Demonstration or educational system deployment

This is a small installation for use as a demonstration system or for training and educational purposes.

The following sections describe this network in greater detail and provide suggestions for a Network Manager deployment to meet the needs of this network.

Description

This environment consists of about 25 network devices and key servers combined. All devices are in one location, on the same network subnet as the devices to be managed. There is one local GUI client session supported by the same machine that hosts the Network Manager product components. There might be one or two GUI client sessions on other machines. The network devices come from multiple vendors. The network architecture is flat. All devices are attached to a LAN and have Fast Ethernet connections. For demonstration purposes only, a number of network devices have SNMPv3, and a number of workstations have IPv6.

Within this environment the following example conditions apply:

  • 1 to 3 active GUI clients.
  • Chassis ping polling and some SNMP polling activity is required.
  • No major Tivoli® products are integrated with the system, other than the required Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus.
  • Performance reports are required for short data collection periods (typically 1 to 5 days) to match the length of the training course.

Network Manager deployment

A single-server deployment is sufficient for this type of environment. In addition to the single-server deployment description provided elsewhere, the following deployment settings are appropriate for this type of environment.
  • System is an entry workstation class machine, with 8 GB of memory, dual-core processor preferred, single-core acceptable, reasonable current processor speed, and Fast Ethernet capability.
  • Default database used for the NCIM database.
  • Client system: single processor, 4 GB of memory, supported JRE and Internet browser
  • IPv6 dual stack support is required if workstations or network devices have IPv6.