OpenView Network Node Manager: Designing and Implementing an Enterprise Solution

A Small Engineering Firm

This small firm has a single two-story building. A single LAN provides every engineering workstation access to several file and print servers. The print servers drive LaserJet printers for standard documentation and large-format plotters for engineering drawings. Each server handles about a dozen workstations.

You install NNM on an existing UNIX workstation and discover every networked system on the lone subnet without any effort. The /etc/hosts file provides name-to-address resolution.

NNM monitors only a few dozen systems and you set the polling interval to one second without fear of overloading anything. This small firm depends on the LAN for its livelihood and wants instant notification of any outages to reduce the ...