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Overview

The Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista 2500 NMS application is the foundation for managing networks comprised of Alcatel-Lucent and other network devices. The OmniVista 2500 (OV2500) gives administrators a unified view of the network as well as the necessary functions and services required to support next generation devices and applications. It features centralized management, bulk operations, simplicity, and scalability, and adheres to the essential network management functions of the FCAPS model (fault, configuration, accounting, performance, security).

By providing centralized operations, the infrastructure is optimized and deployment is simplified. Network device discovery and topology maps provide both physical and logical views of the network. Users are able to automate operations such as CLI scripting, create VLANs across multiple devices, and provide third party device support.

Centralized operations also optimizes troubleshooting since it is easier to monitor the health of the network using a combination of alarm information, the locator service for pinpointing user location, and the trap responder for taking quick, automated action when there is an event. Health and statistic information is also readily available.

Benefits

Features

Overview

The OmniVista 2700 supplemental services are optional software applications that provide flexibility and automation. These applications can be added as desired to the OmniVista 2500 environment to extend the capabilities of OmniVista NMS. These supplemental services include:

OmniVista 2730 - PolicyView - Simplifies the complex task of configuring QoS and enables enhanced policy-based management across multiple devices through OneTouch simplicity.

OmniVista 2750 - SecureView Switch Access –Centralizes control of switch administration access rights and policies with OneTouch manageability.

OmniVista 2760 - SecureView ACL - Simplifies and automates the complex task of configuring network security policies by using access control lists (ACLs).

OmniVista 2770 - Quarantine Manager - Protects the network from attacks at the network and application level by isolating the misbehaving user and providing a means for remediation.

OmniVista 2790 - Web Services - Provides a northbound interface for easy integration with diverse network management applications.

Overview

Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista 4760 Network Management System is an innovative, modular platform that provides a suite of network management applications. This powerful Java-based tool, accessed through a Web browser, provides centralized management for the Alcatel-Lucent OmniPCX Enterprise.

The platform's open architecture enables today's IT managers and administrators to effectively monitor and maintain the network, while lowering the company's total cost of ownership. This suite of network management applications includes

• LDAP Directory
• Animated Topology
• High Quality alarms notification
• OmniPCX Configuration
• Multi-currencies, multi-carriers Accounting
• Performance analysis
• Voice over IP monitoring
• Reporter tool

Benefits

• Reduced operating costs
• Web-based management tool for multi-site and remote supervision
• Consolidated management tool
• User-friendly interface

Features

• Direct access to configuration menu
• Graphical display of OmniPCX systems
• Customized topologic maps
• Alarm access and notification according to severity of incident

Technical Info

Minimum Server Technical Requirements

Overall requirements

• Internal or external DVD drive
• 4 GB video memory supporting a resolution of 1024x768, 16 million colors
• 2 serial V24 (only for PPP remote connection)
• Network card (Ethernet 10/100 BaseT)
• Screen 17" (19" recommended)
• OS: Windows XP® Professional SP2 , Windows 2003® Server Standard edition SP2

Medium range server (up to 5,000 users) requirements

• 1.6 GHz Processor
• RAM 1 GB
• Hard Disk 40 GB

High range server (more than 5,000 users) requirements

• Dual Processor or Dual Core 3 GHz
• RAM 2 GB
• Hard Disk 72 GB
• RAID 5, 512 MB cache memory min. for the controller

Minimum Clients Technical Requirements

• 4 GB video memory supporting a resolution of 1024x768, 16 million colors
• Screen 17" (19" recommended)
• OS: Windows XP® Professional SP2 , Windows 2003® Server Standard edition SP2, Windows Vista
• 1 GHz Processor
• RAM 1 GB
• Hard Disk 40 GB

Browsers supported

• Internet Explorer version 7.0 for Windows, Firefox version 2 for Windows

Overview

The Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista 3600 Air Manager is a wireless LAN management software suite that provides centralized visibility and control over today’s wireless networks. OmniVista 3600 reduces the cost of operating the wireless infrastructure, improves network performance, improves reliability for wireless end users, and makes the network more secure.

OmniVista 3600 is a true operations management solution that delivers a full set of capabilities including real-time user and device monitoring, centralized configuration and compliance management. These management solutions are designed for the entire IT staff, providing every team member with customized monitoring views and the detailed information needed for his or her job. Most importantly, they provide complete visibility and transparency, so IT can see exactly where users are and how the network is performing at all times.

