HP Network Node Manager 9: Getting Started -- Table of Contents -- HP Network Node Manager 9: Getting Started -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewer -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Before we Manage with NNMi -- What can HP SW NNMi do for us? -- Choosing the right edition -- Understanding Smart Plug-ins (iSPI) -- iSPI for Performance -- iSPI Performance for Metrics -- iSPI Performance for Traffic -- iSPI Network Engineering toolset -- iSPI diagnostics -- Troubleshooting tools -- Trap analytics -- iSPI IP Telephony -- iSPI for MPLS -- iSPI multicast -- Server sizing considerations -- How NNMi will impact my infrastructure -- Traffic consumption by the monitoring tool -- Security policy changes in your infrastructure -- Data storage space for system backups -- Infrastructure device naming convention -- Licensing policy -- Installing software -- Prerequisite check -- Installation process -- Post installation tasks -- Summary -- 2. Discovering and Monitoring Your Network -- Discovery in NNMi -- How discovery works -- Configuring communication protocols -- What is a communication in NNMi? -- What is the role of ICMP in NNMi? -- What is the role of SNMP in NNMi? -- How NNMi deals with overlapping SNMP community configuration -- Best practices when configuring SNMP communities -- Configuring SNMP community names in NNMi -- Boosting up discovery with seeds -- What are seeds? -- How can discovery be boosted with seeds? -- How to load seeds in NNMi -- Example 1: Adding nodes using seed configuration tab window -- Example 2: Create a seedfile for batch load.

Limiting discovery with filters -- What are discovery filters? -- Why do we need discovery filters? -- Filter configuration example -- Examining discovery results -- Stopping/starting managing of nodes, cards, or interfaces -- What is a stop managing object? -- Why we need to change the management mode? -- How does it work? -- Management mode change examples -- Discovery examples -- Example 1: Seed module -- Example 2: Discover by IP address range and system Object ID -- Rediscovering your network from scratch -- State poller -- What is state poller? -- How does it work? -- How to plan state polling -- Example -- Summary -- 3. Configuring and Viewing Maps -- Node groups -- What are node groups? -- Configuring node groups -- Node group configuration example -- Node group map configuration -- What is node group map? -- Configuring node group maps -- Creating node groups in the command line -- Viewing maps -- Interface groups -- Configuring interface groups -- Path View map configuration -- What is Path View? -- Configuring Path View -- Custom Path View-an example -- User interface configuration -- Web browser settings -- Configuring Mozilla Firefox to open a new tab -- Configuring Internet Explorer to open a new tab -- Configuring Internet Explorer title bar -- Symbols -- Summary -- 4. Configuring Incidents -- Introduction to incidents -- How incidents enter a system -- Configuring NNMi forwarding SNMP traps -- Configuring SNMP trap incidents -- Checking whether NNMi is receiving SNMP traps -- Controlling the number of incoming SNMP traps -- Configuring management events -- Configuring NNM 6.x/7.x events -- Tuning incidents -- Pairwise -- Deduplication -- Rate -- Interface settings -- Node settings -- Suppression -- Enrichment -- Dampening -- Configuring automatic actions -- Summary -- 5. Controlling Access to NNMi -- How access to NNMi works.

NNMi roles -- Assigning a role -- Permissions for each role -- Sign in access types -- Control with NNMi -- How it works -- Creating a user -- Changing a password -- Changing user profile -- Control with NNMi and Directory Service -- How it works -- Configuring Directory Service -- Control with Directory Service -- How it works -- How to configure Directory Service -- Configuring SSL to Directory Service -- Command line access configuration tools -- An example-creating nnm.properties file -- User activity audit -- What is user activity -- Sign in/sign out activity -- User activity auditing -- Summary -- 6. Troubleshooting, Security, and Backup -- Describing NNMi processes -- Describing NNMi services -- Using NNMi logging processes -- NNMi logging levels -- Adjusting logging parameters -- Temporarily changing logging levels -- Permanently changing logging levels -- Changing the logging level configuration -- Log file management -- Ports used by NNMi -- Troubleshooting tools -- System information -- Discovery state check -- Health -- Server -- Database -- State Poller -- Custom Poller -- Extensions -- Loading MIBs -- Trimming incidents -- Trimming Postgres database -- Connecting to Postgres database -- Recreating Postgres database -- Environment variables -- Unix-based operating system environment variables -- Windows OS environment variables -- Command security issues -- Backing up NNMi -- Backup types -- Backup scope -- Restoring NNMi -- Same system restore -- Different system restore -- Backup and restore embedded database only -- Restore system files only -- Backup and restore strategies -- Back up NNMi before making configuration changes -- Back up NNMi before upgrading -- Back up all data on a regular basis -- Configuration migration -- Import/export behavior and dependencies -- Summary -- 7. Application Failover and High Availability Solutions.

