AdventNet Web NMS 4 Data Sheet
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AdventNet Web NMS is the industry-leading network management framework
for building custom Element Management System (EMS) and Network
Management System (NMS) applications.
AdventNet Web NMS 4 is a scalable, application-centric
platform that makes extensive use of state-of-the-art graphical
displays to provide an intuitive and powerful network management
dashboard for operations staff. By automating a number of complex,
tedious, and error-prone tasks, the management application raises
productivity, improves accuracy, simplifies training, and reduces
costs for operation centers.
AdventNet Web NMS 4 offers a comprehensive set of
FCAPS functions, provisioning, along with bundled customizable interfaces
to most popular network elements, OSS systems and other management
applications.
AdventNet Web NMS Features
- Event Collection: Simultaneous receipt of events from any intelligent
device, resource, or software entity. Supports the reporting of
alarm conditions in a near real-time or scheduled manner.
- Alarm Correlation and Filtering: Efficiently handles lengthy
alarm lists with robust capability to correlate
and filter alarms.
- Resource Status Displays: A single window provides an efficient,
graphical overview of the status of all
managed resources.
- Active Alarms Display: A consolidated list of active or “open”
alarms compiled across all managed resources provides an overview
of fault localization and correction tasks that are currently
in progress.
- Automatic Discovery: Uses industry standard protocols (e.g.,
SNMP, TL1) or customer-specific messaging adapters, managed resources
are automatically discovered and polled for updates to their configuration
attributes.
- Managed Resource Domains: Administrator can conve-niently group
the discovered managed resources into a set of managed resource
domains using a point-and-click interface.
- Containment Tree View: Rapid browsing through the entire inventory
is supported through the containment hierarchy display.
- Graphical Topology View: This powerful consolidated view displays
the configuration and status of the entire managed resource inventory.
- Resource Provisioning: Through a convenient, single-click operation,
managed resources can be placed in one of several service states
such as “working”, “unavailable”, or “standby”.
This high impact operation confirms that the requestor has appropriate
permissions before fulfilling the request.
- Remote Management : Enables management of remote locations deploying
Distributed Mediation Servers locally. The servers can correlate
network data, forwarding relevant information to the central site.
These servers support buffering to prevent network data loss and
can even work on dial-ups.
- Software Image Downloads:Provides a powerful facility to orchestrate
the organized download of software images.
- Data Collection: Scalable application architecture powers the
simultaneous collection of measurements from multiple managed
resources across the network.
- Resource Configuration: Managed resources typically support
a number of settable attributes including alarm thresholds, logical
addresses, and device specific parameters like data rates. The
user can set such attributes for a single managed resource or
a group of managed resources.
- Performance Computation: Collected data is analyzed, filtered,
and aggregated to produce performance metrics that are relevant
to the operations staff such as user-oriented transaction response
time or service availability.
- Real-time Graphical Displays: Intuitive line charts and bar
charts provide operations staff with quick snapshots of the performance
metrics over time.
- Security Domains: Fine-grained control of access to critical
managed resources is accomplished through carefully defined security
domains.
- Audit Log: A detailed log of all access permission requests
and responses supports the analysis of resource usage patterns
as well as attempts to breach access control.
AdventNet Web NMS benefits
For Operations Centers
- Continuously monitors the status of network devices such as
hubs, routers, firewalls, cross-connects, add-drop multi plexers,
and SAN switches.
- Monitors status of IT resources such as servers, storage sub
systems, and disk controllers.
- Record and maintains network configuration and updates to ensure
normal network operation.
- Data collection enables performance trend & analysis of
the entire network or sub-networks through graphical or table
form.
- Supports root cause analysis of events by correlating alarms
and enabling drill down to malfunctioning sub systems.
- Enables efficient management of operations staff by supporting
organization of network and IT assets into regions or domains
and providing filtered domain views of received alarms.
- Supports problem resolution management of malfunctions through
the life cycle tracking of alarm status.
- Supports seamless integration with OSS/BSS, EMSs, NMSs, Trouble-
ticketing systems, and other infrastructure applications in Operations
Centers.
For Developers
- Feature-rich AdventNet Web NMS allows OEMs and system integrators
to roll out first releases of enterprise or network management
systems within weeks
- Comprehensive AdventNet Web NMS platform drives dramatic im
provements in application development process. Specifically in
the areas of Rapid development, Risk Avoidance, and ROI Improvement.
