Network Operations Center Design Best Practices

The Network Operations Center (NOC) is the core of any medium or large-scale network monitoring effort. In this, our employees monitor and react to network issues. Your NOC network forms an essential link between finding a problem and implementing a solution (usually as a technician sent to a remote site).

In many NOC centers (yes, the word "center" repeated, but it helps to understand), 7x24x365 is open, which is not always the case. Some companies are in the transition phase. Its network is large enough to invest in the construction of a NOC center, but they still cannot justify personnel costs outside regular or perhaps extended business hours. In this case, companies use alarm notifications after hours (by email or telephone) to alert network guard technicians.

The core of any NOC is the primary console (or sometimes more). This console accepts entries of some hundreds or even thousands of remote devices on your network.

Some remote devices report about themselves (for example, native SNMP devices that are capable of sending SNMP mechanism messages over the local network when an alarm or failure is detected). Switches, industrial routers, sonnet / optical devices, and many large telecommunication systems use signals using a specific type of open quality.

To migrate these legacy notification methods to a local console on the local network, you can expand the notification panel on your system. Alarm panels are specialized monitoring tools for collecting alarms from contacts and sensors and sending them back to the NOC. A single remote control can span dozens or even remote devices, depending on how many signals each gives.

In the study of NOC, it would be useful to consider examples of tools now. Its likes to use the T / Mon LNX center console because it has many concepts that I just mentioned.

The most useful thing in T / Mon is the ability to know many protocols (both modern and obsolete). At the moment, the amount is about 25, and this allows T / Mon to avoid the multi-screen headaches that I described above. You will likely be able to put all your alarms into a central system, which will make computers work instead of your employees.

At some point in the middle of the project, Fred called to review the bid line by line and see what adaptations could be made. Fred wants to know the bid for his application removed or added to make it more effective.

The project has two NOCs in different parts of California. In a NOC, there are already two legacy systems from one manufacturer. One was interviewed for Digital RS232, the other for Analog 202 / FSK. There is a digital manager for the serial mode. Fred has confirmed that they will be able to complete all the series in two years, so there will be no problem