User's Manual Part 2

Introduction to EMS Overview of User Interfaces
Element Management System (EMS) 4.0 User Manual
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The dashboard displays, refreshed about once every three seconds, allow you to
quickly assess the status of host/remote pairs by checking the indicator colors. The
color green indicates “okay.” Red and yellow, respectively, indicate major and
minor alarms. The Maintenance Interface also has dialogs used to set values such
as remote forward attenuation as shown in Figure 9.
Figure 9. Dialog Example
1.5.2 NOC-NEM Interface
The NOC-NEM interface is a “character interface” that can be accessed using a
direct data link connection between a terminal, or a computer with a terminal
emulator program, and a remote computer on which EMS is running. The NOC-
NEM interface is also available as a window within the Maintenance Interface, in
which case it provides a character, command line interface for the same host/
remote pairs as are being reported in the graphical displays.
When used side by side with EMS graphical displays, the NOC-NEM interface
augments system function through such features as automatic status updates,
immediate alarm notification, easy retrieval of alarm and status history stored in
the EMS log file, and ability to send
ALL commands affecting multiple network
elements at the same time.