Network Management System Homework

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Network Management SystemHomework 2

• 2006. 3. 15
• Mobile Networking Lab.
• Sok-Hyong Kim (ITE20052605)
• Hyun-Jin Kim (ITE 20052609)

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Contents

• OpenNMS
• Just For Fun (JFF) NMS
• AdventNet Web NMS
• HP OpenView
• Hello NMS
• Network Management Information System (NMIS)
• BelAir BelView NMS

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OpenNMS Overview (1/2)

• NMS Name
• OpenNMS
• Company or Organization (or the developer)
• OpenNMS Group
• Protocols supported
• SNMP, DHCP, DNS, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, ICMP, LDAP,
  POP3, SMTP and TCP
• Platforms supported
• Solaris 8,9 (SPARC), Solaris 8,9 (x86)
• Mac OS X (Panther)
• UNIX, Linux

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OpenNMS Overview (2/2)

• User interfaces supported
• Servlet, JSP
• URLs
• http//www.opennms.org/index.php/Main_Page
• Other Points
• Open source project
• XML based NMS configuration
• Configuration is work after restarting of the NMS

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OpenNMS - Architecture
WEB based GUI (HTML, JavaScript, CSS)
OpenNMS Core
Web Container (Tomcat) Servlet, JSP
JNI For ICMP
RRDUtils
ICMP Socket
JDBC Driver
JavaMail
RRD (Jrobin)
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OpenNMS Functionalities (1/2)

• Fault management
• Defines poller configuration file and use ICMP
  ping to a particular set of IP addresses
• Grouping network devices into packages (services,
  frequency, etc.)
• Each package can have its own downtime model and
  an outage calendar
• Configuration management
• The basic monitored element (node/device/interface
  s(IP), service)
• Discovering an IP address to monitor
• Discovering the services (httpd, DNS, etc.)
  supported by that IP address

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OpenNMS Functionalities (2/2)

• Accounting management
• None
• Performance management
• Use RRD (Round Robin Database) tools
• Define the reports name and reports type
  (snmp-graph.properties)
• RRD File Name, DataSource (RRD File or
  expression), Shape (Line, Area, Stack)
• Security management
• None

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OpenNMS - Roles of Core Part Functions

• Poller
• Collectd
• Data collection is handled via the collectd
  proccess
• Monitor
• Perfom a simple test to see if the resource is
  responding correctly
• Discovery
• Capsd
• Be responsible for discovering all the services
  to be monitored
• Eventd
• OpenNMS manages events through the eventd process
• Internally generated events and external SNMP
  traps
• Trapd
• OpenNMS can also receive SNMP traps via the trapd
  process

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Just For Fun NMS Overview (1/2)

• NMS Name
• Just For Fun NMS (JFFNMS)
• Company or Organization (or the developer)
• Developed by Javier Szyszlican
• Sponsored by ocXpress.com
• Protocols Supported
• SNMPv1,v2,v3, TCP, ICMP, etc
• Platforms Supported
• UNIX systems (Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, etc)
• Windows NT/2000/XP

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Just For Fun NMS Overview (2/2)

• User Interfaces Supported
• Web-GUI based on php, HTML, DHTML, TEXT
• GraphViz tools for displaying network topology
• RRD Tools for displaying graphs
• URLs
• http//www.jffnms.org
• Other Points
• Open Source NMS Licensed under the GNU GPL
• Supporting dynamic user configuration
• Supporting to monitor kinds of CISCO devices
• Well-made user documentations and communities

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Just For Fun NMS - Architecture
GUI HTML, DHTML, GraphViz
JFFNMS Core (php)
Web Server (Apache)
Consoldator (Event, Alarm)
mod_php
SLA analyzer
snmptrapd
Poller (cron)
syslogd
Web (php)
RRD Files (RRDTool)
Database (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
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Just For Fun NMS Functionalities (1/2)

• Fault Management
• ICMP ping messages to check node failures
• Configurable event severities and alarm states
• Several methods for reporting faults (E-mail,
  SMS, Sound)
• SLA management
• Configuration Management
• Hierarchical entity management (Zone/Host/Interfac
  e)
• Manual or automatic network discovery using
  subnet address
• Event configuration

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Just For Fun NMS Functionalities (2/2)

