OpenView Network Node Manager: Designing and Implementing an Enterprise Solution

Manually Guided Discovery

Given that you have now discovered the initial management domain, our next step might well be to cautiously manage (using the pulldown menu Edit:Manage Objects) a few subnets connected to the local routers. This expands the management domain accordingly, which will trigger NNM to autodiscover within these new subnets. Assuming the SNMP community strings are already defined in NNM, new routers will undoubtedly be discovered in the newly managed subnets, and the Internet submap will sprout new routers with new unmanaged subnets attached. By proceeding carefully while allowing the autodiscovery process to converge, it is possible to manually guide NNM through the desired management domain. This process may add a few hours ...