AdventNet Web NMS 4 Product Brief

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AdventNet Web NMS is a comprehensive network management platform that offers purpose-built applications and tools designed to simplify the management of networking devices and resources.

AdventNet Web NMS enables network monitoring, configuration and troubleshooting of each device or resource and manage an entire network from a single platform. AdventNet Web NMS has a true N+ architecture that allows multiple users to access its services simultaneously.

It delivers network level management while providing access to various element managers.

Its functionalities include:

Unified management: It provides a common graphical interface and network management infrastructure for performing management functions, integrating applications, and unifying element management across multiple devices.
Network-wide visibility: It enables extensive view and in-depth reporting of network activity across the network with functions such as discovery, physical and logical topology maps, centralized event management, graphs, and statistical information. This is also supported in distributed networks.
Element management: It provides direct access to each device through its native element manager and allows all networking devices to be configured from a centralized location. It also supports policy-based management across multiple device types.
Remote management: It enables the management of large and distributed networks. Distributed Mediation Servers can be deployed to capture network statistics locally. These intelligent servers pass on correlated network information to the central server.
Scalable architecture: It provides single-user and multi-user versions and an extensible architecture with applications that allow the network management environment to be tailored to the user’s network and budget needs. It supports management of very large networks with capability to distribute network facing functionalities across servers.

AdventNet Web NMS platform provides a solid foundation that is based upon:

Widely Deployed Platform

Over 120 network equipment vendors including large incumbents like Lucent, Nortel, Motorola, Siemens, Ericsson and startups like Movaz, Turin and others have successfully implemented and deployed management applications based on AdventNet Web NMS. AdventNet Web NMS has also been selected as a management platform for building NMS solutions by Service Provders such as Chunghwa Telecom, PT Telecom, Nexagent, Equant, and Uninet. Added to the proven track of AdventNet Web NMS, it brings a cost-sensitive and feature-rich platform for developing a prudent network management solution.

Productivity Enhancement Platform

AdventNet Web NMS comes bundled with Web NMS Studio - a user- friendly Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that enables easy design, development and maintenance of network management applications. For rapid development AdventNet Web NMS provides a comprehensive code-generation wizard that complements resource modeling and service customization tools by enabling complex instrumented applications. Additionally, AdventNet Web NMS offers Project Tools which are useful in development, testing, deployment, maintenance, support and re-licensing of AdventNet Web NMS based applications.

Customization Capabilities

AdventNet Web NMS facilitates advanced customization of management services through discovery filters, alarm and event filters, rules, and correlation logic with minimal coding. Purpose-built AdventNet Web NMS platform readily enables customization to varies technology domains that include ATM, SONET/SDH, Optical, VoIP, VPN, Cable, Wireless and others.

AdventNet Web NMS Benefits

Benefits

AdventNet Web NMS includes the following applications:

	Fault Management Event/trap processing - filtering, suppression, propagation ; with intelligent correlation Alarm drill down categorized by severity, managed resource type, time of day etc. Problem resolution work flow management – categorize alarms as open, closed and acknowledged
	Configuration Management N-tier architecture with server support for storing, scheduling, auditing etc. Supports parameterized XML tasks for easy management of configuration functions Supports rollback capability for recovery from failures
	Discovery Auto-discovery and topology update Rich information model to capture attributes of heterogeneous networks with deep discovery Topology summary and hierarchical represen-tation of managed resources Intelligent grouping for simplified configuration management
	Performance Management Analyze, filter and aggregate network performance data Customize aggregation policies Multi-level thresholding and hysteresis Intuitive and graphical performance management reports
	Security Fine grained and extensible authorization including support for users, groups, roles, operations and object views Secure authentication and access control including SSL and secure RMI server access control J2EE security model support
	Inventory Management Complete infobase of components and devices across the network Can also be integrated with any third party inventory management system

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 Editions)

JDK JDK 1.4.0 (All Editions)
JDK 1.3.1 (Professional Editions)

XML Parsers Any JAXP 1.1 compliant parser

Language support JDK 1.4 Internationalization API

ITU / TMF Standards support ITU M.3100
TMF 513
TMF 608
TMF 814A

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

AdventNet Web NMS Professional Edition

21004.0D Named Developer License Fee per seat

21004.0ROBP Professional Edition runtime : BE Primary Server (Mandatory)

21004.0R0BS Professional Edition runtime : BE Secondary Server (Optional)

21004.0PMS Maintenance and Support Tools (Optional)

21004.0PS AdventNet Web NMS Test Suite (Optional)

AdventNet Web NMS RME Edition

22004.0D Named Developer License Fee per seat

22004.0RODM RME Edition runtime for OEMs: Distributed Mediation Server (Mandatory)

AdventNet Web NMS Standard Edition

21504.0D Named Developer License Fee per seat

21504.0RO Standard Edition runtime: Server with a maximum of up to 5 clients