Cisco Systems Dial NMS manual THEnet, Network Design Questions, Answers

Network Design for a Dial NMS Case Study

Dial NMS Planning Questionnaire

Table 2	Network Design Questions and Answers (continued)
		THEnet
Network Design Questions		Answers
Do you provide reports for any service level commitments with		Yes
your customers? If yes, what management systems will you use?		•	Multi Router Traffic Grapher
			(MRTG)
		• Custom-based AAA
			accounting tools and database
			query tools
Identify the types of users who require network management		•	Network managers
reports.		•	Network operators
		•	Network engineers
		•	Help desk operators
		•	Corporations who outsource
			their dial-up service
		•	End users
What types of reports do you provide?		•	Periodic performance reports
		•	Billing reports
		•	Security reports
		•	Router operations reports
		• High-priority syslog reports
What format do the managers want to view the reports in?		HTML web pages and
		online graphs
Who will monitor the management systems?		The network operations staff
How will network operators be notified of network problems?		By sending e-mail to their pagers
For fault and performance management purposes, do you need to		Yes
provide call detail records?		Disconnect cause codes and retrain
		counters must be inspected.
What security protocols do you use for authentication,		•	RADIUS for the remote
authorization, and accounting (AAA)?			modem users
		• TACACS+ for the router
			administrators in the NOC
What dial NMS freeware do you plan to use?		MRTG, UCD-SNMP, Linux, and
		Apache
What software tools do you plan to develop internally?		•	Log File Rotator
		•	Device Navigator
		• Modem Call Record Viewer
		• Web-based management
		• War Dialer for performance
			testing (optional)
Do you plan to build and maintain customized scripts?		Yes

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