OpenView Network Node Manager: Designing and Implementing an Enterprise Solution

Monitoring NNM Systems With ITO and MeasureWare

Managing large networks with many management domains will probably require 15 or so collection stations and two management stations. It is a considerable task to manage that many systems, one that requires automated tools.

If you load and configure HP MeasureWare agents on all NNM systems from a central system you can then use HP PerfView to monitor all critical system resources, some of which include:

• RAM utilization

• virtual memory (VM) utilization

• VM paging rate

• CPU utilization for all CPUs

• disk I/O rate

• queue depth of the disk controllers

• network interface error rate

There is a fair amount of opinion about threshold values for these and other metrics, and there are preset values for them. If these ...