Optimizing network management software to realize optimal scheduling of resources

Three or four years ago, network management seemed to be a concern for the information Department of the "Fire Brigade" of the enterprise. However, in the rapid development of network technology, business Application systems continue to mount today, the network management from behind the scenes to the front, is being the highest level of management unprecedented attention.

Enterprise input, network infrastructure, management awareness, network Manager's own skills are all the factors that affect the level of Internet management. However, in addition to these factors, today's network management is more focused on the use of appropriate network management software. A set of excellent network management system, directly determines the implementation of enterprise information technology. So this article will focus on the network management software from the perspective of the entire network management upgrade.

The trouble of Growing up

In recent years, more and more growth-oriented enterprises are experiencing the "growing pains", the proliferation of business flows, the increasing scope of surveillance is constantly testing the aging of the network management system. On the one hand, different manufacturers of network equipment in the enterprise of various municipal subsidiaries of various departments widely distributed, different technologies, interface compatibility, the interoperability between different regions is the network management system challenges. On the other hand, the enterprise internal network increasingly complex, TCP/IP, SNA and other network protocols coexist, Novell, UNIX and Windows NT, such as a variety of server platforms peaceful coexistence is not rare, Oracle, Sybase, SQL Many types of databases, such as the server, are also not a drop. When it is really a lot of wide, network maintenance of the difficulty and the workload imaginable.

How to minimize the workload of network administrators? How to deal with the event reports issued by many equipments in the network in time? How to detect the fault spot in the shortest time? For this reason, enterprise managers introduced network management software.

Foreign network management software: The embarrassment behind the mainstream

Because of the high technical content of network management software, high entry threshold, difficult to develop and other factors, has long been a strong foreign strength of large manufacturers occupy a dominant position. Because of these big enterprise's brand approval degree is high, the technology is relatively mature, has the good performance in the global market, thus becomes the domestic enterprise's first choice. But there are some enterprises installed foreign network management software can not be used or the use rate is not high. There are several reasons for this:

The use of habits, work behavior and regional cultural differences. The overall structure management of the IT department is closely related to the usage and behavior of each person in the IT department. and HP, CA, IBM are to consider to meet the U.S. It operation of the management system, management behavior and use habits as the starting point, this will inevitably and the Chinese market has a big difference.

Difficult to operate. Foreign network management software is a full English interface, and Chinese enterprises are difficult to combine, the network management technician requirements are relatively high.

Two times development difficulties. After the business change development cannot keep up, cannot continue to use. and foreign software to achieve this goal must be written back to the script, two of times to ensure that the two-time development agreement. And the two are easily misplaced, and once misplaced, the entire software will be completely out of use. In addition, the price is too expensive to deny.

Domestic network management software: growth is at that time

Because of foreign software in China's special market some acclimatized, some enterprises will look to the domestic manufacturers. Taking China railcom as an example, in the initial selection of network management products, China railcom is also the first to consider foreign network management system. After the inspection of the foreign network management products, China Railcom thinks that the foreign network management software is complicated, not easy to use, and the price is expensive, not the most suitable choice. As a well-known manufacturer of domestic network management Dragon technology, in accordance with the actual needs of China railcom, provides siteview integrated management system and Siteview topology King combination of Siteview solution.

"In this solution, the B/s architecture of Siteview Integrated network management system and ' The feature of hierarchical monitoring can solve the management demand of remote cooperative operation of China railcom distributed network. Rich Report statistics function to a large extent, for operation and maintenance personnel to reduce the burden of weekly and monthly statistics; Siteview topology King provides trend reports and real-time reports, traffic analysis, port changes, multiple window display, Topology discovery and other functions, can also be a great place in China railcom day-to-day management and maintenance. "This is the evaluation of China railcom after the trial of this system, and so railcom did not hesitate to choose the domestic production business solution."

Although there is still a certain gap between the overall and foreign products, but this year, by virtue of the market demand for the right grasp of the trend of domestic management software from a large pile of foreign network managers to break out of the software, and has been in the market to make a breakthrough. So I think, to grasp the domestic network management trend of the pulse, it is necessary to study domestic manufacturers to break through the road.

Breakthrough the first recruit: business applications for the King

"We are able to develop in the market for a long time because our positioning of the product is business-oriented operation." Zhang Zejun, general manager of Dragon Technology, expounds the way to survive. With the integration of network management system and business application system more and more closely, the focus of Internet administration is gradually rising from the management of network equipment to the service and the influence of the equipment to the business.

It is the grasp of this trend, Dragon technology in its Siteview products to strengthen the monitoring and management of key business applications, to achieve the depth of business monitoring and operation. Telecom, banking and other departments after the adoption of its products, the implementation of the various server application process, application systems, such as monitoring and analysis, and even can continuously monitor as an end user to use its business to what extent.

Breakthrough second recruit: Intuitive and easy to use

The foreign large-scale network management software needs the specialized technical team to manage, the investment is big, the implementation cycle is long, the network management personnel request is very high, the operation and the maintenance relatively is troublesome. Counter-View the domestic management software, the first implementation cycle is short, users buy after a day to complete implementation of the basic. followed by the full Chinese interface, very fast. Moreover, because of the use of images, report reports, and do not need to be monitored on the server to install agent software, operation and maintenance are very convenient.