Network Protocol Manager for OSPF performs availability-based root-cause analysis of the discovered OSPF topology objects. It also relates physical-transport problems to the OSPF objects, along the affected data path, that are no longer accessible or suffer from lack of response or performance as a result of the physical-transport problems.
When Network Protocol Manager for OSPF detects an OSPF failure, it checks for any physical-transport problem from IP Availability Manager that might be causing the failure. If it finds such a problem, Network Protocol Manager for OSPF diagnoses the OSPF failure as a symptom and exports the underlying physical-transport problem and the OSPF symptom to the Global Manager, as explained in Chapter 4, “OSPF Cross-Domain Impact Correlation Analysis.”
If it does not find such a problem, Network Protocol Manager for OSPF focuses its analysis on just the OSPF domain and performs the root-cause analysis described in this chapter.
