Manager Agent Technology Case Studies

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Manager Agent Technology Case Studies

• Application Scenarios

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Case I Retail Store Chain
Highly Distributed Environment Central
Management

• 3000 retail stores
• VSAT backbone
• 5-20 devices per store
• Resources to be managed
• VSAT interface UNIX OS
• HUB Oracle RDBMS
• Router Applications
• POS terminals Critical Processes
• Framework CA-Unicenter TNG
• Agents DSM CA Agents User Agents

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Retail Store Chain Star Configuration
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Retail Store Chain Remote Site

• Individual Store Configuration

Hub
Router
VSAT UpLink
Clients
DataBase
UNIX Server
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Retail Store Chain Solution

• TNG World View
• CORE
• TNG EM Services
• Quick D ESD

TCP/IP BackboneNetwork
Store 1
Store n
DM
. . .
SNMP
SNMP
Distributed State Machine System Agent
DBMS Agent User-Built Agents 3rd
Party Agents
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Case II Large Financial Company
Regional Environment Primary and Secondary MCCs

• Seven growing to ten regions
• T1-based private TCP/IP WAN
• 200-2000 devices per region
• Resources to be managed
• FDDI controller UNIX OS
• HUB Sybase RDBMS
• Router Applications
• Windows NT Critical Processes
• Enterprise Console TNG World View
• Surveillance TNG DSMs Agents

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Financial Company Geographic Domains

• TNG 2D World View
• Local CORE
• Quick D FanOut Servers
• DSM

Region n
Region 1
TCP/IP BackboneNetwork
DSM
SNMP
SNMP
System Agent DBMS Agent User Agents
3rd Party Agents