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Alcatel OmniVista 2500 & 2700 NMS

Alcatel OmniVista 2500 & 2700 NMS. Delivering the best manageability for the Enterprise 2006 & 2007 Directions. OmniVista NMS How will the network administrator implement it?. Microsoft operations framework www.microsoft.com/mof. OmniVista touches each piece of the operations framework….

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Alcatel OmniVista 2500 & 2700 NMS

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  1. Alcatel OmniVista 2500 & 2700 NMS Delivering the best manageability for the Enterprise 2006 & 2007 Directions

  2. OmniVista NMSHow will the network administrator implement it? Microsoft operations frameworkwww.microsoft.com/mof OmniVista touches each pieceof the operations framework….

  3. OmniVista NMS 2500 & 2700Today-The components framework New Optional applications for advanced complex settings • OV2730 • PolicyView • OneTouch • OV2750 • SecureView • Secure Access • OV2770 • Quarantine • Manager • OV2760 • SecureView • ACL • OmniVista 2500 • Network-wide Management • Monitoring & configuration • Alcatel infrastructure • Third-party devices OmniVista 2500 & 2700 OmniVista “Network wide” NMS platform for all Alcatel devices OmniAccess WAN OmniAccess WLANAlcatel 7750 seriesAlcatel 7450 series OmniSwitch 9x00 OmniSwitch 8800 OmniSwitch 7x00 OmniSwitch 68x0 OmniSwitch 6x00 Third-party devices SNMP Legacy Alcatel Alcatel OmniPCX Office Enterprise Http-based embedded element manager

  4. OmniVista 2500 & 2700General areas of actions • OmniVista 2500 applications • Network-wide Configuration & Monitoring tasks • Smart Topology and Discovery with intuitive status • Third party support available across main OmniVista applications • Network service creation with constant Monitoring and remediation • Contextual exchange of info between applications • Use of common set of tools such as device list, network group, Scheduler… • Identical, common look and feel across applets • OmniVista 2700 applications • Configuration & Monitoring of network-wide complex settings, Device Security, traffic policy, QoS… • OneTouch mode for Simplification with a Wizard based approach • Leveraging Alcatel embedded capabilities in security , mobility, policy based Networking features

  5. OmniVista 2500 & 2700Scope & Objectives - Release 3.1 & 3.0.1 • Scalability and flexibility in all infrastructure operations • Create a spanning tree view of the infrastructure • interactions between physical topology and spanning tree layout • Ability to deal with and manage large number of notifications • Notification Archiving and quicker analysis capabilities • Ability to deal with and Manager large number of software upgrade • “Fail safe” mechanisms for Resource Manager • Extensive Manageability & OmniVista Support for Alcatel devices • Extensive manageability for AOS OS9600, OS6850 • Alcatel 7x50 SR & 7450 ESS integration with OmniVista 2500

  6. OmniVista 2500 & 2700Overview – Release 3.1 • Optimizing infrastructure performances • Resource Manager “Fail safe” mechanism for switch Software upgrade • Resource Manager support Bootrom & miniBoot upgrade for OS68xx series • OS9600 series FPGA upgrade support • Introducing new hardware, scaling the NMS infrastructure • OS6850 series support for OV2500& 2700 • OS9600 series support for OV2500 & 2700 • Alcatel SR & ESS OmniVista support with Topology/ Discover & Monitoring (3rd party support like) • Executing day to day tasks • OmniVista display for recently discovered switches (time Stamp) • Devices sorted by Vlan name • Spanning Tree view Topology overlay • Resolving incidents, problems… • Traps summarization & absorption • Traps- sorting by devices • Traps archiving above threshold & retrieving from archive Scalability and flexibility in the monitoring operations

  7. Timing Comparisons - (Smaller is Better) 02:30 02:00 2.4.1 3.0 01:30 3.0.1 01:00 3.1 00:30 00:00 Server Start Topology Load 2K Switches Statistics Load 10 Days' Data Rsrc Mgr Show 3.5K Backups Locator Browse All 82.5K Rows Notifications Show 100K Traps OmniVista 2500 & 2700Performances enhancements – R3.1 Stress Testing Baselines:2.4.1: 2500 simulated switches 100k traps on server, 30k traps displayed on client 3.0 and later:3000 simulated switches 300k traps on server, 99k traps displayed on client

