Network Management Systems Assignment

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Network Management SystemsAssignment 2, CS 607
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Optivity NMS (1/2)

• Optivity Network Management System.
• Developed by Nortel Networks.
• Functionalities
• Automated discovery and display of Ether topology
  and devices
• Nortel Networks hubs, switches, routers, and
  connections between.
• Easy to use Java-based management tools for
  networks that provide a consistent look-and-feel
  across Windows, Web, and Unix interfaces.
• Fault correlation, ICMP polling, trap
  registration, and etc.

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Optivity NMS (2/2)

• Protocol supported Powerful diagnostic functions
  for multicast, unicast, and frame relay
  protocols.
• Multicast routing protocols (DVMRP and PIM-SM).
• Interior gateway routing protocols (OSPF and
  RIP2).
• Frame relay DLCIs.
• Platforms supported
• Sun SPARC Systems, Solaris.
• Windows NT, 2000, or XP (Client side).
• HP-UNIX
• URL www.nortelnetworks.com/products/01/optivity/n
  et_mgmt/features.html

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Advent Web NMS (1/3)

• Advent Web Network Management System.
• Developed by AdventNet (www.adventnet.com).
• AdventNet Web NMS is the industry-leading
  management framework for building custom Element
  and Network Management (EMS/ NMS) applications.
• Networking equipment vendors and other management
  solution providers can rely on AdventNet Web NMS
  for rapid management application development and
  deployment.
• Protocols supported CORBA, SNMP, TL1, RMI, HTTP,
  and JMX.

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Advent Web NMS (2/3)

• AdventNet Web NMS Platform Architecture.
• Platforms supported Windows, Linux, and Solaris.

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Advent Web NMS (3/3)

• Systems and Applications Monitoring Feature Pack.
• Standard applications such as web-server,
  database server, mail server, etc.
• Host resource monitoring via telnet
• Configurable Status Polling
• Etc

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JFFNMS (1/2)

• Just For Fun Network Management System.
• Developed by Javier Szyszlican and also open
  source (jffnms.sourceforge.net).
• Functionalities
• Written in PHP4.
• Status Map, a quick look of the network.
• Events console, shows all events in the same
  time-ordered display.
• Graphical Interface Traffic, Errors, etc. and
  Status Monitoring.
• Database Backend (MySQL or PostgreSQL).
• Integrated syslog logging and TacasAuthentication
  and Accounting
• Protocols supported SNMP and etc
• Platform Independent.

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JFFNMS (2/2)

• Screenshots
• 1. CISCO interface traffic with events.
• 2. Traffic.

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NetInfo (1/3)

• Tsarfin Computing Ltd.
• Supported Protocol
• IP/TCP ,ICMP, UDP, SMTP, POP3, HTTP/FTP
• Supported Platform
• Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
• URL
• http//netinfo.tsarfin.com

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NetInfo (2/3)

• Features
• Displays all local TCP/IP connections and their
  foreign connection IP address.
• Displays a list of routers between your system
  and the destination system.
• Displays information about users currently logged
  on to a specified server.
• Displays the HTML header code for any Web page
  address specified.
• Lists the available network services (HTTP,
  Telnet, DNS, SMTP, and so on) for a particular
  host.

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NetInfo (3/3)
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IPMonitor (1/3)

• Tsarfin Computing Ltd.
• Supported Protocol
• TCP ,ICMP, UDP
• System Requirements
• Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003.
• Internet Explorer 5.5 or later.
• URL
• http//ipmonitor.tsarfin.com

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IPMonitor (2/3)

• Features
• Monitors up to 500 network devices or services.
• Allows all parameters to be set independently for
  each network resource.
• Allows custom alerts to be created for each
  monitored resource.
• Alerts you to failures using a variety of
  techniques ranging from audible alarms to
  third-party software.
• Allows e-mail notification via SMTP with the
  server.
• Offers real-time and historical reporting
  capabilities.

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IPMonitor (3/3)
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GFILANguard (1/3)

• GFI
• System Requirement.
• platform Windows 2000/XP/2003 
• URL
• http//www.gfi.com/languard/
• Features
• Event log monitoring
• archives and analyzes the event logs of all
  network machines and alerts in real time to
  security issues, attacks and other critical
  events.

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GFILANguard (2/3)

• Network server monitoring
• Automatically monitors network and servers for
  failures and allows administrators to fix and
  identify issues before users report them.
• Network security scanning
• Checks network for possible security
  vulnerabilities by scanning your entire network
  for missing security patches, services packs,
  open shares, open ports, unused user accounts and
  more.

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GFILANguard (3/3)
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Reference

• Commercial solutions
• Optivity NMS,
• http//www.nortelnetworks.com/products/01/optivit
  y/net_mgmt/features.html
• AdventWeb NMS, http//www.adventnet.com
• Non-commercial solutions
• JFF NMS, http//jffnms.sourceforge.net
• NetInfo, http//netinfo.tsarfin.com
• IPMonitor, http//ipmonitor.tsarfin.com
• GFILANguard, http//www.gfi.com/languard/