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Integration with NMPs for Node Information

If you're working at a larger site and need a topology map and more event history than NerveCenter provides, you can use NerveCenter with one of the following network management platforms (NMPs):

• Hewlett Packard's OpenView Network Node Manager
• Tivoli Systems' TME 10 NetView for AIX

When used with one of these products, NerveCenter can take its node information from the management platform and can be configured to take over all polling activity and event processing. NerveCenter's main task is to minimize the number of events that appear in the platform's event browser. NerveCenter does this by:

• Filtering out unimportant events
• Correlating related events and notifying the platform only of the underlying problem
• Handling problems through automated actions so that no notification is necessary

The first figure below shows an OpenView event browser that contains a flurry of events all caused by the same problem. The next figure shows what might appear in the browser if NerveCenter were used to screen and correlate the conditions and pass on only important information to the platform event browser.

Too Many Events

The Important Events

NerveCenter can also set the colors of nodes in the network management platform's map based on the severity of NerveCenter alarm states.