Pepperweed Consulting discusses the latest capabilities of NNMi 9 and when properly implemented how NNMi can give you the visibility, control and performance metrics for your constantly changing network infrastructure whether virtual or physical. HP's Network Node Manager i (NNMi) software, combined with packaged implementation services from Pepperweed Consulting, can enable you to significantly reduce network downtime. Welcome to Pepperweed’s NNMi E-Paks.

1. HP NNMi: Managing your Physical and Virtual Networks just got easierAlex RyalsChief Technology OfficerApril 1, 2011

2. Unique Challenges for Network Management Resources - High administrative overhead to manage networking; inefficient use of operations and administration staff; lack of management automation Visibility - Missing connection to virtualized systems management and network device virtualization/redundancy; lacking insight into specialized network services such as IP Telephony or MPLS Correlation - Management software issues with overhead and inaccuracy; too many uncorrelated events and lack of visibility into relationships among incidents, performance and topology

3. HP Network Management Center BSM Dashboard HP Network Management Center Performance Monitoring (iSPI Performance for Metrics iSPI Performance for Traffic iSPI Performance for QA) Change, Configuration & Compliance (Network Automation) Fault & Availability Monitoring(NNMi or NNMi Advanced) Advanced Services (iSPIs for IPT, MC, MPLS) Automated Diagnostics (iSPI NET) Historical Data Warehouse & Reporting (Performance Insight) Routing Analysis (RAMS) Foundation Unified Operations Run-Book Automation (Operations Orchestration) CMDB

4. NNMi – The consolidation point for fault, availability, performance and advanced services iSPI IP Telephony iSPI Perf Metrics NNMi iSPI Perf Traffic iSPI MPLS iSPI Perf QA iSPI IP Multicast iSPI NET

6. Network Node Manager i software (NNMi)Maximize efficiency of your network operations Continuous spiral discovery, single poller, and common casual analysis for low administrative overhead Unified network fault, performance and services monitoring in a single operational console Customizable node groups for logical partitioning including custom attribute selection Workflow-based navigation and filtering for incidents, nodes, components, paths and metrics Single interface for administration of NNMi and all plug-in iSPIs

7. NNMi scales to meet your needs Single-server scalability to 25,000 managed nodes, 1 million discovered interfaces Value-based pricing model and several product bundles to choose from Global Network Management (GNM) configuration, with NNMi Advanced, localized polling with consolidation of up to 65,000 nodes Flexibility meets the needs of small and large environments as well as distributed teams NNMi Advanced GNM architecture enables consolidation with regional control and survivability

8. Discover & monitor virtualized environments Discover and map VMware hosts and guests * with NNMi Advanced Find Attached Switch Port for virtualized systems * Supported to run on virtual server environments Discover and monitor network device redundancy configurations * * NNMi Advanced only

9. NNMi iSPI Performance for Metrics Report on interfaces and node component statistics Performance status, thresholds & incidents integrated with fault and topology Polling and administration unified with NNMi and configurable per node group OOB reports at hourly, daily, weekly or monthly level Up to 10 weeks of history data stored; hourly summary with configurable period for full detail data

10. iSPI Performance for Metrics (continued) Path health shows component and interface performance along important routes Flexibility in reporting specific to your environment Top-N, heat chart, detail and summary reports highlight areas of concern Same interface reports on additional optional iSPI data for Traffic and QA as well as user-defined custom collections Detect negative performance trends before they affect users Interactive navigation select any criteria for filtering and grouping

11. iSPI Performance for Traffic Configuration and tight integration with NNMi, including traffic maps launch Augment operational performance monitoring with network traffic flow detail Highly scalable distributed collection architecture – low overhead Collection, analysis, and presentation of NetFlow and sFlow traffic information Application mapping to traffic flow, configurable by collection point Reports out-of-the-box or customizable, with flexible grouping

12. iSPI Performance for Quality Assurance unifying network service quality management with network management Site-specific threshold administration Test and monitor connections beyond management domain (into WAN/cloud) Common iSPI Performance user interface, low overhead Detect and pinpoint network service degradation early Consolidate discovery of IP SLA network tests and associate them with NNMi topology

13. NNM iSPI Network Engineering Toolset (iSPI NET) Trap analytics enable tuning of SNMP trap sources and incident generation Automate common data collection tasks Predefined Operations Orchestration flows capture diagnostic detail on-demand or in response to incidents Export NNMi discovered topology to Visio for offline use Save engineering effort logging into individual devices for information and diagnosis Compare changes against baseline data collected to isolate problems

