OpenView Network Node Manager: Designing and Implementing an Enterprise Solution - Softcover

Blommers, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130198498 ISBN 13: 9780130198495

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2000

Synopsis

HP's OpenView Network Node Manager (NNM) offers the industry's most powerful platform for enterprise-wide IP network management based on Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) standards. Now, one of HP's leading NNM consultants has written the definitive, best-practices guide to implementing and managing OpenView NNM. OpenView Network Node Manager covers planning, configuration, deployment, administration, staffing, performance, firewalls, troubleshooting, and more -- including a full section of case studies taken from the author's extensive experience implementing NNM in large enterprises. Start by walking through an enterprise-class NNM deployment plan, in detail: requirements, operations agreements, hardware selection, piloting, training, management domains, and more. Plan a reliable, accurate, consistent, and manageable Domain Name Service; define your management domain; autodiscover your network, and refine your results to fully reflect your topology. Master best-practices strategies for working with network maps, managing special features of network devices, and organizing network management across multiple collection stations. Coverage also includes configuration, event, and performance management; firewall environments; routine maintenance; troubleshooting; and cross-platform issues.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

• Architecting, designing, implementing, and managing NNM solutions involving networks, desktop computers, and UNIX servers
• All examples have been used in actual implementations
• Covers capacity planning, firewall maintenance, cross-platform and best-practice issues

The only complete, practical guide to HP Network Node Manager!

HP's OpenView Network Node Manager (NNM) is the industry's most powerful platform for enterprise-wide IP network management based on SNMP standards. Now, one of HP's leading NNM consultants has written the definitive, best-practices guide to implementing and managing OpenView NNM.

OpenView Network Node Manager covers planning, architecture, deployment, configuration, administration, staffing, performance, firewalls, troubleshooting, and more. It also includes eight diverse case studies, straight from the author's extensive NNM experience in virtually every network environment: global manufacturers, computer firms, consultancies, engineering and scientific companies, colleges, and many more. Coverage includes:

• Enterprise-class NNM deployment planning: requirements, operations agreements, hardware sizing and selection, piloting, and beyond
• Staffing, training, management domains, and organizing network management for maximum efficiency
• Deploying reliable, accurate, consistent and manageable Domain Name Services
• Autodiscovering your network, refining the results to reflect your topology, and working with network maps
• NNM day-to-day maintenance, event and performance management, optimization, and problem-solving

From day-to-day administration to long-term strategies, security to cross-platform issues, John Blommers delivers specific answers you can rely upon to maximize the value of OpenView NNM―and your entire enterprise network.

About the Author:

JOHN BLOMMERS is a Network Consultant with Hewlett-Packard's Professional Services Organization in Bellevue, WA. He has worked with OpenView NNM since Version 1.0, when it was called xnm. He recently spent two years helping to implement NNM across Boeing's 70-site network, encompassing over 10,000 devices. Blommers currently teaches LAN/WAN Design and Advanced Network Management at the University of Washington Education Outreach Certificate Program.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0130198498
• ISBN 13: 9780130198495
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352