FOXMAN-UN client for Windows® consists of the “NEM Desktop” and all Application, Fault Management, Network, and System related UIs (UI=User Interface) that are also provided in the NEM Desktop of a Linux machine, as well as the help system. The FOXMAN-UN core with the database must be installed on a LINUX workstation. For deployment examples refer to section Deployment.

The GUI can be connected to any FOXMAN-UN core if there is an IP network providing the connectivity, and if the FOXMAN-UN client version matches the version of the FOXMAN-UN core. As the UIs are running locally on the PC, no resources of the core machine are required. Contrary to using an X-emulation program, only the required data has to be exchanged between the GUI and the core. This speeds up the operation of the UIs and also reduces the load of the core machine.

The UIs allow performing all administration tasks associated with the managed network. They have functionalities identical to those of the UIs in the FOXMAN-UN core machine. System administration though (NEM Administration Tool, command line (CLI) from a terminal) is not possible via FOXMAN-UN client for Windows®.

The following paragraphs show the architecture of FOXMAN-UN and give a short description of each major block.