Cisco Info Center, based on Tivoli Netcool, is a carrier-class service and business assurance system that collects and consolidates events and alarms from a wide variety of networking environments in real-time. Netcool/OMNIbus is at the core of the Cisco Info Center suite of software, a carrier-class service and business assurance system. The Netcool/OMNIbus application focuses primarily on fault and event management. It collects and consolidates events and alarms from a wide variety of networking environments in real-time. These environments include servers, mainframes, Windows systems, UNIX applications, circuit switches, voice switches, IP routers, SNMP devices, network management applications and frameworks, among many others. Netcool/OMNIbus can also consolidate information from different domain-limited network management platforms in remote locations.