ONU OMCI Historical Interval PM Groups

This document outlines the 15-minute interval groups currently supported by the OnuPmIntervalMetrics onu_pm_interval_metrics.py file. These groups cover a 15-minute interval.

Performance Interval State Machine

At OpenOMCI startup within an ONU Device Adapter, as soon as the OpenOMCI ME database has been declared to be in-sync ONU's ME Database, the Performance Interval State Machine is started for the ONU. The first task it performs is to synchronize the ONU's (hardware) time with the ONU Device Handler's (Linux container) so that a 15-minute interval is established.

The OpenOMCI PM interval state machine then examines managed elements created by the ONU autonomously or created by OpenOMCI in response to a OMCI request from an ONU adapter to determine if an appropriate 15-Minute historical PM ME needs to be attached. The state machine also registers for notification of any create/delete requests at that point so that it can add/remove 15-minute historical PM MEs as services are applied or removed.

Before adding a 15-minute historical PM ME, the ME capabilities of the ONU is examined to insure that it can support that particular ME. This is important as the Ethernet Frame historical intervals are actually supported by up to 4 different MEs reporting the basically the same data. This is detailed below in the Ethernet Frame Performance Monitoring MEs section.

Timezone

The ONU will be synchronized to the Linux Container running the ONU Device handler's time in UTC upon startup. Not all ONUs have the capability to set their calendar date (month, day, year) to that of the ONU's Device Handler, but it will set the clock to that date. For reporting of 15-minute intervals, only an accurate 15-minute boundary is really of any great importance.

Interval Reporting

After the ONU time synchronization request is made, the first reported interval is schedule to occur in the next 15-minute boundry. For example, if the OpenOMCI state machine synchronizes the ONU's time at

Common Elements for All Reported MEs

In addition to counter elements (attributes) reported in each ME, every reported historical interval report the following Elements as context values in the KPI Event metadata field. Each value is reported as a string per the Protobuf structure but are actually integer/floats.

LabelTypeDescription
class_idint, 16-bitsThe ME Class ID of the PM Interval ME
entity_idint, 16-bitsThe OMCI Entity Instance of the particular PM Interval ME
interval_end_timeint, 8-bitsIdentifies the most recently finished 15 minute. This attribute is set to zero when a synchronize time request is performed by OpenOMCI. This counter rolls over from 255 to 0 upon saturation.
interval_start_timeint, 64-bitsThe UTC timestamp (seconds since epoch) rounded down to the start time of the specific interval

Supported 15-Minute Historical Performance Monitoring MEs

The following 15-minute historical performance monitoring MEs currently supported are detailed in the sections below

Ethernet Frame Performance Monitoring MEs

The OMCI Ethernet PM supported by OpenOMCI includes 4 possible MEs. These MEs are attached to the MAC Bridge Port Configuration MEs for the ONU. For downstream data, the ME is placed on the MAC Bridge Port Configuration ME closest to the ANI Port. For upstream data, the ME is placed on the MAC Bridge Port Configuration ME closest to the associated UNI.

The OpenOMCI will first attempt to use the Extended Performance Monitoring MEs if they are supported by the ONU. First the 64-bit counter version will be attempted and then the 32-bit counters as a fallback. If of the Extended Performance Monitoring MEs are supported, the appropriate Upstream or DownStream Monitoring ME will be used.

ME Information

The table below describes the four Ethernet Frame Performance Monitoring MEs and provides their counter width (in bytes) and ME Class ID.

