Copyright |
Praise for HP OpenView System Administration Handbook |
Hewlett-Packard® Professional Books |
How This Book Is Organized |
Acknowledgements |
Who This Book Is For |
Conventions Used in This Book |
Part 1. Network Node Manager, Customer Views, and Service Information Portal |
Chapter 1. Introduction to Network Node Manager, Customer Views, and Service Information Portal |
Section 1.1. AN SNMP COKE MACHINE |
Section 1.2. WHAT NETWORK NODE MANAGER PROVIDES |
Section 1.3. WHAT CUSTOMER VIEWS PROVIDES |
Section 1.4. WHAT SERVICE INFORMATION PORTAL PROVIDES |
Section 1.5. OBTAINING EVALUATION COPIES OF NNM, CV, AND SIP |
Section 1.6. ADDITIONAL OPENVIEW PRODUCTS |
Section 1.7. SOME HELPFUL URLS |
Chapter 2. Why Network and Systems Management Systems Fail |
Section 2.1. …TO WORK PROPERLY |
Section 2.2. …TO EFFECTIVELY MANAGE THE ENTERPRISE GROWTH |
Section 2.3. …TO MANAGE EVERYTHING AT ONCE |
Section 2.4. …TO EVEN GET OFF THE GROUND |
Section 2.5. SUMMARY |
Chapter 3. Create a Deployment Plan |
Section 3.1. MANAGEMENT REQUIREMENTS |
Section 3.2. DEFINE THE MANAGEMENT DOMAIN |
Section 3.3. ARE THERE FIREWALLS WITHIN THE MANAGEMENT DOMAIN? |
Section 3.4. OUT-OF-BAND NETWORK MANAGEMENT |
Section 3.5. BACKUP AND RECOVERY REQUIREMENTS |
Section 3.6. AUTHENTICATION, AUTHORIZATION, AND ACCESS CONTROL REQUIREMENTS |
Section 3.7. EVENT CORRELATION REQUIREMENTS |
Section 3.8. HIGH AVAILABILITY AND FAULT TOLERANCE REQUIREMENTS |
Section 3.9. CONFIGURATION AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT PROCESS REQUIREMENTS |
Section 3.10. HARDWARE CONFIGURATION REQUIREMENTS |
Section 3.11. SUMMARY |
Chapter 4. Out-of-the-box Network Node Manager |
Section 4.1. NNM DISCOVERY |
Section 4.2. SYMBOLS AND OBJECTS |
Section 4.3. ALARM CATEGORIES |
Section 4.4. QUERYING THE MIB |
Section 4.5. WEB ACCESS |
Section 4.6. SUMMARY |
Chapter 5. Network Discovery |
Section 5.1. SEEDING INITIAL DISCOVERY |
Section 5.2. ADDITIONAL DISCOVERY METHODS |
Section 5.3. NETMON POLLING STATISTICS |
Section 5.4. CONFIGURING SNMP COMMUNITY NAMES |
Section 5.5. FIREWALL CONSIDERATIONS IN NETWORK DISCOVERY |
Section 5.6. SUMMARY |
Chapter 6. Customizing NNM from the GUI |
Section 6.1. CUSTOMIZING SUBMAPS |
Section 6.2. SUMMARY |
Chapter 7. Advanced Customization |
Section 7.1. Application Integration using Application Registration Files (ARFs) |
Section 7.2. Application Integration using Web Launcher Registration Files (WLRF) and Network Presenter Registration Files (NPRF) |
Section 7.3. Defining Custom Symbols and Fields |
Section 7.4. Summary |
Chapter 8. Data Collection and Event Configuration |
Section 8.1. CREATING A DATA COLLECTION |
Section 8.2. CREATING THRESHOLD AND REARM EVENTS |
Section 8.3. CUSTOMIZING EXISTING DATA COLLECTIONS |
Section 8.4. CUSTOMIZING EXISTING EVENTS |
Section 8.5. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF DATA COLLECTION AND EVENTS |
Section 8.6. DETAILED SOLUTION TO NETWORK PRINTER EXERCISE |
Section 8.7. SUMMARY |
Chapter 9. Scalability and Distribution |
Section 9.1. REMOTE CONSOLES |
Section 9.2. CONFIGURING THE ON-DEMAND LEVEL FOR A MAP |
Section 9.3. CONFIGURING THE POLLING FREQUENCY |
Section 9.4. DEFINING FILTERS |
Section 9.5. DISTRIBUTED INTERNET MONITORING (DIM) |
Section 9.6. SUMMARY |
Chapter 10. Customer Views |
Section 10.1. THE FIVE ADDITIONAL VIEWS |
Section 10.2. THE OVCUSTOMER UTILITY |
