Take back control of your network delivery infrastructure

Today's network and web enabled companies, whether traditional, moving to the web, or already on the web, wireless companies moving from WAP to GPRS and UMTS or wireline companies becoming web hosting sites, ISP and ASP's, the combined network and server management issues have become formidable.

DYSER SRL analyzed the growing management issues and chose to create a new management paradigm based on Sun Microsystems hardware, OS and Solstice Enterprise Manager (SEM) platform.

The DYSER SRL design goal for NexSys was a flexible Java 2 based set of applications that would supply technical innovations in the use of Java 2 and SEM, whilst addressing the business needs of end user customers and systems integrators.

The initial design requirements called for a login screen, manageable object viewer, object details, alarm viewer, alarm log browser, user definable network viewer configuration and the ability to add new java applications into NexSys 2.0 JMC without DYSER SRL involvement.

Another of the primary goals of the NexSys 2.0 JMC design was to support national language capabilities this has being accomplished and the goals extended to include the graphics and tool tips that appear on the Java screens.

This is accomplished via a text based configuration file that can be modified by the end user or systems integrator.

DYSER SRL also chose SEM as the base platform because of it's ability to support both small networks and server farms but also grow to support a large enterprise or telecommunications company.

Foundation for NexSys

The DYSER SRL - NexSys 2.0 JMC Java based applications for SEM address some of the major concerns found in today's business environment off web tone delivery of products and services.

Financial Loss

Each time a customer or user cannot gain access to a service, companies have a potential to have that user place an order on a different site or move to a different service provider.

Complexity

As the services being delivered become deployed on third party applications from different vendors, the number of points to be monitored within the service framework increases the work load on operations staff.

High Growth

Companies historically have deployed small pilot systems to "test the water", successful pilots can grow from a few network elements and servers to large scale deployments with hundreds of elements in a short period of time, increasing the number of operators required to manage the network.

Heart Beat Systems

"Heart beat systems" generate the revenue for a company, any downtime or service interruption can be counted as lost revenue, customer retention or SLA penalties.

Service Level Agreements

As services become critical to both internal and external users, the ability to monitor the "end-to-end" health of a service allows for the delivery of quality within the scope of negotiated Service Level Agreements (SLA).

Mixed Management Environment

Deployments of services often requires the use of technologies from different vendors, each vendor will provide a management capability that may not conform to a standard making integration for "end-to-end" management difficult, costly and time consuming.

Multiple Management Standards Delivered by Suppliers

More and more companies are asking for a single view of the network, servers, applications and databases that make up a service, regardless of the management standards supplied with the solution.

NexSys 2.0 JMC in conjunction with SEM can provide timely information about the network, servers, OS, applications and databases, assuring that the services are available for use.

How can NexSys 2.0 JMC achieve these goals?

The DYSER SRL-NexSys 2.0 JMC Java applications for SEM product is developed using the Sun Microsystems Forte for Java tools, the Iplanet Web server allows access to the SEM Java gateway.

The NexSys product gets advantages from SEM in the following areas:

• security
• distribution
• TMN compliance
• applications or database interface layer
• isolation from the network, server, OS

plus the SEM nerve center for automated operations.

NexSys 2.0 JMC is designed to allow for the viewing of the "End-to-End" service layers within a corporation. It's major function is to display information about hard alarms received from the applications domain, it can also display soft alarms raised via nerve center requests polling into the environment looking for potential problems.