Reconcile > IMS Reconcile Form

Reconcile options

-Inclusive extra fields:

Reconcile the circuit including the related extra fields

-Disconnect blocking circuits:

This option will check if there are circuits in IMS that prevent another circuit to reconcile to the

correct route as per network. With this option, when blocking circuits are found, those will be

disconnected from the route in IMS.

-Update name:

This option will update the IMS circuit name with the name of the circuit found in the network

-Update site:

This option will update the site information of the IMS circuit with the sites info found in the network

data.

-Update customer:

This option will update the customer information related to the circuit in IMS with the customer using

network data.

-Update speed:

This option will update the speed/bandwidth setting of the IMS circuit with the speed found in the

network.

-Update domain:

This option will update the domain information of the IMS circuit with the domain found in the network.

-Update IP-address:

This option will update the IP-address information of the IMS circuit with the

IP address found in the network data.

-Update circuit type:

This option will update the circuit type information of the IMS circuit with the circuit type found in the

network.

-Full match:

This option will only reconcile circuits that has a full match with the circuit, carriers and ports in

IMS. If there are one or more differences between the circuit and related carriers or ports from

the network and IMS, the IMS circuit will not be updated.

-Disconnect carriers with no physical ports:

This option will disconnect all the circuit carriers that have no relation to any IMS physical
port.

-Auto detect worker protection routes:

This option will automatically detect worker and protection path in IMS with the details from the

network data.

-Selected circuit:

Reconcile only the selected circuit in the grid.

-All circuits;

reconcile all the circuits.

-Add:

oSelected circuit:

This will add the circuit into the IMS database that does not exist in IMS yet.

oAll circuits:

This will search for all the reconcile circuits that has no relation to IMS yet. It will try to

add those circuits into the IMS database using the network data.

-Update:

oSelected circuit:

This will update the circuit selected with network data.

oAll circuits:

This will update IMS circuits that have discrepancies with the network.

-Delete:

This will delete all the circuits in IMS of the selected network platform that do not exist in the

network anymore, filtering is only possible via the 'Speed' option.

(Dangerous option, should only be used if implications are known upfront such as that if for some reason the nms is empty,

reconcile will delete all IMS records with an NMSid not found in NMS, effectively removing entire networks)

All circuits in IMS with a NMSID /CORBAID that are not present in the reconcile_circuit table will be removed.

Delete also planned

Planned circuits will be removed if this option is selected.

(Very Dangerous! Not advised to be used in normal operation as it is meant as a realignment option and will remove any and all

not found in NMS.)

Delete To OOS only

With this option circuits will not be removed, but changed to status OOS.

Removes nmsid’s from, and sets Out Of Service, circuits/equipment that previously existed but are not anymore found in the interface.

It does not delete them.

(Advised option for standard removal as it will keep the reference in IMS for archival purposes with their references to all related

history records)

It's important to check that the loading process was successfully performed, as this fills/refreshes the reconcile_circuit table.

The data in this table must be complete and current.

Delete RFC only

Will only remove objects that are set to RFC in IMS.

-Status:

This will reconcile the selected circuits to the status that is selected.

If no status is selected, the default status will be ‘PL’ (planned).

-Speed:

When a speed is selected, it will only reconcile the circuits with the selected speed.

For example if you select ‘1GBE’ it will only reconcile the circuits with the speed ‘1GBE’.

Grid columns

Each grid is divided into three parts:

Reconcile

These are all the records related to the network data.

IMS

These are the records of the IMS objects.

If there is a match with the network data, the records row in “reconcile” part matches with the “IMS”

part.

Error

When a discrepancy is found or an error occurred during reconcile process, an error message will

become visible.

The “error message” column will give a description of what went wrong during the reconcile process.

The “delta type” and “delta text” columns are showing information if there are any differences between

the reconcile (network) and the IMS object.

For example, the vendor has been changed from a circuit. Then the delta type is “VENDOR” and the

delta text will be “Vendor in IMS: ‘HUAWEI <> NMS: ‘CISCO” .

Upper Tab pages

All reconcile circuits

These are all the circuits that exist in the reconcile tables related to the selected NMS.

In NMS not in IMS

This means that the circuits have been found in the network but do not exist in IMS.

Possible causes:

-One of the related objects does not exist in IMS like Site, Domain, IP-address, Vendor etc.

Check the error message column.

oSolution:

Created missing objects in IMS

-The circuit already exists in IMS but has a different Network ID.

oSolution:

Delete the old Network ID (NMSID) and relate the new reconcile circuit to the IMS
circuit.

Status MI

This is a list of all the circuits in IMS related to the selected network platform that has the status ‘MI’.

This means that those circuits will not be touched during the reconcile because someone is still planning

those circuits in IMS.

To do:

Check who is working on the circuit and ask him/her what the actual status is.

Port or carrier delta

This is a list of circuits that have one or more ports or carrier discrepancies. This means for example,

a circuit in IMS is connected from:

-Node: A

-Port: 1

-Node: B

-Port: 1

And in the network the circuit is connected from:

-Node: A

-Port: 1

-Node: B

-Port: 2

In this case there is a delta on Node ‘B’ port ‘1’ in IMS and node ‘B’ port ’2’ in the reconcile.

Then this circuit will appear in this list.

This will also work in the same way as for the carrier delta.

All circuit ports

This lists all the circuits from the reconcile circuit table that has a relation to one or more ports in the

reconcile table.

Lower tab pages (details selected record)

When a record is selected in the upper part of the reconcile, details become visible in the lower part of the

reconcile form.

If no details appear automatically, try to click on button “Show details of selected record” in the button bar.

Note: the lower tabpage(s) will only appear if the related information has been found in the database.

These are the possible tab pages:

Ports

This lists all the reconcile ports that are related to the selected reconcile circuit. From here the following

can be checked:

-If there are ports related to any IMS port.

-Which port may have discrepancies with IMS, could not be created or updated for some kind of

reason. Check the error message column.

-Which extra fields did not have any problem during the reconciliation.

Internal ports

This lists all the reconcile internal ports that are related to the selected reconcile circuit. From here the

following can be checked:

-If there are reconcile internal ports related to any IMS internal port.

-Which reconcile internal ports maybe have discrepancies with IMS, could not be created or

updated for some kind of reason. Check the error message column.

-Which internal ports did not have any problem during the reconciliation.

Ddf/Odf patch point

This lists all the reconcile ddf/odf patch points that are related to the selected reconcile circuit.

From here the following can be checked:

-If there are reconcile ddf/odf patch points related to any IMS ddf/odf patch point.

-Which reconcile ddf/odf patch point may have discrepancies with IMS, could not be created or

updated for some kind of reason. Check the error message column.

-Which reconcile ddf/odf patch points did not have any problem during the reconciliation.

Sub-circuits

This lists all the reconcile sub circuits that are related to the selected reconcile circuit that will be the

carrier. From here the following can be checked:

-If there are reconcile sub circuits related to any IMS circuit.

-Which reconcile sub circuit may have discrepancies with IMS, could not be created or updated

for some kind of reason. Check the error message column.

-Which reconcile sub circuits did not have any problem during the reconciliation.

Extra fields

This lists all the reconcile extra fields that are related to the selected reconcile circuit.

From here the following can be checked:

-If there are reconcile extra fields related to any IMS extra field for the circuits.

-Which reconcile extra field may have discrepancies with IMS, could not be created or updated

for some kind of reason. Check the error message column.

-Which reconcile extra fields did not have any problem during the reconciliation.

Connections

Connections