Benefits

• Level One and Level Two Help Desk with all relevant user information to trouble shoot and fix a WLAN problem in no time
• Enhanced security through availability of forensic information pertaining to user activity over the wireless network
• Accurate assessment of performance and network capacity over time. Proactive planning of network upgrade for increased capacity
• Correlation between RF heat map, interference map and user location for quick RF troubleshooting
• Flexibility in deployment strategy with the ability to gradually migrate legacy equipment while using OmniVista 3600 as the common centralized management platform
• Prevents a large number of security incidents resulting from improper
  configuration of wireless equipment
• Detects one of the most dangerous and yet common threats fromwireless LANs
• Simplified firmware distribution task for large organizations

Features

• User, session and device monitoring with bandwidth usage, RF signal strength, QoS data, and roaming history
• Storage of nearly two years of historical data, user roaming patterns and detailed capacity reports
• Real time location information
• Management of multiple vendor’s wireless solutions
• Compliance audits and configuration policy enforcement
• Rogue access point detection and classification
• Automatic distribution, scheduling and verification of firmware updates

Technical Info

Device discovery

• Uses SNMP, HTTP, CDP, and other discovery protocols to locate all Wi-Fi devices
• Uses SNMP, HTTP, CDP, and other discovery protocols to locate all Wi-Fi devices

Policy enforcement and audit

• Uses group-based templates for efficient central management of any number of access points
• Routinely audits each Wi-Fi device’s configuration and compares it to policy
• Sends alerts for mis-configured devices, and automatically performs repairs
• Provides password-based login and administrative user permissions for multiple classes of users
• Keeps user log files for two years

Provisioning and configuration

• Enables group-based policy definition for efficient central management of thousands of access points
• Automatically ensures that all devices are using approved, up-to-date versions of vendor firmware
• Supports multiple WLAN architectures (including hybrid networks with intelligent APs, WLAN switches and even mesh devices)
• Automates RF channel assignment and management
• Automatically assigns IP addresses to newly-installed access points

Monitoring diagnostics

• Monitors every device and user on the wireless network live
• Identifies and searches for users by username
• Graphical views show current users and throughput of every device
• User views show signal strength and roaming history of each user
• Performs intelligent diagnostics and sends automated alerts when problems are detected
• Integrates with network management systems (HP OpenView Network Node Manager) for seamless management of wired and wireless networks
• Optimized to use minimal network overhead for SNMP monitoring
• Supports networks with high-latency or intermittent connections

Reporting and visualization

• Integrated reporting package includes use, inventory, client session, device uptime reports and more
• Exports all reports (via XHTML)
• Automated email distribution lists
• Fully customizable reports by group, time, etc.
• Integrates with VisualRF to provide real-time RF monitoring data
• Maintains data for up to two years

Platform data

• Centralized in network operations center (no local agents required)
• Installs on standard PC hardware
• Secure Linux operating system
• Web-based user interface via Apache web server
• SSH, Telnet, SNMPv1, SNMPv2, and SNMPv3 for device communication
• SQL-based databases, RRD data repositories
• Standard XML API for third-party applications
• Unlimited unique, role-based administrative log-ins
• Scalable architecture to 10,000+ wireless access points
• Integrates with leading wireless authentication solutions (including Cisco 3030, Cisco ACS, Bluesocket, HP 700 series, etc.)

Overview

The Alcatel-Lucent VitalSuite® performance management system provides network administrators with end-to-end, web-based visibility into geographically dispersed, multi-vendor, and multi-technology converged infrastructures. Extensively programmable with multi-vendor, multi-service technology offers flexible and cost-effective growth.

VitalSuite provides both historical and near real-time views into everything from complex contact center transactions to mission-critical network resources. Carrier grade scalability provides support for millions of performance-monitored objects, allowing IT managers the ability to monitor, analyze, manage and predict performance from a single centralized location.

“MyVital” portal is an Enterprise-wide information portal providing personalized network managers with personalized views of the network's performance and events, enabling proactive responses for corrective action and preventing problem escalation.

Three advanced primary software modules comprise the VitalSuite performance management system – application management, real-time network analysis and customized reporting.

Alcatel-Lucent VitalNet
Provides real-time network analysis and critical network information necessary to plan for maximum return on network Application management investments.

Alcatel-Lucent VitalApps
Provides application management and monitors transactions from the desktop to the network / Internet to the destination server, providing information on traffic volumes, application transaction response times and other critical data. VitalApps continuously evaluates network performance and ensures maximum availability.

Alcatel-Lucent VitalART
Provides advanced reporting in a comprehensive web-based application that enables generation of custom presentation quality reports and graphs.

