This document provides an overview of the system requirements and supported devices for HP Network Node Manager iSPI for IP Telephony Software (NNM iSPI for IP Telephony) version 9.20.
To check for recent updates and to see the Release Notes and Support Matrix for the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony 9.20 on HP-UX, Linux, or Solaris, visit this URL: HP Software Product Manuals
This document is intended to augment the Release Notes. You can find both the Support Matrix (IPT_SupportMatrix_en.html) and the Release Notes (IPT_ReleaseNotes_en.html) at the root directory of the installation media.
Hardware
and Software Requirements
Hardware
CPU,
RAM, and Disk Space Requirements / Maximum Supported Managed Environment
Disk
Space Requirements on the NNM iSPI Performance for Metrics/NPS System
for Retention of Reporting Data Generated by the NNM iSPI for IP
Telephony
Memory,
CPU Requirements on the NNM iSPI Performance for Metrics/NPS System for
Processing of the Reporting Data Generated by the NNM iSPI for IP
Telephony
System sizing NNM iSPI Performance for Metrics/NPS System for Processing of the Reporting Data Generated by the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony
Operating System
Virtual
Memory/Swap Space
Database
Web Browser
Internationalization
and Localization Support
Supported Devices
Support
Legal
Notices
Pre-installation requirements, as well as instructions for installing NNM iSPI for IP Telephony, are documented in the installation guide provided in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. The document file is included in the root directory on the product's installation media as: IPT_InstallGuide_en.pdf.
Before installing the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony, make sure that your system meets the following minimum requirements:
Below are the three tiers of managed network environments and the hardware required by the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony for supporting these environments. Managed environments bigger than the Large tier are not supported without additional HP approval. Make sure to check the NNMi Support Matrix.
The NNM iSPI for IP Telephony hardware requirements mentioned in the following tables are in addition to NNMi hardware requirements mentioned in the NNMi Support Matrix.
Before installing the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony, make sure that your system meets the following minimum requirements:.
If you are planning to install the iSPI Performance for Metrics on a separate system, you must ensure that the physical RAM is greater than that of the combined Xmx values of NNMi, the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony, other content iSPI s (if installed on the system), the iSPI Performance for Traffic Master Collector (if installed on the system), the iSPI Performance for Traffic Leaf Collector (if installed on the system) and the iSPI Performance for Quality Assurance (if installed on the system). You must also consider the consumption of memory in segments instead of considering various heap segments. In addition, you must also consider consumption of memory by the operating system, applications from HP that are not listed in this document, and applications from other vendors.
It is recommended that you provision 4 GB or more of RAM for the operating system and the other applications on the system.
Table 1: Standalone Instance of the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony for Monitoring the Cisco, Avaya, or Nortel IP Telephony Managed Environment Size
IP Telephony Minimum Hardware System Requirements
Approximate
managed
environment
tierNumber of
discovered
IP PhonesNumber of
discovered NNMi nodes that are not hosting IP PhonesNumber of
discovered
NNMi Interface objects
Number of
polled
NNMi Interfaces
Number of
concurrent
NNMi users
CPU (64-bit)
x86-64
AMD641RAM **Java heap size the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony Java heap size for NNMi Disk space for
NNM iSPI for IP Telephony installation with an Incremental Demand on
(<NnmInstallDir>)Total Disk Space for Database and Data During Execution
(<NnmDataDir>)
Note: This does not include the disk space to retain the data for reporting.Entry Up to 500 Up to 100 7K 2500 5 2 CPU Cores 10 GB 4 GB
(-Xmx4g)3 GB
(-Xmx3g)1 GB 20 GB Small Up to 3K Up to 500 40K 2500 10 4 CPU Cores 12 GB 6 GB
(-Xmx6g)4 GB
(-Xmx4g)1 GB 40 GB Medium* Up to 10K Up to 1.5K 90K 5K 20 4 CPU Cores 16 GB 6 GB
(-Xmx6g)8 GB
(-Xmx8g)1 GB 80 GB Large* Up to 30K Up to 3K 250K 50K 30 8 CPU Cores 32 GB 16 GB
(-Xmx16g)12 GB
(-Xmx12g)1 GB 160 GB Very Large* Up to 50K Up to 4K 550K 70K 40 8 CPU Cores 48 GB 24 GB
(-Xmx24g)16 GB
