Specifications

Product Features 2-32

NAM / Traffic Analyzer v3.5 Tutorial

Product Features 2-32

NAM / Traffic Analyzer v3.5 Tutorial

Planning for NAM Deployment

Users, Security, and NAM Access

Planning for NAM Deployment

Users, Security, and NAM Access

Define security policies to protect

your data requirements.

Which users should have access to which features?

third

Party

Management

Systems

Enable third-party management systems

to communicate with the NAM via SNMP

community strings.

Define security policies that meet

your security needs and NAM

users’ functional requirements.

NAM

Users, Security, and NAM Access Considerations

Network management systems are a funny thing when it comes to security and access. You may need to

define different levels of security to meet your users’ varying needs. In-depth configuration and customization

of the NAM to deliver the monitoring needed requires a certain level of access. Whereas monitoring and

reporting features of the NAM often serve a broad range of users who have different security requirements.

These issues may be true of the NAM in your environment because you may want to give many users

access to some parts of the NAM and secure other parts. However, giving unlimited access to all the NAM

features could undermine the very purpose for deploying NAMs in the first place. The problem is this: As

discussed earlier, the data you get from the NAM is only as good as your planning for and configuration of it.

So, if you give configuration access to all your users, you will not be able to guarantee that the collections

you configured a week ago will still be the same when you go to review the performance of your network. For

example, let’s say you have configured the NAM for alarming and event notification on a data source for

historical reporting. Any changes made to the NAM may disable the alarms you rely on for notification or the

data sources you are using for monitoring. So, when planning for the NAM deployment, consider who should

have access to its configuration utilities and who simply needs access to the reports. Doing so will help

ensure that the NAM will continue to deliver the data you need.