single console for viewing opmanager & deviceexpert alarms
TRANSCRIPT
Is this how you
manage your IT? Uses any of the following point
products: IBM Tivoli, Alterpoint, ManageEngine DeviceExpert
Uses any of the following point products: OpenView, BMC, ManageEngine OpManager
Network Configuration Team Performance Monitoring & alerting Team
Problem with this
model
Point products work well, but
does not offer a unified approach towards problem
solving!
Even a small router config. change
can stall your
business!
Unable to access the
CRMMe too!
Sales team in Branch Office 1
Utter chaos!
The blame game
begins!Performance Monitoring Team, HO
The server & the CRM are running good. Not sure
what’s the issue!
Configuration team must have changed
any router config. Will check with them now.
John, did you change the branch
office router configuration? Looks like Dan had
changed the config. of Cisco 2900. I did not
authorize this. Anyways, will ask him to revert.No
Automation! Loss
of productivity
Network Configuration Team, HO
No Automation!
Loss of
productivity
It’ll be great if such configuration changes
are automatically added as events in my
monitoring software.
Solution to
avoid such
config. changechaos Co
mpr
ehen
sive
Net
wor
k M
anag
emen
t
ManageEngine OpManager
ManageEngine DeviceExpert
Unified approach with OpManager & DeviceExpert
About OpManager
OpManager
Scales over 50,000
interfaces
Support 600+ device types
Offers High availability
Includes Faster
Discovery Engine
OpManager is enterprise ready, network, server & virtualization monitoring software
About DeviceExpert
DeviceExpert
Configuration versioning & Comparison
Approval mechanism for configuration
upload
Real-time configuration
tracking
Scheduled configuration
backup
DeviceExpert is multi vendor network change, configuration & compliance management software
How does
OpManager raises alarms
for config.
changes done
in Device Expert?
OpManager’s Powerful
Trap Processor • OpManager’ SNMP trap processor
receives traps sent by third party applications and devices.
• Converts such traps into alarms
OpManager
SNMP Traps
Config. changes
are added
as alarms
in OpManager
OpManagerSends SNMP Traps
DeviceExpert
Alarm is Raised
Configuration change
Steps to
forward traps from
DeviceExpert
to OpManager
1• Add the device in both OpManager &
DeviceExpert
2• Create a change management rule in
DeviceExpert to send traps to OpManager
3• Traps will be sent from DeviceExpert to
OpManager whenever a configuration is changed
4• Create a Trap Processor in OpManager to convert
the received traps in to alarms
Cisco 2900’s device configuration is
changed
When Cisco
2900’s config.
is changed
in Device Expert
An alarm
is raised
in OpManager
Alarm is raised for the configuration change
Server down alarm
Configuration change alarm
CPU utilization threshold
violation alarm
Work in
tandem with other
IT teams
OpManager’s unified alarm console
