Benefits of Network Manager
Network Manager is
a highly flexible system. Discovery, polling, and other parts of Network Manager can
be extensively customized. Network Manager is
also scalable; this means that it can discover increasingly bigger
networks
Comprehensive network management Network Manager discovers, polls, and visualizes complex networks, containing a wide range of network-type devices, such as routers and switches, and using network protocols such as MPLS, BGP, and OSPF, and technologies, such as RAN, LTE, and wifi access points.Flexible network visualization Network Manager provides different ways to visualize the network include network views, which show standard and customized device groupings such as subnets, VLANs, and VPNs, and the Network Hop View , which show a selected device and all devices connected to it up to a configurable number of connections.Built-in device and interface polling capabilities Network Manager provides a set of ready-to-use device and interface polls, including ping polls and MIB variable threshold polls. The MIB variable threshold polls generate network events if thresholds are violated on specified MIB variables. You can customize network polling to so that events are received when thresholds are violated on any MIB variable on your network devices.Built-in root cause analysis capabilities Network Manager sorts through multiple network events and uses knowledge of network topology to determine a single root cause event. Network Manager highlights root cause events in event lists and in topology maps so that your operators can instantly determine where to begin troubleshooting the network.Single-click network troubleshooting Network Manager provides a set of ready-to-use right-click tools to perform diagnostic and information retrieval actions on network devices shown in network topology maps. For example, you can perform diagnostic actions such as ping and traceroutes and you can retrieve device information such as DNS lookups or retrieve more complex protocol information such as BGP and OSPF information. You can add right-click tools to perform any desired action on a device.Rich network topology and event data Increasingly bigger network discovery Network Manager can discover and manage increasingly bigger networks.Extensive reporting capabilities Fully customizable content Multiple integration options Network Manager is a key component within that solution, where it is also tightly integrated with Netcool/Impact , and IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis . Network Manager also provides extensive reporting features, and integration with other IBM products, such as IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager , IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager and IBM Tivoli Monitoring .