Contents

• Notices

• Summary of amendments

• Preface

• Part 1: Preparation

  • 1. Preinstallation Checklists

    • 1.1 Checking the hardware and software

    • 1.2 Preparing the preinstallation NNMi management server environment

    • 1.3 Checking for a well-configured DNS

    • 1.4 Preparing to use the NNMi Quick Start Configuration Wizard

    • 1.5 Additional information about installation

      • 1.5.1 Specifying disk drive security settings (Windows)

      • 1.5.2 Obtaining or setting the official fully qualified domain name

      • 1.5.3 Enabling the Web browser for the NNMi console

      • 1.5.4 Installing required libraries in Linux

      • 1.5.5 Setting the system account password

  • 2. Installing and Uninstalling NNMi

    • 2.1 Installing NNMi

      • 2.1.1 Installing NNMi (Windows)

      • 2.1.2 Installing NNMi (Linux)

      • 2.1.3 Operations after the installer finishes

    • 2.2 Using the Quick Start Configuration Wizard

    • 2.3 Licensing NNMi

      • 2.3.1 Preparing to install a permanent license key

      • 2.3.2 Obtaining and installing a permanent license key

      • 2.3.3 Switching the temporary license

    • 2.4 Removing NNMi

      • 2.4.1 Removing NNMi (Windows)

      • 2.4.2 Removing NNMi (Linux)

    • 2.5 Troubleshooting installation and initial startup

      • 2.5.1 Installation problems

      • 2.5.2 Initial startup problems

• Part 2: Introduction

  • 3. Getting Started with NNMi

    • 3.1 Accessing NNMi

    • 3.2 Accessing NNMi Help

    • 3.3 Configuring network discovery

      • 3.3.1 Configuring community strings

      • 3.3.2 Configuring auto-discovery rules

      • 3.3.3 Checking discovery progress

• Part 3: Configuration

  • 4. General Concepts for Configuration

    • 4.1 Task flow model

    • 4.2 Best practice: Save the existing configuration

    • 4.3 Best practice: Use the Author attribute

    • 4.4 User interface model

    • 4.5 Ordering

    • 4.6 Node groups and interface groups

      • 4.6.1 Group overlap

      • 4.6.2 Node group membership

      • 4.6.3 Node group status

      • 4.6.4 Interface groups

    • 4.7 Node/interface/address hierarchy

    • 4.8 Resetting the NNMi configuration and database

  • 5. NNMi Communications

    • 5.1 Concepts for communications

      • 5.1.1 Levels of communication configuration

      • 5.1.2 Network latency and timeouts

      • 5.1.3 SNMP access control

      • 5.1.4 SNMP version preferences

      • 5.1.5 Management address preferences

      • 5.1.6 SNMPv3 traps and informs

      • 5.1.7 Polling protocols

      • 5.1.8 nnmsnmp*.ovpl commands

    • 5.2 Creating a communication plan

      • 5.2.1 Default communication settings

      • 5.2.2 Communication configuration regions

      • 5.2.3 Specific node configurations

      • 5.2.4 Retry and timeout values

      • 5.2.5 Active protocols

      • 5.2.6 Community strings and authentication profiles

    • 5.3 Configuring communications

      • 5.3.1 Configuring an SNMP proxy

      • 5.3.2 Using NETCONF for device support

      • 5.3.3 Discover and monitor VMware hypervisor-based virtual networks

      • 5.3.4 Discover and monitor Cisco ACI networks

      • 5.3.5 Multihomed NNMi Management Server

    • 5.4 Evaluating communications

      • 5.4.1 Checking all nodes for SNMP configuration

      • 5.4.2 Checking SNMP access

      • 5.4.3 Checking the management IP address for SNMP Devices

      • 5.4.4 Checking the communication settings

      • 5.4.5 Checking whether the monitoring configuration matches the communication settings

