Join us as we reveal highly anticipated new features and benefits in HP Network Node Manager i (NNMi) and NNMi Advanced 9.0. We’ll do a technical deep dive that delves into:...
Join us as we reveal highly anticipated new features and benefits in HP Network Node Manager i (NNMi) and NNMi Advanced 9.0. We’ll do a technical deep dive that delves into:
- The new distributed architecture - Composer-style correlation enhancements like incident filtering by node and interface group - Suppression features for enrichment, dampening, and custom correlations - Card and port support - ESX server management - New MIB features, including a real-time MIB grapher, new expression builder, and new Flex-based browser - Map view and table filtering enhancements - IPv6 support - iSPIs
This tour de force will give you a clear idea of the extraordinary value we’ve added in release 9.0.
HP Software BTO Portfolio
The industry’s most comprehensive IT management portfolio
Business outcomes
STRATEGY APPLICATIONS OPERATIONS
Application Business service Business service IT service
lifecycle management automation management
Operations Orchestration
Project & Portfolio Quality
Management Center Business
Center Availability Client
Center Automation
Performance Center
CIO Office
Center Service
Operations
Management
Center
SOA Center
Center Application Data Center
Security Center Network Automation
Management Center
CTO Office SAP, Oracle, SOA, J2EE, .Net
Center
Universal CMDB
HP Network Management Center
BSM Dashboard
HP Network Management Center
Change, Configuration & Fault & Availability Performance Monitoring
Compliance Monitoring (iSPI Performance for Metrics
iSPI Performance for Traffic
(Network Automation) (NNMi or NNMi Advanced) iSPI Performance for QA)
Automated Historical Data
Advanced Services Routing Analysis
Diagnostics Warehouse & Reporting
(iSPIs for IPT, MC, MPLS) (RAMS)
(iSPI NET) (Performance Insight)
Foundation
CMDB Unified Operations Run-Book Automation (Operations Orchestration)
NNM i: the Foundation of Network Fault
and Performance Management
Automatic discovery, inventory & monitoring of… Present actionable information…
• device physical model (components, etc…) • Incident browser
• complex switched networks (layer 2) • automated actions and notifications
• routed networks (layer 3: IPv4) • Map based views - providing
• virtual network services (VLAN, etc…) information in context
Discovery Actionable
Inventory information
Monitoring NNMNNM iSPI for Traffic
iSPI Performance
Traffic Overview
Dynamic Easily
RCA service expanded
impact
Dynamic RCA (dRCA) and service impact to… • NNM SPIs for new technologies
• pinpoint problems • OVPI, RAMS, BAC integrations
• assess impact to network survivability, recovery, and • 3rd party integrations: Netscout,
reductions in redundancy CiscoWorks, Alarmpoint
• faster mean time to repair (MTTR) • Webservices SDK with interfaces for
Inventory, Topology, Path, and Incidents
NNMi—the Consolidation Point for Fault,
Availability, Performance and Advanced Services
iSPI Perf Metrics iSPI IPT
iSPI Perf Traffic NNMi iSPI MPLS
iSPI Perf QA iSPI MC
iSPI NET
Case Study: US-based Global Consumer
Products Company
‘It’s a solid and well-manufactured product. It does everything we’ve asked it to do and
more, and does it very well. It’s always up and running, doesn’t break, and has
increased our network performance and stability.’
- IT Director
Challenges Solution Results
• To achieve better • HP Network Node Cumulative benefits*:
visibility and detail into Manager i Software • $1.4M savings over 3 years
the cause of network • ROI of 265%
faults • Payback in 5.8 months
• Allow geographically * As calculated by IDC
distributed teams to Annual benefits:
identify and react faster • 60% reduction in
to network issues hardware/software costs
• Improve MTTR • 36% reduction in vendor support
calls
• Reduce IT staff
• Reduction of escalated incidents
duplication of effort (from Level 1 to Level 2) from 75% to
1%
Case Study: State of Kansas
‘HP NNMi software saves our networking group hundreds of hours a year thanks to its
sophisticated functionality and ease of use. Our mean-time-to-repair has improved by 15-20% and
we’re delivering operational cost savings to our state taxpayers as well – we’re truly doing more
with less.’