Section 10.3. CONFIGURING THE HIERARCHICAL SUBMAP BUILDER |
Section 10.4. SUMMARY |
Chapter 11. Service Information Portal |
Section 11.1. GENERIC NET DEMO |
Section 11.2. INTEGRATING SIP WITH NNM |
Section 11.3. SUMMARY |
Chapter 12. Introduction to OpenView Operations (OVO) |
Section 12.1. MONITORING THE ENTERPRISE WITH OVO |
Section 12.2. THE OVO OPERATOR |
Section 12.3. THE OVO ADMINISTRATOR |
Section 12.4. TEMPLATE ADMINISTRATORS |
Section 12.5. SUMMARY |
Part 2. OpenView Operations |
Chapter 13. Out-of-the-box with HP OpenView Operations |
Section 13.1. CONSIDER A SERVICE LEVEL IMPLEMENTATION |
Section 13.2. PRE- AND POST-SOFTWARE INSTALLATION SUMMARY |
Section 13.3. INSTALLING THE MANAGEMENT SERVER |
Section 13.4. AGENT SOFTWARE INSTALLATION |
Section 13.5. OPENVIEW STATUS CHECKS |
Section 13.6. OVO AUTOMATIC STARTUP AT BOOT TIME |
Section 13.7. THE ADMINISTRATOR CONSOLE |
Section 13.8. WINDOWS AND MENUS |
Section 13.9. NODES, NODE GROUPS, NODE LAYOUT GROUPS, NODE HIERARCHIES |
Section 13.10. MESSAGE GROUPS |
Section 13.11. USERS AND USER PROfiles |
Section 13.12. APPLICATIONS |
Section 13.13. THE OPERATOR CONSOLE |
Section 13.14. CONFIGURE A NEW OVO OPERATOR |
Section 13.15. CONFIGURE THE MANAGEMENT SERVER |
Section 13.16. WORKING FROM THE COMMAND LINE |
Section 13.17. PROBLEM SOLVING WITH OPENVIEW OPERATIONS |
Section 13.18. OVO SERVER AND NODE RESOURCES |
Section 13.19. DOCUMENTATION |
Section 13.20. TOOLS AND RESOURCES |
Section 13.21. SUMMARY OF EXECUTING OVOINSTALL |
Section 13.22. SUMMARY |
Chapter 14. Agents, Policies and Distribution |
Section 14.1. THE OVO AGENTS |
Section 14.2. THE OVO MANAGEMENT SERVER PROCESSES |
Section 14.3. AGENTS ALIVE AND WELL AT ALL TIMES |
Section 14.4. AGENT INSTALLATION |
Section 14.5. AGENT CONFIGURATION |
Section 14.6. POLICIES |
Section 14.7. ACTIONS, MONITORS, COMMANDS AND EXTERNAL NOTIFICATION SERVICES |
Section 14.8. USING TEMPLATES FOR MESSAGE SUPPRESSION |
Section 14.9. CONTROL MESSAGES WITH MESSAGE CORRELATION |
Section 14.10. DISTRIBUTION |
Section 14.11. SUMMARY |
Chapter 15. Smart Plug-Ins |
Section 15.1. INSTALLING AN SPI |
Section 15.2. COMPONENTS OF AN SPI |
Section 15.3. TYPES OF SPIS |
Section 15.4. SPI DOCUMENTATION AND WHITE PAPERS |
Section 15.5. SPI TRAINING |
Section 15.6. SUMMARY |
Chapter 16. Built-in Performance Tools |
Section 16.1. EMBEDDED PERFORMANCE AGENT (OVOA) |
Section 16.2. THE PERFORMANCE AGENT |
Section 16.3. OTHER PERFORMANCE TOOLS |
Section 16.4. OPERATING SYSTEM TOOLS INTEGRATION EXAMPLE |
Section 16.5. DOCUMENTS AND REFERENCES |
Section 16.6. SUMMARY |
Chapter 17. Server Administration |
Section 17.1. SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION RESPONSIBILITIES |
Section 17.2. SYSTEM STARTUP AND SHUTDOWN |
Section 17.3. FILE SYSTEMS AND DISKS |
Section 17. 4. OVO SERVER BACKUP |
Section 17.5. CONFIGURATION DOWNLOAD |
Section 17.6. CONFIGURATION UPLOAD |
Section 17.7. HISTORY DOWNLOAD |
Section 17.8. AUDITING |
Section 17.9. REPORTING |
Section 17.10. UTILITIES AND CONTRIBUTED TOOLS |
Section 17.11. SUMMARY |
Chapter 18. Oracle for OpenView |
Section 18.1. DATABASE TERMINOLOGY |
Section 18.2. DATABASE STRUCTURES |
Section 18.3. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES |
Section 18.4. DATABASE files AND DIRECTORY LOCATIONS |
Section 18.5. DATABASE STARTUP AND SHUTDOWN |
Section 18.6. DATABASE QUERIES |
Section 18.7. DATABASE REPORT |
