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NerveCenter and network management platforms

Today's LANs and WANs typically involve a conglomeration of devices from a multitude of vendors connected across vast geographical distances. As businesses become increasingly dependent on complex networks, the dependency on proper management of these networks also increases.

Network administrators frequently rely on network management platforms to discover a network's topology as well as the current status of managed nodes. Although NerveCenter can operate as a stand-alone network management product, many customers integrate NerveCenter with their network management platform to provide additional functionality and control. NerveCenter offers advanced features often weak or lacking in network management platforms. These powerful NerveCenter features include:

• An advanced polling engine that polls only when required, thus reducing the amount of network traffic devoted to management.
• Intelligent event correlation based on finite state machines that alarm only after all the necessary conditions are met.
• Reliable notification actions that use TCP/IP to inform management platforms rather than the less reliable protocol of SNMP.