    • 5.5 Tuning communications

  • 6. NNMi Discovery

    • 6.1 Concepts of discovery

      • 6.1.1 Device profiles and device attributes

    • 6.2 Planning discovery

      • 6.2.1 Selecting your primary discovery approach

      • 6.2.2 Creating auto-discovery rules

      • 6.2.3 Changing the order for node name resolution

      • 6.2.4 Subnet connection rules

      • 6.2.5 Discovery seeds

      • 6.2.6 Rediscovery interval

      • 6.2.7 Do-not-discover objects

      • 6.2.8 Interface discovery range

    • 6.3 Configuring discovery

      • 6.3.1  Tips for configuring auto-discovery rules

      • 6.3.2 Tips for configuring seeds

      • 6.3.3 Discovering link aggregation

      • 6.3.4 Discovering server-to-switch link aggregation (S2SLA)

    • 6.4 Evaluating discovery

      • 6.4.1 Following the progress of initial discovery

      • 6.4.2 Checking for discovery of all seeds

      • 6.4.3 Checking for valid device profiles

      • 6.4.4 Checking for discovery of all nodes

      • 6.4.5 Evaluating the auto-discovery rules (Rule-based discovery only)

      • 6.4.6 Evaluating connections and VLANs

      • 6.4.7 Rediscovering a device

    • 6.5 Tuning discovery

      • 6.5.1 Deleting unresponsive objects

  • 7. NNMi State Polling

    • 7.1 Concepts for state polling

      • 7.1.1 Order of evaluation

    • 7.2 Planning state polling

      • 7.2.1 Polling checklist

      • 7.2.2 What Can NNMi Monitor?

