A Bioengineering Company

The small bioengineering company has one main data center. Low-speed, point-to-point WAN links radiate outwards from a single router to 30 small remote sites. These sites are located throughout the farm belt. Since low-bandwidth lines are expensive and not redundant, you want to know at once if a link goes down. You can reduce the NNM polling interval accordingly.

A single, small, non-dedicated UNIX workstation is capable of managing all the devices located on this network, including data center switches, routers and servers, plus all the remote routers, printers, and workstations. The Internet submap requires only minimal customization. The entire process of installation, configuration, discovery, and customization took less than a day.

Performance management of the main router is simply a matter of collecting interface statistics on all ports. This keeps performance polling traffic off the WAN links.