Network Management Systems

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 Topics

Introduction

Concepts

Linux & NMS

Opensource NMS Apps

Rolling Your Own NMS

Summary

Q&A

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 Introduction

What is a Network Management System

A combination of various tools, application & devices that assist

human network managers manage and maintain the network.

What can it do ?

Autopolling of network connected devices, generating real-time

graphs and metrics of network topology changes & traffic ........

So who needs one ?

Anyone who has a network !!

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 Concepts

NMS Architecture

Management Application
Database Pooling
Network Management Protocol
Network

Machine Switch Printer Router

NMS Agent NMS Agent NMS Agent NMS Agent

Managed Devices
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 Concepts

OSI Network Management Model

Performance Management
Configuration Management
Accounting Management
Fault Management
Security Management

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 Concepts - SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol

ARCHITECTURE
SNMP Agent

SNMP Manager

MIB

Versions

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 Linux & NMS

Strong Networking Core

Full SNMP support (net-snmp)

Profusion of remote management tools

Scripting/Automation

Open Standards

Traditional UNIX strengths - Reliability, Scalability, etc

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 NMS Apps

Open NMS

- Feature Rich, Scalable

- Quite Heavy
- Might not suit all requirements

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 Nagios
- Only Monitoring

- Very Mature

- Easy to setup/maintain

Commercial Applications
IBM Tivoli, HP OpenView, Unicenter TNG, etc

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 Rolling Your Own NMS

What tools do you require ?

What you need on the Nodes -

SNMP Agent - snmpd (net-snmp)

shell/perl scripting
System utilities - df, ps, iostat, vmstat, etc

Hardware monitoring utilities - lm_sensors

/proc filesystem

SSH

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 What tools do you require ?
What you need on the Master(s) -

SNMP Tools - snmpget/snmpwalk, etc

shell/perl scripting

SSH
Sendmail/some MTA

Backend - PostgreSQL, MySQL, Berkeley DB

MRTG/RRDTool/GNUPlot

Webserver/Scripting Language

Rsync/unison

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 Tying it all together -
Planning -
Draw a network diagram
Identify your critical Systems & Services
SNMP support on hardware/platforms

Mail Architecture, Link Redundancy issues, etc.

Identify the people you want to disturb !

Execution -
Implement on a single system first

Reporting/Statistics

Plan for failure of the m/c hosting the system too

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