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What is a Behavior Model?

NerveCenter is designed to detect and correlate network conditions. You, the user, determine how NerveCenter will detect and react to those conditions by designing a set of specifications called a behavior model.

NerveCenter ships with some predefined behavior models. You can develop others to handle site-specific conditions.

Each behavior model has three components:

• Detecting network conditions

  Each behavior model is interested in a specific set of network conditions. NerveCenter detects these conditions actively by polling managed nodes. It also passively listens to SNMP traps that agents send, filtering out relevant traps with masks.

• Interpreting network conditions

  Once NerveCenter detects relevant conditions, the behavior model also defines how these conditions should be interpreted. NerveCenter uses one or more alarms to correlate such events. As network conditions develop, alarms move in and out of states the behavior model defines. An alarm state depicts the condition of your network.

• Responding to network conditions

  As certain conditions develop, NerveCenter will need to perform certain actions. The behavior model determines what actions should be taken and when they should occur. NerveCenter uses alarms and Action Router to define this component of the behavior model.