Managing NerveCenter
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Understanding NerveCenter - Role in Network Management Strategy - Integration with Network Management Platforms -
A network management platform (NMP) is an operations and problem-management solution for use in a distributed multi-vendor environment. Intelligent distributed agents on managed nodes monitor system and application log files and SNMP data. The agents apply filters and thresholds to monitored data and forward messages about conditions of interest to a central management station. When the management station receives these messages, it can automatically take corrective action -- such as broadcasting a command to a set of systems -- or an operator can initiate this response.
You can integrate NerveCenter with the following network management platforms:
Additionally, with OpenView Network Node Manager and TME 10 NetView for AIX, you can direct NerveCenter to take its node information from the management platform and configure NerveCenter to take over all polling activity and event processing. See the later section, Integration with NMPs for Node Information, for more information.
You can integrate your NerveCenter installation with the NMP so that the NMP can send messages to NerveCenter for correlation or processing. After the messages arrive, NerveCenter correlates the conditions described in these messages with related conditions -- from the NMP or from other sources -- and can respond with any of its alarm actions, as appropriate. In addition, NerveCenter can send a message to an NMP in response to any network condition, whether the condition was originally detected by the NMP or not.
NMPs alone can detect a condition and invoke an action in response. However, you must integrate the NMP with NerveCenter if you want to:
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