Terminology

The 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

  Network Protocol Manager for IS-IS is an 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 IS-IS, the domain is the Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) network, that is, an IS-IS 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.