1 Solution Options

SOLUTION 1 SOLUTION 2 SOLUTION 3 SOLUTION 4

NETWORK ScienceLogic Hybrid IR(Integrated NETSCOUT’s Do Nothing

MANAGEMENT IT infrastructure Research) prognosis nGenius
management

1.1 Design Criteria

Requirement SOLUTION 1 SOLUTION 2 SOLUTION 3 SOLUTIO
s N4

Functionality  Flexibility  Infrastructur  Deliver None

and e consistent and
scalability management reliable service
 Multi- solution levels for Voice
tenancy  One and Video UC
 Consolidat dashboard to services to
ed event unify physical protect the user
console and virtual experience
 Data- servers  Transform
center  Proactively service
manageme solve management
nt problems from reactive to
 Asset  Minimize proactive to
manageme down-time predict and
nt and  Reduce fraud prevent
discovery with emerging
 Complete payment service
infrastruct management performance
ure solution issues before
monitoring  Reduce users are
 Dashboard operational affected
ing risks and  Quickly triage
 Analytics increase and identify
and efficiency underlying root
service-  Multi- causes of UC
level channel service
manageme contact call performance
nt center problems in
 Ticketing monitoring both the
and and network and UC
knowledge management service
manageme  Real-time applications
nt analytics  Simplify
 Multi-vendor managing
united complex multi-
  Run-book communicati location, multi-
automatio ons vendor UC
n platforms environments
management  Optimize and
accelerate new
UC application
rollouts

Security and  Vulnerable  Provide  DES,MD5,SHA

Privacy to IP security  Provide
spoofing incident encryption of
 attacks  Identify packets
 Provide attack  Provide message
Trap/Pollin  Classify integrity
g attack  Provide
authentication
 Detection/ano
maly detection

Performance  SNMP  Allows  Provide flow

values extremely analysis without
needs granular and purchasing
knowledge accurate external probes
of table traffic  Processing
indexing measuremen SNMP queries
schemes ts and high on certain data
and the level sets may end up
index aggregated in higher CPU
values are traffic utilization, such
not collection as large routing
necessarily tables (BGP or
consistent IGP)
across
platforms,
causes
correlation
issues
when
getting
informatio
n from
multiple
devices
Reliability,  Overly • Available to  Support all fields
Availability complex to monitor wider range in IPv4 and IPv6
and be of packet  Provide support
implement information and to 64 bit
Maintainabili
 Rely on produce new counters
ty
polling for information about  Sends alerts to
checking network
 whether the network manager using
data flow behavior Trap, but will
is stable • Monitoring of not be
multiple accounting retransmit if got
technologies into lost in network
one accounting
mechanism

Policy, • Strategic is to • Provide non • Policy of it, such as

strategic, spans the jamming or impact to route filtering and
standards requirements of the network routing information
and internetworking monitoring translatability, save
architectural sectors to create a network resources by
compliance single, unified preventing data from
requirements infrastructure that being unnecessarily
provides lower broadcast to nodes that
costs, improved do not require
internetwork
management and
higher applications
availability

Usability, • Not very flexible • Provide in depth • Flexibility, scalability of

when comes to visibility data
flexibility, corruption of into the network • Larger scale network
structure, routing traffic, helps takes
scalability, protocol, reset of troubleshooting easy time for retrieving data
interfaces buffers and fast • Support WAN/LAN for
interoperabili and so on, due to • Provide a near real accumulating data flows,
ty Trap time view of network easy to do research
• Difficult to • Maintenance when
perform rollback off-load the system
• Provide only data
centric view, no
task centric view
from an operator
point of view