OpenView Network Node Manager: Designing and Implementing an Enterprise Solution

Introduction

Distributed network management is implemented in NNM by defining a relationship between high-level management stations that show a global view of the network, and low-level collection stations that actually discover and poll their patch of the network quilt.

Preparing the collection station requires a properly configured object export filter, a defined set-community-name, and a fully discovered management domain.

Determining which devices and objects to export is done at the collection station and it applies to all management stations. Avoid exporting too many objects to avoid overwhelming the management station. For large networks, it is sufficient to export subnets and routers.

Historical SNMP data accumulated by the collection ...