Introduction
IP Maestro is a Graphical User Interface (GUI)-based Element Management System (EMS) framework that allows operators to simplify device configuration, management, and automation operations.It is meticulously designed to streamline device management, enhance visibility, fortify security. The system offers an intuitive view of the network topology, performance metrics, faults, and inventory.
IP Maestro supports the following features:
• Topology: Discover the network topology effortlessly with a visual map, enabling an intuitive understanding of network elements' physical connectivity. The Topology Toolbar ensures easy manipulation, providing a graphical overview of device and connected link.
• Inventory: Gain a holistic view of physical and logical network resources, services, and topologies. The real-time network inventory, coupled with the filter functionality, allows users to navigate and select specific inventory types with ease.
• Fault Management: Capture and display alarms from network devices, links, and services. IP Maestro's Fault Management module efficiently processes NETCONF alarms and integrates with syslog for centralized management and alerts. IP Maestro also has the ability to send out email notification to users on occurrences of critical alarms.
• Performance Monitoring: Monitor network performance effortlessly with metrics (KPI) and calculated/complex metrics (KQI). Define measurement points, groups, collection intervals, and aggregations intervals for precise and periodic data analysis.
• Configuration Management: Manage device configurations with IP Maestro seamlessly. Perform tasks such as downloading software images, creating and deleting configuration files, syncing configurations with the database, and executing configurations on specific devices. Ability to take device configuration backups and then do a config diff to see the difference between two configurations
• Audit and Logs: Ensure transparency and accountability through historical logs, including syslog records and command history logs. IP Maestro maintains a detailed account of device activities for comprehensive auditing and implements a role-based user management system with comprehensive auditing logs for accountability.