2 Filtering and Processing Events 12.8.3 Event API 12.9 Client Framework 12.10 JMX Agent 12.10.1 Interface Between NMS and EMS 12.10.2 JMX Agent Architecture 12.10.3 JMX Specifications 12.10.4 Management Information 12.10.5 Accessing JMX Agent 12.11 Using Fault Management Functionality 12.11.1 Network Events 12.11.2 Working with Alarms 12.11.3 Alert Grouping 12.11.4 Tree Operation 12.11.5 HTML User Interface 12.12 Administration 12.12.1 Filtering a