The Fourth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
Customer Service Management: Towards a Management Information Base for an IP Connectivity Service
Red Sea, Egypt
July 06-July 08
ISBN: 0-7695-0250-4
Customer Service Management (CSM) offers a management interface between customer and service provider, which enables customers to individually monitor and control their subscribed service.This paper presents an approach towards the definition, implementation and instantiation of a CSM management information base for an IP connectivity service (CSM-IP-MIB). The approach uses object-oriented techniques to model the CSM-IP-MIB in order to facilitate re-useability and specialization in real-life scenarios. The CSM-IP-MIB consists of four packages that reflect the relevant details of the IP connectivity service, including contracts, SLAs, topology, current and historical state of the IP connectivity, QoS parameters, QoS violations and problem management as well as authentication and access control to provide customer-specific views.The CSM-IP-MIB is implemented using the CORBA technology, resulting in a distributed client/server application, which is being instantiated for the IP connectivity service of the German Research Network Organization.
Index Terms:
Customer Service Management (CSM), Customer Network Management (CNM), Service Management, Network Management, Network Services, Connectivity Services, Service Level Agreements (SLA), Quality of Service (QoS), Management Information Base (MIB), Internet Protocol (IP), Unified Modeling Language (UML), Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)
Citation:
Michael Langer, Stefan Loidl, Michael Nerb, "Customer Service Management: Towards a Management Information Base for an IP Connectivity Service," iscc, pp.149, The Fourth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, 1999
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