IBM Telco Network Cloud Manager - Assurance

Delivers capabilities to modernize Operations Support Systems (OSSs) for dynamic operations management of fast-changing virtual and container network services in production.

  1. For information about IBM® Telco Network Cloud Manager - Assurance prerequisites and sizing, see Prerequisites and sizing.
  2. For IBM Telco Network Cloud Manager - Assurance part numbers and components, see IBM Telco Network Cloud Manager - Assurance part numbers.
  3. For more information about installing the product, see Installing IBM Telco Network Cloud Manager - Assurance.
IBM Telco Network Cloud Manager - Assurance comprises the following components.
  • Event Manager to analyze structured and unstructured data channels that relate to applications, including the Assurance Alert Manager. It detects potential problems, resolves incidents, and provides a solution in the user's ChatOps environment, such as Slack. It was previously known as IBM Netcool® Operations Manager or IBM Agile Service Manager. For more information about installing and configuring Event Manager, see the IBM Netcool Operations Insight Documentation.
  • Metric Manager to analyze performance and monitoring (metric data) across different vendors, domains, and systems, such as New Relic, SolarWinds, and AppDynamics. It offers a proactive, anomaly detection approach to avoid disruptions and outages, and provides AIOps capabilities. It was previously known as IBM Operations Predictive Insights. For more information about installing and configuring Metric Manager, see the IBM Operations Analytics Predictive Insights V 1.3.6 documentation.
  • AI Manager to collect, consolidate, and correlate events and topology data from any source. It uses correlation and analysis processes to deliver alert and incident management that is driven by event-based and topology-based analytics. For more information about installing and configuring AI Manager, see the IBM Watson AIOps 2.0 documentation.

For detailed installation, features, and functionality of each of the components, see this Description.

Two extensions are available with IBM Telco Network Cloud Manager - Assurance: Explorer and SRE Navigator.

  • Explorer provides IBM Netcool Network Management and IBM Netcool Operations Insight® - Network Management customers with a path to IBM Telco Network Cloud Manager - Assurance while you continue to manage your physical and network infrastructure. The Explorer extension is also known as the Network Manager Extension.
  • SRE Navigator provides ready-to-use direct application and network discovery of your environment. The discovery function is seamlessly integrated into the dynamic typology service of IBM Telco Network Cloud Manager - Assurance. The SRE Navigator extension is also known as the Advanced Agile Discovery Extension.

Prerequisites and sizing

For more information about IBM Telco Network Cloud Manager - Assurance prerequisites and sizing, see the following links:

Table 1. IBM Telco Network Cloud - Assurance Components
Component Product Links to more information
Event Manager Netcool Operations Insight Netcool Operations Insight
Agile Service Manager Planning
Metric Manager Predictive Insights Hardware and software requirements for IBM Predictive Insights
AI Manager Watson AIOps Prerequisites
Table 2. IBM Telco Network Cloud Manager - Assurance Extensions
Extension Links to more information
Explorer IBM Network Manager
SRE Navigator Configuring components

Sizings for a specific deployment

For more information about sizing for a specific deployment, see the following links.

Table 3. IBM Telco Network Cloud - Assurance Sizing for a specific deployment
Deployment Links to more information
Event Manager Red Hat OpenShift Hardware sizing for a full deployment on Red Hat OpenShift
Event Manager On Premises Planning for an on-premises installation
Event Manager Hybrid Hardware sizing for a hybrid deployment on Red Hat OpenShift