Tool: IBM Tivoli Network Manager

IBM® Tivoli® Network Manager (TNM) helps network management staff visualize and understand the layout of complex networks and the impact of network events and failures upon them.

Network Manager’s topology-based event correlation and root-cause analytics allows network operations center (NOC) operators to work more efficiently by focusing time and attention on root cause events and identifying symptom events that can be filtered into a separate view. This dramatically reduces the time needed to heal the network and ensures that customer-facing network operations staff has meaningful, contextual information at their fingertips. This helps NOC operations meet their customers highest service expectations.

Network Manager’s advanced network discovery and visualization capabilities mean that NOC operators are also provided with the ability to view the network infrastructure and associated events that are critical to specific customer services.

This tool can be applied to these processes and activities:

Process	Activity	Tool Mentor
Capacity Management	Monitor, Analyze, and Report Capacity Usage	TNM – Monitor, Analyze, and Report Capacity Usage
Configuration Management	Identify Configuration Items	TNM – Identify Configuration Items
Configuration Management	Verify and Audit Configuration Items	TNM – Verify and Audit Configuration Items
Event Management	Correlate Events and Select Response	TNM – Correlate Events and Select Response
Event Management	Detect and Log Event	TNM – Detect and Log Event
Problem Management	Detect and Log Problem	TNM – Problem Management
Service Execution	Deliver Service	TNM – Deliver Service

The IBM Tivoli Open Process Automation Library contains product extensions for this product to help speed your time to value. To view these extensions, visit IBM Tivoli Open Process Automation Library – Netcool/OMNIbus.

For more information about this product, see the detailed Product Description, User and Administration guides.