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Role in Network Management Strategy

NerveCenter can play a variety of roles in an overall network management strategy. The role that NerveCenter plays in your strategy depends largely on the size of your network and on what other products you are using to manage your network and systems:

• If you are managing a small network, NerveCenter can be used as a standalone system. It can discover the workstations and network devices on the network, detect and correlate network conditions, respond automatically to conditions, and display in a window information about active alarms. See the section Standalone Operation for further information.
• For larger networks, multiple NerveCenters can be used in concert. For example, let's say that a company has a central site and three remote sites. Local NerveCenter systems could be set up to manage the remote sites, and the local NerveCenter servers could forward important information to the NerveCenter server at the central site. See the section Using Multiple NerveCenter Servers for further information.
• NerveCenter can be used in conjunction with a network management platform such as Hewlett Packard OpenView Network Node Manager, Hewlett Packard OpenView IT/Operations, CA Unicenter TNG, Tivoli TME, and Micromuse Netcool/OMNIbus which manages systems, networks, intranets, and databases. NerveCenter can be configured to receive messages from or send messages to these network management platforms. See the section Integration with Network Management Platforms for further information.
• NerveCenter is also tightly integrated with Hewlett Packard's OpenView Network Node Manager. In this situation, NerveCenter is responsible for SNMP trap handling, all polling activity, event correlation, and automated responses to conditions. See the section Integration with NMPs for Node Information for further information.