D.2 Changes from version 10-00 to 10-10

• The description of how to use the Author attribute was changed.

• A description concerning menus and menu items was changed.

• Notes were added about using the nnmconfigimport.ovpl command to import a large number of settings.

• Information was added about the following aspects of SNMP communication:

  • Changing the encryption method when using SNMPv3 communication

  • Enabling or disabling a specific device's SNMP communication

  • SNMP communication procedure using an SNMP proxy agent

• Information was added about discovery using tenants in a network that contains overlapping address domains.

• Methods for specifying excluded IP addresses and for specifying excluded interface groups were added to the settings for not discovering objects.

• A description was added of how to specify a range of interfaces to be discovered by defining a filter.

• For handling seed discovery errors, a description was added of how to include the corresponding IP addresses in the ipnolookup.conf file.

• The description of deleting non-responding objects was changed.

• In NNMi state polling, the following items were changed:

  • Proxy servers were changed to switches.

  • The description of how to set the interface groups and node groups to be monitored was changed.

• Regarding NNMi incidents, descriptions of the following were added or changed:

  • Concepts of incidents

  • Trap and incident forwarding

  • Received SNMP traps

  • CIAs added to closed management event incidents

  • Planning how NNMi is to respond to incidents

  • How to set trap logs

  • How to set incident logs

  • How to set trap server properties

  • Batch loading of incident configurations

  • Evaluating incidents

  • Tuning incidents

• Regarding the NNMi console, descriptions of the following were added or changed:

  • Creating node groups

  • Configuring node group maps

  • Deleting node groups

  • Disabling the Analysis pane

  • Customizing device icons

  • Overriding the refresh rate of table views

• In the method for using certificates in NNMi, the following procedure was changed:

  • Generating a Certificate Authority certificate

• The description of configuring an SSL connection to the directory service was changed.

• In integrating NNMi with a directory service through LDAP, the descriptions of the following were changed:

  • NNMi user access information and configuration options

  • Configuring NNMi to access a directory service

  • Changing the directory service access configuration to support the NNMi security model

  • Information owned by the directory service administrator

  • Troubleshooting the directory service integration

• It was made clear that in the NNMi global operator user group (globalops), access permissions are granted only to all topology objects.

• A chapter on how to configure a NAT environment was added.

• The description of NNMi security and multi-tenancy configuration was changed.

• In global network management, notes about NAT, PAT, and NAPT were added.

• For the firewall configuration in the initial preparations, the parameters for the required accessible sockets were changed.

• For purposes of global network management, the NNMi window and its description were changed.

• In troubleshooting tips for global network management, the following description was changed:

  • Synchronizing regional manager discovery from a global manager

• The description of upgrading NNMi in a global network management environment was changed.

• A description about global network management and the address translation protocol was added.

• Regarding the NNMi IPv6 management feature, the following descriptions were added or changed:

  • Overview of the NNMi IPv6 management feature

  • Prerequisites for using the NNMi IPv6 management feature

  • Activating the IPv6 management feature capabilities

  • IPv6 inventory following deactivation of the IPv6 management feature

• Prerequisites for setting up application failover were added.

• The following application failover setup methods were added or changed:

  • Configuring NNMi for application failover

  • Configuring application failover by using the cluster setup wizard

  • Configuring application failover communication

  • Application failover behavior

  • Application failover scenarios

  • Disabling application failover

  • Upgrading NNMi (including applying a patch)

  • Changing the NNMi database password

• The following descriptions concerning the HA configuration were added or changed:

  • Verifying the prerequisites for configuring NNMi for HA

  • NNMi HA configuration information

  • Configuring NNMi on the primary cluster node

  • Configuring NNMi on the secondary cluster node

  • Unconfiguring NNMi on the passive node

  • Unconfiguring NNMi on the active node

• The description of NNMi data backup was changed.

• The following descriptions about maintaining NNMi were added or changed:

  • Managing folder access permissions

  • Changing the action server queue size

  • Incident actions log

  • Configuring the character set encoding

  • Configuring to allow level 2 operators to delete nodes

  • Configuring to allow level 2 operators to edit maps

  • Configuring to allow level 2 operators to perform state polling and configuration polling

  • Configuring NNMi to authenticate SNMPv3 traps for unmonitored nodes

  • Configuring NNMi to identify the original trap addresses from traps sent by a proxy SNMP gateway

  • Configuring NNMi to require encryption during remote access

  • Configuring NNMi for strict SNMPv3 inform processing

  • Configuring NNMi to retain the previously supported varbind order

  • Changing the database port

• A change was made to the description of updating the HTTPS configuration with a new certificate when changing the host name and/or domain name of an NNMi management server.

• The following descriptions about upgrading from NNMi version 9 or 10-00 were added:

  • Upgrading a NNMi management server from version 10-00

  • Upgrading a NNMi management server from version 9

  • Upgrading global managers and regional managers from NNMi 10-00 or earlier

  • Upgrading the application failover configuration to NNMi 10-10

• The following descriptions about upgrading from NNMi version 8 or earlier were changed:

  • Configuring SNMP

  • Customizing device profiles

  • Configuring a discovery schedule

  • Setting up auto-discovery rules

  • Specifying a polling interval

  • Selecting a polling protocol

  • Displaying traps from devices

• The default locations of environment variables were changed.

• The list of ports used by NNMi was changed.

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