Avaya Application Solutions Deployment Manual page 363

Customer responsibilities
In order to successfully complete a NANO the customer must:
Provide technical resource personnel who are well-versed in the network infrastructure.
Provide complete access to the network.
Provide passwords for networking equipment.
Provide access to personnel for interviews.
Update or provide network topology maps.
Identify a place on the network for test equipment.
Define times to complete network testing.
Discovery
Perform interviews with IT staff to determine application and network performance
expectations
Locate and identify all SNMP enabled devices
Identify hosts on each subnet
Identify all routers, switches, and hubs
Manual identification of all non-SNMP enabled devices
Identify operating system of each Host found
Map hosts to communication paths between hosts
Generate Layer 3 topology map to compare with CIRS
Install endpoints for testing
Review WAN-specific circuits, bandwidths, DLCI/PVC configurations, and channeled T1
configurations
Review the customer's Layer 2 architecture
Element monitoring
Monitor router status through SNMP (port utilization, MIB II errors)
Capture all network device SNMP data real-time into database
CPU utilization capturing per host being used for testing
Monitor LAN switch utilization, MIB II errors
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