Monitoring Your Network - Understanding
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Operation
Role
in Network Management Strategy
NerveCenter can play a variety of roles in an overall
network management strategy. The role that NerveCenter plays in your strategy
depends largely on the size of your network and on what other products you are
using to manage your network and systems:
- If you are managing a small
network, NerveCenter can be used as a standalone system. It can discover
the workstations and network devices on the network, detect and correlate
network conditions, respond automatically to conditions, and display in a
window information about active alarms. See the section Standalone Operation for further
information.
- For larger networks, multiple NerveCenters can be
used in concert. For example, let's say that a company has a central site
and three remote sites. Local NerveCenter systems could be set up to
manage the remote sites, and the local NerveCenter servers could forward
important information to the NerveCenter server at the central site. See
the section Using Multiple
NerveCenter Servers for further information.
- NerveCenter can be used in conjunction with a network
management platform such as Hewlett Packard OpenView Network Node Manager,
Tivoli TME 10 NetView for AIX, Hewlett Packard OpenView IT/Operations, CA
Unicenter TNG, Tivoli TME, and Micromuse Netcool/OMNIbus which manages
systems, networks, intranets, and databases. NerveCenter can be configured
to receive messages from or send messages to these network management
platforms. See the section Integration
with Network Management Platforms for further information.
- NerveCenter is also tightly integrated with Hewlett
Packard's OpenView Network Node Manager or Tivoli System's TME 10 NetView
for AIX. In this situation, NerveCenter is responsible for SNMP trap
handling, all polling activity, event correlation, and automated responses
to conditions. See the section Integration
with NMPs for Node Information for further information.
- NerveCenter can also be used with Veritas Manage
Exec. Manage Exec, which monitors the status of Windows NT systems, can be
configured to send SNMP traps to NerveCenter. See the section Integration with Veritas Manage Exec
for further information.