(-Xmx16g)1 GB 320 GB
Table 2: Standalone Instance of the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony for Monitoring the Microsoft IP Telephony Managed Environment Size
IP Telephony Minimum Hardware System Requirements
Approximate
managed
environment
tierNumber of
discovered
Lync End UsersNumber of
discovered GatewaysNumber of
discovered
Lync ServersNumber of
discovered
Lync SitesNumber of
concurrent
NNMi
users
CPU (64-bit)
x86-64
AMD641RAM *Java heap size for IP Telephony Java heap size for NNMi Disk space for
NNM iSPI for IP Telephony installation with an Incremental Demand on
(<NnmInstallDir>)Total Disk Space for Database and Data During Execution
(<NnmDataDir>)
Note: This does not include the disk space to retain the data for reporting.Entry Up to 200 1 10 1 Central Site 5 2 CPU Cores 8 GB 2 GB
(-Xmx2g)2 GB
(-Xmx2g)1 GB 20 GB Small Up to 1K Up to 11 Up to 50 1 Central Site and 10 Branches 10 4 CPU cores 12 GB 3 GB
(-Xmx3g)4 GB
(-Xmx4g)1 GB 60 GB Medium* Up to 5K Up to 110 Up to 500 1 Central Site and 100 Branches 20 4 CPU cores 16 GB 4 GB
(-Xmx4g)6 GB
(-Xmx6g)1 GB 80 GB Large* Up to 10K Up to 550 Up to 1K 5 Central Sites and 500 Branches 30 8 CPU cores 24 GB 6 GB
(-Xmx6g)8 GB
(-Xmx8g)1 GB 120 GB Very Large* Up to 50K Up to 1100 Up to 3K 10 Central Sites and 1000 Branches 40 8 CPU cores 32 GB 8 GB
(-Xmx8g)10 GB
(-Xmx10g)1 GB 160 GB
*Note: Also assumes up to 30 K, 75K, and 100K CDR records per hour collected and processed by the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony for the medium tier, large tier, and very large tier respectively.
1See above for processor recommendations.
**To tune Java heap size, see the Tuning the jboss Memory for the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony.
Managed Environment Size |
IP Telephony Minimum Hardware System Requirements |
|||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Approximate managed environment tier |
Number
of regionally managed IP Phones |
Number
of regionally managed nodes that are not hosting IP Phones |
Number
of regional managers |
Number
of concurrent NNMi users |
CPU
(64-bit) |
RAM | **Java heap size for the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony | Java heap size for NNMi | Disk
space for NNM iSPI for IP Telephony installation with an Incremental Demand on (<NnmInstallDir>) |
Total Disk Space for
Database and Data During Execution |
Medium* | Up to 150K | Up to 15K | Up to 30 | 20 | 4 CPU cores | 32 GB | 16
GB (-Xmx16g) |
12 GB (-Xmx12g) |
1 GB | 160 GB |
Large* | Up to 250K | Up to 20K | Up to 30 | 40 | 8 CPU cores | 48 GB | 24 GB (-Xmx24g) |
16 GB (-Xmx16g) |
1 GB | 320 GB |
Managed Environment Size |
IP Telephony Minimum Hardware System Requirements |
|||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Approximate managed environment tier |
Number
of regionally managed Lync End Users |
Number
of regionally managed Servers and Gateways |
Number
of regional managers |
Number
of concurrent NNMi users |
CPU
(64-bit) x86-64 AMD642 |
RAM | **Java heap size for the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony | Java heap size for NNMi | Disk
space for NNM iSPI for IP Telephony installation with an Incremental Demand on (<NnmInstallDir>) |
Total Disk Space for
Database and Data During Execution |
Medium* | Up to 150K | Up to 3K | Up to 30 | 20 |
8 CPU cores |
24 GB |
12
GB (-Xmx12g) |
8 GB (-Xmx8g) |
1 GB | 250 GB |
Large* | Up to 250K | Up to 5K | Up to 30 | 40 | 8 CPU cores | 32 GB | 16 GB (-Xmx16g) |
12 GB (-Xmx12g) |
1 GB | 300 GB |
*Note: Also assumes a total of 375K and 500K CDR records per hour collected across regional manager instances of the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony and forwarded to a single global manager instance of the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony for the medium tier and large tier respectively.
2See above for processor recommendations.
Note: See the NNMi 9.20 Support Matrix for requirements in a Global Network Management (GNM) environment.
**To
tune Java heap size, see the Tuning the jboss Memory
for the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony.
If you decide to enable various reporting in the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony, you must provision for incremental disk space usage on the system for long term storage of the reporting data created by the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony and stored in the NPS database. You must make such a provision for the following scenarios:
See the NNM iSPI Performance for Metrics/NPS Support Matrix document for more information about minimum system requirements (including those for disk space) for appropriately evaluating the disk space requirements.