Benefits

• Network wide performance management provides a complete overview of the enterprise's physical infrastructure
• Maximum uptime as a result of proactive performance monitoring and network-wide visibility across the entire IT infrastructure
• Increased Quality of Service by improving available bandwidth and managing time sensitive services
• Investment protection: VitalSuite integrates easily with existing and emerging technologies
• Improved IT efficiencies and reduced cost by centrally managing network performance
• Low cost of ownership - reduce CapEx and OpEx outlays with a simple, economical licensing model, cut training time and expense with an easy to use web-based management interface
• Simple and effective capacity planning
• Fast, easy deployment: identify trouble spots, verify Service Level Agreement (SLA) compliance and optimize resource utilization
• Enhanced end-user experiences: access real-time data to identify performance issues before they affect users
• Immediate ROI: track usage data to consolidate or eliminate operational resources

Features

Multi-vendor, multi-technology compatibility provides an extensive programmable platform to accommodate cost-effective growth

Carrier-grade scalability provides support for millions of performance-monitored objects

Event management: real-time network event data allows proactive responses for corrective action and prevents problem escalation

Enterprise-wide information portal: personalized enterprise-wide view of the network's performance provided by the “MyVital” portal

Application Performance Management allows IT transparent monitoring of every IP based transaction from inception to completion

• Facilitates performance optimization and Quality of Service enhancement
• Passive flow analysis provides real-time demarcation of every application transaction by client, network and server time
• Heat charts graphically display application status for rapid fault detection and user impact monitoring
• Drill-down reports provide details needed to locate, isolate and resolve problems
• VPN tunnel monitoring and reporting tracks tunnel setup and usage time and generates tunnel-problem alerts
• Diagnosis and prescription capability analyzes problems and recommends solutions
• Embedded Agent Software lets IT managers view problems from the user perspective

Network Performance Management delivers continuous network-wide visibility to improve resource optimization, planning and ROI

• Automated collection and aggregation of network-wide performance data
• Heat charts pinpoint emerging performance problems
• Network-wide view of network data and VoIP performance across infrastructure
• Scalability supports today's largest, most widely distributed networks from one intuitive GUI
• Fully integrated, advanced reporting tool provides access to all network data sets, domain and group definitions; auto discovers new collector data added to isolate trouble spots, verify Service Level Agreements (SLAs), improves resource utilization

Real-time Event Analysis tracks faults to their source

• Continuous monitoring of WAN, IP, Frame Relay and ATM traffic, elements and interfaces
• Powerful event analysis tools filter, analyze and graphically summarize raw performance data
• Instantaneous event notification via screen displays, e-mail/pager and trap messages
• Measures, analyzes and visualizes performance data in real-time and immediately identifies network resources that have exceeded defined network service levels
• Default, user-configurable and adaptive (based on historical data) thresholds; either device-specific or network-wide

Overview

VitalQIP DNS/DHCP IP Management Software is now integrated with the InfoExpress CyberGatekeeper host integrity check (HIC) solution

Alcatel-Lucent VitalQIP™ DNS/DHCP IP Address Management Software is a market leading solution for automating IP address management services across networks. It streamlines management and cuts administrative costs for enterprises, government agencies, and service providers worldwide. Based on a recent IDC study, VitalQIP customers on average see a ROI of over 900% and a payback period of 106 days. The VitalQIP Appliance addresses the shift in the IP Address Management (IPAM) market towards appliances for increased reliability, manageability, scalability and security, and is the only appliance solution on the market that seamlessly integrates with VitalQIP DNS/DHCP & IP Address Management Software.

Though organizations of any size can benefit from automating and centralizing IP address management, the need would be more pressing and ROI more compelling for organizations with 1000 or more IP addresses.

Components of the VitalQIP Address Management Software include:

• Audit Manager
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) module
• API Toolkit
• Network Allocator
• Services Manager
• Registration Manager
• Auto Discovery
• ENUM Manager

Benefits

Use VitalQIP to automate the IP address management VitalQIP has broad applicability - organizations across all vertical industries that run IP networks abenefit from:

• Reduce infrastructure support costs - less support staff
• Reduce address assignment process and departmental costs
• Reduce disaster recovery time and cost
• Improve the availability of network infrastructure
• Reduce operator effort and mis-configurations
• Reduce troubleshooting time and support costs due to inaccurate configuration
• Improve overall network operational efficiencies
• Maintain consistent and accurate IP inventory
• Control operating expenses through automation
• Provide high availability for clients/subscribers
• VitalQIP is performance proven in the most demanding networks
• Rapidly provision address space and reliably deliver critical IP name and service
In-step with new technology and services: VoIP, ENUM, RFID, IPv6, Mobile HSD and IP Video, etc.