  8. OmniVista 2500 & 2700Scope & Objectives - Release 3.3 – End Q4 2006 • OmniVista Web Services for application collaboration • Inter-communications between OmniVista & other NMS, BSS/OSS supporting Web services • Open Apis allowing scripting of OmniVista functions • Support for web browser-based gui • Scalability for the Enterprise Manageability • Extending Global OmniVista manageability for Alcatel devices • Scalability & simplification for all centralized applications • Greater automation with Complete IT workflow support • Additional options for configuration, troubleshooting operations

  9. OmniVista 2500 & 2700Overview – Release 3.3 – End Q4 2006 • Introducing new hardware, scaling the NMS infrastructure • Sun Solaris 10 & Suse 10 for OV platforms • OS9800 & OS6850L support (OV25 &2700) • OS6200 series support (OV2500 &2700) • OmniAccess WLAN Mobility Manager integration with OmniVista • Optimizing infrastructure performances • OV2730 PolicyView Enhancements for Global QoS parameters • OV2730 Policy View configuration for Policy Based Routing- PBR • Resolving incidents, problems… • Locator Extensions: Toggle a port (disable/Enable) • Traps- Responder initiating CLI scripts • Traps on switch down detection • OmniVista Web Services & Web Browser GUI • Executing day to day tasks • OmniVista access control for topology maps • Resource Manager- Incremental backups • Resource Manager – SFTP backup options • OmniVista CLI scripting- Passing parameters • OmniVista Web services & Web Browser GUI Web Services collaboration with other NMS platforms

  10. OmniVista 2500 & 2700Web Services Benefits & Applications – R3.3 • Benefits • Allows Interoperability between various software applications running on disparate platforms/operating systems • Allows software & services from different sources to be combined easily to provide integrate services • Allows a distributed approach for NMS integration with other applications • Scriptable control of OmniVista core functionality • topology, Monitoring, troubleshooting with Traps initially • Web services applications • Composite network Management Dashboard based on application collaboration in Enterprise • Application collaboration with other Enterprise NMS solutions • Application collaboration with other OSS Portal for Carrier /Service providers enabling connectivity services and monitoring Services • Make NMS operations scriptable

  11. OmniVista 2500 & 2700Manageability & Web Services – R3.3 • Extending the overall Manageability of large infrastructure • OV Web GUI Client supplementing OmniVista regular Client • Access “anywhere” to critical status of the Network Infrastructure • Simplifying troubleshooting and monitoring operations without dedicated Network Management Station • Web Services API as underlying technology for the Web browser • Web Services & Web Environments • Only Available with OmniVista 2540 Basic Multi User • Includes Web API & Web Browser • Tentative list Price set @ $4,995

  12. OmniVista 2540 Server OmniVista Fat Client OmniVista Web GUI Custom Web GUI Web Services API PHP Scripts PERL Scripts OmniVista 2500 & 2700Web Services -Architecture – R3.3 Before Release 3.3 Web BrowserAvailable out of the box Proprietary APIs WS APIs Exposed to end Usefor custom interface or application development XML/SOAP Optional, Supplementalwith Release 3.3

  13. OmniVista 2500 & 2700Web Browser GUI based on Web Services - R3.3 Topology & Discovery /Web Browser/ Web Services

  14. OmniVista 2500 & 2700Web Browser GUI based on Web Services - R3.3 Locator like Capabilities

  15. OmniVista 2500 & 2700 – Release 3.3Business opportunity & Market Impact • Web Services Support , condition for Carrier OSS integration & Alcatel NIBU within Carrier Solutions • Simplify AOS devices manageability within Carrier operations • Expose capabilities as required for each requirements • Preserve initial Carrier OSS/BSS NMS Investments • Web Services Support, for Enterprise dashboard application • Open approach, allowing IT to develop multi-purpose application • Scaling OmniVista for large infrastructure requirements • All centralized tasks favoring automation for less IT resources, less cost to deploy and administrate • Reducing the IT cost to deploy Network access policy for end users through Wizard and Rule editor

