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WebNMS Framework is a comprehensive network management platform that offers purpose-built applications and tools designed to simplify the management of networking devices and resources.

WebNMS Framework enables network monitoring, configuration and troubleshooting of each device or resource and manage an entire network from a single platform. WebNMS Framework has a true N+ architecture that allows multiple users to access its services simultaneously.

It delivers network level management while providing access to various element managers.

Its functionalities include:

• Unified management: It provides a common graphical interface and network management infrastructure for performing management functions, integrating applications, and unifying element management across multiple devices.
• Network-wide visibility: It enables extensive view and in-depth reporting of network activity across the network with functions such as discovery, physical and logical topology maps, centralized event management, graphs, and statistical information. This is also supported in distributed networks.
• Element management: It provides direct access to each device through its native element manager and allows all networking devices to be configured from a centralized location. It also supports policy-based management across multiple device types.
• Scalable architecture: It provides single-user and multi-user versions and an extensible architecture with applications that allow the network management environment to be tailored to the user’s network and budget needs. It supports management of very large networks with capability to distribute network facing functionalities across servers.

WebNMS Framework platform provides a solid foundation that is based upon:

Widely Deployed Platform

Over 300 network equipment vendors including large incumbents like Lucent, Nortel, Motorola, Siemens, Ericsson and startups like Movaz, Turin and others have successfully implemented and deployed management applications based on WebNMS Framework. WebNMS Framework has also been selected as a management platform for building NMS solutions by Service Provders such as Chunghwa Telecom, PT Telecom, Nexagent, Equant, and Uninet. Added to the proven track of WebNMS Framework, it brings a cost-sensitive and feature-rich platform for developing a prudent network management solution.

Productivity Enhancement Platform

WebNMS Framework comes bundled with WebNMS Framework Studio Tools - with plugin for Eclipse IDE that enables easy design, development and maintenance of network management applications. For rapid development WebNMS Framework provides a comprehensive code-generation wizard that complements resource modeling and service customization tools by enabling complex instrumented applications. Additionally, WebNMS Framework offers Project Tools which are useful in development, testing, deployment, maintenance, support and re-licensing of WebNMS Framework based applications.

Customization Capabilities

WebNMS Framework facilitates advanced customization of management services through discovery filters, alarm and event filters, rules, and correlation logic with minimal coding. Purpose-built WebNMS Framework platform readily enables customization to varies technology domains that include ATM, SONET/SDH, Optical, VoIP, VPN, Cable, Wireless and others.

WebNMS Framework Benefits

WebNMS Framework includes the following applications:

	Fault Management Event/trap processing - filtering, suppression, propagation ; with intelligent correlation Alarm drill down categorized by severity, managed resource type, time of day etc. Problem resolution work flow management – categorize alarms as open, closed and acknowledged
	Configuration Management N-tier architecture with server support for storing, scheduling, auditing etc. Supports parameterized XML tasks for easy management of configuration functions Supports rollback capability for recovery from failures
	Discovery Auto-discovery and topology update Rich information model to capture attributes of heterogeneous networks with deep discovery Topology summary and hierarchical represen-tation of managed resources Intelligent grouping for simplified configuration management
	Performance Management Analyze, filter and aggregate network performance data Distributed multi-tier architecture in the Polling Engine to provide more scalability and reliability. Customize aggregation policies Multi-level thresholding and hysteresis Intuitive and graphical performance management reports
	Security Fine grained and extensible authorization including support for users, groups, roles, operations and object views Secure authentication and access control including SSL and secure RMI server access control J2EE security model support
	Inventory Management Complete infobase of components and devices across the network Can also be integrated with any third party inventory management system

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

WebNMS Framework Professional Edition
21004.0D	Named Developer License Fee per seat
21004.0ROBP	Professional Edition runtime : BE Primary Server (Mandatory)
21004.0R0BS	Professional Edition runtime : BE Secondary Server (Optional)
21004.0PMS	Maintenance and Support Tools (Optional)
21004.0PS	WebNMS Framework Test Suite (Optional)

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