WebNMS Framework 5 Data Sheet
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WebNMS Framework is the industry-leading network management framework
for building custom Element Management System (EMS) and Network
Management System (NMS) applications.
WebNMS Framework 5 is a scalable, application-centric
platform that makes extensive use of state-of-the-art graphical
displays to provide an intuitive and powerful network management
dashboard for operations staff. By automating a number of complex,
tedious, and error-prone tasks, the management application raises
productivity, improves accuracy, simplifies training, and reduces
costs for operation centers.
WebNMS Framework 5 offers a comprehensive set of
FCAPS functions, provisioning, along with bundled customizable interfaces
to most popular network elements, OSS systems and other management
applications.
WebNMS Framework Features
- Event Collection: Simultaneous receipt of events from any intelligent
device, resource, or software entity. Supports the reporting of
alarm conditions in a near real-time or scheduled manner.
- Alarm Correlation and Filtering: Efficiently handles lengthy
alarm lists with robust capability to correlate
and filter alarms.
- Resource Status Displays: A single window provides an efficient,
graphical overview of the status of all
managed resources.
- Active Alarms Display: A consolidated list of active or “open”
alarms compiled across all managed resources provides an overview
of fault localization and correction tasks that are currently
in progress.
- Automatic Discovery: Uses industry standard protocols (e.g.,
SNMP, TL1) or customer-specific messaging adapters, managed resources
are automatically discovered and polled for updates to their configuration
attributes.
- Managed Resource Domains: Administrator can conve-niently group
the discovered managed resources into a set of managed resource
domains using a point-and-click interface.
- Containment Tree View: Rapid browsing through the entire inventory
is supported through the containment hierarchy display.
- Graphical Topology View: This powerful consolidated view displays
the configuration and status of the entire managed resource inventory.
- Resource Provisioning: Through a convenient, single-click operation,
managed resources can be placed in one of several service states
such as “working”, “unavailable”, or “standby”.
This high impact operation confirms that the requestor has appropriate
permissions before fulfilling the request.
- Software Image Downloads:Provides a powerful facility to orchestrate
the organized download of software images.
- Data Collection: Scalable application architecture powers the
simultaneous collection of measurements from multiple managed
resources across the network using distributed pollers.
- Resource Configuration: Managed resources typically support
a number of settable attributes including alarm thresholds, logical
addresses, and device specific parameters like data rates. The
user can set such attributes for a single managed resource or
a group of managed resources.
- Performance Computation: Collected data is analyzed, filtered,
and aggregated to produce performance metrics that are relevant
to the operations staff such as user-oriented transaction response
time or service availability.
- Real-time Graphical Displays: Intuitive line charts and bar
charts provide operations staff with quick snapshots of the performance
metrics over time.
- Security Domains: Fine-grained control of access to critical
managed resources is accomplished through carefully defined security
domains.
- Audit Log: A detailed log of all access permission requests
and responses supports the analysis of resource usage patterns
as well as attempts to breach access control.
WebNMS Framework benefits
For Operations Centers
- Continuously monitors the status of network devices such as
hubs, routers, firewalls, cross-connects, add-drop multi plexers,
and SAN switches.
- Monitors status of IT resources such as servers, storage sub
systems, and disk controllers.
- Record and maintains network configuration and updates to ensure
normal network operation.
- Data collection with distributed polling architecture enables performance trend & analysis of the entire network or sub-networks through graphical or table form.
- Supports root cause analysis of events by correlating alarms
and enabling drill down to malfunctioning sub systems.
- Enables efficient management of operations staff by supporting
organization of network and IT assets into regions or domains
and providing filtered domain views of received alarms.
- Supports problem resolution management of malfunctions through
the life cycle tracking of alarm status.
- Supports seamless integration with OSS/BSS, EMSs, NMSs, Trouble-
ticketing systems, and other infrastructure applications in Operations
Centers.
For Developers
- Feature-rich WebNMS Framework allows OEMs and system integrators
to roll out first releases of enterprise or network management
systems within weeks
- Comprehensive WebNMS Framework platform drives dramatic im
provements in application development process. Specifically in
the areas of Rapid development, Risk Avoidance, and ROI Improvement.
- WebNMS Framework is based on a proven architecture and is purpose-built
to be scalable, reliable, and secure
- Support rapid customization through XML driven data model
- Provide "plug-n-play" integration with managed resources
and external applications through compliance with open industry
standards such as ITU-T, SNMP, CORBA, XML, TL1, etc.
Inside WebNMS Framework
Productivity Tools - WebNMS Framework Studio
WebNMS Framework Studio tools enable complete lifecycle management
of WebNMS Framework applications - from design and development,
to packaging, branding, deployment and upgrades.
WebNMS Framework Studio offers multiple benefits for rapid and
simple development:
- Project based approach for segregating development and deployment
of projects
- Tools to package, install, uninstall, and upgrade projects
- Integrated version control system, build automation and command
line tools
- XML editor for managing WebNMS Framework configuration files;
JMacs editor for managing non-XML files
- Intuitive and rapid modeling of managed resources
- Troubleshooting tools
- Chassis and Configuration wizards as part of client side customization
Framework Architecture - Deployment Flexibility
WebNMS Framework is architected to support varying deployment
needs ranging from a single server to multi server deployment.
High Availability - Multi-server deployment
The WebNMS Framework server consists of three tiers of server components, the management server (mediation) tier, which provides protocol mediation with the managed systems, the back-end server tier, which provides database transaction
and encapsulation service and thefront-end server tier, which provides client session management services.
There can be more than one deployment of the back-end and front-end servers to achieve massive scalability. The servers can be deployed with redundancy so that any failure, results in failover to other server components. This feature is crucial in high-availability applications.
Persistent Data Model
High availability for managed services and operational support
is achieved through a persistent RDBMS data
model. WebNMS Framework leverages the benefits of transaction support,
database synchronization and object locking.
Core WebNMS Framework modules like Topology, Fault Management, Map, Performance Management, and StorageServer use Hibernate persistence to provide enhanced object modelling, database constraints like foreign key, surrogate key etc.,
The database Tier in the WebNMS Framework architecture incorporates
persistent data management support with failover capability.
WebNMS Framework offers seamless integration with Oracle, Sybase,
MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL and other popular databases.
WebNMS Framework 5 Editions
WebNMS Framework is offered in two editions - Free and Professional. The following table highlights
some of the key differences.
| WebNMS Framework Editions |
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* can be scaled higher based on the number of front-end servers
| System
Features |
| Application servers |
JBoss |
| Web servers |
Tomcat |
| Choice of clients |
Java application client
Applet client
Web (HTML) client
and Java WebStart client |
| Web Browsers |
Internet Explorer
Mozilla
FireFox |
| Java Runtime Environments
(JRE) |
JRE 1.6 (All Editions) |
| JDK |
JDK 1.5 (All Editions) |
| XML Parsers |
Any JAXP 1.4 compliant
parser |
| Language support |
JDK 1.6 Internationalization
API |
|
| Hardware
Requirements |
| CPU |
2.0 GHz for Windows/Linux
1.2 GHz for Solaris |
| Memory |
1 GB RAM or Higher |
| Disc Space |
400 MB + 200 MB Swap |
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