NSM networkmanagement platform

Broad compatibility: with 15+ years of adaptation experience, it supports 200+ vendors and 2000+ device series, and provides free support for 10 major vendors including H3C, Huawei, Cisco, Ruijie, ZTE, and MaiPu.

Quick to start: the product includes 10,000+ trap alarm definitions from multiple vendors and 300+ syslog resolve rules, ready to use and saving configuration time.

Scale management: the product uses containerization and a microservices architecture, supports hierarchical and proxy models, scales horizontally, and supports unified management of multiple networks, locations, and tens of thousands of devices.

Customizable homepage and large-screen display

Supports publishing widgets on the homepage (Web Widget—a small web subpage that can run on any HTML-based web page). Each widget supports collapse, restore, maximize, drag, close, open in a new window, and automatic asynchronous refresh.Widgets

Allows users to customize a personalized homepage within their permission scope.

You can use a high-resolution big screen to monitor the network running conditions, so that you can obtain the real-time network running status. You can customize the contents displayed as needed.

Comprehensive basic resource management

More managed device types: besides traditional routers and switches, it can manage wireless, security, voice, storage, surveillance, servers, printers, UPS and other devices, achieving centralized device resource management.

Unified multi-vendor device management: in addition to managing H3C network devices, the platform classifies and identifies network devices from HP, 3Com, Huawei, Cisco and other vendors. Device status and basic information management includes basic device info, interface info, performance data and alarm messages, and can display extended service information when additional components are added.

The IMC platform supports bulk configuring and checking device access parameters, and allows you to search for, edit, delete, and bulk import/export network device resources. The IMC platform supports bulk managing users, for example, bulk editing additional information for users, bulk canceling users, and bulk importing users, which saves the time taken to input users.

Clear network device asset management: when adding managed devices into network asset management, the system automatically discovers manageable accessory information on the device and adds those accessories into the network assets for management. Administrators can modify network asset information and view submodule details, interface information, and change audit history.

Flexible topology

Network topology provides calculation of device topology links and core topology services. Topology links reflect physical connections between devices and are calculated using neighbor protocols or MAC address learning relationships. For neighbor-protocol-based calculation, the system uses LLDP, NDP, CDP, and STP; these protocols record neighbor device information and directly compute Layer 2 topology links. Link calculation precedence from high to low is: LLDP, NDP/CDP, STP, MAC.

The network topology also provides access location queries, offering terminal location and terminal access history lookup so servers and other terminals can locate themselves in the network topology. Topology functions are primarily presented through the Panoramic Operation and Maintenance Map. All network topology services must be viewed and used via the Panoramic Operation and Maintenance Map.

Intelligent alarm management

Intuitive fault list: H3C Intelligent Management Center (iMC) automatically aggregates faulty devices across the network into a fault device list, enabling administrators to quickly and clearly find devices that need attention.

Intelligent alarm correlation: provides automatic filtering of duplicate alarms, sudden high-volume alarms, and unknown alarms. Users can also define filtering rules to effectively compact massive network alarms, allowing administrators to focus on real network outages.

Alarm root cause analysis and impact analysis: The IMC platform provides area alarm root cause analysis based on the topology, alarm correlation analysis, and alarm group analysis to effectively shield massive presentational alarms caused by faults. These features allow you to fast locate and search for fault root causes and identify the impact of faults.

Alarm definition and MIB import: in addition to supporting standard traps and private traps from major vendors such as H3C, Huawei, and Cisco, the platform offers functions to add and import trap definitions via MIBs to quickly support new traps from vendors.

Rich alarm forwarding mechanisms: besides audible and visual alerts and forwarding to email or SMS, the system can define different prompt contents and corresponding maintenance references for different alarm definitions; when similar alarms recur, it links directly to the relevant maintenance reference.

Visual device fault state monitoring based on topology: In a traditional NMS, the alarm states are not displayed in the topology. The IMC platform uses eye-catching colors to visually display the fault states on device icons and link icons in the topology. You can learn the overall network running status through the topology.

Syslog receive (Rx) and analysis: the platform supports receiving raw syslog messages from multi-vendor devices and provides log browsing, query, export, and automatic archiving. It can analyze syslog messages based on predefined and user-defined rules, escalate critical events into alarms, and help users timely detect network critical events amid massive syslog messages.

Easy performance management

Clear network TopN performance metrics: CPU utilization, memory utilization, bandwidth utilization, device response performance, and device reachability are key items in performance management (PM). The platform’s TopN lists let users quickly identify current network bottlenecks.