Section 18.8. DATABASE TOOLS AND RESOURCES |
Section 18.9. SUMMARY |
Chapter 19. Enterprise Management Flexibility with Multiple Management Servers |
Section 19.1. DISTRIBUTED OPENVIEW SERVER CONCEPTS |
Section 19.2. TERMINOLOGY |
Section 19.3. DIRECTORIES |
Section 19.4. COMMANDS AND UTILITIES |
Section 19.5. TEMPLATES |
Section 19.6. MESSAGE FORWARDING |
Section 19.7. BUILDING A BACKUP SERVER |
Section 19.8. ESCALATIONS |
19.9 CONFIGURATION VARIABLES |
Section 19.10. SUMMARY |
Part 3. OpenView Best Practices |
Chapter 20. Security |
Section 20.1. DCE-RPC PROCESSES AND COMMUNICATIONS |
Section 20.2. GENERAL TCP/IP AND RPC COMMUNICATIONS |
Section 20.3. NON-RPC AGENTS |
Section 20.4. HTTP PROXY AGENT |
Section 20.5. USERS AND PASSWORDS |
Section 20.6. files AND DATA |
Section 20.7. AUDITS |
Section 20.8. ENHANCED SECURITY |
Section 20.9. GENERAL SECURITY MEASURES |
Section 20.10. SUDO |
Section 20.11. SECURE SHELL (SSH) FOR HP-UX |
Section 20.12. THE FIREWALL |
Section 20.13. SUMMARY |
Chapter 21. Plan, Document, Take Corrective Actions, Administer Changes |
Section 21.1. PLANNING THE OVO ENVIRONMENT |
Section 21.2. OVO DOCUMENTATION |
Section 21.3. CORRECTIVE ACTIONS |
Section 21.5. SUMMARY |
Chapter 22. Troubleshooting Tools and Techniques |
Section 22.1. DATA GATHERING TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS |
Section 22.2. FUNCTIONAL CHECKS |
Section 22.3. PROBLEM SOLVING |
Section 22.4. SELF-HEALING SERVICES (SHS) |
Section 22.5. SUMMARY |
Part 4. OpenView Operations for Windows |
Chapter 23. Introducing OVO for Windows |
Section 23.1. ARCHITECTURE |
Section 23.2. INSTALLATION |
Section 23.3. EXPLORING THE FEATURES OF THE CONSOLE |
Section 23.4. MESSAGE PROCESSING |
Section 23.5. SUMMARY |
Chapter 24. OVO Windows and OVO UNIX Interoperability |
Section 24.1. OVOW and OVOU Communications |
Section 24.2. Message Forwarding |
Section 24.3. Policy, Template, and Service Data Exchange |
Section 24.4. Comparing Features of OVOU and OVOW |
Section 24.5. Summary |
Chapter 25. OVOW Implementation Tasks |
Section 25.1. AUTO-DISCOVERY AND AUTO-DEPLOYMENT |
Section 25.2. ADD NODES |
Section 25.3. CREATE AND DEPLOY POLICIES |
Section 25.4. TOOLS, AUTOMATIC COMMANDS, AND SERVICES |
Section 25.5. SUMMARY |
Appendix A. OpenView Commands Quick Reference Guide |
Section A.1. NETWORK NODE MANAGER COMMANDS |
Section A.2. CUSTOMER VIEWS AND SERVICE INFORMATION PORTAL COMMANDS |
Section A.3. OPENVIEW OPERATIONS COMMANDS |
Appendix B. Hostname Resolution |
Section B.1. THE DEFINITION OF HOSTNAME |
Section B.2. SETTING A SYSTEMS HOSTNAME |
Section B.3. ARE /ETC/HOSTS, NIS, AND DNS CONFIGURED PROPERLY? |
Section B.4. SUMMARY |
Appendix C. Resources |
Section C.1. BOOKS |
Section C.2. CERTIFICATION |
Section C.3. DATABASES |
Section C.4. HP INFORMATION AND RESOURCES |
Section C.5. JAVA |
Section C.6. LDAP |
Section C.7. MANAGED NODES |
Section C.8. MIBS |
Section C.9. NETWORKING AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT |
Section C.10. OPENVIEW SELF HEALING SERVICES |
Section C.11. OPENVIEW DOCUMENTATION, SUPPORT, AND PRODUCT RESOURCES |
C. 12 PERFORMANCE |
C. 13 RFCS |
Section C.14. SECURITY |
Section C.15. SOFTWARE |
Section C.16. SNMP |
Section C.17. SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION |
Section C.18. TRAINING |
Section C.19. TROUBLESHOOTING |
Section C.20. USER GROUPS |
Section C.21. UNIX |
Section C.22. WHITE PAPERS |
Index |