OpenView Network Node Manager: Designing and Implementing an Enterprise Solution

Leveraging Lessons Learned With Other Map Builders

In a large company there will be a need for multiple management stations to ensure high availability of the NNM platform. To achieve full redundancy, each management station takes advantage of the same collection stations. There is every reason to locate management stations in physically independent locations, so they may be managed by different map builders. Yet the maps should look the same if the collection stations are to be useful backups for each other.

To keep the management station maps consistent, the map builders obviously need to agree who will modify the map any given day, so the others can import it without losing local map changes. The map customization file is in plain ASCII text ...