Network Protocol Manager relies on the topology, topology updates, and topology status updates received from IP Availability Manager to discover and monitor routing-enabled devices and BGP, EIGRP, IS-IS, or OSPF services.

Network Protocol Manager collectively represents each of the following Network Protocol Management Suite products:

  • Network Protocol Manager for BGP

    On BGP-enabled devices initially discovered by IP Availability Manager, Network Protocol Manager for BGP discovers and monitors BGP services, BGP endpoints, BGP sessions participating in the routing updates, and BGP configurations.

  • Network Protocol Manager for EIGRP

    On EIGRP-enabled devices initially discovered by IP Availability Manager, Network Protocol Manager for EIGRP discovers and monitors EIGRP services, EIGRP endpoints, and EIGRP sessions participating in the routing updates.

  • Network Protocol Manager for IS-IS

    On IS-IS-enabled devices initially discovered by IP Availability Manager, Network Protocol Manager for IS-IS discovers and monitors IS-IS services, IS-IS endpoints, IS-IS adjacencies participating in the routing updates, and IS-IS configurations.

  • Network Protocol Manager for OSPF

    On OSPF-enabled devices initially discovered by IP Availability Manager, Network Protocol Manager for OSPF discovers and monitors OSPF services, OSPF endpoints, OSPF adjacencies participating in the routing updates, and OSPF configurations.

    Separate instances of Network Protocol Manager are required to manage the availability of each routing protocol: one each for BGP, EIGRP, IS-IS, and OSPF.

    Upon importing the initial, routing-enabled device topology from IP Availability Manager, Network Protocol Manager performs its own SNMP and CLI discovery to query the devices for routing topology information. Upon building its routing topology data model, Network Protocol Manager exports the topology to the Global Manager.

    Network Protocol Manager monitors the status of the routing topology by periodically SNMP- and CLI-polling the routing-enabled devices. It also subscribes to certain network topology object statuses (attributes) from IP Availability Manager.

    Network Protocol Manager analyzes the received statuses to identify device and routing-protocol availability problems and impacts, and exports the results of its analysis to the Global Manager. In addition, whenever Network Protocol Manager detects a configuration-related error in a managed routing-protocol network, it exports the event to the Global Manager.