Performance views: users can flexibly customize performance data views to analyze network trends. Views support multi-metric, multiple-instance data combinations and offer multiple display types for performance monitoring (PM), including TopN detail tables, TopN column charts, fold-line graphs, histograms, bar charts, area charts, and summarized data.

Deep integration of performance and alarms: the platform supports setting two-level thresholds for each performance metric and sending alarms at different levels. Users can understand device metric performance directly from alarm information, helping them monitor network status, predict traffic trends, and optimize the network.

Detailed performance statistics reports: using collected performance data, the platform generates practical, detailed statistical reports on key performance monitoring content. Users can print these reports or export them to Excel, HTML, PDF, Word, and other formats.

Rich real-time topology performance metric display: the platform supports displaying device and link performance monitoring data within the topology, and users can customize different display metrics for different devices and links.

Powerful configuration management

Resource-based configuration and software management: from a resource management (RM) perspective, the platform provides management of a configuration template library and a device software library. The configuration template library maintains two resource types: network device configuration template files and commonly used configuration template fragments. Configuration template files can be deployed as device startup configurations or running configurations. Template fragments can be deployed as running configurations or, by enabling the "save device running configuration as startup configuration after issuing commands" option, be deployed as startup configurations. Templates can include parameters so different values can be set at deployment according to device differences.

The device software library maintains various software files: in addition to managing device version software, it also supports management of various service software on devices (currently including ONU software, ONU algorithms, and other device software resources), thereby achieving unified management of device software files. Users can export configuration templates and device software files from the system to local systems to build local backups of configuration and software file resources; conversely, they can import local files into the platform.

Centralized device configuration and software information display: This feature centralizedly displays the configuration files and software versions of all devices on the entire network, including the current software version, latest software version available for upgrade, latest backup time, and whether a device is added to an automatic backup plan. On this page, the administrator can perform the following centralized operations for devices, including device configuration deployment, device configuration backup and restoration, device software upgrade and restoration, device space management, and device software baseline management. This feature effectively helps the network administrator to visually learn the configurations and software versions of devices on the network.

Baseline device configuration change auditing: by managing the history of configuration backups and software upgrades, the system implements baseline device configuration change auditing, making configuration file management and software upgrade management traceable. It provides baseline version management for running configurations and startup configurations, dividing each device’s related configuration files into three versions: baseline, normal, and draft, which helps administrators with identification and management and allows quick recovery to the baseline configuration. It also provides device software baseline version management; each device can designate a baseline version and use baseline audit (BA) and quick recovery to the baseline version.

Automated creation of traceable network configurations: by enabling the automatic backup function, the system helps administrators automatically perform periodic historical backups of device configurations, thereby creating traceable network configurations for users. Users can set different backup cycles and backup times for different devices, supporting daily, weekly, and monthly cycles. It supports checking configuration changes on network-running devices and immediately notifies administrators by alarm when a configuration changes.

Rich service management

Wireless service management: provides complete wireless management and maintenance capabilities, such as managing AC, Fit AP, cloud AP and other wireless network resources; supports real time data monitoring for APs or ACs; and enables energy saving for radio equipment from multiple dimensions. WSM integrates into NSM to realize unified wired and wireless management, giving users a global view of network status and connections, while reducing wireless management and maintenance workload and improving wireless quality.

All-optical network (AON) service management: provides integrated management of all-optical network equipment and supports electro-optical integrated networking solutions. By bringing all-optical devices such as OLTs, ONUs, and other optical equipment under management, the system can deliver complete service functions for EPON, GPON, Ethernet-over-optical networks, and multi-channel scenarios through a unified digital foundation interface, and provides maintenance, monitoring, and visualization functions.

VPN service management: supports deployment of LDP-based VPLS, LDP-based VPWS, EVPN over MPLS/SRv6-based L2VPN, and L3VPN services. It provides an integrated solution for VPN creation, autodiscovery, topology presentation, configuration audit, traffic monitoring, and hybrid VPN provisioning. The product applies to traditional networking and can also integrate with our AD-WAN solution: based on EVPN technology and enhanced with QoS features, it decomposes existing IP networks into logically isolated networks to interconnect sites, expand data services, reduce management costs, and digitize enterprise networks.

Centralized device management: by integrating resource, topology, alarm, configuration, and report management functions, the system provides a unified view of all-vendor network devices (e.g., routers, switches, wireless), supports fast fault localization and bulk configuration push, and reduces maintenance complexity.

Automated maintenance support: based on template-based deployment and intelligent policies, it automates operations such as device initialization and configuration changes, reducing human intervention and operation error rate.

It unifies wired and wireless, gives a global view of all device status information and connection relationships, and enables efficient management and maintenance.