NerveCenterTM Past, Present, and Future

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NerveCenterTMPast, Present, and Future

• OpenService, Inc. 67 Forest Street,
  Marlborough, MA 01752 508.597.5300

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Dispelling the Rumors

• Havent heard much about NerveCenter lately?
• Significant investment in the product
• Aggressive Roadmap for 2008 and beyond
• User forum www.openservice.com/forum
• Expand Management Capabilities
• Application Management Oracle, Web, etc
• VoIP
• SAN
• Virtualized Environments
• Data Center Environmental Power Cooling
• Business Services

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Scalability

• Scaling - From Main St. to Wall St.
• Scales to fit within your budget
• Only pay for what you need
• Want to start with 100 devices? You can.
• Need an all you can eat plan? We have that
  too.
• Scales to fit your management infrastructure
• Significant Improvements in Scalability
• Multiple pollers allows for load balancing of
  SNMP requests

Single NerveCenter Server Performance Data
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NerveCenter Past 4.x

• Linux Support RedHat ES 3 and 4
• Cost savings on hardware and software
• Solaris 10 Support
• New SNMP Stack brassd
• SNMP Research stack
• GetBulk support for SNMPv2c and v3 nodes
• Polling performance
• IPv6 Support
• Multiple Perl Interpreters
• Allows for additional monitoring without fear of
  pending global thread
• Cannot share data except in global thread

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NerveCenter Present 5.x

• More Out of the Box Models and MIBs
• Host Resource, Catalyst Switch, Updated Cisco
• InfoCenter Integration for Event Presentation
  Layer
• Enables Standalone OpenService Solution
• InfoCenter Collector Integration for additional
  data feeds
• Syslog, application log files, Database tables,
  WMI, Snort, etc
• Allow users to integrate their own Perl Modules
• /opt/OSInc/bin/perl -MCPAN -e shell install
  NetTraceroute
• NCCMD Enhancements
• No license required to use nccmd
• Ability to add, change, delete nodes and their
  attributes
• New Licensing introduced in 5.1
• Keys must be exchanged for License file
  (hostname.dat)

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NerveCenter Present 5.x

• PAM support for Unix
• New MIB Compiler
• mibTool java based
• Backwards compatible 3.8 5.0 (No
  mibnamemap.txt for 5.1)
• Per Node SNMPv3 Settings
• Multiple Pollers
• Currently up to 20 allowed
• SNMP requests load balanced across active
  pollers
• NC Client/Admin tested for Vista
  Business/Ultimate Use
• Upgrade path from 3.720/4.x straight to 5.x
• Virtual Environment operational support
• Customers testing/deployed (Solaris Zones -
  Vmware)
• Official support for NerveCenter but not virtual
  environments
• Virtual machine must mimic resources for a
  physical machine

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NerveCenter Future 5.2 and Beyond

• NerveCenter 5.2
• Netcool Bi-directional Probe
• NCDB and NODE ported to an Bundled MySQL
  Database
• Internal Overhaul of Ncserver
• Removal of all WindU from ncserver
• Unix Client and Admin will remain as is until
  rewritten in Ajax
• Prepare data types for 64 bit OS support
• Beyond NerveCenter 5.2
• NCadmin rewritten in Ajax and ported to
  InfoCenter Console
• Client rewritten in Ajax and ported to
  InfoCenter Console
• InfoCenter based MIB Browser using NerveCenter
  MIB
• Ncserver rewritten from scratch
• Out of the Box Cross-table polling