The Solstice Enterprise ManagerTM 4.1 Software White Paper provides a technical overview of Solstice Enterprise Manager (Solstice EM) 4.1 Software and summarizes the Solstice EM Software functionality and architecture. It also describes how the software provides a very powerful and flexible environment and platform for implementing and deploying optimal network management solutions for today's evolving telecommunications and Internet Service Provider networks (wireless and wireline).

Solstice EM Software provides a comprehensive foundation (Management Platform) and a suite of tools needed to meet today's complex and evolving network management challenges. The Solstice EM architecture is highly flexible, scalable, secure and capable of supporting the demanding management requirements of telecommunications and Internet Service Provider (ISP) environments.

Solstice EM Software can manage network resources through:

• Common Management Information Protocol (CMIP)
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv1, SNMPv2c)
• Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) via network management agents and proxy agents
• JavaTM Remote Method Invocation (RMI)

Solstice EM has the capability of managing Java technology agents (compliant with JMX, the JavaTM Management Extensions) written using the JavaTM Dynamic Management Kit (JDMK). Additionally, protocol adapters for other proprietary legacy management protocols can be easily implemented using Solstice EM software tools to effectively manage proprietary/legacy networks.

Using a client/server architecture and various levels of standards-based access control, Solstice EM Software enables multiple network administrators to manage appropriate logical portions of a network based on assigned responsibilities and from desired locations on the network. The Rule-based Multiuser capability with its Standards-based Access Control implementation helps administer and enforce security policies for network management information. Functions which are made available to Solstice EM Software users, operators and administrators are based on specific access privileges and the deployment of multiple logical management domains within a network.

The management data within the software can be distributed across multiple Management Information Servers (MISs) as needed for performance, cost or other reasons. The actual server location of data is transparent to the client management applications, which can provide comprehensive views of the entire network or portions thereof. This ability to distribute management data across multiple MISs enables Solstice EM Software to provide the scalability required to manage continually growing networks.

Solstice EM Software's capabilities enable network managers and developers/integrators to conveniently build and deploy management solutions for a variety of networks, including wireless networks, hybrid networks (satellite cellular, wireline wireless, etc.), and ATM, SONET/SDH backbones, as well as for specific network devices, such as switches, transmission systems, routers and intelligent network nodes.

For additional details and illustrations, see:

http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/nep/whitepapers/SEM4_1_Whitepaper.pdf [...read more...]

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