IBM Netcool Operations Insight · Networks & Topology
An event storm has exactly one root cause. Netcool's network layer discovers the topology, maps every event onto it, and isolates the single fault behind the flood — so your team fixes the cause, not the symptoms.
Networks for Operations Insight
The Networks for Operations Insight add-on brings network discovery, visualization, event correlation, topology-based root-cause analysis, and configuration and compliance to the platform. It is where Netcool stops treating events as a list and starts understanding them as a map.
That map is what makes root cause possible. When a link fails, hundreds of downstream devices alarm at once. Correlated against live topology, all of it resolves to a single root-cause event — and the operator sees the cause, not the cascade.
The Topology Stack
IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition provides detailed Layer-2/Layer-3 discovery, device polling, and topology visualization for IP, Ethernet, and MPLS networks — and performs root-cause analysis by correlating events against that topology.
Netcool Configuration Manager delivers centralized network configuration, change management, and policy-based compliance — with device support driven by Vendor/Type/Model/OS drivers.
Agile Service Manager gives operations up-to-date visibility over dynamic infrastructure, federating topology from many domains through Observers and rendering it both in real time and within a definable time window.
Plot the lowest-cost route between two endpoints and see every event on the devices along the way — turning a topology into an investigation tool.
Availability, performance, event, and configuration data for the devices and interfaces in any network view — the health of a domain at a glance.
Why It Matters
ITNM discovers and manages the IP network and runs topology root-cause analysis; Agile Service Manager federates dynamic, time-aware topology across many domains. Together they answer the only question that matters during a major outage.
Layer-2/Layer-3 discovery across IP, Ethernet, and MPLS
Topology-based root cause — one event, not the storm
Dynamic, temporal topology across domains via Observers
Configuration compliance and change tracking
Route-aware investigation with Topology Search
AccuOSS stands up discovery, topology, and topology-based correlation so your operators see the cause the instant it matters.