      • 7.2.3 Stop Monitoring

      • 7.2.4 Interfaces to Unmonitored Nodes

      • 7.2.5 Extending Monitoring

      • 7.2.6 Creating node and interface groups

      • 7.2.7 Planning polling intervals

      • 7.2.8 Planning the data to be collected

      • 7.2.9 Deciding which SNMP traps to send to NNMi

    • 7.3 Configuring state polling

      • 7.3.1 Configuring the interface groups and node groups to be monitored

      • 7.3.2 Configuring interface monitoring

      • 7.3.3 Configuring node monitoring

      • 7.3.4 Specifying the default settings for monitoring

    • 7.4 Evaluating state polling

      • 7.4.1 Verifying the configuration for network monitoring

      • 7.4.2 Evaluating the performance of status polling

    • 7.5 Tuning state polling

  • 8. NNMi Incidents

    • 8.1 Concepts for incidents

      • 8.1.1 Incident lifecycle

      • 8.1.2 Trap and incident forwarding

      • 8.1.3 Received SNMP traps

      • 8.1.4 MIBs

      • 8.1.5 Custom incident attributes

      • 8.1.6 Incident reduction

      • 8.1.7 Incident suppression, enrichment, and dampening

      • 8.1.8 Lifecycle transition actions

    • 8.2 Planning incidents

      • 8.2.1 Planning the SNMP traps to be processed

      • 8.2.2 Planning the incidents to be displayed

      • 8.2.3 Planning how NNMi responds to incidents

    • 8.3 Configuring incidents

      • 8.3.1 Configuring incident suppression, enrichment, and dampening

      • 8.3.2 Configuring lifecycle transition actions

      • 8.3.3 Configuring trap logs

      • 8.3.4 Configuring incident logs

      • 8.3.5 Configuring trap server properties

    • 8.4 Batch loading incident configuration

      • 8.4.1 Using nnmincidentcfgdump.ovpl to create an incident configuration file

      • 8.4.2 Using nnmincidentcfgload.ovpl to load the incident configuration

    • 8.5 Evaluating incidents

    • 8.6 Tuning incidents

      • 8.6.1 Enabling incidents for undefined traps

      • 8.6.2 Interpreting and displaying the MIB data for SNMP traps correctly

  • 9. NNMi Console

    • 9.1 A practical example of using node groups

      • 9.1.1 Creating node groups

      • 9.1.2 Configuring the node group maps

      • 9.1.3 Deleting node groups

    • 9.2 Reducing the maximum number of nodes displayed in a Network Overview map

    • 9.3 Reducing the number of displayed nodes on a node group map

    • 9.4 Configuring Gauges in the Analysis Pane

      • 9.4.1 Disabling the Analysis pane

      • 9.4.2 Limiting the Number of Gauges Displayed

      • 9.4.3 Setting the Refresh Rate for Gauges in the Analysis Pane

      • 9.4.4 Eliminating Gauges from the Display

      • 9.4.5 Controlling the Order of Displayed Node Gauges

      • 9.4.6 Controlling the Order of Displayed Interface Gauges

      • 9.4.7 Controlling the Order of Displayed Custom Poller Gauges

      • 9.4.8 Understanding how Gauge Properties are Applied

      • 9.4.9 Troubleshooting Gauge Problems

    • 9.5 Configuring Map Label Scale Size and Borders

    • 9.6 Configuring Auto-Collapse Thresholds for Loom and Wheel Diagrams

    • 9.7 Customizing device profile icons

    • 9.8 Overriding the refresh rate of table views

• Part 4: Advanced Configuration

  • 10. Working with Certificates for NNMi

    • 10.1 About NNMi Certificates

    • 10.2 Configuring an Upgraded NNMi Environment to Use the New Keystore

    • 10.3 Using Certificates with the PKCS #12 Repository

      • 10.3.1 Generating a Self-Signed Certificate

      • 10.3.2 Generating a CA-Signed Certificate

      • 10.3.3 Delete a Certificate from the NNMi Keystore

      • 10.3.4 Replacing an Existing Certificate with a new Self-Signed or CA-Signed Certificate

      • 10.3.5 Working with Certificates in Application Failover Environments

      • 10.3.6 Working with Certificates in High-Availability Environments

      • 10.3.7 Working with Certificates in Global Network Management Environments

      • 10.3.8 Configuring an SSL connection to the Directory service

    • 10.4 Using Certificates with the JKS Repository

      • 10.4.1 Replacing an Existing Certificate with a new Self-Signed or CA-Signed Certificate

      • 10.4.2 Generating a Self-Signed Certificate

      • 10.4.3 Generating a CA-Signed Certificate

      • 10.4.4 Configuring application failover to use self-signed certificates

      • 10.4.5 Working with Certificates in High-Availability Environments

      • 10.4.6 Working with Certificates in Global Network Management Environments

      • 10.4.7 Configuring an SSL connection to the directory service

  • 11. Configuring the Telnet and SSH Protocols for Use by NNMi

    • 11.1 Disable the telnet or SSH menu item

    • 11.2 Configure a telnet or SSH client for the browser on Windows

      • 11.2.1 Windows operating system-provided telnet client

      • 11.2.2 Third-party telnet client (standard Windows)

      • 11.2.3 Third-party telnet client (Windows on Windows)

      • 11.2.4 Third-party SSH client (standard Windows and Windows on Windows)

    • 11.3 Configure Firefox to use telnet or SSH on Linux

      • 11.3.1 Configuring Firefox to use Telnet on Linux

      • 11.3.2 Configuring Firefox to use SSH on Linux

    • 11.4 Example files for changing the Windows registry

      • 11.4.1 Example nnmtelnet.reg

      • 11.4.2 Example nnmputtytelnet.reg

      • 11.4.3 Example nnmtelnet32on64.reg

      • 11.4.4 Example nnmssh.reg

  • 12. Integrating NNMi with a Directory Service Through LDAP

    • 12.1 NNMi user access information and configuration options

      • 12.1.1 Internal mode: Storing all NNMi user information in the NNMi database

      • 12.1.2 Mixed mode: Storing some NNMi user information in the NNMi database and some NNMi user information in a directory service

