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Netelligent Management Software and Compaq Insight Manager are included at no charge with
all Compaq manageable repeaters, switches, and routers, and are available from the Compaq FTP
and World Wide Web sites (www.compaq.com).

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In addition to Netelligent Management Software, Compaq is actively and aggressively
investigating ways to improve its network management offerings.  First, Compaq will continue to
improve and enhance Netelligent Management Software.  Second, Compaq is pursuing
development of open platform management solutions.  In addition, Compaq, in cooperation with
other industry leaders, is driving an effort to standardize Web-based network management .

Netelligent Management Software

Future versions of Netelligent Management Software will include support for RMON,  VLAN,
auto-discovery, and other advanced network management features.  As new Compaq networking
devices are introduced, support for these devices will be added to Netelligent Management
Software and made available at no charge.  This is consistent with Compaq’s established history
of strong management solutions.

Open Platform Solutions

Compaq is investigating customer requirements for support for open platform management
solutions, such as HP OpenView,  SunNet Manager, IBM NetView/6000, and Novell
ManageWise.  These platforms offer a wide array of management solutions for Windows and
UNIX users, and are considered the industry standard applications for medium to large networks.

Compaq understands the need to protect the investment of customers who have installed
expensive network management platforms.  Compaq is working to deliver application support for
manageable Netelligent products in the leading open management platform environment.
Currently, Compaq MIBs can be used in these applications (see MIB Browser section, page 8) to
manage all Compaq networking products.

The Internet Management Initiative

BMC Software, Cisco, Compaq, Intel and Microsoft along with support from over 60 other
software vendors together proposed an industry standards effort that will allow administrators to
use any Web browser to manage disparate systems, networks, and applications.  The intent of the
Web-Based Enterprise Management effort is to enable the development of tools that reduce the
complexity and costs of enterprise management.

The Web-Based Enterprise Management standards effort is open to the entire hardware, software,
OEM and internetworking community.  The effort is designed to integrate existing standards –
such as the Desktop Management Interface (DMI) for desktops and servers, the Simple Network

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Summary of Contents for 167050-001 - Netelligent 5708 Switch

Page 1: ... Solutions 12 The Internet Management Initiative 12 Components of the Web based Enterprise Management Standards Effort 13 Summary 13 Network Management Overview THE ROLE OF NETWORK MANAGEMENT IN STRUCTURED NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS As corporate networks continue to grow in size and complexity to what extent do IS professionals protect and manage their investments Surprisingly administrators of many lar...

Page 2: ...R C H A N G E S T O T H I S P U B L I C A T I O N A N D T H E P R O D U C T S A N D S E R V I C E S D E S C R I B E D A T A N Y T I M E W I T H O U T N O T I C E O R O B L I G A T I O N This publication does not constitute an endorsement of the product or products that were tested The configuration or configurations tested or described may or may not be the only available solution This test is not...

Page 3: ...e enables you to monitor network traffic and configure the network infrastructure accordingly For example you can use a network management application to maintain or increase performance by isolating segments that communicate infrequently Scenario As a network administrator you need to increase performance in the network by segmenting groups of users that do not need to communicate directly How do...

Page 4: ...the proper tools small problems can often go undetected until they become major problems How will you address these situations Scenario A network user calls to inform you that his computer can no longer communicate with any of the servers on the network This type of problem frequently occurs on LANs of all sizes and configurations You could spend literally days troubleshooting the problem Where do...

Page 5: ...ed network you can manage devices that are hundreds or even thousands of miles away without leaving your office letting you focus on the problem THE DISTRIBUTED MANAGEMENT APPROACH In large enterprise networks even the centralized approach has its shortcomings Trying to manage a network consisting of thousands of nodes from a single location requires massive computing power and generates a substan...

Page 6: ...es down work ceases paralyzing mission critical operations and you are responsible for reacting to and resolving the situation How much does downtime cost When a network or a segment crashes every minute of downtime results in lost revenue and productivity Each year as we rely more on computers in our daily business losses from network downtime increase dramatically Figure 5 shows the estimated co...

Page 7: ... only when requested The manager agent relationship is similar to an office administrator and employees The administrator may occasionally ask an employee How is your report coming along to which the employee might respond It s finished Ideally each employee answers favorably Occasionally the administrator may find that one or two employees may not have completed the work or were not present to an...

Page 8: ...oprietary MIB Graphical Interfaces Most operations are greatly simplified by using a graphical representation of the device you want to manage by isolating the user from complex MIB groups Unlike a MIB browser performing most functions requires only a few clicks of a mouse button NETWORK MANAGEMENT PLATFORMS In recent years the network industry has agreed on standard management platforms For small...

Page 9: ...evices WAN access points and connections to each device Simply drag and drop device icons and connect them to various LANs and WANs Device icons are polled regularly to determine if they are available on the network Active devices are highlighted in green devices that fail to respond are highlighted in red This gives you an immediate at a glance status of your network Double clicking on a Compaq N...

Page 10: ...NETWORK MANAGEMENT OVERVIEW cont d 10 043A 0996 encompassing the map alarms and MIB browsers PMMs are product specific modules that add support for Netelligent repeater switch and router products ...

Page 11: ...ty to manage any SNMP MIB II compliant device The MIB browser displays the MIB in a hierarchical format represented by trees branches twigs and leaves As you move through the MIB you can display any variable change values and graph them Graphing is available in two formats dial graphs and line graphs Starting a graph is as simple as choosing the MIB variables to graph determining the polling rate ...

Page 12: ...t for open platform management solutions such as HP OpenView SunNet Manager IBM NetView 6000 and Novell ManageWise These platforms offer a wide array of management solutions for Windows and UNIX users and are considered the industry standard applications for medium to large networks Compaq understands the need to protect the investment of customers who have installed expensive network management p...

Page 13: ...bilities recently outlined at a meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force IETF HyperMedia Management Schema HMMS an extensible data model representing the managed environment HyperMedia Management Protocol HMMP a communication protocol embodying HMMS run over HTTP The HyperMedia Management Protocol has been presented to the IETF and is currently under discussion This schema will be defined ma...

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