OpenView Network Node Manager: Designing and Implementing an Enterprise Solution

Geographic Regions and Business Relationships

Geography is the most common and obvious definer for communities of interest. Campus buildings define LAN boundaries and the WAN is the point of demarcation between geographies. The community of interest is often mirrored by the organization that supports it. Multiple small remote sites may be relatively dependent, but for the purposes of defining an NNM management domain, these may be added into a larger geographic domain.

Some corporations have many, nearly autonomous sites with their own independent network staff and support organizations. Some point-to-point WAN links may exist between them as needed, and each may have an Internet connection for their own purposes. Here, the communities of interest ...