Network Management, MIBs and MPLS: Principles, Design and Implementation

Chapter 5. A Real NMS

Up to now we have looked at network management in a fairly theoretical way, with the discussion centering on:

• MIBs, agents, and managers

• Enterprise and SP networks

• Connection management at layers 2 and 3

• NMS/EMS layers

• Network migration to layer 3

• MPLS

• Scalability

• Development skills needed for producing high-grade NMS

• Operational skills needed for running networks and using NMS

In this chapter we look at a real NMS product—Hewlett-Packard's OpenView Network Node Manager—and describe some of its principal features. No endorsement of HP OpenView is intended. It is selected purely because it is relatively well-known and also to illustrate the concepts described in this and previous chapters. This product is special in that it is in widespread ...