CoManage has enhanced its advanced network service discovery and reconciliation system with new tools for synchronizing carrier inventory and asset management databases with the network. CoManage’s TrueSource 3.5 features a multi-technology Discovery Engine and a flexible Reconciliation Engine that accelerate cleansing and updating of network resource management systems. A “Flow-Through Reconciliation” feature provides the ability to detect, analyze and reconcile discrepancies between the network and database with an automatic process. The system works by periodically “sweeping” the network and the inventory database and then sorting the discrepancies according to severity and potential impact on processes. CoManage estimates its system reduces database reconciliation by up to 90% compared to manual reconciliation processes. The TrueSource 3.5 software also ties the database discrepancies to services, thereby identifying misdirected, misallocated and incomplete service connections. Also with this release of TrueSource, CoManage expands on its multi-layer discovery capabilities. Devices supported by TrueSource’s Discovery Engine include SONET ADMs, TDM DACS and DWDM devices; ATM, Frame Relay and Ethernet switches; DSL devices; and IP routers.
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- CoManage’s TrueSource software system combines three key data integrity functions:
- Parallel discovery, for automatically finding network equipment and connection components making up logical services;
- Assimilation, for automatically assembling connection components into end-to-end service views and identifying stranded connection resources; and
- Reconciliation, for automatically identifying discrepancies between the network and various OSSs, including the inventory system.
- In August 2002, MetaSolv Software and CoManage announced an agreement to offer a network inventory reconciliation solution to address the problem of “dirty data�? inaccuracies common in current network inventories.