      • 12.1.3 External mode: Storing all NNMi user information in a directory service

    • 12.2 Configuring NNMi to access a directory service

      • 12.2.1 Task 1: Back up the current NNMi user information

      • 12.2.2 Task 2: (Optional) Configure secure communications to the directory service

      • 12.2.3 Task 3: Configure user access from the directory service

      • 12.2.4 Task 4: Test the user name and password configuration

      • 12.2.5 Task 5: (Configuring for the external mode only) Configure group retrieval from the directory service

      • 12.2.6 Task 6: (Configuring for the external mode only) Map the directory service groups to NNMi user groups

      • 12.2.7 Task 7: (Configuring for the external mode only) Test the NNMi user group configuration

      • 12.2.8 Task 8: (Configuring for the external mode only) Configure NNMi user groups for incident assignment

      • 12.2.9 Task 9: Clean up to prevent unexpected access to NNMi

      • 12.2.10 Task 10: (Optional) Map the user groups to security groups

    • 12.3 Directory service queries

      • 12.3.1 Directory service access

      • 12.3.2 Directory service content

      • 12.3.3 Information owned by the directory service administrator

      • 12.3.4 User identification

      • 12.3.5 User group identification

    • 12.4 Directory service configuration for storing NNMi user groups

    • 12.5 Troubleshooting the directory service integration

    • 12.6 LDAP configuration file reference

      • 12.6.1 nms-auth-config.xml

    • 12.7 Switching to the nms-auth-config.xml File

  • 13. Managing Overlapping IP Addresses in a NAT Environment

    • 13.1 About NAT

    • 13.2 Benefits of NAT

    • 13.3 Supported NAT types

    • 13.4 How to implement NAT in NNMi

    • 13.5 Considerations on static NAT

      • 13.5.1 Hardware and software requirements for static NAT

      • 13.5.2 Communication using static NAT

      • 13.5.3 Discovery and static NAT

      • 13.5.4 Monitoring configuration for static NAT

      • 13.5.5 Traps and static NAT

      • 13.5.6 Subnets and static NAT

      • 13.5.7 Global network management and static NAT

    • 13.6 Dynamic NAT and dynamic PAT considerations

      • 13.6.1 Hardware and software requirements for dynamic NAT and dynamic PAT

      • 13.6.2 Discovery and dynamic NAT or dynamic PAT

      • 13.6.3 Monitoring configuration for dynamic NAT

      • 13.6.4 Subnets and dynamic NAT or dynamic PAT

      • 13.6.5 Global network management and dynamic NAT or dynamic PAT

      • 13.6.6 Deploying NNMi in a network address translation (NAT) environment

      • 13.6.7 NNMi calculations for state and status

    • 13.7 Mapping overlapping IP addresses

      • 13.7.1 Ranges of private IP addresses

  • 14. NNMi Security and Multi-Tenancy

    • 14.1 Effects of limiting object access

    • 14.2 The NNMi security model

      • 14.2.1 Security groups

      • 14.2.2 Example security group structure

    • 14.3 The NNMi tenant model

      • 14.3.1 Tenants

      • 14.3.2 Example tenant structure

    • 14.4 NNMi security and multi-tenancy configuration

      • 14.4.1 Security and multi-tenancy configuration tools

      • 14.4.2 Configuring multi-tenancy

      • 14.4.3 Configuring security groups

      • 14.4.4 Verifying the configuration

      • 14.4.5 Exporting the NNMi security and multi-tenancy configuration

    • 14.5 Defining NNMi security and multi-tenancy in global network management

      • 14.5.1 Initial configuration of security and multi-tenancy in global network management

      • 14.5.2 Effects of security and multi-tenancy assignment on a global network management

