Summary

This Recommendation defines measurements appropriate to the management of the resources in the SS No. 7 network. These measurements are classified as pertinent to fault management, configuration management, performance management, message traffic accounting, and network planning and administration

This Recommendation defines just the primitive data for collection; the filtering and manipulation of them to provide statistics is left to other Recommendations, as is the control (i.e. starting and stopping, collection of results) of these measurements.

Some of the measurements are marked as obligatory, these form the minimum set recommended for use in the international network.

Sets of measurements are defined for each SS No. 7 level. Each manageable resource of each SS No. 7 level has a number of measurements, partitioned according to one or more of the classifications of fault management, configuration management, etc.

Guidelines for the uses of measurements are given.

The main revisions to the 1993 version of this Recommendation are the addition of measurements for message traffic accounting, the enhancement of measurements for the SCCP – including hop counter violations, segmenting and reassembly errors, and a reduction in the number of the Transaction Capabilities (TCs) operational measurements.