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PRODUCT FAMILY BRIEF: CA SPECTRUM NETWORK FAULT MANAGER

CA SPECTRUM
Network Fault Manager
®

Redefining Network Service
Management

CA SPECTRUM® Network Fault
Manager Family
CA SPECTRUM® Network Fault Manager (CA SPECTRUM NFM)
CA SPECTRUM® NFM Service Manager
CA SPECTRUM® NFM Network Configuration Manager
CA SPECTRUM® NFM Report Manager
CA SPECTRUM® NFM MPLS VPN Manager
CASPECTRUM® NFM Multicast Manager
CA SPECTRUM® NFM QoS Manager
CA SPECTRUM® NFM Secure Domain Manager
CA SPECTRUM® NFM Secure Domain Connector
CA SPECTRUM® NFM Service Performance Manager
CA SPECTRUM® NFM Level 1 Toolkit
CA SPECTRUM® NFM Southbound Gateway Toolkit
CA SPECTRUM® NFM Report Gateway Toolkit
CA SPECTRUM® NFM Modeling Gateway Toolkit
CA SPECTRUM® NFM TL1 Gateway Toolkit
CA SPECTRUM®NFM CORBA Toolkit
CA SPECTRUM® NFM Nortel Preside MDM Integration Gateway
CA SPECTRUM® NFM Microsoft MOM Connector

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CA SPECTRUM® Network Fault Manager software delivers automated
service, fault and configuration management across diverse,multitechnology networks to assure the availability of critical network
services that are essential for your business applications. Patented root
cause and impact analysis technology immediately pinpoints the
degraded or failed network component, indicates who and what are
impacted, and offers a fix. Reporting capabilities deliver at-a-glance,
actionable information regarding IT asset,availability, event and alarm,
and performance metrics.
Overview
In today’s highly competitive
global economy, a robust and
reliable network is fundamental
to business success.
CA SPECTRUM NFM ensures the
availability of critical network
services, employing intelligent
root cause and impact analysis
to identify, prioritize and correct
problems before they affect your
business.
CA SPECTRUMNFM delivers a
highly intuitive interface, configuration management tools, and
out-of-the-box support for more
than 800 device types.

Benefits

The CA Advantage

CA SPECTRUM NFM approaches
service, fault and configuration
management from a business
perspective, ensuring that your
most important business services
and customers get priority
response.
The automation of labor-intensivetroubleshooting improves service
levels and availability while
lowering operational costs.
Capital expenditure is significantly
reduced through better utilization
of your network assets, as you
identify which assets can be
consolidated, redeployed or
decommissioned.

Platform independent and vendor
neutral, CA SPECTRUM NFM is
a core component of the CA
Network & Voice Management(CA NVM) solution, a complete
and integrated solution set for
network service, fault, configuration, performance and voice
application management. CA
NVM is part of CA’s broader
Enterprise IT Management
(EITM) approach, which is to
manage all IT resources from
a single view and simplify the
management of complex
computing environments
across the enterprise.

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CA SPECTRUM NFM Redefines Network Service Management
Your enterprise, service provider business or government agency depends on your network.
Downtime and performance problems have an immediate and increasingly severe impact on
productivity, revenue and profitability.
CA understands that today’s IT organizations are responsible for delivering key network andIP
services, and that network fault management in today’s infrastructures means assuring both
the health and availability of these services.
At CA, we define network service management as the unification of service, fault and
configuration management. We deliver a highly integrated network service management
solution that understands the crucial relationship between your business assets,...