  16. OmniVista 2500 & 2700Enhancing the manageability – R3.3 • Global support for new Alcatel Devices • OmniVista integration for OmniVista Mobility Manager (OA Wireless) • OmniVista 2500 & 2700 support for OS 6850L, OS 9800, AOS 6.1.3 • OmniVista 2500 & 2700 support for OmniStack 6200 series • Phase 0 starting with third party support with previous releases • AMAP adjacency Quarantine manager Port Shut Down • All Third party capabilities supported • Phase 1 with OV2500 & OV2700 Support • All options for Resource Manager • Enhancements for Statistics & Locator, • Inventory Tab with Topology, link aggregation support • Quarantine Manager Extensions for Vlan Mac based containment

  17. OmniVista 2500 & 2700OmniStack 6200 support– R3.3 Device status OS LS6200 Resource Manager OS LS6200Full backup options Module status OS LS6200 AMAP & 6200

  18. OmniVista 2500 & 2700Simplicity and scalability through OmniVista – R3.3 • Scalability & simplification for all network-wide operations • Devices configuration trough interactive CLI/telnet • Scheduling CLI scripting, passing parameters (IP address, etc…) • Streamlining troubleshooting with Locator • New Filtering capability for Locator Results • “Right click” actions for problem resolution with “Disable/Enable Port” • Simplifying device Configuration operations • Incremental Configuration backup for Resource Manager • Automatically detects configuration changes and saves them

  19. OmniVista 2500 & 2700Scope & Objectives - Release 3.4 – Q1-2007 Directions &Preliminary • Extending Web services coverage • Supporting APIs for configuration, provisioning , security reporting • Distributive, federation approach for Web Service for greater scalability • Simplifying network Maintenance and operations • 802.1ab & MED extensions standard support for discovering and maintaining accurate network topologies in multi-vendor environments. • Manageability umbrella for MSAD, OS LS 6200 & others • Device configuration comparison & editing with Resource Mgr • Converging End User security & Network access under OmniVista NMS umbrella • User based Profiles support for Network access • Network-wide Access Guardian support for supplicant configuration

  20. Directions &Preliminary OmniVista 2500 & 2700Overview – Release 3.4 – Q1 2007 • Introducing new hardware, scaling the NMS infrastructure • MS Windows Vista Support • Support for 802.1ab, standard based adjacency protocol • OS6200 VLAN Mgr & CLI Scripting Support • MSAD (OmniAccess Wan 2nd Gen) support OV2500 & 2700 • Device configuration edit & compare through RMAN • Optimizing infrastructure performances & Network Access • OV2730, OV2760, OV2750 support for OS6200 • Network Access profiles managed through User Profiles • Network Wide Access Guardian configuration • Resolving incidents, problems… • Trap Forwarding: subnet, Region, Device range • Traps filtering based on trap variable value/ranges • Web Services Phase 2 (Federation support) • Executing day to day tasks • Resource Manager Retention policy • Phase 2 for Web Services (Federation support) Increased scalability and configuration capabilities for Large Enterprise infrastructure

  21. OmniVista 2500 & 2700Extending Web Services- R3.4 Directions &Preliminary • Extending initial Web Services scope • Scriptable control of OmniVista core functionality • APIs covering configuration, provisioning , security reporting • Resource manager operation status, Vlan provisioning, Quarantine status • Final objective will be to provide GUI alternative vs OV “ fat” client • Distributive approach for web services for large infrastructure • Web Browser/Web services interfacing with multiple OmniVista servers at once • Web browser/GUI providing dynamic aggregation & polling • “One to many” approach

