Course Name: Ericsson-APG 43L (Linux) Operation &

Maintenance

Who Should Attend:

This course is designed to provide a general overview for strategic or technical

Engineers, consultants, communications professionals, network professionals
and others who plan on using, evaluating or working with WCDMA /GSM
networks, applications and services. The course majorly covers the Technical
discussion on Ericsson-APG 43L(Linux) O&M.

Target group:
To know about technical overview, hardware & software of Ericsson-APG 43L
(Linux) O&M

Instructional Methods:

Lectures in Classroom, on Power-point slides, discussion, Questions & Answers.

All participants will also receive comprehensive course materials.

Introduction
• Introduction of Ericsson-APG 43L
• Concept/releases
• CBA (component based architecture)
• User management
• Troubleshooting on Users
• SDP Software Delivery Package
• Deployment steps
• Directory Structure
• Accessing AXE
• Security
• SW Upgrade
• Backup & Restore
• Case study

Ericsson-APG 43L Requirements

• General requirements
• Architecture Overview
• Order new license file
• Verify IPSEC settings
• Configure firewall
• Prepare centralized user management
• Generate CA and APG 43L node certificate
• O&M users & proxy account definition
• New WinFIOL/U set up
• Proxy function for 2nd AP access
Concept/releases
• Releases details
• Important Changes / differences in APG43L
• LOTC & Core MW (SAF)
COM AND IMM

CBA (component based architecture)

• CBA (architecture based) architecture
• CBA Building Blocks
• LOTC Linux Open Telecom Cluster

User management
• Types of user accounts
• Target based access control
• Role Based access control
• CP roles
• Role Aliases
• Proxy account

User Management recommendation

• Recommendation allocation schemes for role aliases & targets
• Recommended role aliases for allocation schemes based on duty
• Recommended role aliases for allocation scheme when using
geographical location information
• Recommended usernames for proxy agent accounts
• Recommended usernames for COM APP users

Troubleshooting on Users
• Troubleshooting on user management
• Heath check of APG43 Linux
• HW configuration check
• Cluster services
• RAID mirroring

SDP Software Delivery Package

• Bundle SDP
• Campaign SDP
• APG SDP Bundle and campaigns
• SDP installation example

Deployment steps
• Deployment steps for new AXE node installation
• Deployment steps for HW swap
• Deployment steps for OS upgrade
• Configure APG 43L client with node & CA certificate
• TS-session
➢ IP change and VLAN configuration
• AP Session
➢ Check Power Redundancy
 ➢ Check Multiple Time Zone
➢ Check CP volumes and files

• Site configuration
➢ Load Modules
➢ Network Surveillance
➢ Physical separation
➢ Managed Element Name

Directory Structure
• Linux is case structure
• There are 3 type of disks
• System disk
• Data disk
• Flash Disk
• FTP directories
• TFTP directories

Accessing AXE
• Accessing types
• AP session
• COM
• Net Configuration
• AP session (Telnet login example)
• AP session (COM CLI INTERFACE)
• AP session (RC For COM actions)
• AP session (AP Commands & RC)
• AP session (MML Session)
• MML session (APG43 Linux)
• Session type internetworking
• COM CLI
• TS CLI
• MSS MTS
• APG 43 MSS/MTS
• CP-AP communication

Security
• Authentication
• Authorization

SW Upgrade
• SW upgrade procedure
• Communication BW APG 43L and CHOP Block
• Communication BW APG 43L and OSS

Backup & Restore

• Backup & restore function
• Alog & transfer queues
 • Power up

Case study
• Issue /Resolution

Evaluation and feedback of the participants

Duration: 5 Days