Application Scenarios for Performance Management

If a network device supports the performance management feature, the network management system (NMS) can deliver performance management tasks to collect and analyze the performance statistics of the device, as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1 Application of performance management on a network

1. The NMS delivers a performance statistics task to the device.

2. The device collects performance statistics based on the performance statistics task and generates a performance statistics file.

3. The device actively transfers the performance statistics file to the NMS or transfers the file to the NMS upon request.

4. The NMS parses the performance statistics file, stores the file in the database, and presents collected statistics if necessary.

The NMS can convert received performance statistics files to files recognizable to a third-party NMS and transfer these files to the third-party NMS for processing.