Getting a Quick Start with NerveCenter
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Introduction - Understanding NerveCenter -
NerveCenter provides powerful management of distributed, cross-platform networks using SNMP messages. (See SNMP Basics for a summary of SNMP.)
Using Perl expressions, you can manipulate SNMP messages to monitor thresholds, management information base (MIB) variables, and other indicators of network performance. NerveCenter additionally relies on Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) messages from your network to provide basic information about unresponsive devices. NerveCenter's correlation engine then filters all this data from your network and uses automated responses -- such as informing a platform, paging, logging, sending e-mail, setting MIB values, or sending traps -- to track events, notify you of critical events, and perform corrective actions.
NerveCenter implements predefined and user-defined behavior models to perform event correlation. These behavior models determine the following:
NerveCenter handles event correlation across network workstations (Windows and UNIX), servers, routers, bridges, and other devices. NerveCenter can run coresident with a network management platform, such as Hewlett-Packard's OpenView Network Node Manager and IT/Operations. NerveCenter can additionally forward specified events to the following network management systems: Tivoli Systems TME Enterprise Console, Computer Associates Unicenter TNG, and Micromuse Netcool/OMNIbus. Finally, NerveCenter supports the extension of MIB definitions to include private, vendor-specific objects that are defined in SNMP versions 1, 2 and 3.
| Requirements for Using This Book | SNMP Basics |
| 29 July 2003 |