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The NNMi Tenant Model

The NNMi tenant model provides strict segregation of topology discovery and data into tenants, also called organizations or customers. This model is appropriate for use by service providers, especially managed service providers, and large enterprises. The NNMi tenant model has the following benefits:

  • Marks the organization to which each node belongs.
  • Provides for filtering the Nodes (All Attributes) inventory view and Network Performance Server reports by tenant and security group.
  • Meets regulatory requirements for separating operator access to customer data.
  • Simplifies the configuration and maintenance of node groups that align with the tenant configuration.
  • Simplifies configuration of NNMi security.
  • Provides for management of overlapping address domains when address translation protocols are used.

Use NNMi multi-tenancy to provide different customer views for a service provider that has multiple customers (tenants) managed from the same NNMi management server.

Note Any number of static Network Address Translation (NAT) instances can be monitored by one NNMi management server, as long as each instance is configured with a unique tenant. See Managing Overlapping IP Addresses in NAT Environments, and the NNMi help, for more information.