ME NameClass IDCounter Width
Ethernet Frame Extended Performance Monitoring64Bit42664-bit
Ethernet Frame Extended Performance Monitoring33432-bit
Ethernet Frame Upstream Performance MonitoringHistoryData32232-bit
Ethernet Frame Downstream Performance MonitoringHistoryData32132-bit

Metric Group Name: Ethernet_Bridge_Port_History
Default Collection: True
Default Interval: 15 minutes & aligned to wall-clock. Read-Only

Counter Information

Each of the Ethernet Frame PM MEs contain the following counters

Attribute NameDescription
drop_eventsThe total number of events in which packets were dropped due to a lack of resources. This is not necessarily the number of packets dropped; it is the number of times this event was detected.
octetsThe total number of upstream octets received, including those in bad packets, excluding framing bits, but including FCS.
packetsThe total number of upstream packets received, including bad packets, broadcast packets and multicast packets.
broadcast_packetsThe total number of upstream good packets received that were directed to the broadcast address. This does not include multicast packets.
multicast_packetsThe total number of upstream good packets received that were directed to a multicast address. This does not include broadcast packets.
crc_errored_packetsThe total number of upstream packets received that had a length (excluding framing bits, but including FCS octets) of between 64 octets and 1518 octets, inclusive, but had either a bad FCS with an integral number of octets (FCS error) or a bad FCS with a non-integral number of octets (alignment error).
undersize_packetsThe total number of upstream packets received that were less than 64 octets long, but were otherwise well formed (excluding framing bits, but including FCS).
oversize_packetsThe total number of upstream packets received that were longer than 1518 octets (excluding framing bits, but including FCS) and were otherwise well formed. NOTE 2 – If 2 000 byte Ethernet frames are supported, counts in this performance parameter are not necessarily errors.
64_octetsThe total number of upstream received packets (including bad packets) that were 64 octets long, excluding framing bits but including FCS.
65_to_127_octetsThe total number of upstream received packets (including bad packets) that were 65..127 octets long, excluding framing bits but including FCS.
128_to_255_octetsThe total number of upstream packets (including bad packets) received that were 128..255 octets long, excluding framing bits but including FCS.
256_to_511_octetsThe total number of upstream packets (including bad packets) received that were 256..511 octets long, excluding framing bits but including FCS.
512_to_1023_octetsThe total number of upstream packets (including bad packets) received that were 512..1 023 octets long, excluding framing bits but including FCS.
1024_to_1518_octetsThe total number of upstream packets (including bad packets) received that were 1024..1518 octets long, excluding framing bits, but including FCS.

Ethernet PM Monitoring History Data (Class ID 24)

This managed entity collects some of the performance monitoring data for a physical Ethernet interface. Instances of this managed entity are created and deleted by the OLT.

Metric Group Name: Ethernet_UNI_History
Default Collection: True
Default Interval: 15 minutes & aligned to wall-clock. Read-Only

Application

For performance monitoring of Ethernet UNI.

Relationships

An instance of this managed entity is associated with an instance of the physical path termination point Ethernet UNI.

Attributes

All counters are 32-bits wide.

Attribute NameDescription
fcs_errorsThis attribute counts frames received on a particular interface that were an integral number of octets in length but failed the frame check sequence (FCS) check. The count is incremented when the MAC service returns the frameCheckError status to the link layer control (LLC) or other MAC user. Received frames for which multiple error conditions are obtained are counted according to the error status presented to the LLC.
excessive_collision_counterThis attribute counts frames whose transmission failed due to excessive collisions.
late_collision_counterThis attribute counts the number of times that a collision was detected later than 512 bit times into the transmission of a packet.
frames_too_longThis attribute counts received frames that exceeded the maximum permitted frame size. The count is incremented when the MAC service returns the frameTooLong status to the LLC.
buffer_overflows_on_rxThis attribute counts the number of times that the receive buffer overflowed.
buffer_overflows_on_txThis attribute counts the number of times that the transmit buffer overflowed.
single_collision_frame_counterThis attribute counts successfully transmitted frames whose transmission was delayed by exactly one collision.
multiple_collisions_frame_counterThis attribute counts successfully transmitted frames whose transmission was delayed by more than one collision.
sqe_counterThis attribute counts the number of times that the SQE test error message was generated by the PLS sublayer.
deferred_tx_counterThis attribute counts frames whose first transmission attempt was delayed because the medium was busy. The count does not include frames involved in collisions.
internal_mac_tx_error_counterThis attribute counts frames whose transmission failed due to an internal MAC sublayer transmit error.
carrier_sense_error_counterThis attribute counts the number of times that carrier sense was lost or never asserted when attempting to transmit a frame.
alignment_error_counterThis attribute counts received frames that were not an integral number of octets in length and did not pass the FCS check.
internal_mac_rx_error_counterThis attribute counts frames whose reception failed due to an internal MAC sublayer receive error.

