[INUG-Users] Network behavioral trend analysis

[Jacob Steinberger]

So if we take what Leslie said, mash it together with what Bai said,  
we end up with IBM selling Precision(ITNM) to Bai, without Bai's boss  
buying ITNM. But Bai is supposed to set this up in the software they  
already own.

Good luck, Bai! ;)

Jacob


Quoting Leslie Clark <lclark at us.ibm.com>:

> ITNM 3.8 now includes, in addition to the MIB threshold polling of
> previous releases, the abiltiy to store MIB data for historical reporting,
> and some pretty nice reports in the Tivoli Common Reporting component. See
> the report descriptions here:
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v8r1/topic/com.ibm.networkmanagerip.doc_3.8/itnm/ip/3.8/ref/reference/nmip_ref_reports_overview_reports.html
>
> In the Performance reports group, you get these:
>
> Bandwidth Top N Report: Displays the Bandwidth of the Top N devices.
> Bandwidth Utilization Report: Displays the devices Bandwidth Utilization.
> Historical SNMP Top or Bottom N Report:  Displays the Top or Bottom N
> devices with drilldown to a chart according to device or interface.
> Historical SNMP Trend Analysis Report: Displays the device summary with
> drilldown to a chart according to device or interface.
> Historical SNMP Trend Quick View Report: Displays the device list with
> drilldown to a chart according to device or interface.
> System Availability Summary Report:  Displays availability summary for
> devices with drilldown to a chart according to device. This report is
> based on the sysUptime data.
>
> These reports delighted me. You can make copies with different parameter
> sets, depending on what you are polling, and chose the date range (eg
> yesterday, last week, etc).  You can schedule them. You can export them as
> pdf or csv or html. They have graphs and summaries. They are just what I
> have been waiting for for a very long time.
>
> The intention is that you only store a limited amount of data locally,
> since there are performance implications. You are supposed to archive it
> off and deal with it elsewhere. The expectation is that you have IBM
> Tivoli Monitoring set up for monitoring systems and applications, and a
> Tivoli Data Warehouse to store data. ITNM 3.8 comes with an ITM Agent for
> ITNM which does two jobs. It monitors the ITNM application and presents
> that information to ITM, and it funnels the colllected MIB data , say
> every 15 minutes, and shoves it into the Tivoli Data Warehouse. The
> reports, which are supported product and not just OPAL, are then
> redirected (by you) to use the TDW as a datasource rather than the local
> database. The TDW provides pruning and summarization features for this
> collected data.
>
> This capability is not intended to replace Proviso for really big
> implementations where you need to collect tons of MIB data, but it is
> pretty robust. Polling can be spread out over multiple pollers. The size
> of the local database can be expanded.
>
> Cordially,
>
> Leslie A. Clark
> IT Services Specialist, Network Mgmt
> Information Technology Services Americas
> IBM Global Services
> (248) 552-4968 Voicemail, Fax, Pager
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> Are you looking for network outages/day, or bandwidth/error-rate, etc?
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> You're probably better off going with a tool like
> Infovista/E-Health/MRTG - something that tracks network performance
> over time.  Omnibus (and TBSM) is fundamentally event-driven, so
> you'll have to create (probably artificially low and arbitrary)
> thresholds in your NMS tools to throw alerts to Omnibus with which to
> drive the TBSM models.
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> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Bai Shen <baishen.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I need some help.  I've been tasked with setting up Netcool and TBSM to
> do
>> network behavioral trend analysis.
>>
>> I'm not really sure where to start with this.  I did some digging, but
> my
>> googlefu is weak today, and I haven't been able to come up with anything
>> useful.
>>
>> If y'all could point me towards a tutorial or something to get started,
> I'd
>> greatly appreciate it.  TIA.
>>
>> Bai Shen
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