Features

Key Aspects of VitalQIP Technology include the following:

Innovative Profiling Capabilities

• With VitalQIP software and the appliance solution, you can easily create a base of network and customer information that allows you to define and manage subnets and network services

Flexible Subnet Management

• Today’s networks must be updated constantly to keep up with frequent moves, mergers, and reorganizations that cause address space to become fragmented

Customizable User Interface

• VitalQIP software delivers a user interface that streamlines operations and allows you to plan, model, and build an IP network that truly reflects your organization’s structure and goals

Ability to Change DNS Options on Multiple Domains Simultaneously

• The ability to modify multiple domains simultaneously can greatly reduce operational expenses of configuring the network

Windows Support

• VitalQIP software continues its market-leading support of Microsoft Windows DNS/DHCP servers with support of sites, subnets, and secure zones in Active Directory

DNS & DHCP Server Compatibility

• VitalQIP supports BIND-compliant DNS servers. The Alcatel-Lucent DHCP Server can update both primary and secondary DNS servers with resource record information as DHCP leases are granted and deleted

End-to-end Feature Rich Appliance Solution

• Centralized appliance management data store to keep track of services and status of remote appliances
• Automated software upgrade capability with rollback options
• Highly secure communication between AMS and appliances with unique appliance key generation
• Logical grouping of appliances for ease of upgrades
• Remote start/stop/initialize of services
• High availability using heartbeat and virtual address mechanism

Value-Added Modules:

• Audit Manager enables you to track the usage history of an IP address and the associated user or group
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Module provides visibility into the network services engines running your DNS and DHCP protocols and helps you maximize the overall uptime performance of these services
• Usage-Based Billing Interface collects and tracks IP address assignments and links each address to a billing location or group
• API Toolkit allows you to extend and integrate the VitalQIP system into other critical network applications
• Network Allocator allows you to automate the creation of subnets
• Services Manager is specifically designed for the server administrator, enabling any administrator with access privilege to verify the operation of the DHCP and DNS environment
• Registration Manager streamlines network administration and enhances address tracking by authenticating each enterprise user and dynamically allocating an IP address based on a profile that can be mapped to levels of service to which the user is entitled
• AutoDiscovery provides a snapshot of the IP/Ethernet network "as is"
• ENUM Manager provides the ability to administrate ENUM records in the VitalQIP® database and manage and update Lucent DNS servers

Overview

The Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM) takes service providers well beyond the traditional boundaries of element, network and service management. It enables unified, end-to-end management of IP/MPLS and Carrier Ethernet networks and the services they deliver to help service providers quickly gain the efficiencies they need to beat the competition. Rapid provisioning reduces time-to-market and increases flexibility when launching new services. Proactive troubleshooting helps resolve problems before they affect customers. And ease of integration within the existing operational environment helps service providers get the most from their investments.

The 5620 SAM offers a modular, extensible and scalable architecture that can be customized to fit specific operational environments.  It consists of four modules that provide:

• Element management for traditional FCAPS functionality
• Network infrastructure configuration, service provisioning, scripting and customer management
• Assurance including physical, network and service topology views and OAM service-diagnostics tools
• OSS integration with external applications

Service providers can further enhance the 5620 SAM’s management capabilities with the Alcatel-Lucent 5650 Control Plane Assurance Manager (CPAM), Alcatel-Lucent 5670 Reporting and Analysis Manager (RAM), Alcatel-Lucent custom service portals, and pre-certified OSS partner application integrations.

With more than 270 deployments, including some of the world’s largest and most advanced networks, the 5620 SAM is a proven solution that sets the standard for service-aware management. It helps service providers to address today’s challenges with a foundation that will support tomorrow’s market-leading service offerings for business, residential, mobile or converged services.

Benefits

• Rapid introduction of new services and technologies
• Accelerated and reliable provisioning that minimizes the risk of misconfigurations and reduce time-to-market
• Proactive prevention of potential service-affecting problems before they impact customers
• Faster and simplified problem resolution to quickly pinpoint and solve issues
• Efficient statistics collection for flexible billing and SLA options
• Unmatched operational scalability to support network and service growth
• Increase productivity and flexibility with a management solution that easily adapts to allow cost-effective integration into the existing operational environment, enhancing workflows and processes

Features

• Easy-to-use GUI that accelerates configuration and provisioning tasks. Automation further accelerates tasks and minimizes the time and costs associated with the errors that commonly occur when a command line interface is used
• Common provisioning for Layer 2 and Layer 3 services to reduce the cost of delivering different service types
• Extensive service assurance capabilities that allow proactive identification of problems before they affect customers
• Powerful troubleshooting tools that help to quickly pinpoint the root cause of problems to speed resolution
• Templates that allow simplified integration with existing processes and workflows
• Open interfaces that enable integration with custom web portals, Operations Support Systems (OSSs) and Business Support Systems (BSSs)