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Re: Status of FCAPS model? Useful? Obsolete?

  • From: Irwin Lazar
  • Date: Wed Nov 10 15:00:54 2004

We see a lot of interest among enterprises in ITIL for IT service
management, which I'm guessing would overlap the FCAPS framework.  Is anyone
investing it for the SP side?

(what's ITIL?  - http://www.ogc.gov.uk/index.asp?id=2261)

Irwin


> From: Christian Kuhtz <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 13:23:31 -0500
> To: Sean Donelan <[email protected]>, "Hannigan, Martin"
> <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Status of FCAPS model? Useful? Obsolete?
> 
> 
> 
> Seems the latest cluster of hype is around (e)TOM from the TMF, much more
> than strict FCAPS etc.
> 
> 
> On 11/9/04 1:13 AM, "Sean Donelan" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
>>>> Does the FCAPS model still hold currency among network
>>>> managers/engineers
>>>> today?
>>> 
>>> What's FCAPS?
>> 
>> I suppose that answers the question whether FCAPS holds currency
>> among network managers/engineers.
>> 
>> 
>> It is an ITU-T developed network management model composed of
>> Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, Security (FCAPS).
>> 
>> Some people think it is a mandatory specification for how to
>> manage a network; other people think it is an antiquated view
>> of telecom network management; and yet other people think it is
>> as relevant as the ISO 7-layer network model.
>> 
> 
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