All,
I am trying scale SNIPS to my environment (2200 etherswitches, 25 ATM
switches, 30 aggregating router/switch nodes), plus several interconnect
routers for peering at the NorthernLights GigaPOP. I see SNIPS as being
able to play in that arena, and would like to supplement our current
HP OpenView management platform. The wish list below might be considered
a weak area for HP OpenView.
I would like to generate some discussion of the areas below. I offer
to provide my programming assistance where I can to see my wish list
implemented.
Tim Peiffer peiffer at nts umn.edu
Operations Manager - Engineering Automation
Networking and Telecommunications Operations
University of Minnesota +1 612 626 7884 desk
2218 University Ave +1 612 625 0006 problems
+1 612 626 1002 fax
Minneapolis MN 55455, USA
o distributed monitor's
+ more info on configuration for large networks
+ Central Manager of managers
+ need Non NFS file systems.
+ View's to provide visibility into only a subset of the entire DB.
- Routers, ATM/Ether switches
- Modems, VPN
- Core services
- File servers
+ integration with applications such as openview. This may require the use of
notifier to 'set' critical alarms, and possibly something else to 'unset'
the alarm.
o tigher integration with 'syslog' to handle or decode alarms, as well as
de-escalate alarm events from critical..warning to info.
o latency and/or thruput matrix
+ generate a list of hosts to monitor ala OSU flow tools - aka top ten talkers
and/or destinations.
+ Assumes distributed monitors
o Ability to generate and incorporate (signal HUP) configurations from
cpu servers.
o Ability to test configurations (ala syslogmon) outside of monitor to
validate the configurations, showing with log input what the output
and actions would be.
o Reporting should include summary uptime of particular service (instead of
or including downtime).
o expanded output of reports, and logs via HTML.
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