HP OpenView Network Node Manager

HP OpenView Network Node Manager 6.4 and Network Node Manager Extended Topology 2.0 together provide your management team with the capabilities you need to address your key business and network challenges.

Network Node Manager 6.4 and Network Node Manager Extended Topology 2.0 include Intelligent Diagnostics for Networks. This new approach to root-cause analysis includes a set of easy-to-use tools to help you identify and resolve conditions before they become problems.

ID for Networks delivers advanced capabilities for network event reduction, root-cause analysis and a new management concept called State Analysis, which actively determines the health of network protocols and complex network configurations. It also includes out-of-the-box correlators for enhanced root-cause analysis and the new Correlation Composer to easily tailor the out-of-the-box correlators shipped with Network Node Manager to fit your particular needs.

Advanced root-cause analysis

• Intelligent Diagnostics for Networks (ID for Networks) for unique advanced root-cause analysis, dramatic event reduction, troubleshooting for layer 2 and 3 networks
• Web user interface with dynamic views to show device status
• LOGEC Systems' UltraTune for Correlation Composer service provides advanced tuning of out-of-box correlators and development of customer specific root cause analysis correlators

Discovery, maps and views

• Accurate discovery of layer 3 and heterogeneous layer 2 switched networks for Ethernet and ATM, LANs and WANs
• Custom visual mapping of layer 2 and 3 devices, connectivity and relationships
• Dynamic views for:
  • devices
  • types of devices
  • protocols running on top of network Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) and IPv6
  • VLANs
  • complex relationships between devices such meshes and aggregated ports and other high-availability configurations, including Cisco HSRP
  • combinations such as VLANs running over layer 2 topology

Data collection, storage and reporting

• Intelligent data collection
• Out-of-the-box reports for proactive growth planning

A broad range of supported devices and protocols

• Including IPv6, OSPF, HSRP