FEC Performance Monitoring History Data (Class ID 312)

This managed entity collects performance monitoring data associated with PON downstream FEC counters. Instances of this managed entity are created and deleted by the OLT.

Metric Group Name: FEC_History
Default Collection: True
Default Interval: 15 minutes & aligned to wall-clock. Read-Only

Application

This managed entity collects performance monitoring data associated with PON downstream FEC counters.

Relationships

An instance of this managed entity is associated with an instance of the ANI-G managed entity.

Attributes

Attribute NameCounter WidthDescription
corrected_bytes32-bitsThis attribute counts the number of bytes that were corrected by the FEC function.
corrected_code_words32-bitsThis attribute counts the code words that were corrected by the FEC function.
uncorrectable_code_words32-bitsThis attribute counts errored code words that could not be corrected by the FEC function.
total_code_words32-bitsThis attribute counts the total received code words.
fec_seconds16-bitsThis attribute counts seconds during which there was a forward error correction anomaly.

GEM Port Network CTP Monitoring History Data (Class ID 341)

This managed entity collects GEM frame performance monitoring data associated with a GEM port network CTP. Instances of this managed entity are created and deleted by the OLT.

Note 1: One might expect to find some form of impaired or discarded frame count associated with a GEM port. However, the only impairment that might be detected at the GEM frame level would be a corrupted GEM frame header. In this case, no part of the header could be considered reliable including the port ID. For this reason, there is no impaired or discarded frame count in this ME.

Note 2: This managed entity replaces the GEM port performance history data managed entity and is preferred for new implementations.

Metric Group Name: GEM_Port_History
Default Collection: False
Default Interval: 15 minutes & aligned to wall-clock. Read-Only

Relationships

An instance of this managed entity is associated with an instance of the GEM port network CTP managed entity.

Attributes

Attribute NameCounter WidthDescription
transmitted_gem_frames32-bitsThis attribute counts GEM frames transmitted on the monitored GEM port.
received_gem_frames32-bitsThis attribute counts GEM frames received correctly on the monitored GEM port. A correctly received GEM frame is one that does not contain uncorrectable errors and has a valid HEC.
received_payload_bytes64-bitsThis attribute counts user payload bytes received on the monitored GEM port.
transmitted_payload_bytes64-bitsThis attribute counts user payload bytes transmitted on the monitored GEM port.
encryption_key_errors32-bitsThis attribute is defined in ITU-T G.987 systems only. It counts GEM frames with erroneous encryption key indexes. If the GEM port is not encrypted, this attribute counts any frame with a key index not equal to 0. If the GEM port is encrypted, this attribute counts any frame whose key index specifies a key that is not known to the ONU.

Note 3: GEM PM ignores idle GEM frames.

Note 4: GEM PM counts each non-idle GEM frame, whether it contains an entire user frame or only a fragment of a user frame.

XgPon TC Performance Monitoring History Data (Class ID 344)

This managed entity collects performance monitoring data associated with the XG-PON transmission convergence layer, as defined in ITU-T G.987.3.

Metric Group Name: xgPON_TC_History
Default Collection: False
Default Interval: 15 minutes & aligned to wall-clock. Read-Only

Relationships

An instance of this managed entity is associated with an ANI-G.

Attributes

All counters are 32-bits wide.

