Sample Network Management Project requirements
January 8, 2011First 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 AnalysisWhat 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