  • 15. Global Network Management

    • 15.1 Prerequisites for global network management

    • 15.2 Global network management benefits

    • 15.3 Evaluating the use of global network management

      • 15.3.1 Monitoring networks at multiple sites continuously

      • 15.3.2 Monitoring selected critical devices

      • 15.3.3 Considering licensing

    • 15.4 Practical global network management examples

      • 15.4.1 Reviewing the requirements

      • 15.4.2 Initial preparation

    • 15.5 Configuring forwarding filters on the regional managers

      • 15.5.1 Configuring a forwarding filter to limit forwarded nodes

    • 15.6 Connecting a global manager with a regional manager

    • 15.7 Determining the connection status from global1 to regional1 and regional2

    • 15.8 Reviewing global1 inventory

    • 15.9 Disconnecting communication between global1 and regional1

    • 15.10 Additional information about global network management

      • 15.10.1 Discovery and data synchronization

      • 15.10.2 Replicating custom attributes from a regional manager to the global manager

      • 15.10.3 Status polling or configuration polling a device

      • 15.10.4 Determining device status and NNMi incident generation using a global manager

    • 15.11 Troubleshooting tips for global network management

      • 15.11.1 Troubleshooting information in NNMi Help

      • 15.11.2 Clock synchronization

      • 15.11.3 Global network management system information

      • 15.11.4 Synchronizing regional manager discovery from a global manager

    • 15.12 Upgrading NNMi in a global network management environment

    • 15.13 Global network management and address translation protocol

  • 16. NNMi IPv6 Management Feature

    • 16.1 Overview of the NNMi IPv6 management feature

    • 16.2 Prerequisites for using the NNMi IPv6 management feature

    • 16.3 Licensing to use the NNMi IPv6 management feature

    • 16.4 Environment supported by the NNMi IPv6 management feature

      • 16.4.1 Types of NNMi management servers and supported functions

      • 16.4.2 Supported SNMP MIBs for IPv6

    • 16.5 Installing NNMi and activating the IPv6 management feature

    • 16.6 Deactivating the IPv6 management feature

      • 16.6.1 IPv6 monitoring following deactivation of the IPv6 management feature

      • 16.6.2 IPv6 inventory following deactivation of the IPv6 management feature

      • 16.6.3 Known issues when cleaning Up IPv6 inventory

    • 16.7 Reactivating the IPv6 management feature

• Part 5: High Availability Environment Configuration

  • 17. NNMi Data Resilience

    • 17.1 Approaches to NNMi data resilience

    • 17.2 Comparison of approaches to NNMi data resilience

  • 18. Configuring NNMi for Application Failover

    • 18.1 Application failover overview

    • 18.2 Application failover basic setup

      • 18.2.1 Prerequisites for setting up application failover

      • 18.2.2 Notes on application failover

    • 18.3 Configuring NNMi for application failover

      • 18.3.1 Configuring application failover manually

      • 18.3.2 Configuring application failover with the NNMi Cluster Setup Wizard

      • 18.3.3 Setting application failover communications

    • 18.4 Using the application failover feature

      • 18.4.1 Application failover behavior

      • 18.4.2 Application failover scenarios

      • 18.4.3 ovstart and ovstop commands used on NNMi management servers configured for application failover

      • 18.4.4 Application failover incidents

    • 18.5 Returning to the original configuration following a failover

    • 18.6 Disabling application failover

    • 18.7 Administrative tasks and application failover

      • 18.7.1 Upgrading NNMi (including applying a patch)

      • 18.7.2 Starting, stopping, and restarting NNMi

      • 18.7.3 Backing up and restoring NNMi

      • 18.7.4 Modifying the NNMi settings

      • 18.7.5 Changing the NNMi database password

    • 18.8 Network latency/bandwidth considerations

      • 18.8.1 Application failover and the NNMi database

  • 19. Configuring NNMi in a High Availability Cluster

    • 19.1 HA concepts

      • 19.1.1 HA terms

      • 19.1.2 NNMi HA cluster scenarios

      • 19.1.3 Manpages

    • 19.2 Verifying the prerequisites to configuring NNMi for HA

    • 19.3 Notes about HA configurations

      • 19.3.1 Notes about using related products

      • 19.3.2 Notes about configuration tasks and operations

      • 19.3.3 Other notes

    • 19.4 Configuring HA

      • 19.4.1 Configuring NNMi certificates for HA

      • 19.4.2 Configuring NNMi for HA

      • 19.4.3 Configuring NNMi for HA (Windows)