Attribute NameDescription
psbd_hec_error_countThis attribute counts HEC errors in any of the fields of the downstream physical sync block.
xgtc_hec_error_countThis attribute counts HEC errors detected in the XGTC header.
unknown_profile_countThis attribute counts the number of grants received whose specified profile was not known to the ONU.
transmitted_xgem_framesThis attribute counts the number of non-idle XGEM frames transmitted. If an SDU is fragmented, each fragment is an XGEM frame and is counted as such.
fragment_xgem_framesThis attribute counts the number of XGEM frames that represent fragmented SDUs, as indicated by the LF bit = 0.
xgem_hec_lost_words_countThis attribute counts the number of four-byte words lost because of an XGEM frame HEC error. In general, all XGTC payload following the error is lost, until the next PSBd event.
xgem_key_errorsThis attribute counts the number of downstream XGEM frames received with an invalid key specification. The key may be invalid for several reasons.
xgem_hec_error_countThis attribute counts the number of instances of an XGEM frame HEC error.

XgPon Downstream Performance Monitoring History Data (Class ID 345)

This managed entity collects performance monitoring data associated with the XG-PON transmission convergence layer, as defined in ITU-T G.987.3. It collects counters associated with downstream PLOAM and OMCI messages.

Metric Group Name: xgPON_Downstream_History
Default Collection: False
Default Interval: 15 minutes & aligned to wall-clock. Read-Only

Relationships

An instance of this managed entity is associated with an ANI-G.

Attributes

All counters are 32-bits wide.

Attribute NameDescription
ploam_mic_error_countThis attribute counts MIC errors detected in downstream PLOAM messages, either directed to this ONU or broadcast to all ONUs.
downstream_ploam_messages_countThis attribute counts PLOAM messages received, either directed to this ONU or broadcast to all ONUs.
profile_messages_receivedThis attribute counts the number of profile messages received, either directed to this ONU or broadcast to all ONUs.
ranging_time_messages_receivedThis attribute counts the number of ranging_time messages received, either directed to this ONU or broadcast to all ONUs.
deactivate_onu_id_messages_receivedThis attribute counts the number of deactivate_ONU-ID messages received, either directed to this ONU or broadcast to all ONUs. Deactivate_ONU-ID messages do not reset this counter.
disable_serial_number_messages_receivedThis attribute counts the number of disable_serial_number messages received, whose serial number specified this ONU.
request_registration_messages_receivedThis attribute counts the number request_registration messages received.
assign_alloc_id_messages_receivedThis attribute counts the number of assign_alloc-ID messages received.
key_control_messages_receivedThis attribute counts the number of key_control messages received, either directed to this ONU or broadcast to all ONUs.
sleep_allow_messages_receivedThis attribute counts the number of sleep_allow messages received, either directed to this ONU or broadcast to all ONUs.
baseline_omci_messages_received_countThis attribute counts the number of OMCI messages received in the baseline message format.
extended_omci_messages_received_countThis attribute counts the number of OMCI messages received in the extended message format.
assign_onu_id_messages_receivedThis attribute counts the number of assign_ONU-ID messages received since the last re-boot.
omci_mic_error_countThis attribute counts MIC errors detected in OMCI messages directed to this ONU.

XgPon Upstream Performance Monitoring History Data (Class ID 346)

This managed entity collects performance monitoring data associated with the XG-PON transmission convergence layer, as defined in ITU-T G.987.3. It counts upstream PLOAM messages transmitted by the ONU.

Metric Group Name: xgPON_Upstream_History
Default Collection: False
Default Interval: 15 minutes & aligned to wall-clock. Read-Only

###Relationships

An instance of this managed entity is associated with an ANI-G.

Attributes

All counters are 32-bits wide.

Attribute NameDescription
upstream_ploam_message_countThis attribute counts PLOAM messages transmitted upstream, excluding acknowledge messages.
serial_number_onu_message_countThis attribute counts Serial_number_ONU PLOAM messages transmitted.
registration_message_countThis attribute counts registration PLOAM messages transmitted.
key_report_message_countThis attribute counts key_report PLOAM messages transmitted.
acknowledge_message_countThis attribute counts acknowledge PLOAM messages transmitted. It includes all forms of acknowledgement, including those transmitted in response to a PLOAM grant when the ONU has nothing to send.
sleep_request_message_countThis attribute counts sleep_request PLOAM messages transmitted.

Remaining Work Items

  • The enable/disable of a PM group (CLI/NBI) should control whether or not a PM interval ME is created and collected.