GR 2963 CORE : ISSUE 3

Preface
1 Introduction
      1.1 Terminology
              1.1.1 General Terminology
              1.1.2 Network Element Terminology
              1.1.3 Network Management Terminology
              1.1.4 Requirements Terminology
                        1.1.4.1 Requirement Labeling Conventions
                        1.1.4.2 Numbering of Requirement and
                                    Related Objects
                        1.1.4.3 Requirement, Conditional Requirement,
                                    and Objective Object Identification
      1.2 Related Documents
      1.3 Document Organization
2 General Configuration Management Considerations
      2.1 Operations Interfaces for Configuration Management
              2.1.1 Telecommunications Management Network
              2.1.2 Management Functional Areas
3 Software Management Overview
      3.1 Integrated Software Management Architecture
      3.2 Span of Control
      3.3 Software Process Lifecycles
      3.4 Software Management Terminology
4 Common Software and Software Management Requirements
      4.1 Reliability and Quality Criteria
      4.2 Software Generic Control Information
      4.3 On-Site Installation of Software Generics
      4.4 Remote Download of Software Generics
      4.5 Software Generic Installation or Download Process
      4.6 High-Speed Access Operations
              4.6.1 File-Transfer Interface
      4.7 Administrative Aspects of Software Management
      4.8 User Interface Device Software Cutover
5 Software Management Requirements for Switching NEs
      5.1 Switching NE Requirements
              5.1.1 Service/Reliability
              5.1.2 Notification
              5.1.3 Schedules
              5.1.4 Location
              5.1.5 Security
              5.1.6 Hardware and Firmware
              5.1.7 Documentation
              5.1.8 Database Reconfiguration
              5.1.9 System Evaluation Tests
              5.1.10 Load and Verification
              5.1.11 Stable/Transient Calls
              5.1.12 Billing
              5.1.13 Status Report
              5.1.14 Recovery Procedures
              5.1.15 Durations
References
Acronyms ó
List of Figures
Figure 1-1 Software Management Target Architecture
Figure 1-2 Document Roadmap
Figure 2-1 Generalized TMN Physical Architecture
Figure 2-2 TMN Functional Layering and Operations Interfaces
Figure 3-1 Software Management Architecture
Figure 3-2 Software Management Architecture Scenarios
Figure 3-3 Integrated Software Management Architecture
Figure 3-4 Span of Control
Figure 3-5 The Software Management Lifecycle
Figure 3-6 Software Lifecycles

Details of proposed software management generic needs applicable to a Network Element (NE) or a Network System (NS). Configuration Management is one of the five functional categories of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) management as detailed in ITU-T Rec.X 730 ISO/IEC 10164-1. Software Management, a subset of the Configuration Management category, is an ongoing network management activity that assists telecommunications carriers in assuring that the correct versions of software are sent, downloaded, installed, verified and remotely activated in NEs. Software Management functional needs previously defined in Section 6.7 of GR 472 CORE, along with related needs from GR 2933 CORE, were joined to form this document. Resulting in a consistent integrated set of needs applying to all classes of NEs.