OpenView Network Node Manager: Designing and Implementing an Enterprise Solution

Who Develops Custom Applications?

A staff developer can write, document, test, maintain, and support homegrown NNM applications. Developers understand the UNIX applications development environment, including source control, the windowing system, the NNM developer kit, and languages (C, C++, Perl, Java, TCL, Tk, and shell scripting). The kinds of applications that might be written locally will integrate into the NNM menu system via application registration files, at a minimum. Some applications may run in the background, such as a historical SNMP data trimmer, a specialized SNMP configuration, or a performance data collector. Other applications may be integrated tightly into the OpenView Windows environment, such as a tool for aligning icons ...