OpenView Network Node Manager: Designing and Implementing an Enterprise Solution

Introduction

This chapter is a summary of the best practices introduced throughout the book.

Platform sizing must be done before deployment. The platform must be scalable to avoid a poor user experience and prevent costly downtime during a box swap. Information for platform sizing can be obtained during NNM product evaluation. Table 16-1 on page 254 will aid you in system sizing.

ITO is a great tool for managing the managers. It lets you automate a lot of system monitoring tasks to increase your efficiency. It also reduces downtime by detecting problems before they can affect the user community.

Menu management is important because it increases the stability of the NNM system while ensuring that various user types have all necessary functionality. ...