ITU-T Recommendations

Recommendation ITU-T G.875 (ex. G.874.1) provides a protocol-neutral management information model for managing network elements in the optical transport network (OTN). The model contains the managed entities and their properties that are useful to describe the information exchanged across interfaces defined in the ITU-T M.3010 telecommunications management network (TMN) architecture. The protocol-neutral management information model shall be used as the base for defining protocol-specific management information models, for example, common management information service element (CMISE), common object request broker architecture (CORBA) and simple network management protocol (SNMP) information models. Mapping from the protocol-neutral entities into protocol-specific objects is a decision of the specific protocol modelling design and should be described in the protocol-specific information model Recommendations.

The 2012 revision of this Recommendation updated the management information model to support the management of the new transport functions that were introduced in the 2010 revision of Recommendation ITU-T G.798 and also to support the management requirements enhancement introduced in the 2010 revision of Recommendation ITU-T G.874.

Amendment 1 enhanced the model to cover delay measurement (DM), automatic protection switching (APS) configuration, tributary slot configuration, and optical data channel data (ODU) type and rate configuration, and to remove the counting of incoming alignment errors (IAEs) and backward incoming alignment errors (BIAEs).

Amendment 2 added: (1) the use of an organizationally unique identifier (OUI) to the description of the attributes selectedApplicationIdentifier and supportableApplicationIdentifierList; and (2) sub-classes the OTN Current Data and History Data object classes from the ITU-T Q.822 Current Data and History Data object classes.

The 2016 revision of this Recommendation has incorporated Amendment 1 and Amendment 2, and in addition the following updates: (1) changes the UML modeling tool from RSA to open source Papyrus tool; (2) updates the ITU-T G.874.1 information model to align with the ITU-T G.7711 v2.0 Core information model; (3) drops subclassing the TP classes from ITU-T M.3160; and (4) supports the additional management requirements in Recommendation ITU-T G.874.

The 2018 revision of this Recommendation up-versions the UML model tool to Papyrus v3.2.0 and the profile to v0.2.13, updates the object class mapping figures to align with ITU-T G.798, updates the model for ODU, OTU, FlexO, OTSiG-O, OCh-O, OMS-O, and OTS-O, adds Annex A for OTN specification model, and deprecates the OTU CTP, OChr and OPS (OPSn, OPSMnk, OPS0) layer object classes to align with ITU-T G.798.