  22. OmniVista 2500 & 2700Simplifying Network operations – R3.4 Directions &Preliminary • Simplifying Network Operations & maintenance • 802.1ab & Med-Link extension for accurate topology • Network Mapping, multi-vendor adjacency protocol inventory data • Reduce general set-up costs in multi-vendor networks • Accurate & up-to-date Network topologies • Inventory data (firmware, software, speed & configuration) • Still maintaining compatibility with existing adjacency Protocols • AMAP, 3rd party though manual links as additional protocols • Opportunity for advanced • “Template” like approach device configuration through Resource Manager • Comparison & Modification for Boot.cfg

  23. OmniVista 2500 & 2700User based profile for Network Access – R3.4 Directions &Preliminary • Converging Security management & Network Management under a common Framework • “User based Profiles” support through OmniVista 2760 Network Access • New application for user Profiles, upgrade of existing SecureView ACL • Friendly ACL sets associated with Users • Users defined in reference to Subnets, mac ranges, or vlans • Network Resources defined as a set of Server IP, Protocol, port • Network resources organized by end user in “logical zone” • Action generated for user Profiles, Allow, deny, bandwidth QoS • Add server/Protocol/Port to a “logical” zone , ACL get updated, refreshed to all switches • Anyone connected a switch get classified as to what he can/cannot get to • Doesn’t preclude/required an 802.1x authentication scheme • Access Guardian Support within SV-NA • Supplicant management for Network wide configuration, multiple ports at once • New Tab under SV-NA

  24. OmniVista 2500 & 2700Manageability umbrella – R3.4 Directions &Preliminary • OS LS 6200 Phase 2 • Support for all OmniVista 2700 optional applications • SecureView Network Access for ACL & user profiles, PolicyView QoS • Vlan Manager extensions • MSAD/OmniAccess WAN 2nd Gen support • Auto-Discovery & MIB pre-packaging • Resource Manager & central configuration repository support • Backup/Restore/upgrade version • Auto-configuration server (OmniVista acting as central repository) • OV2770 QM support to push a Quarantine to the branch boundaries • Centralized Network Management for device access & centralized user credentials • User Profiles Support from SecureView – Network Access • Ability to push ACL and User profiles definition to MSAD devices

  25. OmniVista 2500 & 2700Manageability umbrella – R3.4 Directions &Preliminary • OmniSwitch 2400 & 1000 Security appliances support • Auto-discovery & MIB packaging for Topology Support • OmniVista Security Manager right click launch • OmniVista Security Manager used as EMS • GUI- LAN Tracking • Incident reports • Policy Settings • Centralized Notification Support from OV2500 • All Traps sent from OmniSwitch Security appliance • Leveraging OmniVista Notification capabilities (Filtering, responder, forwarding, etc) • OmniVista Quarantine Manager notification • Syslog & Trap notification • Quarantine Enforcement – 2nd level shielding

  26. OmniVista 2500 & 27002006 Directions- Q2 2007 & Beyond Directions &Preliminary • IPv6 support for Network management operations • IPv4/IPv6 Network devices/ NMS infrastructure operations (client/Server) • IPv6 feature setup (VLAN) & IPv6 Mibs support for IPv6 capable device • Reducing IPv6 address setup complexity with IPv6 “OneTouch” feature • Sflow capabilities within OmniVista 2500 & 2700 • Collectors setup Administration • Statistics sampling & Matrix analysis • Security behavior detection & Quarantine management interaction • Language based CLI scripting engine • Use a standard scripting language for CLI scripting, • Providing for if/then modal situations. • Support for scripting to 3rd party devices

  27. OmniVista 2500 & 2700Competitive Advantages • OmniVista 2500 & 2700 Benefits • Not just a basic umbrella, 3rd party support with advanced Monitoring • Customizable auto-discovery and MIB Import • Customizable contextual launch for all EMS • Trap responder, Trap Forwarding, Trap Absorption • Topology with link detection • Advanced functionalities for AOS devices • Topology with visual references (Aggregation ID, STP, adjacency….) • Trap replay • Resource Manager for configuration management • Optional Applications • Wizard application for bulk configuration of Vlans • Common Wireless/Wired operations for Network Quarantine • Advanced security operations (Network Quarantine, Security policies, device security)