Application Failover in NNMi -- Application Failover overview -- Configuring Application Failover -- Disabling Application Failover -- Application Failover administration -- Restarting servers in Application Failover -- Applying patches to NNMi with Application Failover -- Recovery from a previous database in Application Failover (embedded database only) -- Application Failover in multi-subnets (NNMi 8.x only) -- Why multi-subnets are an issue -- Before you configure in a multi-subnet environment -- Configuring Application Failover for multi-subnets -- Network bandwidth and latency requirements -- iSPI and Application Failover -- NNMi in High Availability (HA) Server -- HA concepts -- NNMi-only cluster -- NNMi with Oracle database cluster -- NNMi with iSPI cluster -- NNMi with Oracle database and iSPI cluster -- Supported HA products -- Licensing NNMi in HA cluster -- Configuring HA -- Prerequisites to configuring NNMi for HA -- NNMi certificate configuration for HA -- Configuring NNMi for HA -- Configuring NNMi for HA in an Oracle environment -- Configuring NNM iSPIs for HA -- NNM iSPI for MPLS, iSPI for Multicast, and iSPI for IP Telephony -- NNM iSPI for Performance: Metrics, Traffic, or QA -- NNM iSPI Network Engineering Toolset on NNMi running under HA -- Upgrading NNMi in HA from 8.0x to 8.13 -- Configuration reference -- NNMi HA configuration files -- NNM iSPI for performance HA configuration files -- NNMi HA provided configuration scripts -- NNMi HA configuration log files -- NNM iSPI for Performance HA log files -- Summary -- 8. Navigating Console and Learning Network Inventory -- Navigating console -- Workspaces -- Incident Management -- Topology Maps -- Monitoring -- Troubleshooting -- Inventory -- Management Mode -- Incident Browsing -- Integration Module Configuration -- Configuration -- Tools menu -- File -- Tools -- Actions -- Help.

Navigating network inventory and accessing details -- Topology maps -- Node group overview -- Network overview -- Networking infrastructure devices -- Routers -- Switches -- Node inventory -- List of nodes -- Interfaces -- IP addresses -- IP subnets -- VLANs -- Working with MIBs -- Checking supported MIBs -- Checking loaded MIBs -- Loaded MIBs view -- Listing loaded MIBs using nnmloadmib.ovpl tool -- Loading MIBs -- Checking MIB variables supported by node -- Displaying MIB content -- MIB expressions -- Listing MIB expressions -- Configuring MIB expression -- Using MIB expression editor -- Summary -- 9. Monitoring Your Network -- Monitoring with NNMi -- Monitoring definition -- Monitoring in NNMi -- Case studies -- Example: when map is initial source for monitoring -- Example: when incident view is initial source for monitoring -- Monitoring devices for problems -- Map view -- Testing problem node actions -- Accessing node details -- Accessing related incidents -- Table views -- Critical Component Health -- Critical Interfaces View -- Critical Nodes View -- Non-Normal Interfaces View -- Non-Normal Nodes View -- Not Responding Address View -- Nodes by Status -- Component Health by Status -- Listing Interfaces by Status -- Interfaces by Administrative State -- Interfaces by Operational State -- IP addresses by State -- Node Groups -- Custom Node Collections -- Custom Polled Instances -- Non-Normal Node Components -- Non-Normal Cards -- Card Redundancy Groups -- Monitoring an incident for problems -- What is an incident? -- Incident details in NNMi -- Severity -- Priority -- Lifecycle state -- Assigned to -- Category -- Family -- Origin -- Correlation nature -- Incident form -- General tab -- Correlated Parents tab -- Correlated Children tab -- Custom Attributes tab -- Diagnostics tab -- Registration tab -- Working with incidents -- Changing assignment.

Maintaining up-to-date lifecycle.