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HP NNMi: Managing your Physical and Virtual

Networks just got easier

Alex RyalsChief Technology Officer

April 1, 2011


Unique Challenges for Network Management

Resources - High administrative overhead to manage networking; inefficient use of operations and administration staff; lack of management automation

Correlation - Management software issues with overhead and inaccuracy; too many uncorrelated events and lack of visibility into relationships among incidents, performance and topology

Visibility - Missing connection to virtualized systems management and network device virtualization/redundancy; lacking insight into specialized network services such as IP Telephony or MPLS


HP Network Management Center

Change, Configuration & Compliance(Network Automation)

Fault & Availability Monitoring

(NNMi or NNMi Advanced)

Performance Monitoring(iSPI Performance for MetricsiSPI Performance for Traffic

iSPI Performance for QA)

Advanced Services(iSPIs for IPT, MC, MPLS)

Foundation

HP Network Management Center

BSM Dashboard

Historical Data Warehouse &

Reporting(Performance Insight)

CMDB Run-Book Automation (Operations Orchestration)

Automated Diagnostics

(iSPI NET)

Routing Analysis(RAMS)

Unified Operations


NNMi – The consolidation point for fault, availability, performance and advanced services

iSPI IP Telephony

iSPI MPLSiSPI Perf Traffic

iSPI Perf QA

iSPI Perf Metrics

NNMi

iSPI NET

iSPI IP Multicast


Network Node Manager i (NNMi) Maximize efficiency of your network

operations• Single administrative and operational

console - Rapid and continuous discovery

- Unifies fault, availability, performance

- Seamless integration of plug-ins

• Extremely low administrative overhead

- Quick deployment, easy upgrade

- Simplified configuration and customization

- Fast ROI, low TCO

• Key Incidents aligned with your environment

- Unified Root Cause Analysis

- Define your relevant, service impacting events

• Discover and monitor virtualized environments

- Map ESX Servers and guests to the physical infrastructure

- Correlate physical fault to virtual services or applications


Network Node Manager i software (NNMi) Maximize efficiency of your network operations

Unified network fault, performance and services monitoring in a single operational console

Continuous spiral discovery, single poller, and common casual analysis for low administrative overhead

Workflow-based navigation and filtering for incidents, nodes, components, paths and metrics

Single interface for administration of NNMi and all plug-in iSPIs

Customizable node groups for logical partitioning including custom attribute selection


NNMi scales to meet your needs

Flexibility meets the needs of small and large environments as well as distributed teams

Value-based pricing model and several product bundles to choose from

Single-server scalability to 25,000 managed nodes, 1 million discovered interfaces

NNMi Advanced GNM architecture enables consolidation with regional control and survivability

Global Network Management (GNM) configuration, with NNMi Advanced, localized polling with consolidation of up to 65,000 nodes


Discover & monitor virtualized environments

with NNMi Advanced

Supported to run on virtual server environments

Discover and monitor network device redundancy configurations *

Discover and map VMware hosts and guests *

Find Attached Switch Port for virtualized systems *

* NNMi Advanced only


NNMi iSPI Performance for Metrics

Performance status, thresholds & incidents integrated with fault and topology

Polling and administration unified with NNMi and configurable per node group

Report on interfaces and node component statistics

Up to 10 weeks of history data stored; hourly summary with configurable period for full detail data

OOB reports at hourly, daily, weekly or monthly level


iSPI Performance for Metrics (continued)

Flexibility in reporting specific to your environment

Path health shows component and interface performance along important routes

Detect negative performance trends before they affect users

Top-N, heat chart, detail and summary reports highlight areas of concern Same interface

reports on additional optional iSPI data for Traffic and QA as well as user-defined custom collections

Interactive navigation select any criteria for filtering and grouping


iSPI Performance for Traffic

Augment operational performance monitoring with network traffic flow detail

Collection, analysis, and presentation of NetFlow and sFlow traffic information

Configuration and tight integration with NNMi, including traffic maps launch

Application mapping to traffic flow, configurable by collection point

Reports out-of-the-box or customizable, with flexible grouping

Highly scalable distributed collection architecture – low overhead


iSPI Performance for Quality Assurance

unifying network service quality management with network management

Consolidate discovery of IP SLA network tests and associate them with NNMi topology

Detect and pinpoint network service degradation early

Site-specific threshold administration

Common iSPI Performance user interface, low overhead

Test and monitor connections beyond management domain (into WAN/cloud)


NNM iSPI Network Engineering Toolset (iSPI NET)

Automate common data collection tasks

Save engineering effort logging into individual devices for information and diagnosis

Export NNMi discovered topology to Visio for offline use

Trap analytics enable tuning of SNMP trap sources and incident generation

Predefined Operations Orchestration flows capture diagnostic detail on-demand or in response to incidents

Compare changes against baseline data collected to isolate problems


iSPI for IP Telephonycomprehensive monitoring for Cisco, Nortel, or Avaya IPT infrastructure

Discover, map, report and threshold on IPT devices and phones

Scale up to 50,000 phones and associated devices

For Cisco IPT, alert based on call quality metrics and state changes

For Avaya IPT, alert based on performance and usage

Flexible reporting aligned with iSPI Performance


iSPI for MPLSAutomated discovery and monitoring for MPLS services

Monitor MPLS core network (LSRs & TEs) and Services (L2 VPN – VPWS & VPLS)

