Troubleshooting guide

15 — As required maintenance tasks
Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service Aware Manager 15-57
5620 SAM
System Administrator Guide
15.12 Checking for duplicate service or resource names
Alcatel-Lucent recommends that you develop standardized naming conventions
before you configure network objects, in order to:
• facilitate identifying the object type
• ensure that data passed to a northbound OSS interface or southbound in a data file
for processing is named consistently throughout the management domain
It is good practice to include information such as the following when creating or
configuring an object using the object properties form:
• the object type; for example, VPRN
• a customer association to the object; for example, site 1.1.1.1 for XYZ Industries
• source and destination endpoint identifiers; for example, the devices at each end
of an LSP
• ports and IP addresses used
You can check for duplicate names to ensure that naming conventions are followed
and to help prevent confusion when you deal with customers or operations staff.
Procedure 15-29 uses ports as the objects to check for duplicate names.
Procedure 15-29 To check for duplicate port descriptions
Perform this procedure to check for duplicate object descriptions on all managed
devices. This procedure uses ports as an example. You can also check logical entity
names; for example, service or policy names. This procedure assumes that the
Description parameter uniquely identifies each port.
1 Choose Manage→Equipment→Equipment from the 5620 SAM main menu. The
Manage Equipment form appears.
2 Generate a list of all ports:
i Choose Port (Physical Equipment) from the drop-down menu.
ii Configure the filter for the Administrative State column to display devices
that are administratively up.
3 Click on the Description heading to list ports alphabetically by description.
Release 13.0 R2 | May 2015 | 3HE 09815 AAAB TQZZA Edition 01