Network Management is critical for leveraging the managemet, provisioning, configuration and operation of network devices and services. The essential features like Dash-boarding, SLA Management, Network Management, Asset Management, Incident Management, etc. can be implemented as an approach of collaborative framework.
Network Management systems are able to view & manage each and every IP device of the entire network. For effective operations and management of IT Operations, there is a need for an industry- standard Enterprise / Network Management System. EMS / NMS becomes very critical for IT Operations and SLA Measurement. Some of the critical aspects that need to be considered for operations of IT setup of are:
The Network Management solution platform provides a single integrated solution for comprehensive management of the wired/wireless access and rich visibility into connectivity and performance issues.
The Network Management solution provides the visual presentation of the Network Element's status and the alarms. It shall also present the complete map of the network with suitable icons and in suitable color like green for healthy, red for non-operational, yellow for degraded mode of operation etc.
The Network Management solution provides Health Monitoring reports of the network with settable periodicity e.g. @24 Hrs., 1 week, 1 month etc.
The Network Management solution provides the Graphical layout of the network element using different colors to indicate their status.
The Network Management solution provides calendar view which allows the operator to schedule activities such as Reports, Inventory scans etc. It also allows to define scheduled report for uptime, link status etc.
The Network Management solution provides out of the box root cause analysis with multiple root cause algorithms inbuilt. It also has a strong event correlation engine which can correlate the events on the basis of event pairing, event sequencing etc.