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AdventNet Web NMS aims at providing real world network management solutions to telecom and enterprise markets.
It meets the demand of the market for advanced network management features.
It fulfills the need of the market for shortest possible deployment time.
XML Southbound Tutorial will demonstrate how the above market expectations are met by AdventNet Web NMS.
Real World XML Element Management Solutions
Real world XML Element management applications that can be made available on AdventNet Web NMS, categorized by specific domains are
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Wireless Infrastructure |
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Mobile IP and MANET |
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3G Systems |
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UMTS |
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Wireless Links |
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Bluetooth, IrDA, and IEEE 802.11 |
The list of Web NMS applications goes on.
Why AdventNet Web NMS
AdventNet Web NMS fulfills your specific network management needs. It comes with the most sought after features in the market.
They are
Massive scalability
High availability
Customization
Modeling managed systems
Extending management services
Supporting variety of management protocols
Various deployment options
It can be customized and extended to suit your needs. The extensibility makes the design of the application more organized.
The customization addresses the specific needs of the application to mange your custom equipment.
AdventNet Web NMS comes bundled with a developer suite with rich tools, called AdventNet Web NMS Studio. This tool reduces the development life cycle time drastically.
This in turn brings host of benefits:
The time taken to deploy the application is lesser compared to the conventional development and deployment techniques.
The human resources required are cut to a fraction of what is required for conventional techniques.
The tool supports user from the level of novice to professional. The tool contains UI-based Wizards to accomplish all the simple tasks if you are a novice user and makes room for custom code if you are a professional to handle advanced tasks.
The required skill level of the user is also brought down. For example, you do not require Java knowledge to use the tool and only network management and your element domain knowledge will suffice.
All these benefits put together will make AdventNet Web NMS a wise choice for your network management solution.
Application Life Cycle
AdventNet Web NMS offers a comprehensive development environment for building your management solution. This section explains how the complete product life cycle needs of your management solution are realizable using AdventNet Web NMS.
They are captured in five easy steps that you can follow to build your management solution, as below:
Step 1: Modeling the managed elements
Step 2: Customizing managed object services
Step 3: Re-branding the management solution
Step 4: Packaging
Step 5: Deployment and Testing
The following diagram gives an overview of the experience of building management solutions with the AdventNet Web NMS.
Step 1: Modeling the Managed Elements
Each managed system comprises many inter-related elements that need to be individually managed. You start with modeling your elements, so that you can capture the data, operations and state of the elements, and the relationships between the elements. The Web NMS provides a comprehensive, simple and easy to learn information model, using which the various elements of the managed system can be modelled. The basic element of the Web NMS information model is the ManagedObject. The Web NMS also has models for various common IP network components such as Network, Node, SNMP Node, TL1 Node, etc. These form the core objects of the Web NMS information model. You have to extend any of the core objects of Web NMS to model your managed element. The core objects can be extended, by adding attributes, operations, and state to those objects (modeling the data, operations, and state of your element in addition to capturing the relationship).
This task can easily be accomplished by using the Managed Resources of AdventNet Web NMS Studio. It helps you walk through the steps in terms of the object that needs to be extended, the new attributes of your element, etc. It then generates MO classes, relational classes, and database schema files for your managed element.
Step 2: Customizing Managed Object Services
AdventNet Web NMS offers a number of management services to the managed objects. The southbound services that populate the database with information from the elements such as data collection, status polling, etc. are classified as the mediation services. The services that enable the user to perform network planning, error management, and service deployment tasks are classified as the management services. Management services include event correlation, element configuration, service provisioning, access control, etc.
Using the module management services available as part of the Web NMS framework, you could also build other management application modules.
Step 3: Re-branding the Management Solution
You can re-brand the application to display the name of your company, the name of your product, and your logos. The I18N tool, bundled in AdventNet Web NMS Studio, helps you re-brand your application by replacing references to AdventNet and Web NMS. The logos, images, and icons can be changed by modifying configuration files.
Step 4: Packaging
You can package your application resources alone as a NAR (NMS Archive file) that can be installed over the AdventNet Web NMS.
Step 5: Deployment and Testing
Before testing your management solution, make sure all the third-party packages are installed correctly and you have the required privileges to use them for your testing. Once you start your application, look at the Web NMS server log files to make sure all the services are started successfully and are running.
Having deployed your application at a customer's site, you will be required to support the product and provide upgrades as part of support. AdventNet Web NMS Studio available in AdventNet Web NMS makes it easy to handle upgrades.
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