Content of the Insight Pack
The data ingestion artifacts that are included in the Network Manager Insight® Pack.
- Custom apps, which are described in Table 1.
Custom apps
The following table describes the custom apps in the Insight Pack. After the Insight Pack is installed, you can run the apps from the Operations Analytics - Log Analysis UI. With Network Manager IP Edition installed and configured, the apps can also be run as right-click tools from the Network Views. With Netcool®/OMNIbus Web GUI installed and configured, the apps can be run as right-click tools from the Event Viewer and Active Event List (AEL).
The custom apps use the network-enriched event data and the topology data from the Network Manager IP Edition NCIM database. They plot the lowest-cost routes across the network between two nodes (that is, network entities) and count the events that occurred on the nodes along the routes. You can specify different time periods for the route and events. The algorithm uses the speed of the interfaces along the routes to calculate the routes that are lowest-cost. That is, the fastest routes from start to end along which a packet can be sent. The network topology is based on the most recent discovery. Historical routes are not accounted for. If your network topology is changeable, the routes between the nodes can change over time. If the network is stable, the routes stay current.
The apps count the events that occurred over predefined periods of time, relative to the current time, or over a custom time period that you can specify. For the predefined time periods, the current time is calculated differently, depending on which product you run the apps from. Network Manager IP Edition uses the current time stamp. The Netcool/OMNIbus Web GUI uses the time that is specified in the FirstOccurrence field of the events.
| Custom app name and file name | Description |
|---|---|
| Find alerts between two nodes on layer 2 topology NM_Show_Alerts_Between_Two_Nodes_Layer2.app |
This app shows the distribution of alerts on the least-cost routes between two network end points in a layer 2 topology. Charts show the alert distribution by severity and alert group for each route over the specified time period. The ObjectServer field for the alert group is AlertGroup. A list of the routes is displayed from which you can search the events that occurred on each route over the specified time period. In the Operations Analytics - Log Analysis UI, the app requires search results before you can run it. In the search results, select the NmosObjInst column and then run the app. The app finds the events between the 2 nodes on which each selected event originated. |
| Find alerts between two nodes on layer 3 topology NM_Show_Alerts_Between_Two_Nodes_Layer3.app |
This app shows the distribution of alerts on the least-cost routes between two network end points in a layer 3 topology. Charts show the alert distribution by severity and alert group for each route over the specified time period. The ObjectServer field for the alert group is AlertGroup. A list of the routes is displayed from which you can search the events that occurred on each route over the specified time period. In the Operations Analytics - Log Analysis UI, the app requires search results before you can run it. In the search results, select the NmosObjInst column and then run the app. The app finds the events between the 2 nodes on which each selected event originated. |