OpenView Network Node Manager: Designing and Implementing an Enterprise Solution

A Global Manufacturing Company

The large manufacturing company depends upon its mission-critical IP backbone to communicate between hundreds of sites located all over the world. To deploy an NNM system at each physical site wouldn’t be cost effective so you select 30 sites with local network support staff instead. Each site will receive a collection station and two sites will receive a management station. Most of the NNM user community accesses their NNM systems using an X-Windows emulator running on their Windows systems. A few users prefer Macintosh computers running MacX, or Linux systems running their built-in X-Windows software. The system administrators use the built-in X-Windows software in their UNIX workstations to access remote NNM ...