OpenView Network Node Manager: Designing and Implementing an Enterprise Solution

Determining the Communities of Interest in a Network

A community of interest may be defined by the end-to-end systems used by a given business unit. For example, site network managers are interested in their community of hubs, bridges, switches, brouters, and routers. A WAN manager in a given country is interested in the community of domestic carriers, service providers, and the effected distribution routers. Web site managers are interested in their community of servers, storage attached network (SAN) disk drives, and printers. e-mail administrators live in their community of e-mail and gateway servers, and keep an eye on DNS because it serves up Mail Exchange (MX) records. Managers of file and print servers work within their community of interest. ...