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 OSPF 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 OSPF, the domain is the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) network, that is, an OSPF 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.