WebNMS Framework is the industry-leading network management framework for building custom Element Management System (EMS) and Network Management System (NMS) applications.

WebNMS Framework is a scalable, application-centric platform that makes extensive use of state-of-the-art graphical displays to provide an intuitive and powerful network management dashboard for operations staff. By automating a number of complex, tedious, and error-prone tasks, the management application raises productivity, improves accuracy, simplifies training, and reduces costs for operation centers.

It offers a comprehensive set of FCAPS functions, provisioning, along with bundled customizable interfaces to most popular network elements, OSS systems and other management applications. Networking equipment vendors and other management solution providers rely on WebNMS Framework for rapid management application development and deployment.

The WebNMS Framework back-end server (BE) performs network facing tasks, such as topology , inventory, fault management tasks, configuration tasks, status polling, performance management, and report generation. The Management Server performs the vital configuration tasks along with the BE Server. The other services offered by the BE server are database services, framework services that ensure security and high availability, service acesses APIs, and communication framework.

The distributed multi-tier architecture in the Polling Engine reduces the load on the Poll Engine in WebNMS Framework Server by distributing the load across different poller JVMs, and thereby facilitating faster data collection.

The front-end (FE) server provides the communication link between the BE and the Client. FE server processes the read-only requests of the client, and redirects the request to the BE server in case of write operation. Multiple FEs can be connected to a BE and each FE can have multiple clients connected to it in a distributed setup. The main function performed by the FE is to channel the requests received from the clients.

WebNMS Framework can interoperate with existing Operation Support Systems (OSS) and Network Management Systems (NMS) through northbound protocols, such as CORBA, SNMP, TL1, RMI, HTTP, and JMX. On the southbound, WebNMS Framework supports multiple protocols including SNMP, TL1, CLI, XML, and CORBA.

Platform: Windows XP, Linux, Windows Vista

System Requirements: Pentium 4 - 2Ghz; 1GB RAM and above