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Basic Dial NMS Implementation Guide
These calculations in Table 5 are based on a PRI system integration—not a system signalling 7 (SS7)
integration.
For each POP site, also plan for the following elements:
Power, space, and cooling for each Cisco AS5800
Required number of AAA servers
Required number of Cisco 2511s (OOB ports)
WAN link capacity
Software Requirements
To design the dial NMS inside the NOC, the network engineers at THEnet identified these software and
management system requirements:
Table 6 Dial NMS Software and Management System Requirements
Software and Management Systems Purpose
UCD-SNMP Uses CLI-based SNMP freeware to explore the SNMP MIBs
and OIDs that are useful for operating a dial network.
Multi Router Traffic Grapher
(MRTG), version 2.8.12
Monitors and graphs the traffic load on the network.
Web-based management Manages a network by using light-weight NMS tools (LWT).
A LWT is light on:
Budget
Staff support
Course requirements
GUI requirements
THEnet requires the following LWTs:
Device Navigator—A web page that links network devices
together.
Cisco IOS Command Center—A web page that provides
HTTP access to the CLI.
Log File Rotator—A freeware script that archives, sorts,
and deletes syslogs.
Modem Call Record Viewer—A tool that enables you to
view modem records and syslogs on a web page.
HP OpenView (HPOV) Network
Node Manager Release 5.0
Creates the SNMP framework for the dial NMS and identifies
what is breaking in the network.
CiscoWorks 2000, maintenance
release 2
Resource Manager Essentials
(RME), version 2.2
Archives configuration files, upgrades the Cisco IOS,
determines how much memory is installed, and discovers what
boot ROMs are present.
You can install HPOV and CW2000 RME on the same Sun
workstation—without conflicts.