  28. OmniVista 2500 & 2700Overview – Release 3.3 • Introducing new hardware, scaling the NMS infrastructure • OS9800 & OS6850L support (OV25 &2700) • OS6200 series support (OV25 &2700) • OmniAccess WLAN Mobility Manager integration with OmniVista • Users Profiles support/ Network Access • Resolving incidents, problems… • Locator Extensions: Toggle a port (disable/Enable) • Traps - sorting by OIDs • Traps- Responder initiating CLI scripts • Traps archiving above threshold & retrieving from archive • OmniVista Web Services APIs • information on devices traps- Get last n traps • Locate end station on the network • Executing day to day tasks • OmniVista access control for topology maps • Resource Manager- Incremental backups • Resource Manager – SFTP backup options • OmniVista CLI scripting- Passing parameters • OmniVista Web services APIs: • Network Topology • Switch attributes Complex operations & Exchange of info with other NMS platforms (Alcatel & in house IT) with Web Services

  29. OmniVista 2500 & 2700Vlan Mgr & Discovery enhancements – R3.1 • Scalability and flexibility in all infrastructure operations • Devices sort by Vlan • Mechanism to sort devices by vlan name independent of Vlan number • Option to display for the same Vlan name, different Vlan numbers in different switches • Vlan Browser for planning & troubleshooting across all devices • Topology Map Export • Convert topology map and export into a drawing file export as JPEG • Discovery timestamp • Display and Sort device capabilities by the time of their actual discovery • User interface will provide a new “switch” column table containing date/time

  30. OmniVista 2500 & 2700Devices Sort by Vlan Membership- R3.1 Right Click in Map View Popup Menu has an item to Select By VLAN The Devices with VLAN Membership defined get highlighted in the Topology Map

  31. OmniVista 2500 & 2700Vlan information browser-R3.1 • Search Results page • -list IP address of the Switch for each displayed line • Support of all Standard UI actions: • “select filter” • “Cancel Filter” • ‘Print table” • “Export Table as csv” “Select Devices” page Only discovered devices are shown User can select: -Add -Add all -remove -remove all Vlan Information page

  32. OmniVista 2500 & 2700Spanning Tree Topology overlay – R3.1 • Spanning tree view of the infrastructure • Interaction between physical topology and spanning tree layout • Ability to display a STP map overlay on top of the topology map, • Visualizing spanning tree instances per Vlan • With the following display capabilities : • Switches participating in the same STP tree, for each VLAN • Root bridge, blocking and forwarding ports • No links display between blocked ports

  33. OmniVista 2500 & 2700 Spanning Tree Topology Overlay - R3.1 Hovering over a device in OV Map“Show STP ports” Show STP Port/Vlan ID: -IP address for Bridge ID -Designated Bridge ID -Root Bridge ID

  34. OmniVista 2500 & 2700Quicker reaction with Notification app – R3.1 • Notification Enhancements (AOS and 3rd Party): • Trap absorption • Trap summarization for repetitive traps coming from the same switch and with counter increment • Storing and display only one trap instance and instance counter • Sort devices by traps • Help to identify devices generating most of the traps • Sort switches according to the number of traps matching a given filter • Define a trap filter, then display switches sorted by the number of matching instances • Traps Archiving • Traps are archived instead of being deleted when a specific threshold is reached • Archived traps can be retrieved and viewed whenever necessary

  35. OmniVista 2500 & 2700Trap archiving- R3.1 Exceeding received Traps are archived for further review“Traps.txt” are visible through OmniVista Client

  36. OmniVista 2500 & 2700Secure complex software upgrades- R3.1 • “Fail Safe” mechanisms for Resource Manager • Pass/Fail summary at end of every batch upgrade of multiple switches • Prevent any Firmware damage in case of unsuccessful new firmware download • Tracking number successful, number failed • Automatically blocking the reboot/reload menu commands with any upgrade failures menu commands for that switch • Flag and identify suspicious devices within Discovery application • Command blocked until a successful upgrade has been performed.

