DCNM compatibilty with nexus 2000 and 5000 series

[o.bouhelal]

Hi,

I would to know if the DNCM can manage a Data Center composed with Nexus 2000 & 5000 series only!

Kind regards

[reswaran]

Hi,

DCNM supports all Nexus platforms (Nexus 7000, 5000, 2000, Nexus 4000, Nexus 1000v, Nexus 1010). The next release (DCNM 5.2) which will be available in a week's time will also support Catalyst 6500 and Nexus 3000.

Thanks,

Ravikumar

[o.bouhelal]

Thanks a lot Reswaran,

I will havea new DATA CENTER equipped with nexus 2232TP, 2248PP, 5548P and Cisco 6509-E. I have some questions about the management platform:

1)      Can the LMS 4.0  manage deeply those devices? the customer works actually with LMS 3.2, so can we just do an upgrade to LMS 4.0 or offer a new license?

2)      Can we install both platforms DCNM and LMS 4.0 in the same server if the server has enough capacity?

Regards,

[reswaran · Accepted solution]

Hi Omar,

I suggest using DCNM 5.2 for managing these devices. DCNM has more deeper integration with these nexus devices. I have no idea about LMS 4.0 and its features. Installing DCNM and LMS together should work though we are not officially supporting it.

What specific features is customer looking for from the NMS ?

Thanks

Ravikumar

[o.bouhelal]

Hi reswaran,

The features are:

- Automatic network discovering and real- time topology.

- Network anomaliy detection (threshold, alarms, errors, ...)

- Use email or aletrs to notify notify operations staff of critical outages thant may be service-imapcting

- Centralized administration interface, with acces via web

- Securised acces and rights managment

- Stock of data in an exportable database

- Quick, simple qnd transparent deployment

- Monitoring WAN bandwith usage

- Configurable report generation

- Generation of the performance reports

- Provide network map

- Support several network unit

- Intergrated Syslog server

- Polling andt  monitoring SNMP trap alarms

- Secure config distribution

- Support 200 devices

What kind of NMS can you recommend?

thanks a lot

[reswaran · Accepted solution]

Hi Omar,

DCNM supports the following features

- Automatic network discovering and real- time topology.

- Network anomaliy detection (threshold, alarms, errors, ...)   --> As of now DCNM acts as syslog receiver but not SNMP traps.

- Securised acces and rights managment

- Quick, simple qnd transparent deployment

- Monitoring WAN bandwith usage

- Provide network map

- Support several network unit

- Secure config distribution

- Support 200 devices

We have plans to add rest of the features in the forthcoming releases. So I would suggest DCNM is the way to go for your customer. They should be having 90% of the features they have asked for in DCNM one year from now.

[o.bouhelal]

Thank you so much, you really provide me a great help