• Accounting Management
• None
• Performance Management
• Polling management
• Supporting kinds of MIBs for CISCO devices
• Daily, weekly, monthly reports generation
• Traffic utilization, RTT, loss rate, TCP
  connection in/out/delay, CPU temperature, etc
• Security Management
• Configuration of system access levels

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AdventNet Web NMS Overview (1/2)

• NMS Name
• AdventNet Web NMS
• Company or Organization (or the developer)
• AdventNet
• Protocols supported
• SNMP, TL1, CORBA, XML and Telnet/CLI

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AdventNet Web NMS Overview (1/2)

• Platforms supported
• Windows NT4/2000/XP, Linux 6.2/7.0/7.2/8.0,
  Solaris 5.6/5.7/5.8
• User interfaces supported
• JSP, Servlet
• URLs
• http//www.adventnet.com/products/webnms/index.htm
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AdventNet Web NMS - Architecture
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RDBMS
Secondary BE
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AdventNet Web NMS Functionalities (1/2)

• Fault management
• Provides filtering of trap/event/alert, parsing
  of traps and events
• Provision to execute automated actions, event
  correlation and alerting
• Configuration management
• Designed to provide a vendor neutral multi
  protocol, robust system
• Supports TL1, CORBA, Telnet/CLI, TFTP, FTP, SNMP
  protocols out-of-the-box to communicate with
  managed systems

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AdventNet Web NMS Functionalities (2/2)

• Accounting management
• None
• Performance management
• Threshold Notification / Collected data Observers
  (Poll observers) / Poll Unit Observers
• Customized reports
• Data collection, data storage, reports, threshold
  generation, graphs, distributed polling,
  performance client, managed object inputs to
  performance module
• Security management
• None

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AdventNet Web NMS Roles of Tiers

• Database Tier
• Any RDBMS that provides a JDBC driver is
  supported
• Enables quick and focused application development
• State can be maintained in the database
• Leverage the benefits of transaction support,
  database synchronization, and object locking for
  data integrity, security and availability
• Management Server Tier
• Provides XML mediation for all management
  protocols such as SNMP, TL1, CORBA, TFTP, XML,
  CLI/Telnet etc.
• Back-end Server Tier
• Consists of the core business logic related to
  management functions such as FCAPS etc.
• Front-end Server Tier
• Consists of the web container
• Web access to management information, the client
  communication management module and the session
  beans
• Client Tier
• Multiple options such as Java client (for rich
  GUI) and HTML client (for web access over low
  speed links) are supported

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HP OpenView Overview (1/2)

• NMS Name
• HP OpenView
• Company or Organization (or the developer)
• Hewlett-Packard
• Protocols supported
• IMAP4, POP3, SMTP, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, NNTP, DHCP,
  DNS, ICMP, LDAP, NTP, TCP, Dial-Up, WAP, etc.
• Platforms supported
• HP-UX HP servers and workstations (HP-UX 9.x,
  10.x, 11.11)
• Solaris Sun SPARCstation 5, 10, 20, SPARC
  classics, and Sun servers (Solaris 2.3, 2.4, 2.8)
  
• Windows NT

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HP OpenView Overview (2/2)

• User interfaces supported
• JSP, Java based web reporting
• URLs
• http//www.openview.hp.com/
• Others
• Integrate with various solutions to support FCAPS

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HP OpenView - Architecture
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HP OpenView Functionalities (1/2)

• Fault management
• Alarm handling, event logging, off-the-shelf
  modules available for added functions, varying
  views, bi-directional network integration,
  filters
• Includes specialized tools for polling,
  auto-discovery and probes
• correlation for IP networks and sophisticated
  ASCII and TL-1 processing and integration of
  system and application management
• Configuration management
• Configures servers (data center and etc.), PCs
  (desktop or laptop), and specialty devices
  (automated teller machines, handheld and
  point-of-sales devices
• Automate the management of software such as
  operating systems, applications, patches,
  content, and configuration settings
• Designed to support hardware (router, hub, etc.)
  and SNMP object
• SNMP object Application, Database, etc.