MTTR and MTBF reporting for VPN-VRF

LSR inventory, service details such as VRF and VPN inventory integrated with NNMi

L3 VPN maps visualize PE topology types and connecting CE devices

TE tunnel path and Pseudowire monitoring


NNMi 9.0 New Features• New Support for Windows 2008, RHEL 5.2+, Vmware ESX 4.0, IE 8.0, Firefox 3.6, Oracle

11g, Veritas Cluster Server for Linux, IPv6

• Global Network Management (regional/Global Mgrs)

• Management of virtualized servers (NNMi Advanced)

• MPLS WAN Cloud/Connection discovery (NNMi Advanced; with RAMS)

• Discover Cards, Daughter Cards, Card Redundancy Groups for Cisco and ProCurve

• Incident Suppression, Enrichment, Dampening

• User Interface improvements (sortable tables, new menu items, custom attributes for nodes or interfaces, new device icons, improved filtering)

• Custom Correlations Configuration (similar to Correlation Composer)

• Northbound interface forwards incidents to MULTIPLE registered trap receivers

• Support for MIB Expressions for polls or graphs using MIB Expression Editor

• MIB Browser for loading and viewing supported MIBS per node

• Real Time SNMP Line Graphs

• Custom Poller uses MIB expressions and exports data to CSV

• State Poller Customizations (pinging mgmt address only, etc)

• SNMP improvements (improved performance, new configuration options, etc)

• NNMi Self-Monitoring


“NNMi 9.0 Advanced” Features Global Network Management


NNMi 9 Integrations to HP Software• HP NNMi iSPIs need to be updated to 9.0 along with NNMi

• HP Network Automation (NA) 7.50.02 and 7.60.01

• HP Performance Insight (OVPI) 5.31, 5.40 and 5.41

• HP RAMS 9.0 (with NNMi Advanced)

• Event forwarding from HP NNM 6.x / 7.x SE & AE

• HP Operations Manger: OMU 8.30 & 9.00; OMW 8.10 & 8.16; OML 9.00

• HP OMi 8.10

• HP uCMDB 8.03 and 8.04

• HP BAC–RUM and MyBSM 7.54, 8.03 and 8.04; BSM 9.0

• HP Operations Orchestration 7.51 w/7.60.01 patch and 7.60 w/7.60.01The Deployment Reference Guide is the source for detailed information on

integrations


Other NNMi 9 Integrations• HP ProCurve Manager Plus (PCM+) 3.10

• Systems Insight Manager (SIM) 5.30

• HP AssetManager 5.20, 5.21 (with Connect-IT also 4.10, 4.11)

• AlarmPoint Express, Standard, Enterprise, Pro, and Mobile Gateway 4.00

• NetScout nGenius Performance Manager 4.6 MR1, 4.7, 4.7 MR2, and 4.8

• Clarus IPC+ 2.6.1

• CiscoWorks LAN Mgmt Solution 3.1 and 3.2

• IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus 7.21 (with license for NNMi Netcool IM)

The Deployment Reference Guide is the source for detailed information on integrations


Why Upgrade to NNMi?

• Continuous Layer 2 discovery and mapping – essential for physical and virtual environments

• Ease of maintenance and ease of configuration

• N-tier architecture; single database; application failover; LDAP

• Integrations: HP Network Automation; HP Business Availability Center; HP uCMDB; AlarmPoint; NetScout; IBM Netcool; SIM; HPOM

• Increased scalability

• Web-based GUI with user roles

• Unified fault and performance (iSPIs for Metrics, Traffic and QA)

• Automated diagnostics (iSPI for NET)

Easy upgrade from NNMi 8.x

Increase service levels and efficiency while reducing costs

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Challenges to Maximizing NNMi’s Value

• Initial server sizing

• Proper node discovery

• Map container setup and configuration

• Event and trap tuning to ensure proper prioritization

• Integration with other Enterprise Management Systems

• Polling and data collection strategies

• Knowledge transfer to NNMi operators

• Post implementation configuration updates and tuning

• Proper backup and recovery procedures


Pepperweed’s solution to maximizing your NNMi investment from Day 1…

Pepperweed NNMi Evolution Pak (E-Pak)• Packaged implementation of NNMi or NNMi Advanced

designed to lower project risk, ensure implementation and accelerate ROI

• Combines– Pre-implementation scoping and planning– Pepperweed’s Evolution IP

• Scripts• Canned Integrations• Operator training• Delivery methodologies and processes• Knowledge articles

– Highly trained and experienced consultants– Post-implementation follow-up & support


NNMi E-Pak Overview

Three versions for new installations of NNMi or NNMi Advanced • Implementing different sets of capabilities to meet varying needs• For different sized networks• Priced at $10,995, $19,995 or $29,995

One upgrade version • Upgrade NNM 7 or 8 to NNMi 9• In place or new server• Priced at $10,995

Additional E-Paks available to implement additional NNMi capabilities and add-ons. These may be sold separately from an NNMi E-Pak • iSPI Performance for Metrics • Application Failover • xMatters Lite


HP and Pepperweeda valuable combination

HP NNMiSoftware to

monitor your network

Pepperweed E-Pakto implement it


Pepperweed Evolution

Thank You for Attending

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