2. Leading Health Care in the US (East)
• 15 state-of-the-art hospitals & 310 medical
centers
• 10K employees including physicians
• 43,000 interfaces (138 Routers & 449
Switches) distributed across the hospitals &
clinics
• Cost of downtime: Patients are severely
affected, & loss of reputation
3. Requirements of the Network Team
• Proactively monitor 43,000 interfaces for
traffic on uplink ports
• Monitor 138 Routers & 449 Switches for
health and performance
• Instant Email notification if threshold is
violated/device/interface is down
• Monitor RPS (Redundant Power Supply) units
• All of the above with a single tool
4. How OpManager fulfilled their
requirements?
• Out-of-the-box support for the 138 routers
and 449 switches
• NFA plug-in to monitor interface traffic
• Powerful notification profiles for instant alarm
notification
• IT Workflow Automation to automate L1
troubleshooting actions
• Custom Device Templates for monitoring RPS
5. Out-of-the-box support
• OpManager out-of-the-box supports the 138 routers and 449
switches & associates predefined performance and health
monitors
6. NFA Plug-in to monitor interface traffic
• NFA plug-in out-of-the-box monitors the interface traffic
using flows (NetFlow, sFlow, j-Flow) exported by routers &
switches
• Supports v9
7. Powerful notification profiles
• Powerful Email and SMS notification profiles for instant alarm
notification
• Option to automatically trigger custom script as a corrective
measure if any alarm is raised
8. IT Automation Workflows
• Automate repeated IT actions
• Automate troubleshooting L1 issues without any human
intervention
If not, start the If unable to start,
Check whether a
service add notes to alarm
service is running
If service is
running, clear the If started, clear
alarm the alarm
9. Custom Device Templates
• Devices that support SNMP can be monitored with
OpManager
• Custom device template is created for RPS units and
monitored