networking

Sample Network Management Project requirements

January 8, 2011

First Tier Network Management Solution support

Support Datacenters, Main sites / Disaster Recovery Sites:

Graphically configuring and monitoring all equipment
Firewalls, Routers, Switches, Modems, Servers, SAN’s, NAS’s, PC’s Network Printers, UPS… etc,

Issue periodical reports:

Daily, weekly, monthly…
Device, configurations & connectivity

  

Network Fault Management:

Network connectivity between branches needs:
Monitoring
Troubleshooting
Maintenance

Spectrum Network Fault Management:

Best-in-class technology, platform-independent
Comply with regulatory and governance requirements
Automate troubleshooting through a full suite of tools
Minimize risk  and Mean-Time-To-Repair

Auto-discovery:

Identify network assets
Build an inductive topology map
Understand relationships and inter-dependencies

Root Cause and Impact Analysis:

Root Cause Analysis
Correlate  symptoms or events
Pinpoint the degraded or failed network component
Indicate where the true problem is
Impact Analysis

What services and branches are impacted

Alarm Notification:

Configure thresholds and monitor key performance indicators: 
CPU, Memory, Storage, Interfaces…
Automate notification to email
Launch scripts for corrective actions
Alarm filtering and differentiation by colors
Redundancy between management servers
If primary server fails, the secondary automatically takes over

Manage device configurations and monitor changes:

Configuration capture
Configuration edit 
Configuration load and restore
Configuration comparison and validation
Automated scheduling

Report Manager:

Canned,
Customizable,
Scalable,
Comprehensive reporting on availability, response time, assets, alarms, and service quality metrics