NMS Case Study HP Open View Network Node

NMS Case Study HP Open. View Network Node Manager Hong-taek Ju DP&NM Lab. Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering POSTECH, Pohang Korea Tel: +82 -562 -279 -5659 Email: juht@postech. ac. kr http: //dpnm. postech. ac. kr/

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 – Sun. SPARC 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) – 800 x 600 monitor with SVGA graphics card • Web Servers Supported – Apache on HP-UX and Solaris – Internet Information Services on the Windows NT (2) POSTECH DP&NM Lab.

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 (3) POSTECH DP&NM Lab.

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 (4) POSTECH DP&NM Lab.

Support utilities • NNM Developer’s 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 v 1 and v 2 c – An Windows API enables GUI integration via easy-toaccess 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 (5) POSTECH DP&NM Lab.

Comments • Plenty of reliable basic features: Map generation, . . • No high level functions: Summary, filtering, logging • Developer’s Toolkit may be essential component in our development (6) POSTECH DP&NM Lab.