- AdventNet Web NMS is based on a proven architecture and is purpose-built
to be scalable, reliable, and secure
- Support rapid customization through XML driven data model
- Provide "plug-n-play" integration with managed resources
and external applications through compliance with open industry
standards such as ITU-T, SNMP, CORBA, XML, TL1, TMF, etc.
Inside AdventNet Web NMS
Productivity Tools - AdventNet Web NMS Studio
AdventNet Web NMS Studio tools enable complete lifecycle management
of AdventNet Web NMS applications - from design and development,
to packaging, branding, deployment and upgrades.
AdventNet Web NMS Studio offers multiple benefits for rapid and
simple development:
- Project based approach for segregating development and deployment
of projects
- Tools to package, install, uninstall, and upgrade projects
- Integrated version control system, build automation and command
line tools
- XML editor for managing AdventNet Web NMS configuration files;
JMacs editor for managing non-XML files
- Intuitive and rapid modeling of managed resources
- Troubleshooting tools
- Chassis and Configuration wizards as part of client side customization
Framework Architecture - Deployment Flexibility
AdventNet Web NMS is architected to support varying deployment
needs ranging from a single server to multi server deployment.
High Availability - Multi-server deployment
The AdventNet Web NMS server consists of three tiers of server
components, the management server (mediation) tier, which provides
protocol mediation with the managed systems, the back-end server
tier, which provides database transaction and encapsulation service
and the front-end server tier, which provides client session management
services.
Further Distributed Mediation Servers can be deployed for massive
scalability by distributing the network facing functions across
multiple Distributed Mediation Servers. These servers support management
of large networks, achieving scalability on both the size of the
networks and systems that can be managed.
There can be more than one deployment of each of these servers to
achieve massive scalability. The servers can be deployed with redundancy
so that any failure, results in failover to other server components.
This feature is crucial in high-availability applications.
Hierarchical Remote Management
AdventNet Web NMS supports distributed server deployment. Distributed
Mediation Servers can be deployed in regional offices and a central
server can be deployed at the NOC.
This deployment flexibility is particularly suited to geo-graphically
dispersed deployments with a need for
remote management as well as centralized control.
The Distributed Mediation Server can effectively stream-line information
flow with support for correlation, consolidation, buffering and
propagation.
Regional servers can function behind proxy servers and firewalls
with robust communication to NOC servers. XML over HTTP or XML over
TCP can be used depending on the geographical distribution.
Persistent Data Model
High availability for managed services and operational support
is achieved through a persistent RDBMS data
model. AdventNet Web NMS leverages the benefits of transaction support,
database synchronization and object locking.
The database Tier in the AdventNet Web NMS architecture incorporates
persistent data management support with failover capability.
AdventNet Web NMS offers seamless integration with Oracle, Sybase,
MySQL, SQL Server, Solid, Timesten and other popular databases.
AdventNet Web NMS 4 Editions
AdventNet Web NMS is offered in three editions - Free, Professional, and Remote Management. The following table highlights
some of the key differences.
| AdventNet
Web NMS Editions |
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* can be scaled higher based on the number of front-end servers
** SNMP V3 protocol is not supported in Express Edition. SNMP V1,
V2, and V2C versions are supported
| System
Features |
| Application servers |
WebLogic
JBoss and
Others |
| Web servers |
Apache/Tomcat
Java Web Server |
| Choice of clients |
Java application client
Applet client
Web (HTML) client
and Java WebStart client |
| Web Browsers |
Internet Explorer
Netscape
Opera
Mozilla |
| Java Runtime Environments
(JRE) |
JRE 1.4.2 (All Editions)
JRE 1.4.0 (All Editions)
JRE 1.3.1 (Professional Edition) |
| JDK |
JDK 1.4.0 (All Editions)
JDK 1.3.1 (Professional Edition) |
| XML Parsers |
Any JAXP 1.1 compliant parser |
| Language support |
JRE 1.4.0 Internationalization API |
| ITU / TMF Standards support
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ITU M.3100
TMF 513
TMF 608
TMF 814A |
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| Hardware
Requirements |
| CPU |
733 MHz for Windows/Linux
333 MHz for Solaris Ultra5 |
| Memory |
256 MB RAM or Higher |
| Disc Space |
320 MB + 200 MB Swap |
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