As a sample estimate, consider the following for a global manager instance of the NPS, which is supplied with the reporting data by a global manager instance of the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony for monitoring the Cisco, Avaya, or Nortel IP telephony:
Consider the following for a regional manager instances or single system standalone instance of the NPS, which is supplied with the reporting data by a regional manager instance or single system standalone instance of the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony for monitoring the Cisco, Avaya, or Nortel IP telephony:
You can use this information along with the iSPI Performance for Metrics/NPS Support Matrix document for appropriate sizing of the systems involved.
If you decide to enable various reporting options for the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony, you must provision for incremental memory and CPU usage on the system for the NNM iSPI Performance for Metrics/NPS, which is supplied with the reporting data created by the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony. You must make such a provision for the following scenarios:
See the NNM iSPI Performance for Metrics/NPS Support Matrix document for more information on minimum system requirements (including those for the CPU and memory) for appropriately evaluating the CPU and memory requirements and taking adequate measures before deploying the NNM iSPI Performance for Metrics/NPS.
Also, make sure that the various parameters related to the NPS database and BI server are appropriately tuned for your scale. Default settings created by the NPS installation for these parameters might not be appropriate for the scale of your deployment.
Following table helps you to identify NPS system resources required for the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony reports. These are incremental additional demands on CPU, memory, and disk space on the NPS system because of the IP Telephony report data load, summarization, and retrieval using IP Telephony reports.
Approximate managed environment tier ^ |
CPU (64-bit) x86-64 AMD64 |
RAM | Disk space for IP Telephony historical reporting data storage in the Sybase DB (the NPS database) (DataDir on the NPS system)^^ |
---|---|---|---|
Small | 4 CPU cores (2.5GHz) |
8 GB | 1 TB RAID 1+0 or 5/6 with write cache recommended (4 disk) |
Medium | 8 CPU cores (2.5GHz) |
16 GB | 1 TB RAID 1+0 or 5/6 with write cache recommended (4 disk) |
Large | 16 CPU cores (2.5GHz) |
32 GB | 2 TB RAID 1+0 or 5/6 with write cache recommended (4 disk) |
Very Large | 16 CPU cores (2.5GHz) |
32 GB | 4 TB RAID 1+0 or 5/6 with write cache recommended (4 disk) |
^ Refer to tiers in Table 1 and Table 2 for standalone or regional manager instance of the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony deployment.
^^ Indicates that the NNM iSPI Performance for metrics DataDir is configured during installation of the NNM iSPI Performance for Metrics on Windows (C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\HP\HP BTO Software by default). You can also set the data archival period in the Configuration utility of the system. If the data archival period for the NNM iSPI Performance for Metrics is set to a high value, make sure that adequate free disk space is available on the system on which you have installed the NNM iSPI Performance for Metrics. You can refer to the NNM iSPI Performance for Metrics Installation Guide to configure these parameters.
Following table provides information on Global Manager instance of the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony integrated with a Global Manager NPS system in Global Network Management (GNM) deployment of the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony.
Approximate managed environment tier ^ |
CPU (64-bit) x86-64 AMD64 |
RAM | Disk space for IP Telephony historical reporting data storage in the Sybase DB (the NPS database) (DataDir on the NPS system)^^ |
---|---|---|---|
Medium | 24 CPU cores (2.5GHz) |
64 GB | 12 TB RAID 1+0 or 5/6 with write cache recommended (4 disk) |
Large | 24 CPU cores (2.5GHz) |
64 GB | 18 TB RAID 1+0 or 5/6 with write cache recommended (4 disk) |
^ Refer to tiers in Table 3 and Table 4 for Global Network Management (GNM): Global Manager instance of the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony deployment.
^^ Indicates that the NNM iSPI Performance for metrics DataDir is configured during installation of iSPI Performance for Metrics on Windows (C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\HP\HP BTO Software by default). You can also set the data archival period in the Configuration utility of the system. If the data archival period for the NNM iSPI Performance for Metrics is set to a high value, make sure that adequate free disk space is available on the system on which you have installed the NNM iSPI Performance for Metrics. You can refer to the NNM iSPI Performance for Metrics Installation Guide to configure these parameters.
To change the jboss Maximum Java Heap Size (‑Xmx) or other Java Virtual Machine parameters, follow these steps:
For more information related to NNMi values, see the NNMi Support Matrix.
The NNM iSPI for IP Telephony can run on certain high availability systems with additional configuration. See the NNMi Deployment Reference and NNM iSPI for IP Telephony Installation Guide on how to install and configure NNM iSPI for IP Telephony on high availability systems. The following configuration is supported:
Microsoft: Microsoft Cluster Service version 6.0 and above (with Microsoft recommended patches) for Windows 2008.
