OpenView Network Node Manager: Designing and Implementing an Enterprise Solution

Defining Management Domains

You normally want to manage the network along management domains by dividing the network based on geography, business communities of interest, functionality, or network architecture. Geography is a common divider, and a map of the country (or continent or world) is often customized to reflect management domains. The pilot test provides a good proving ground for defining and implementing management domains.

There is a risk of missing pieces of the network within the intended management domain. This means portions of the network remain unmanaged. For single-station NNM implementations there is only one management domain, and the discovery process is manually directed into all corners of the network until no new subnets ...