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Overview of this book

The Behavior Models Cookbook describes each behavior model shipped with Open NerveCenter. Behavior models detect network conditions or events, correlate related conditions, and invoke appropriate actions in response. NerveCenter comes configured for immediate use, but you can easily customize it to meet the demands of your network environment. You can define groups of devices you want to monitor, specify the critical events or sequences of events you want to detect, and assign actions for NerveCenter to take.

Before reading this manual, you should be familiar with the following subjects and products: the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), common MIB-II objects, your network management platform, and Perl scripting.

The Behavior Models Cookbook contains the following sections:

Title	Description
Chapter 1, Introduction	Describes how to use behavior models shipped with Open NerveCenter.
Chapter 2, Authentication Models	Discusses the network authentication behavior model.
Chapter 3, Data Collection Models	Describes various behavior models that perform information gathering tasks: list gateways, list devices missing system information, log information from SNMP traps, identify routing errors, log interface attribute values for ifEntry nodes, identify nodes using a ping sweep.
Chapter 4, DBI Models	Describes the behavior model that uses Perl to query and write to a database.
Chapter 5, Interface Status Models	Describes behavior models that monitors interface error rates, traffic, and status.
Chapter 6, Node Status Models	Describes the behavior models used for monitoring node status and for downstream alarm suppression.
Chapter 7, TCP Status Models	Discusses the behavior models used to monitor a network's TCP connections and transmissions.
Chapter 8, Troubleshooting Models	Discusses the behavior model used to monitor the status of NerveCenter's connection with the OpenView Platform Adapter (OVPA) and the Inform Acknowledgement Queue.
Chapter 9, Vendor Models	Describes the groups of behavior models for use in monitoring Cisco and Wellfleet (Nortel) routers, and Compaq devices.