F.8 Changes from version 10-00 to 10-10
- Organization of this subsection
(1) Changes in manual 3021-3-343-10(E)
Descriptions for Windows Server 2012 were added.
Notes about using network address translation (NAT) for discovering nodes were added.
Changes were made to the Quick Start Configuration Wizard window and its description.
The description of uninstalling NNMi was changed.
Changes were made to the NNMi Help window and the Communication Configuration form.
Changes and additions were made to the description of disk drive security settings for Windows.
The descriptions of the settings and procedures for enabling Web browsers were changed.
Additions and changes were made to the description of installing required libraries in Linux.
Information about the following installation problem was added:
A message is displayed during installation indicating that the preinstallation procedure (phase II) has failed and the /tmp/nnm_preinstall_phaseII.log file needs to be checked for the details.
Additions and changes were made to the list of MIBs read during a new installation.
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.