      • 19.4.4 Configuring NNMi for HA (Linux)

    • 19.5 Shared NNMi Data

      • 19.5.1 Data on the NNMi shared disk

      • 19.5.2 Replication of configuration files

    • 19.6 Maintaining the HA Configuration

      • 19.6.1 Placing NNMi in maintenance mode

      • 19.6.2 Maintaining NNMi in an HA cluster

    • 19.7 Unconfiguring NNMi from an HA cluster

      • 19.7.1 Determining the active cluster node

      • 19.7.2 Unconfiguring NNMi on the passive cluster node

      • 19.7.3 Unconfiguring NNMi on the active cluster node

    • 19.8 Troubleshooting the HA Configuration

      • 19.8.1 Common configuration mistakes

      • 19.8.2 HA resource testing

      • 19.8.3 General HA troubleshooting

      • 19.8.4 NNMi-specific HA troubleshooting

    • 19.9 HA configuration reference

      • 19.9.1  NNMi HA configuration files

      • 19.9.2 NNMi-provided HA configuration scripts

      • 19.9.3 NNMi HA configuration log files

• Part 6: NNMi Maintenance

  • 20. NNMi Backup and Restore Tools

    • 20.1 Backup and restore commands

    • 20.2 Backing up NNMi data

      • 20.2.1 Backup type

      • 20.2.2 Backup scope

    • 20.3 Restoring NNMi data

      • 20.3.1 Same-system restore

      • 20.3.2 Different-system restore

    • 20.4 Backup and restore strategies

      • 20.4.1 Back up all data periodically

      • 20.4.2 Back up data before changing the configuration

      • 20.4.3 Back up data before upgrading NNMi or the operating system

      • 20.4.4 Restore file system files only

    • 20.5 Backing up and restoring the database

  • 21. Maintaining NNMi

    • 21.1 Administering access control lists for NNMi folders

    • 21.2 Configuring node groups

    • 21.3 Configuring node group map settings

    • 21.4 Configuring communication settings

    • 21.5 Administering a Custom Poller collection export

      • 21.5.1 Changing the Custom Poller collections export directory

      • 21.5.2 Changing the maximum amount of disk space for Custom Poller collections export

      • 21.5.3 Changing the Custom Poller metric accumulation interval

    • 21.6 Administering incident actions

      • 21.6.1 Setting the number of simultaneous actions

      • 21.6.2 Setting the number of threads for Jython actions

      • 21.6.3 Setting the action server name parameter

      • 21.6.4 Changing the action server queue size

      • 21.6.5 Incident actions log

    • 21.7 Overriding settings in the server.properties file

      • 21.7.1 Override the browser locale setting

      • 21.7.2 Configuring SNMP Set object access privileges

    • 21.8 Administering SNMP traps

      • 21.8.1 Configuring NNMi to authenticate SNMPv3 traps for nodes that are either managed by using SNMPv2 or SNMPv1 or that are not discovered

      • 21.8.2 Block SNMPv1 or SNMPv2c Traps

      • 21.8.3 Configuring timeframes within which the Causal Engine stops accepting traps

    • 21.9 Blocking incidents using the trapFilter.conf file

    • 21.10 Configuring character set encoding settings for NNMi

    • 21.11 Modifying MIB Browser Parameters

    • 21.12 Configuring NNMi to allow level 2 operators to delete nodes and incidents

    • 21.13 Configuring NNMi to allow level 2 operators to edit maps

    • 21.14 Configuring NNMi to allow level 1 operators to run status polls and configuration polls

    • 21.15 Determining the original trap address from traps sent by a proxy SNMP gateway

