Terminology

The VMware Smart Assurance Network Protocol Manager includes the following components:

• Network Protocol Manager for BGP

• Network Protocol Manager for EIGRP

• Network Protocol Manager for IS-IS

• Network Protocol Manager for OSPF

  VMware Smart Assurance Network Protocol Manager for BGP is an VMware Smart Assurance Domain Manager. A Domain Manager is a service-assurance application associated with a particular type of information-technology domain, such as networks, systems, applications, or application services. For Network Protocol Manager for BGP, the domain is the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) network, that is, a BGP distributed application that is running in an IP network. Each Domain Manager is autonomous in the sense that it:

• Maintains its own data models, repository, and problem signatures.

• Monitors and analyzes the discovered objects in its own domain.