September 2000
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
6h 41m
English
book
OpenView Network Node Manager: Designing and Implementing an Enterprise Solution
by John Blommers
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A Natural Resource Company
The natural resource company has sites across North America. You choose to manage the entire network centrally with a single, large NNM system located in the corporate data center. This UNIX system is intended to support 30 concurrent users, so you install the maximum number of CPUs and the maximum amount of RAM supported. You install a second, small backup NNM system at another location.
Rather than depend on snmpCollect-style SNMP polling for performance management, you install RMON probes at all critical LAN and WAN points. HP NetMetrix manages the probes and downloads the performance data. The probes also generate threshold alarms. This removes the performance overhead of collecting performance data from the NNM ...