Integration
- The SMNP and CMIP agent integrators are OpenMaster components which translate operations to network elements and convert event notifications. They are used by the explorer to get data and receive events in a normalized form.
- MISS is a standard service offered by OpenMaster which compiles GDMO and RFC documents. MISS can encode and decode information defined in ASN.1/BER and distribute data definitions to other programs. The explorer relies on this service to encode and decode information exchanged with network elements. Graphical applications like the editors of the explorer and the simulator ask MISS for syntax definitions to automatically generate interface objects for network information.
- The explorer filters events and watches a MIB, a database or another process for other applications like the mapper and the logger. It's also a correlation engine. The explorer is the only component with the simulator which is connected to the OpenMaster framework. Other components like the mapper can be connected to the OpenMaster framework if they are extended to act on network elements.
- The combination of agent integrators and MISS from OpenMaster with the explorer insures that any network component with an SNMP or CMIP interface can be fully managed by the SmartSuite. If an equipment or an application is lacking a normalized interface, the explorer is able to spawn a process and filter its output. This feature can be used to easily watch network elements with a Corba or an ASCII interface.
- The mapper shows a graphical representation of the network. It can display simple shapes like polygons and circles, icons, compound objects like histograms and charts. It can draw links between any of these. Maps are animated by changing graphical properties in response to messages sent by the explorer or any other process.
- The qualifier collects events filtered by the explorer and correlates them into alarms which are logged by the logger. Its role is to enrich the flow of events, reducing it at the same time. The qualifier is embedded directly in the explorer or in the logger.
- The logger keeps alarms and correlated events on disk. Its graphical interface shows alarms, correlated events, history alarms in tables with commands to process them. It includes an opened interface to a trouble ticketing system. The logger can qualify events on its own or log alarms sent by the qualifier or a more sophisticated correlation engine.
- The simulator can emulate any network element and act as a command processor on the network. It's a key component to validate and demonstrate solutions, train operators in extreme conditions or act on a network in a controlled way.
- The webit gives complete access to all the information elaborated on the management platform to web applications. Web technologies like Apache and IIS servers, PHP, HTML and XML formats, XSL and XPATH translators, .NET, Java, JavaScript and Flash can be used freely to exploit all the SmartSuite services.
- All applications communicate transparently via the SML bus with the broker. The SML bus is yet another standard component of OpenMaster. SML is the native language of OpenMaster used to write all SmartSuite applications.
- The SmartSuite is amazingly flexible. All components are designed to be as open and as configurable as possible. It's aimed to give a ready to use solution to integrators with no additional software development.