      • 21.15.1 Trap address ordering

    • 21.16 NNMi NmsTrapReceiver process

      • 21.16.1 Configuring the NmsTrapReceiver

      • 21.16.2 Starting and stopping the NmsTrapReceiver process

    • 21.17 Configuring HTTPS-only communication with the NNMi console

    • 21.18 Configuring NNMi to require encryption for remote access

    • 21.19 Configuring NNMi to preserve a previously supported varbind order

    • 21.20 Configuring the auto-trim oldest SNMP trap incidents feature

      • 21.20.1 Enabling the auto-trim oldest incidents feature (no incident archive)

      • 21.20.2 Enabling the auto-trim oldest SNMP trap incidents feature (incident archive enabled)

      • 21.20.3 Rotate archive files

      • 21.20.4 Changing the maximum number of SNMP trap incidents to be saved

      • 21.20.5 Monitoring the auto-trim oldest SNMP trap incidents feature

      • 21.20.6 Disabling the auto-trim oldest SNMP trap incidents feature

    • 21.21 Modifying NNMi normalization properties

      • 21.21.1 Changing normalization properties following an initial discovery

    • 21.22 Modifying the database port

    • 21.23 NNMi self monitoring

    • 21.24 Suppressing the use of discovery protocols for specific nodes

      • 21.24.1 Suppressing the use of discovery protocol collections

    • 21.25 Configuring actions for secondary root cause management events

    • 21.26 Scheduling outages

    • 21.27 Configuring sensor status

      • 21.27.1 Configuring physical sensor status

      • 21.27.2 Configuring node sensor status

  • 22. Changing the NNMi Management Server

    • 22.1 Best practices for preparing the NNMi configuration to be moved

    • 22.2 Moving the NNMi configuration and database

    • 22.3 Moving the NNMi configuration

    • 22.4 Changing the IP address of a stand-alone NNMi management server

    • 22.5 Changing the host name or domain name of an NNMi management server

  • 23. NNMi Security

    • 23.1 Providing a password for embedded database tools

    • 23.2 Configure TLS Protocols

    • 23.3 NNMi data encryption

      • 23.3.1 Encryption and user account passwords

• Part 7: Migration

  • 24. Upgrading from NNMi Version 9, 10, or 11

    • 24.1 Upgrading NNMi management servers

      • 24.1.1 Upgrading NNMi management servers from version 12-10

      • 24.1.2 Upgrading NNMi management servers from version 9, 10, or 11

    • 24.2 Upgrading to a different NNMi management server

    • 24.3 Upgrading global and regional managers from NNMi 12-10

      • 24.3.1 NNMi versions supported by global network management

      • 24.3.2 Global network management upgrade steps

    • 24.4 Upgrading to NNMi 12-50 configured for application failover

      • 24.4.1 Upgrading from NNMi 12-10 configured for application failover

  • 25. Comparison with NNM Version 8 or Earlier

    • 25.1 Network discovery

      • 25.1.1 Key concepts of discovery

    • 25.2 Status monitoring

      • 25.2.1 Key concepts of status monitoring

    • 25.3 Customizing event monitoring

      • 25.3.1 Key concepts of event monitoring

  • 26. Upgrading from NNM Version 8 or Earlier

    • 26.1 Migration procedure

      • 26.1.1 New NNM system

      • 26.1.2 Migrating in phases

    • 26.2 Phase 1: Migrating the SNMP information

      • 26.2.1 Configuring SNMP access

      • 26.2.2 Restricting name resolution

      • 26.2.3 Customizing device profiles

    • 26.3 Phase 2: Migrating discovery

      • 26.3.1 Configuring a discovery schedule

      • 26.3.2 Selecting a discovery method

      • 26.3.3 Setting up auto-discovery rules

      • 26.3.4 Adding seeded discovery

    • 26.4 Phase 3: Migrating status monitoring

      • 26.4.1 Specifying a polling interval

      • 26.4.2 Selecting a polling protocol

