Solstice Enterprise Manager
The Industry's Best Management Solution for Large Multiprotocol Environments
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Effective network management is critical to helping you focus on high-value activities in sales, marketing distribution and customer service. To support these business activities, network and service planning, provisioning, installation, operation, maintenance and administration processes must become more efficient and effective.
With Solstice(TM); Enterprise Manager(TM); software, Sun is responding to growing demand from the telecommunications industry and network-based enterprises to deploy an infrastructure to make management processes more effective and efficient. This management infrastructure must be able to deal with the scale and complexity of current and future network and service resources.
Solstice Enterprise Manager is a multi-user distributed fault, event and performance management system. Solstice Enterprise Manager addresses the needs of the telecommunications industry for a management platform that complies with the Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) set of standards. Solstice Enterprise Manager also addresses the needs of network-based enterprises to control and monitor distributed network and systems resources.
Solstice Enterprise Manager includes:
- A run-time product providing the core functionality every network manager needs
- A developer's kit simplifying the development of integrated multi-user applications
Solstice Enterprise Manager software is based on state-of-the-art network modelling technology enabling multiple operators to access management information concurrently. This technology provides a robust network model and a set of management services for monitoring and controlling network and systems resources. The network model and management services enable Solstice Enterprise Manager to scale effectively to match the scale and complexity of emerging distributed computing environments.
It provides a base capable of supporting SNMP and CMIP. The network model can be extended to support other protocols ensuring that all components of telecommunications and data networks can be managed consistently.
Solstice Enterprise Manager software provides tools that every network manager needs:
- An application launcher providing a consistent method of starting management tools
- A flexible map providing topology and state information
- An advanced request management mechanism for simplifying complex operations and filtering events
- A comprehensive logging system for storing network events and performance information
To manage a large number of resources, or to increase system availability, a Solstice Enterprise Manager configuration may distribute the network model over multiple workstations and servers. Distribution of management information, event management, control and authority is accomplished by distributing and interconnecting multiple Solstice Enterprise Manager Management Information Servers.
Solstice Enterprise Manager software is standards based, allowing you to plan a comprehensive multi-vendor management infrastructure. Solstice Enterprise Manager provides:
- OSI systems management function support
- X.700 agent/manager framework
- Full OSI connectivity support conforming to TMN q3
- Applications that use standard object models such as OMNIPoint 1 to define network elements
- Concurrent SNMP and CMIP support
- Agents to manage Sun workstations and servers
- Compatibility with Solstice(tm); SunNet Manager(tm); applications

To purchase Solstice Enterprise Manager, in the U.S., please call 1-800-SUN-SOFT.
Outside the U.S., please call +1-415-960-3200 for the location of the SunSoft office closest to you.