access hp network node manager i on the go using inoc via your iphone or ipod touch

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Access HP Network Node Manager ion the go using iNOC via your iPhone or iPod Touch

Bob PotterveldTIOTH LLC

Lisa SchallopHP

Agenda

• NNMi mobile integration

• Introducing iNOC for NNMi

• Deployment options

• Incident management

• Node management

• Performance data

• Notifications

• iNOC Server administration

Manage your network from anywhere on your iPhone

reduce network outages and quicklycharacterize performance issues

Cost of a network outage

One location: thousands $/ hour

Multiple locations: $10’s of thousands / hour

SAP: $100’s of thousands / hour

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Does your company support the iPhone as and end users device?

Are you already running NNMi v8 or v9?

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Typical mobile integration with NNMi

• Browser based– Difficult to use on small scale devices

• Gateway technology– Typically does not provide native access

• Not tuned / enhanced for mobile devices– Multiple management paradigms

– Multiple security arrangements

– Not tightly integrated with the management infrastructure

– Difficult user interface for the mobile environment


Managing from a mobile platform

• Requires– Secure access– Enhanced native user interface– Simplify access to critical information– Timely notifications– Support Multiple Management Servers– User specified configuration enabling the user to tune the app

for their mobile environment• Notification schedule• Preset queries• Integrates with management configuration data

• Provide maximum knowledge from remote locations


Managing use of the mobile platform

• Support multiple secure access models

– Service provider vs internal deployment

• Administrative capabilities

– Device information

– Device blocking

– Usage information

– Send Device Notifications


Introducing iNOC


Deployment

• iNOC Service Access Point can be deployed internally or hosted externally


Deployment Options

• Internally deployed service access point with direct iPhone/iPod/iPad access– Deploy war into customer managed application container

– Allow iPhone access via VPN

• Externally hosted with certificate based SSL communication between service access point and NNMi– TIOTH LLC managed service access point

– Deployed on Amazon elastic compute cloud

– iPhones communicate externally to service access point


Quick access to NNMi data

• Application configuration – NNMi management stations

– Username/Password stored using iPhone secure keychain

– Incident filter reloaded on app startup

– Automatic login

• Incident notification– Periodic notification of alarm counts

– Command line action available for use in NNMi


Incidents

– Table View

– Drill Down navigation• Basic Information

– Message

– Severity

– Priority

– Assigned To

• Detail Information

– Category

– Correlation nature

– Duplicate count

– Time information


Incident Filters

• Easy to configure stored filter

– Severity

– Open/Closed

– Assigned To / Owner

– Hostname/IP

– Occurred within last interval


Incident Modification

• Priority

• Lifecycle State

– Can easily close an incident

• Assigned To

– Can update ownership of an incident

• Notes


Node Groups

• Displays table view of configured Node Groups

– Name

– Status

– Drill down to nodes contained in node group


Nodes

• Table view of nodes contained in the node group

• Icon representing status• Drill down to node information

– Basic information– IP addresses– SNMP State– Discovery State

• Push button commands to– Poll node– Rediscover node

• Push button for interface status


Node Modifications

• Notes


Interfaces

• Table view of node contained interfaces

• Status of each interface

• Performance graph

– SNMP Response time

– Packets in/out

– Octets in/out

– Utilization in/out

• Double click or shake for large performance graph


Detail Interface Performance Graph

Large touch landscape view of performance data. Touch and drag finger to highlight lines on the graph


NNM Status Information

• Status of configured NNMi systems

– responds to requests

– reachable

• Switch active NNMisystem with the swipe of your finger


Push Notifications

• Scheduled interval

• NNMi action invoked

• Administrative messages

Settings- NNMi systems


Settings – Push Notification


iNOC Action Command

• Available java jar with command line action

– Push alert message to phones on command

– java -jar inoc.jar Main <-s servername> -p port –m"your message" <-d deviceid>”

• -s server hostname to use, localhost is default

• -p port number of service access point, required

• -m message

• -d specific device id to use, default is all devices


iNOC Server Administration

•Connected Devices

•Time Of Last Query

•Device Usage Information

•Blocking Devices

•Push Messages


Questions

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Outcomes

• Network Management which:– Saves time using an always on device

– Provides faster problem identification

– Provides up to date devices status

– Provides quick information on network incidents

– Provides notification and incident routing for your operators

– Provides quick performance assessment of network interfaces

– Improves responsiveness of your operators

– Reduces downtime and increases operator effectiveness

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