      • 26.4.3 Setting up important nodes

      • 26.4.4 Excluding objects from state polling

    • 26.5 Phase 4: Migrating event configuration and event reduction

      • 26.5.1 Displaying traps from devices

      • 26.5.2 Customizing the display of management events generated by NNMi

      • 26.5.3 Setting up blocking, ignoring, or disabling of traps

      • 26.5.4 Setting up automatic actions

      • 26.5.5 Setting up additional (manual) actions

      • 26.5.6 Event correlation: Event repetition

      • 26.5.7 Event correlation: Rate calculation

      • 26.5.8 Event correlation: Pairwise cancellation

      • 26.5.9 Event correlation: ScheduledMaintenance

  • 27. Migrating NNMi from an HP-UX or Solaris Operating System

    • 27.1 Changing NNMi from HP-UX or Solaris to Linux

    • 27.2 Changing NNMi from HP-UX or Solaris to Linux on Application Failover environment

    • 27.3 Changing NNMi from HP-UX or Solaris to Linux on Application Failover environment on the global manager and regional managers

    • 27.4 Changing NNMi from HP-UX or Solaris to Linux in a High Availability Cluster

• Part 8: Integration with NNMi

  • 28. NNMi Northbound Interface

    • 28.1 Overview of the NNMi Northbound interface

    • 28.2 Enabling the NNMi Northbound interface

    • 28.3 Using the NNMi Northbound interface

      • 28.3.1 Incident forwarding

      • 28.3.2 Incident lifecycle state change notifications

      • 28.3.3 Incident correlation notifications

      • 28.3.4 Incident deletion notifications

      • 28.3.5 Event forwarding filter

    • 28.4 Changing the NNMi Northbound interface

    • 28.5 Disabling the NNMi Northbound interface

    • 28.6 Troubleshooting the NNMi Northbound interface

    • 28.7 Application failover and the NNMi Northbound interface

      • 28.7.1 Local Northbound application

      • 28.7.2 Remote Northbound application

    • 28.8 NNMi Northbound Interface Destination form reference

      • 28.8.1 NNMi Northbound application connection parameters

      • 28.8.2 NNMi Northbound interface integration content

      • 28.8.3 NNMi Northbound interface destination status information

      • 28.8.4 MIB information used by the NNMi Northbound interface

      • 28.8.5 SNMP trap information used by the NNMi Northbound interface

• Part 9: Integration

  • 29. Integration with JP1/IM2 Intelligent Integrated Management Base

    • 29.1 Integration with JP1/IM2 Intelligent Integrated Management Base

  • 30. RESTful API

    • 30.1 RESTful API

• Appendixes

  • A. When NNMi Manpages Cannot Be Displayed (Linux)

  • B. List of MIBs Read During a New Installation

  • C. NNMi Environment Variables

    • C.1 Environment variables used in this manual

    • C.2 Other available environment variables

  • D. The Causal Engine and NNMi Incidents

    • D.1 Causal relationship analysis - advanced consideration

    • D.2 Causal Engine concept

    • D.3 Concept of status

    • D.4 About episodes

    • D.5 What does NNMi analyze?

    • D.6 Failure scenarios

    • D.7 Network configuration changes

    • D.8 NNMi management configuration changes

  • E. List of Ports Used by NNMi

  • F. Version Changes

    • F.1 Changes in version 12-50

    • F.2 Changes in version 12-10

    • F.3 Changes in version 12-00

    • F.4 Changes in version 11-50

    • F.5 Changes in version 11-10

    • F.6 Changes in version 11-00

    • F.7 Changes from version 10-10 to version 10-50

    • F.8 Changes from version 10-00 to 10-10

  • G. Reference Material for This Manual

    • G.1 Related publications

    • G.2 Conventions: Abbreviations for product names

    • G.3 Conventions: Acronyms

    • G.4 Conventions: KB, MB, GB, and TB

  • H. Glossary

• Index

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