Solution Overview
Learn about the possible deployment modes for IBM® Netcool® Operations Insight®, and the different capabilities offered by them.
Netcool Operations Insight offers the flexibility of three deployment modes. It can be deployed on premises, on the cloud with Red Hat® OpenShift®, or in a hybrid deployment.
On-premises
In this mode, all of the Netcool Operations Insight products and components are installed onto servers, and use the native computing resources of those servers. For more information, see Installing on-premises.
Cloud
In this mode, Netcool Operations Insight is fully installed on Red Hat OpenShift. Netcool Operations Insight services are containerized, and communication between pods and containers is managed and orchestrated by Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes. For more information, see Installing on Red Hat OpenShift.
Hybrid
In this mode, Netcool Operations Insight is installed with some components on-premises, and some components on Red Hat OpenShift. A new or existing on-premises installation can be configured to work with cloud native Netcool Operations Insight components on Red Hat OpenShift. A hybrid deployment minimizes the footprint of the cloud deployment while still providing the power of Netcool Operations Insight's cloud native components. For more information, see Installing on a hybrid architecture.
Comparison of capabilities
The capabilities of Netcool Operations Insight vary depending on the deployment mode that is selected. The cloud and hybrid modes offer more sophisticated cloud native analytics and automations. For more information, see:
| Capability | Cloud | Hybrid | On-premises |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure and service discovery | Yes Service and topology management |
Yes Service and topology management |
Yes Service and topology management Network management |
| Topology visualization | Yes Service and topology management |
Yes Service and topology management |
Yes Service and topology management |
| Seasonal events | Yes Cloud native analytics |
Yes Cloud native analytics |
Yes Event analytics |
| Temporal grouping | Yes Cloud native analytics |
Yes Cloud native analytics |
Yes Event analytics (related events) |
| Temporal patterns | Yes Cloud native analytics |
Yes Cloud native analytics |
Yes Event analytics |
| Patterns (name similarity and regular expression matching) |
No | No | Yes Event analytics |
| Scope-based correlation | Yes Cloud native analytics |
Yes Cloud native analytics |
Yes Event analytics |
| Topological correlation | Yes Cloud native analytics |
Yes Cloud native analytics |
No |
| Scheduled analytics training | Yes Cloud native analytics |
Yes Cloud native analytics |
Yes Event analytics |
| Topology analytics | Yes Topology analytics |
Yes Topology analytics |
No |
| Policy management | Yes Event management |
Yes Event management |
Yes Event analytics (rules) |
| Incident management | Yes Incident management |
Yes Incident management |
No |
| Incident diagnosis | Yes Probable cause |
Yes Probable cause |
Yes Network management (limited topology-based RCA) Event analytics |
| Incident resolution and runbooks | Yes Runbook automation |
Yes Runbook automation |
No |
| Search | Yes Search (Humio) |
Yes Search (Humio and Log Analysis) |
Yes Search (Log Analysis) |
| Self-monitoring | Yes Cloud native analytics |
Yes Cloud native analytics |
No |
| Tracking operational improvement |
Yes Dashboards |
Yes Dashboards |
No |
| High Availability (HA) | Yes (Kubernetes and OpenShift orchestration) |
Yes High availability and disaster recovery |
Yes (load-balancing and ObjectServer pair) |
| Disaster Recovery (DR) | No | Yes High availability and disaster recovery |
No |
| Configuration and compliance management | No | Yes Network management |
Yes Network management |
| Reporting | No Draft comment: LOUISERoberts
Do we have something? |
No Draft comment: LOUISERoberts
DO we have something for reporting |
Yes Network management |
Do we have anything to match on-prem
NCM's policy config /compliance mgmt?