  37. OmniVista 2500 & 2700 Extensive support for AOS devices – R3.1 • Extensive Manageability & OmniVista Support for Alcatel devices • New additional certified and support operating Support • Novell Suse 9.3 – 64 bit environment • “Fail Safe” Mechanisms for Resource Manager for AOS devices • Prevent any Firmware damage in case of unsuccessful new firmware download • Flag and identify within Discovery application • OmniVista 2500 & 2700 support for AOS OS6850 & OS9600 • All centralized operations (OV2500) & advanced Settings (OV2700) • OS9000-series Fuji FPGA upgrade for Resource Manager

  38. OmniVista 2500 & 2700Scope & Objectives- R3.1 • Alcatel 7x50 SR & 7450 ESS lite integration with OmniVista 2500 applications • Light integration & Manageability for Common Alcatel solution combining Alcatel IPD devices & NIBU devices • Metro, Triple play , Regional networks • OmniVista 2500 as main Network Management Supervisor • OmniVista the common umbrella for the infrastructure • Discovery, Topology, Notification management tasks • OmniVista 2500 & 2700 don’t replace & substitute Alcatel 5620 SAM for all advanced management for Alcatel IPD devices • Configuration, Service provisioning, SLA, etc..

  39. OmniVista 2500 & 2700Support for Alcatel 7750 & 7450- R3.1 • Alcatel IPD 77xx & 74xx Support through OmniVista 2500 • “Third party” like integration • MIB Installed & Integrated out of the Box, MIB browsing • Topology & Discovery with specific icons (device tab) • Monitoring Support through Notification Manager (traps) • All advanced OV Trap management features supported • Device/Element Management Launch • Telnet/CLI session with SSH support • 5620 SAM Client launch (OV & 5620 SAM Servers should be dissociated) • With still limited support for OmniVista 2500 & 2700 • Alcatel 77xx & 7400 are not Standard MIB II support devices • No Locator support, No Statistics support (Port level) • No support from OmniVista 2700 applications

  40. OmniVista 2500 & 2700New features - OmniVista 2500 & 2700 – R3.3 • Common features for OmniVista 2500 & 2700 apps • Support for OS6200 - OmniVista 2500 & 2700 apps • Support for AOS OS9800 - OmniVista 2500 & 2700 apps • Support for AOS OS6850L - OmniVista 2500 & 2700 apps • Support for Sun Solaris 10 (Sparc platform) • OmniVista 2500 & 2700 Server backup: SFTP option • OmniVista 2500 & 2700 : Modifying scheduled Tasks (OV25_27)

  41. OmniVista 2500 & 2700New features – OmniVista 2500 application- R3.3 • OmniVista 2500 Topology application • OmniAccess Wireless OmniVista Mobility Manager Launch • Topology: add access control for maps • OmniVista 2500 Locator application • Retention policy for Locator records • Locator control to disable/enable Port • Filtered OmniVista Locator Results (Q tagged ports on/off) • OmniVista 2500 Scripting application • Scheduled CLI scripting , Add parameters passing • OmniVista 2500 Statistics application • Simplifying chart data for Export • Printing Multi-page Statistics Charts

  42. OmniVista 2500 & 2700New features – OmniVista 2500 application- R3.3 • OmniVista 2500 Resource Manager application • Incremental backup support • Retention policy for backup • Uboot upgrade for OS9000 through Resource Manager • OmniVista 2500 Notification application • Initiate CLI scripts, pass parameters • Switch Down Trap generation • Filter per Trap OID, • Trap description improvement

  43. OmniVista 2500 & 2700 New features – OmniVista 2700 applications- R3.3 • OmniVista 2760 SecureView- Network Access (formerly ACL) • User based profiles for ACL • Based on VLAN for AOS devices 6.xx • Based on Mac Groups for Aos devices 5.xx • OmniVista 2730 PolicyView QoS • Global QoS Configuration • Support for Policy based Routing • OmniVista 2770 Quarantine Manager • Passed IP address edge switch to Quarantine Manager responder

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