Management and Monitoring Services

Novell^® ZENworks^® for Servers (ZfS) Management and Monitoring Services provides industry-standards-based monitoring, management, and reporting for heterogeneous network environments, including support for multi-protocol LAN/WAN networks and servers.

In addition, ZfS Management and Monitoring Services help you to proactively manage your NetWare^® and Windows* NT* servers by responding faster to network problems and increasing overall system availability.

Management and Monitoring Services has the following components:

• ConsoleOne^®, which provides the interface where you can manage and administer your network.

• Management Site Services, including:

  • Alarm Management
  • Database Administration
  • MIB Tools Administration
  • Monitoring Services
  • Network Discovery
  • Reporting
  • Role-Based Services
  • Topology Mapping

• Server Management for monitoring all the servers in your network

• Traffic Analysis for monitoring all traffic on Ethernet, token ring, or Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) network segments

The Management and Monitoring Services documentation contains the following sections:

• Configuring Management and Monitoring Services
• Using ConsoleOne with Management and Monitoring Services
• Understanding Network Discovery and Atlas Management
• Understanding Alarm Management
• Understanding Server Management
• Using the MIB Tools
• Monitoring Services
• Understanding Traffic Analysis
• Customizing Agent Configuration
• Protocol Decodes Suites Supported by ZfS
• ZENWorks Management and Monitoring Services Database
• Using Reports in Management and Monitoring Services
• Using SNMP Community Strings
• Documentation Updates