See Related Blogs in the Gateway Series:

NETeXPERT Gateways 101: What are Gateways?

NETeXPERT Gateways 102: How are they used? and

NETeXPERT Gateways 103: How do they work?

Gateway Integration is necessary for general management, automation, and control of resources and systems both at the service management and resource management layers.

• At the service management level data sources would be equivalent to another OSS such as a signaling system, active service test system, fault management system, performance management system, inventory, or a billing system.

• At the resource management level data sources may be a network element or Element Management System for various IP, Wireless, and Wireline domains.

Figure 1: NETeXPERT Gateways applied across multiple layers

Gateways process unsolicited and solicited messages which are decomposed into meaningful components, archived, analyzed by a powerful logic based engine, IDEAS (Intelligent Dynamic Event Analysis Subsystem), and sent to other applications or components for additional processing.

Gateways are bi-directional in communication and can automate simple commands and complex tasks. Gateways have a dialog language that helps to automate the complexities of device communication and command syntax from the users while giving them the power to exercise all of the functions of the managed resource. The dialog language provides an effective automation tool for activation and reconfiguration of managed network resources and systems.

Gateway Integration Toolbox

Gateway Integration is supported through Gateways and Protocol Agents:

• Gateways – apply analysis rules to normalize events and attributes. Reusable Gateways provide intelligent two-way communication to any managed system.
• Protocol Agents – work in conjunction with gateways by converting messages of a particular protocol into ASCII for the gateway to process.

The following Gateways are listed:

• TCP/IP Protocol Agent and Generic Gateway
• X.25 Protocol Agent and Generic Gateway
• Telnet Protocol Agent and Generic Gateway
• Serial Protocol Agent and Generic Gateway
• SNMP Gateway
• CMIP/Q3 Gateway
• CORBA Gateway
• XML Gateway
• Database Protocol Agent (SQL) and Generic Gateway
• Gateways can also be programmed for legacy or non-standard protocols

Gateway Control and Gateway Central

The Gateway Control allows NETeXPERT users to monitor gateway status. If authorized, NETeXPERT users can start and stop the gateways as well as a variety of logging and tracing capabilities.

Longview Software’s Gateway Central combines Gateway Administration, Gateway Control, and Automated Gateway Management. We will discuss these functions in further detail.

See Related Blogs in the Gateway Series:

NETeXPERT Gateways 101: What are Gateways?

NETeXPERT Gateways 102: How are they used? and

NETeXPERT Gateways 103: How do they work?

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