SmartMIB Professional Solution:

Network Inventory and Assets Management

(SM-Pro-Inv&Asst)

(SM-ProUpd-Inv&Asst)

(SM-ProPlus-Inv&Asst)

Solution Introduction & Details Overview:

This solution focuses on the Management of the network physical Assets by gathering device’s Physical entities resources and events related details and statistics as reported by the operating systems of all network devices which are essential in managing telecoms, service provider, and small to large enterprise networks.

It introduces a SOSL based management script to build a management process to monitor the network’s detected physical entity assets using the SNMP Protocol as an interface to retrieve/poll entity related data and statistics.

This solution performs the following Physical Entity Assets services:

·      Learns the network wide chassis specific information. Some of what could be collected are information about the particular chassis name and description, and the associated administrator description, manufacturers name and designated part or model number, and the firmware and software revisions. Other collected data are listed in the Data characteristics table below.

·      Learns the network wide Modules and collects specific information on each module. Information collected includes: each Module’s name and description, and the associated administrator description, manufacturers name and designated part or model number, and the firmware and software revisions. Other collected data are listed in the Data characteristics table below.

·      Learns other network wide physical entities such as Power supplies, Fans, ports, and sensors collecting information mostly similar to what is collected for the Chasses and Modules whenever applicable. In effect classifying the over all network

·      Classifies detected physical entities in the network according to ‘Field Replaceability’ functionality. This facilitates per entity data collection by the managing entity itself.

·      Reports on each Module’s detected Processor RAM and NVRAM. It reports on the Used RAM space as well. It also Reports on each Module’s detected Configuration Register value as well as the Boot and Start images list.

·      Reads and reports on the detected Sensor entities values while monitoring their statuses. This refines the network environment monitoring across the network infrastructure.

·      Learns, Detects, and baselines the network Hardware configuration in terms of Parent-Child relationships between the different entities.

·      Detects each entity’s unique hard coded Serial Number whenever its provided by the Vendor manufacturer of the Entity.

·      Detects changes to the Hardware and Software network configurations per managed parent Physical Entity and per Child Entities down to the ordering in which the entities are installed.  

The main goal of the management process is to manage the Chassis Class entity on the managed devices and all of the associated Child entities. The solution presentation is based mainly on the RFC 2737 Entity MIB Objects.

Its interesting to note that many network hardware vendors have resorted to implementing different MIBs per hardware entity class to tackle this industry wide problem. This solution presentation however demonstrates how SOSL is fully capable of resolving once and for all similar industry wide shortcomings. It also demonstrates SmartMIB’s ability to segregate management processes on the basis of what is to be reported.

General Assets and Inventory Management Process Data Characteristics

The following table describes data that can be applied to this management process:

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