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APPENDIX
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Notifications, Fault Management, and Probable

Cause Mapping

This appendix includes information on CTM GateWay/CORBA’s notifications, fault management, and
probable cause mapping. This appendix includes the following sections:
•A.1 Overview of Notifications, pageA-1
•A.2 Resolving the Notification Service, pageA-2
•A.3 Tips to Improve Notification Throughput, pageA-2
•A.4 Supported Events, page A-3
•A.5 Probable Cause Mapping, page A-12

A.1 Overview of Notifications

The notification service forwards all fault notifications received from managed NEs to the network
management system (NMS). The notification service also forwards object creation, object deletion,
attribute change, protection switch, and threshold crossing alert (TCA) events. TMF 814 defines the
structure and format of attributes for all events and alarms.
The CTM server and the Operations Support System (OSS) host must have Domain Name System (DNS)
enabled in order to receive notifications. OSS clients running behind a firewall must configure an IIOP
listening port to enable the TCP connection with the notification server. CTM must configure the
notification service listening port number to allow OSS clients to communicate with the notification
service.
CTM creates the notification channel with the QoS parameters shown in the following table.
Tab le A- 1 Qo S P ar am et er s fo r the Notification Channel
Parameter Value
ConnectionReliability BestEffort
StartTimeSupported false
OrderPolicy FifoOrder
DiscardPolicy FifoOrder
MaxEventsPerConsumer1
1. The MaxEventsPerConsumer value is configurable. To modify this value, see B.8 Location of the Naming Service IOR File, page B-6. All other
parameter values are defined by the TMF and cannot be changed.
10000