About the Smart Plug Ins (iSPIs)

Network Node Manager i Software Smart Plug-ins (iSPIs) for Performance and Advanced Network Services extend the device and protocol support of NNMi to enable monitoring and management of a wide range of network devices, services, and facilities. These Smart Plug-ins provide technology-specific awareness that can provide a broader and more detailed perspective to quickly isolate faults and improve the efficiency of your network operations team:

• Adaptive baselines and dynamic thresholds identify normal usage patterns, accelerate implementation efforts, identify cost cutting opportunities, and quickly highlight performance anomalies.
• Fully integrated discovery, monitoring, and reporting of your MPLS, IP Multicast, and IP Telephony environments provide a detailed context within which to manage these services.
• Quality assurance probes provide synthetic transactions to measure and report on latency and variability throughout your network fabric.
• Traffic flow collection and consolidation identifies application traffic patterns throughout the network fabric.

These Smart Plug-ins provide technology-specific awareness that quickly identifies a problem and reduces Mean Time to Repair (MTTR). Simply install and configure each iSPI:

• Network Node Manager iSPI for IP Multicast Software:
  

  With the NNM iSPI for IP Multicast, you can:

  • Discover and analyze any Multicast environment in real-time.
  • Perform baseline snapshots and compare them with active flows.
  • Utilize Views for IP Multicast and Views for Troubleshooting to see elements such as neighbor views, forwarding paths, and reverse paths.

  For more information, search NNMi Help for: "IP Multicast"

• Network Node Manager iSPI for IP Telephony Software:
  

  With the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony, you can:

  • Manage the fault and availability of Voice Over IP (VoIP) in a multi-vendor environment (Acme, Avaya, Cisco, Microsoft Lync, and Nortel): See Also
  • Analyze the impact of network performance on your VoIP environment.
  • Troubleshoot with many tools provided by this iSPI.

  For more information, search NNMi Help for: "IP Telephony"

• Network Node Manager iSPI for MPLS Software:
  

  If you are on a service provider's team, the NNM iSPI for MPLS helps your team ensure that customer obligations are met:

  • Actively monitor the provider equipment (PE) and customer edge (CE) Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) devices that provide network access.
  • Monitor the effects of interface availability and site impact.
  • Analyze core MPLS virtual private network (VPN) availability.
  • Automate discovery of Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) neighbors including remote provider equipment (PE routers).
  • Generate performance reports about Label-Switched Paths (LSPs) and root-cause analysis for Traffic Engineering tunnel issues (RCA for TE Tunnel).

  For more information, search NNMi Help for: "iSPI for MPLS"

• Network Node Manager iSPI Network Engineering Toolset Software:
  

  The NNM iSPI NET provides automated diagnostic flows and tools for troubleshooting the toughest of network issues. NNM iSPI NET saves operators significant time and effort when diagnosing network problems or analyzing Trap storms. Results are conveniently provided on the Node Form: Diagnostics Tab and the Incident Form: Diagnostics Tab.

  For more information, search NNMi Help for: "iSPI NET"

• Network Node Manager iSPI Performance for Metrics Software:
  

  The NNM iSPI Performance for Metrics provides a complete environment for collecting, alarming, and reporting on a wide variety of network performance metrics collected using Node Sensor and Physical Sensor thresholds. Reports include trend and operational analysis statistics for multiple vendor's equipment: See Also

  For more information, search NNMi Help for: "Performance for Metrics"

• Network Node Manager iSPI Performance for Quality Assurance Software:
  

  With the NNM iSPI Performance for QA, you can:

  • Monitor the quality of service levels within your network.
  • Discover preconfigured Service Level Agreement (SLA) probes and gather the probes' performance metrics.
  • Identify SLA exceptions and violations through auto-generated NNMi Incidents.

  For more information, search NNMi Help for: "Quality Assurance"

• Network Node Manager iSPI Performance for Traffic Software:
  

  The NNM iSPI Performance for Traffic is a comprehensive reporting solution that validates whether or not sufficient bandwidth is available for mission critical applications. The NNM iSPI Performance for Traffic does the following:

  • Supports all common diagnostic flow types
  • Performs centralized analysis
  • Provides a wide range of reports

  For more information, search NNMi Help for: "Performance for Traffic"