Analysis

The status updates, which are acquired from IP Availability Manager and from periodic monitoring, serve as input to the data model in the Network Protocol Manager for OSPF repository. Network Protocol Manager for OSPF applies the status updates to the appropriate attributes of the corresponding OSPF objects in the data model.

The data model involves a codebook that is created by VMware engineers as a result of their knowledge of IP and OSPF networks. The codebook identifies IP and OSPF problems and their symptoms, and presents a causality mapping between each problem and its set of symptoms.

Network Protocol Manager for OSPF diagnoses root-cause availability problems by finding the problems in the codebook that can best explain the observed symptoms. It also uses the codebook to correlate the impact of a root-cause problem on the OSPF objects that are either inaccessible or impaired as a result of the root-cause problem. The root-cause problem is either a physical-transport problem that is diagnosed by IP Availability Manager or an OSPF problem that is diagnosed by Network Protocol Manager for OSPF.