- Scott Steves, Systems Network Software Consultant, Network Analysis
Group, Division of Information Systems and Communications, State of Kansas
Challenges Solution Results
• Drive operational • HP Automated Network • Payback within 6 months of
efficiencies to help Management: deployment
keep Information -Network Node Manager i • Improved network availability
Services and and reduced business risk
-iSPI Performance plug-in
Communications • Reduced operational costs by
budgets in check -HP Network Automation tens of thousands of dollars
• Improve network • Save 3300 man-hours per
availability year,
• Reduced administrator
training costs
• Improved MMTR by 15-20%
Case Study: Southeastern Freight Lines
‘Our business depends on our technology, so we can’t tolerate unscheduled network downtime. HP
NNMi software gives us a broad, yet highly granular view into the status of our network devices,
allowing us to proactively address issues before they impact our users.’
- Wyman Cook, Manager of Technical Services, Southeastern Freight Lines
Challenges Solution Results
• Need • HP Network Node • Reduced risk of network
comprehensive, Manager i Software downtimes
centralized network and iSPI • Improved services to
monitoring Performance Plug-in users, business
• Minimize downtime, • HP servers & • Improved ability to
which can affect software identify vulnerabilities
transit operations • Installation, • Increased likelihood of
configuration & identifying issues prior to
discovery in a user impact
matter of hours
• Single console makes
monitoring network
simpler, easier
NNMi 9.00 Big Features
Incident
enrichment &
customization
Realtime Global Network
Grapher Management
(NNMi Advanced)
MIB browsing, ESX Server
loading, Management
expressions (NNMi Advanced)
Card-port
Monitoring
IPv6 support
(NNMi Advanced)
NNMi 9.0 Details
• Global Network Management: • Event payload filtering
distributed NNMi (Global Manager • Suppression correlation
Adv only) • Enrichment correlation
• Windows 2008 support • Dampening correlation
• Oracle 1 support
1g • Custom correlation of existing incidents
• App Failover for Oracle • Custom correlation an generation of new
• Card and Port Support incidents
• NNMi Self-monitoring • OOB subinterface correlation
• ESX Server Management (Adv only) • Action service improved scale
• IPv6 Support (Adv only) • New table view filtering
• Real-time grapher • Map view zoom buttons
• MIB Loader and Browser • Map view find
• MIB Expressions • Icon updates
• Supported MIBs on device • Multiconnection in Maps
• Interface filtering for discovery • Submenu items
• nnmloadattibutes (custom attributes) • MPLS WAN Enterprise VPN
• CSV export of custom poller data (requires RAMS)
• Node and interface group filtering for
incident handling
Example: NNMi GNM Deployment
(50,000 Nodes/Application Failover) 50000 Nodes
area 2 area 3
NNMi NNMi
Advanced Advanced
area 1 area 57
Active Standby
GNM Topology
NNMi NNMi NNMi NNMi NNMi NNMi NNMi NNMi
Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced
Active Standby Active Standby Active Standby Active Standby
10000 15000 area 3 15000 area 57 10000
area 1 area 2 Nodes Nodes
Nodes Nodes
RNM Topology RNM Topology RNM Topology RNM Topology
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The HP Difference
Streamline your network operations
STREAMLINE
NNMi - software for unified fault, availability and performance
• Increased operational efficiencies while reducing costs
• Extreme scale, unified polling and a single configuration point reduce your costs
ENHANCE
NNMi software for advanced network services
• Consistent presentation of IP Telephony, MPLS and Multicast information in the context of your
network topology
• Easy association of network faults to interruption in advanced services
CONTROL
HP Software for Automated Network Management
• Broadest network management solution in the market with the deepest integrations
• Unified network fault, availability, performance, change, configuration, compliance and
automated diagnostics
UNIFY
HP Software for Business Service Management
• Dynamically links business-focused IT services to the underlying IT infrastructure
• Align IT services with business needs
Why Upgrade to NNMi?
Increase service levels and efficiency while reducing costs
– Continuous Layer 2 discovery and mapping – essential for
physical and virtual environments
– Ease of maintenance and ease of configuration
– N-tier architecture; single database; application failover;
LDAP
Service + efficiency
– Integrations: HP Network Automation; HP Business
Costs Availability Center; HP uCMDB; AlarmPoint; NetScout;
IBM Netcool; SIM; HPOM
– Increased scalability
– Web-based GUI with user roles
– Unified fault and performance (iSPIs for Metrics, Traffic
and QA)
– Parallel entitlements through NET)
Automated diagnostics (iSPI for 2010
31 May 2010
Outcomes
– Achieve better visibility into fault
and performance problems
impacting network services
– Reduce the cost of managing
network fault and performance
– Reduce the Risk of network
downtime