NMS Case Study HP OpenView Network Node Manager

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NMS Case StudyHP OpenViewNetwork Node Manager
Hong-taek Ju DPNM Lab. Dept. of Computer
Science and Engineering POSTECH, Pohang
Korea Tel [phone] Email
juht_at_postech.ac.kr http//dpnm.postech.ac.kr/
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System Requirement

• HP Systems
• HP 9000 Servers and Workstations, HP-UX 10.20,
  11.0
• RAM 96 MB recommended, disk space 450 MB(120
  MB of swap)
• Bit-mapped display or X-terminal including
  X-Windows
• Sun Systems
• SunSPARC and Ultra Servers,Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6
• RAM 96 MB recommended, Disk space 500 MB (120
  MB of swap)
• Bit-mapped display or X-Terminal including
  X-Windows
• Windows NT Systems
• Intel Pentium processor, Windows NT version 4.0
  with TCP/IP
• Ram 96 MB RAM, Disk space 450 MB(120 MB free
  paging)
• 800x600 monitor with SVGA graphics card
• Web Servers Supported
• Apache on HP-UX and Solaris
• Internet Information Services on the Windows NT

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Features - 1

• Automated Discovery and Layout
• For TCP/IP, IPX and Level 2 devices
• Connectivity, Port and VLAN View
• continuously monitors the network for new devices
  and for the status of equipment
• Event Correlation Technology
• identifies problems faster through an advanced
  event correlation engine.
• Out-of-the-box correlation logic is included
• The Event Correlation Specification Designer
  allows development and testing of correlation
  logics

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Features - 2

• Java-based user interface
• The Web Launcher allows operators to start
  Java-based applications such as the Network
  Presenter, the Alarms Browser and the SNMP Data
  Presenter from anywhere
• The Network Presenter and the Alarms Browser
  dynamically update maps and events automatically
• Proactive management through reporting and data
  warehousing
• Out-of-the-box reports enable proactive trend
  analysis
• topology, event and SNMP-collected data is
  exported to its data warehouse
• Fault tolerance capabilities
• users can schedule back-ups

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Support utilities

• NNM Developers toolkit
• Application Program Interface (API ) to access
  the rich feature set of NNM
• A common SNMP API provide access to the bilingual
  SNMP protocol stack for v1 and v2c
• An Windows API enables GUI integration via
  easy-to-access library routine
• C and C header files and Java Classes let you
  program your application in the widely deployed
  environment
• Customer Views
• Customer oriented network management
• Smart way to manage your Cisco netwrok

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Comments

• Plenty of reliable basic features Map
  generation,..
• No high level functions Summary, filtering,
  logging
• Developers Toolkit may be essential component in
  our development