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Feature Summary
| Performance Management | Faults and Events | Configuration |
- Integrated Fault and Performance Management.
- Graphs can be produced on the fly.
- Graphing period is flexible, graphs can have varying lengths – up to 1 year.
- Interactive graphs with drill-down.
- Graphing of Interface, CPU, Memory stats.
- Interface statistics are returned in utilisation and/or bits per second.
- Response time graphed and metrics for health and availability generated from statistics collected.
- Threshold engine which send alerts when thresholds are exceeded.
| - Integrated Fault and Performance Management.
- Sophisticated business rules engine (see heading for Business Rules Engine)
- Varying event levels for different device types.
- Color coded events, status for at a glance interpretation.
- Integrated alerting subsystem
- Event levels are set according to how important the device is to the organizations (see Business Rules Engine).
- Events are stateful including thresholds, meaning that an event is only issued once.
- Integrated logging facility to view NMIS events and syslog messages.
- Outage time calculated for each down event
- Planned outages can be put in so alerts are not issued.
| - Find function which searches interface information for node name, interface name, description, type, IP address, for matching interfaces.
- Interface information includes IP address information.
- Dynamic handling of ifIndex changes and difficult SNMP interface handling
- Checking of changes to device details.
- NMIS stores contacts and location information which links to the SNMP sysContact and sysLocation MIBS.
- Produces DNS and Host records from the collected IP addressing information
- Produces DNS LOC records for “visible” traceroute utilities.
- Inventory management –list managed devices by location or type and software revisions
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| Real-time monitoring | Operational Tools | Management Reporting |
- Live base-lining
- Live performance monitoring
- Live availability monitoring
- Live flexible graphs
- Live flexible notification conditions
- Live alerting
| - Diagnostic tools such as ping and traceroute
- Produces DNS LOC records for “visible” traceroute utitlities.
- And many more
| - Powerful out of the box reporting.
- Reports to assist in planning and measurements against KPIs.
- Live Summary of entire managed environment into a single metric, which indicates reachability, availability, health and response time of all devices being managed.
- Summary pages of devices including device information, health graphs, and interface summaries
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| Extensive list of supported devices | Business Rules Engine | Notification and Escalation |
- If it has an IP address, NMIS can manage it and it will leverage the key IP of NMIS.
- If it doesn’t have an IP address NMIS can probably manage it too!
- Support of SNMP v3 v2 and v1
- SNMP traps
| - Event levels are set according to how important the device is to the business.
- Planned outages – removing alerts during planned outage periods
- Policy Based Actions – business actions for people to follow when a fault occurs.
- Policy based Escalation
- Policy Based Event Handling
- Policy based notifications
| - Sophisticated business rules engine (see heading for Business Rules Engine)
- Escalation subsystem based on device groups which provides high granularity.
- Notification engine can handle any “command line” notification method, including email, paging, signs, speakers, etc.
- Integrated event manager, allowing a list of active events with an escalation level.
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| Distributed Monitoring | Notification | Ease of Implementation |
- Manage an unlimited number of Nodes
- High level of redundancy
- Single configuration for the system
- Access all information from one place
- Straight forward setup
| - Powerful, out of the box reporting
- Reports for utilisation, outages and more
- Snapshot and dynamic reporting for metrics on all devices and groups of devices.
| - Centralised configuration and storage of information
- Very simple to implement – download the VM
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| Scalability |
- Performance and Fault data in a single pole
- Extremely efficient monitoring platform
- UI desgined to provide specilized views to assist in “seeing the wood from the trees” in large environments.
- Summary information
- Simple, policy based escalation
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