OpenView Network Node Manager: Designing and Implementing an Enterprise Solution

Reviewing Configuration Alarms

The configuration alarm category is teeming with golden nuggets of valuable information about configuration problems in the network. If you must pay attention to a single alarm category, let it be this one. It’s one of NNM’s most useful features, in the writer’s opinion. Configuration management is very important in networks, and it’s worthwhile that someone respond to the configuration alarms.

Perhaps the least exciting configuration event is the discovery of a new device or a new device interface. More interesting is the change of a MAC address, but if it occurs over and over again, this may signal a duplicate IP address, which is more exciting.

Another configuration event is the device name change. This suggests ...