Note: Recommended version for Microsoft Cluster Service is 6.1 (with Microsoft recommended patches)
The database(embedded or Oracle)selection for the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony should be the same as NNMi. The Oracle database instance must be different from NNMi database instance. See the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony Installation Guide for more information.
Caution: The following browsers are not supported:
Any browser supported for operational use (see above) when running on the NNMi management server.
The Real-time Line Graphs (Actions → Graphs) and the SNMP MIB Browser (Tools → Browse MIBs) require the Adobe Flash Player Plug-in version 10.0.32.18 or higher. The Adobe Flash Player is available from www.adobe.com/go/getflash/.
NNM iSPI
for IP Telephony is internationalized and can be used on operating
systems configured for non-US-English locales that are supported by the
operating systems. Those locales include variants of
Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Western and
Central European locales, and Russian.
On Windows systems, the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony does not support installation using directory paths with localized characters; path names for %NnmInstallDir% and %NnmDataDir% can contain English characters only.
The NNM iSPI for IP Telephony is not localized; therefore, NNM iSPI for IP Telephony specific strings appear in English. However, the NNMi-specific views and strings appear in the non-English language (that is supported by NNMi). For the list of languages supported by NNMi, see NNMi Support Matrix, 9.20.
The following tables list the IP telephony devices supported by this version of the NNM iSPI for IP Telephony:
Devices/Entities | Version/Model/Type/Supported Protocol |
Cisco Unified Communications Manager | 5.x,6.x,7.x, and 8.x |
Voice Gateway |
All Cisco IOS-based gateways, Cisco VG224 Analog Gateways, and Cisco VG 248 Analog Gateways (supports Cisco Voice Gateways running MGCP and H.323 protocols; supports T1/E1 PRI, T1/E1 CAS, FXS, FXO, E&M voice interfaces). |
IP Phone
|
Supports IP phones running on the SIP and SCCP (or Skinny) protocols. Supports Cisco IP Communicator Soft Phones. Also supports all other models of Cisco Unified IP Phone appliances. |
Gatekeeper
|
All Cisco IOS routers that can run the Cisco H.323 Gatekeeper service. CISCO-GATEKEEPER-MIB must be accessible on the Cisco IOS-based device that runs the Cisco Gatekeeper Service. |
Unity
|
SNMP MIB CISCO-UNITY-MIB must be accessible on the Unity and Unity Connection systems. |
Cisco Call Manager
Express
(CCME)
|
All Cisco IOS routers that can run the CCME service. |
Survivable Remote Site
Telephony (SRST)
|
All Cisco IOS routers that can run the SRST service. |
Intercluster IP Trunk
|
Gatekeeper-controlled
intercluster trunks
and non- gatekeeper-controlled intercluster trunks.
|
Devices/Entities | Version/Model/Type/Supported Protocol |
Communication Manager
|
Supports Communication Manager software/Firmware version 4.x/ 5.x/6.x on the following servers :
Note:
|
Local Survivable
Processor
|
Supports Communication Manager software/Firmware version 4.x/5.x/6.x on the following servers :
|
H.248 Media Gateways
|
Supports Communication Manager software/Firmware version 4.x/5.x/6.x on the following media gateways:
|
Port Network Media
Gateway
|
Supports Communication Manager software/Firmware version 4.x/5.x/6.x on the following port network media gateway: G650 |
IP Phones
|
Communication Manager software/Firmware 4.x/5.x/6.x compliant IP phones. The supported protocols include SIP and H.323. On the Avaya ONE –X soft phones, at the least, Avaya one-X Communicator Release 5.2 with Service Pack 4 (Product Version 5.2.0.23) or its equivalent Service Pack for Avaya one-X Communicator Release 6.x must be installed. The Service Pack level must include the fix for the issue with malformed CNAME in RTCP packets or the enhancement titled “Updated the CNAME in the RTCP packet for more accurate monitoring traceability.” |
Devices/Entities | Version/Model/Type/Supported Protocol |
Call Server
|
Models running the software version 5.x |
Signaling Server
|
Models running the software version 5.x |
Media Gateway
|
Media Gateway Controller Card (MGC) with DSP daughter boards, Media Card (MC), Voice Gateway Media Card (VGMC); MC 32 and MC 32S cards are supported in the MC or VGMC category. |
IP Phone
|
The following Nortel IP phone models are supported:
|
Devices/Entities | Version/Model/Type/Supported Protocol |
Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Gateway | NET UX 1.3 |
HP Survivable Branch Module (HP SBM) 1.1.19.0 |
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