How the Adapter for TMF
814 works
The
VMware Smart Assurance
Adapter for TMF 814 uses a subset of the programmatic
interfaces specified in the TMF 814 standard to communicate with EMSs.
For Operations Support System
(OSS) environments that employ an inventory system, a customized
VMware Smart Assurance
adapter provides the ability to access data and include
the data in the Optical Transport Manager repository. This data can include
information about links between devices and circuits that span devices that
different EMS instances manage.
The 
VMware Smart Assurance
Adapter for TMF 814 architecture is shown in the following
figure. As shown in the figure, the
has generic core functionality, and there are customized EMS adapters (the Cisco, Ciena,
and EMS adapters) to support vendor-specific EMSs. 
VMware Smart Assurance
Adapter for TMF 814 architecture: a high-level
view