14. iSPI for IP Telephonycomprehensive monitoring for Cisco, Nortel, or Avaya IPT infrastructure For Cisco IPT, alert based on call quality metrics and state changes Discover, map, report and threshold on IPT devices and phones Scale up to 50,000 phones and associated devices For Avaya IPT, alert based on performance and usage Flexible reporting aligned with iSPI Performance

15. iSPI for MPLSAutomated discovery and monitoring for MPLS services L3 VPN maps visualize PE topology types and connecting CE devices LSR inventory, service details such as VRF and VPN inventory integrated with NNMi MTTR and MTBF reporting for VPN-VRF TE tunnel path and Pseudowire monitoring Monitor MPLS core network (LSRs & TEs) and Services (L2 VPN – VPWS & VPLS)

17. Global Network Management (regional/Global Mgrs)

18. Management of virtualized servers (NNMi Advanced)

19. MPLS WAN Cloud/Connection discovery (NNMi Advanced; with RAMS)

20. Discover Cards, Daughter Cards, Card Redundancy Groups for Cisco and ProCurve

21. Incident Suppression, Enrichment, Dampening

22. User Interface improvements (sortable tables, new menu items, custom attributes for nodes or interfaces, new device icons, improved filtering)

23. Custom Correlations Configuration (similar to Correlation Composer)

24. Northbound interface forwards incidents to MULTIPLE registered trap receivers

25. Support for MIB Expressions for polls or graphs using MIB Expression Editor

26. MIB Browser for loading and viewing supported MIBS per node

27. Real Time SNMP Line Graphs

28. Custom Poller uses MIB expressions and exports data to CSV

29. State Poller Customizations (pinging mgmt address only, etc)

30. SNMP improvements (improved performance, new configuration options, etc)

33. HP Network Automation (NA) 7.50.02 and 7.60.01

34. HP Performance Insight (OVPI) 5.31, 5.40 and 5.41

35. HP RAMS 9.0 (with NNMi Advanced)

36. Event forwarding from HP NNM 6.x / 7.x SE & AE

37. HP Operations Manger: OMU 8.30 & 9.00; OMW 8.10 & 8.16; OML 9.00

38. HP OMi 8.10

39. HP uCMDB 8.03 and 8.04

40. HP BAC–RUM and MyBSM 7.54, 8.03 and 8.04; BSM 9.0

41. HP Operations Orchestration 7.51 w/7.60.01 patch and 7.60 w/7.60.01The Deployment Reference Guide is the source for detailed information on integrations

43. Systems Insight Manager (SIM) 5.30

44. HP AssetManager 5.20, 5.21 (with Connect-IT also 4.10, 4.11)

45. AlarmPoint Express, Standard, Enterprise, Pro, and Mobile Gateway 4.00

46. NetScoutnGenius Performance Manager 4.6 MR1, 4.7, 4.7 MR2, and 4.8

47. Clarus IPC+ 2.6.1

48. CiscoWorks LAN Mgmt Solution 3.1 and 3.2

49. IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus 7.21 (with license for NNMi Netcool IM)The Deployment Reference Guide is the source for detailed information on integrations

51. Ease of maintenance and ease of configuration

52. N-tier architecture; single database; application failover; LDAP

53. Integrations: HP Network Automation; HP Business Availability Center; HP uCMDB; AlarmPoint; NetScout; IBM Netcool; SIM; HPOM

54. Increased scalability

55. Web-based GUI with user roles

56. Unified fault and performance (iSPIs for Metrics, Traffic and QA)

57. Automated diagnostics (iSPI for NET)Easy upgrade from NNMi 8.x 20

59. Proper node discovery

60. Map container setup and configuration

61. Event and trap tuning to ensure proper prioritization

62. Integration with other Enterprise Management Systems

63. Polling and data collection strategies

64. Knowledge transfer to NNMi operators

65. Post implementation configuration updates and tuning

68. Canned Integrations

69. Operator training

70. Delivery methodologies and processes

71. Knowledge articlesHighly trained and experienced consultants Post-implementation follow-up & support

72. NNMi E-Pak Overview Three versions for new installations of NNMi or NNMi Advanced Implementing different sets of capabilities to meet varying needs For different sized networks Priced at $10,995, $19,995 or $29,995 One upgrade version Upgrade NNM 7 or 8 to NNMi 9 In place or new server Priced at $10,995 Additional E-Paks available to implement additional NNMi capabilities and add-ons. These may be sold separately from an NNMi E-Pak iSPI Performance for Metrics Application Failover xMatters Lite

73. HP and Pepperweeda valuable combination HP NNMi Software to monitor your network Pepperweed E-Pak to implement it

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