Status of FCAPS model? Useful? Obsolete?

Tue Nov 9 04:54:39 UTC 2004

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]
> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 8:52 PM
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Status of FCAPS model? Useful? Obsolete?
> 
> 
> 
> Someone at Forrester research wrote an article in 2003 that 
> said FCAPS was 
> an obsolete model because
>   it was conceived during a time when mainframes were in use. 
> I haven't 
> read the article but the
>   premise of it seemed a bit overboard to me.
> 
> Does the FCAPS model still hold currency among network 
> managers/engineers 
> today? 

What's FCAPS?

-M<