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HP OpenView Functionalities (2/2)

• Accounting management
• HP OpenView Internet Usage Manager captures
  accounting and usage data from a diversity of
  sources
• Both traditional billing sources such as call
  detail records (CDRs), and new data accounting
  sources such as IPDR, RADIUS, traffic managers
  and many more
• Performance management
• Hierarchical presentations and various analysis
  tools
• Security management
• Provides a robust incident management workflow
  with verifiable service level agreements (SLA)
• Identify, respond, track, and report on security
  incidents from across the enterprise

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Hello NMS Overview (1/2)

• NMS Name
• Hello NMS
• Company or Organization (or the developer)
• Hello NMS
• Protocols Supported
• XML, SNMP, TL1, CORBA, TMN
• Platforms Supported
• UNIX systems (Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, etc)
• Windows NT/2000/XP

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Hello NMS Overview (2/2)

• User Interfaces Supported
• JAVA with Standard Windows Toolkit (SWT)
• Windows layout with XML
• URLs
• http//www.hellonms.net
• Other Points
• Open Source NMS Licensed under the GNU GPL
• Two versions are supported JAVA, C
• Component Based Development
• XML based modeling

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Hello NMS - Architecture
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Hello NMS - Functionalities

• On going project
• There is no document for describing this NMS
• Korean open source NMS project
• Thats why I choose this NMS

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NMIS Overview (1/2)

• NMS Name
• Network Management Information System (NMIS)
• Company or Organization (or the developer)
• Developed by Keith Sinclair
• SourceForge NMIS project
• Protocols Supported
• SNMP
• Platforms Supported
• UNIX systems (Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, etc)

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NMIS Overview (2/2)

• User Interfaces Supported
• HTML, CGI
• RRDTool for displaying graphs
• URLs
• http//www.sins.com.au/nmis/
• Source Forge http//sourceforge.net/project/showfi
  les.php?group_id21634
• Other Points
• Open Source NMS Licensed under the GNU GPL
• Written using Perl
• OSI Management Framework

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NMIS Architecture

• Web based NMS
• NMIS is written using Perl scripts
• Apache Web server
• CGI and CSS for Web UI
• RRDTool for displaying graphs
• Net-SNMP

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NMIS Functionalities (1/2)

• Performance and Fault
• Integrated Fault and Performance Management
• Color coded events, status for at a glance
  interpretation
• Graphing of Interface, CPU, Memory stats for
  Cisco Routers and Switches.
• Graphs can have varying lengths from 2hours to 1
  year
• Threshold engine which send alerts on certain
  thresholds
• Varying event levels for different device types
• Alert events are issued for device down or
  interface down
• Event levels are set according to how important
  the device is
• Events are "State full" including thresholds,
  meaning that an event is only issued once. 
• Notification engine can be expanded to handle any
  "command line" notification method, including
  email, paging, signs, speakers, etc.
• Outage time calculated for each down event
• Planned outages can be put in so alerts are not
  issued

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NMIS Functionalities (2/2)

• Configuration
• Discovery interface information node name,
  interface name, description, type, IP address
• Interface information includes IP address
  information.
• 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.
• Reporting
• Reports for utilization, outages, etc
• Snapshot and dynamic reporting for metrics on all
  devices and groups of devices.

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BelView NMS Overview (1/2)

• NMS Name
• BelView NMS
• Company or Organization (or the developer)
• BelAir Networks Company
• Protocols Supported
• SNMP
• Platforms Supported
• Windows XP SP2

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BelView NMS Overview (2/2)

• User Interfaces Supported
• None Web GUI
• JAVA
• URLs
• http//www.belairnetworks.com/products/BelViewNMS.
  cfm
• Other Points
• Wireless LAN management
• Wireless Mesh Network management

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BelView NMS Architecture

• Client-Server model
• Server can control up to 10 clients
• Client and server software can be set together in
  a system

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BelView NMS Functionalities (1/2)

• Fault Management
• Event and trap processing filtering,
  suppression, propagation
• Alarm drill down categorized by severity, BelAir
  node, time of day
• Problem resolution work flow management
• Configuration management
• Auto-discovery and topology update
• Hierarchical display of BelAir nodes (Hot Zone,
  Hot Spot, etc)
• Basic network configuration through Web interface
• Accounting management
• None

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BelView NMS Functionalities (1/2)

• Performance Management
• Analyze, filter and aggregate wireless network
  performance data
• Customize aggregation policies
• Multi-level thresholding
• Graphical performance reports
• Security Management
• Fine grained and extensible authorization
  including support for users, groups, roles and
  object views
• Secure authentication and access control to
  wireless mesh networks