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May 2002

Cisco Networking Services Notification Engine

Version 2.0

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Cisco Networking Services Notification Engine Definition

• Notification Engine is an offering in the Cisco Networking Services portfolio of products, addressing fault management capability focusing on detection, diagnosis and resolution of network faults.

• Enables flexibility and standardization in higher-level network management systems.

• Simple to integrate tools in Notification Engine enable faster detection, diagnostics and resolution of network faults.

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Cisco Networking Services Notification EngineValue Proposition

• Benefit of syslog information in XML or SNMP formats

• Action/response table for lowered MTTR

• Consolidation of devices to single MIB

• Distributed processing at device level

• Proactive device management via heartbeat

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Cisco Networking Services Notification Engine Feature Highlights

Additional support for:– AS 5xxx– ESR 10000 with NRP, OSR 7600– CatOS messages– Sun Solaris messages

Additional functionality:– De-duplication of repeat events– Correlation of cyclic notifications i.e. flapping– “Clear” alarms with auto-sense aging timer– Action/response key: explanation and recommendation

index on select messages– Publish messages to the Cisco Networking Services

Integration Bus– Publish messages to a Tibco bus

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Cisco Networking Services Notification Engine Legacy Feature Highlights

Support:– Integration with Cisco Info Center environment– Support of RPM with Cisco Wan Manager– Support for SNMP v1 & v2c

Functionality:– Fail-over to backup host– RTM proxy for reliable transport of SNMP– Self-health monitoring and notifications– Device heartbeat and unreachable notifications– Message suppression, severity override and selective

trap suppression– Node administration GUI

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1.0 1.5 1.5.1 2.0 Release

Platforms

CATOS

ESR10000

OSR7600

75xx

GSR12000

4500

75xx

GSR12000

4500

3660/3810

6000

MGX/RPM

75xx

GSR12000

4500

3660/3810

6000

AS5000

MGX/RPM

75xx

GSR12000

4500

3660/3810

6000

AS5000

MGX/RPM

Cisco Networking Services Notification EngineIOS Platforms Supported

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Cisco Networking Services Notification Engine ArchitectureSNMP Northbound

Syslog Daemon

Cisco Notification Engine Server

OSS App(1)

OSS App(2)

OSS App(…)

OSS App(16)

RTM Proxy

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Cisco Networking Services Notification Engine ArchitectureCNS Integration Bus Northbound

Cisco Networking Services Server OSS App(n)

Cisco Networking Services Integration Bus

Cisco Networking

Services Daemon

Cisco Networking

Services Daemon

Syslog Daemon

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Cisco Networking Services Notification Engine ArchitectureProcess Diagram

Syslog Pipe

SNMP Notification Generator

RTM Proxy

SNMP Agent

De-duplication and

correlation

Health MonitorNodeinfo.dat

sys.log

nsys.log

trap.db*

Cisco

Networking

Services

Publish

DNS

Syslog Messages SNMP NotificationsXML Alarms*db is for debug

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De-duplication and

correlation

Message

Receiver

Frequency

Sensor

Processed Notification Generator

Syslog Messages SNMP or XML Alarms

Name/value association

Signature Generation

P rate

Patrol 4Patrol 3

Patrol 2

Patrol Threads

Patrol 1

Patrol 4Patrol 3

Patrol 2

Patrol Storage Queue

Patrol 1

Cisco Networking Services Notification Engine ArchitectureAdaptive Compression

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Cisco Networking Services Notification Engine ArchitectureCisco Info Center (CIC) Integration

Cisco Networking Services

Notification Engine

Cisco Device Events

Other Syslog Events

Reliable traps

Reliable traps RTM Proxy

RTTRAPD

Cisco Cisco Info Info

CenterCenter

RulesRulesViews

Views

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Cisco Networking Services Notification EngineSystem Requirements

Cisco Networking Services Notification Engine 2.x:

– Hardware:• Netra 20• 512Mb Memory*• 30G HD*

– Software:• Sun Solaris 2.7, or 8

*Standard Netra configuration is equipped with more then required

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