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Node Management

Earlier in this book, you added nodes by manually defining or copying each node's attributes. Two other methods are commonly used to manage nodes:

• The typical configuration integrates NerveCenter with a network management platform -- either Hewlett Packard's Network Node Manager or IBM Tivoli's NetView -- which performs node discovery, draws a graphic map containing your network topology, and provides a browser with messages about network status. Through a process called synchronization, the platform refreshes NerveCenter's node list with information about nodes that are added, changed, or removed.

  NerveCenter monitors the nodes retrieved from your platform, forwards noteworthy events back to the platform, and changes the color of node symbols in your platform's map to reflect changes in network conditions.

  Refer to the Integrating NerveCenter with a Network Management Platform book for details about integrating NerveCenter with a platform. See Viewing the Online Documentation for information about viewing this book.

• As an alternative to this setup, you can configure NerveCenter to discover nodes when they send SNMP traps to the NerveCenter Server. You can also customize NerveCenter's IPSweep behavior model, which uses an IP sweep program to populate your node list.

  Node discovery using the IPSweep behavior model must be configured in both the NerveCenter Administrator and NerveCenter Client before it can be used. This configuration is described in the Managing NerveCenter and Designing and Managing Behavior Models books.