Beyond Fault Management Implementing a NOC to Maintain High Availability Jim Thompson Jay Thondakudi
PS-510 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. 1 Beyond Fault Management Implementing a NOC to Maintain High Availability Jim Thompson Jay Thondakudi © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. 2 MAKING IT INTERACTIVE © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. 3 Copyright © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in USA. Presentation_ID.scr Agenda • Availability Measurement and your business • Overview of a NOC • Network Management Framework • Fault Management • Performance Management • Tool Issues • People, Processes and Procedures • Back to the Concept of the NOC © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. 4 Method for Attaining a Highly Available Network or a road to five 9’s • Establish a Standard Measurement Method • Define Business Goals as Related to Metrics • Categorize Failures, Root Causes, and Improvements • Take Action for Root Cause Resolution and Improvement Implementation © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. 5 Why should we care about network availability? Recent studies by Sage Research determined that US based Service Providers encountered: • Percent of downtime that is unscheduled: 44% • 18% of customers experience over 100 hours of unscheduled downtime or an availability of 98.5% • Average cost of network downtime per year: $21.6 million or $2,169 per minute! Downtime - Costs too much!!! SOURCE: Sage Research, IP Service Provider Downtime Study: Analysis of Downtime Causes,Costs and Containment Strategies, August 17, 2001, Prepared for Cisco SPLO B © 2001, Cisco Systems,
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