Other considerations: well, you will need to find out what special things
have been
configured on the HP and migrate them to the Netview box. Don't forget new
node
discovery. The Netview server will have to do all of the discovery and then
hand off
the status polling through the MLM. The Openview may have been using a
filter to
control discovery. That function can be replicated using the netmon
seedfile. They
may have some event customization that you will need to migrate, either to
the MLM,
or to the netview server (no ruleset processor on Openview as far as I
know). You
will need to migrate the snmp configuration (communities, timeouts, etc)
both to the
MLM and to Netview. The communities on the MLM will come from an export
that you
put there. I'm not sure about the timeouts. They may be configured directly
in the MLM.
Anybody else?
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit
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Thanks for your help Leslie,
I have tried changing the MLM assigned subnet, from the collection editor
and it seems to pick all the elements correctly. Perhaps someone can give a
clue about the other two questions:
My questions are:
1) How can be achieved a better transition from Openview to Netview. My
plan
is to install a Netview MLM module on the HP node, what other things can be
considered ?
2) How is MLM working on HP-UX. ? Has someone had practical experiences ?
Regards/Saludos
Francisco Gurrea-Nozaleda
Telefonica Sistemas
fgurrea@ts.es
----- Mensaje original -----
De: Leslie Clark <lclark@US.IBM.COM>
Enviado: lunes 7 de febrero de 2000 15:27
Asunto: Re: How to integrate two NOC's - Openview and Netview
> Well, I have not done with on HP, but with the MLM on AIX I know it works
> well. To tell the MLM in NOC B to manage beyond its own subnet, I would
> fire up the APM. This is not the only way, I believe, but it has worked
> well
> for me. A collection is generated for the domain of that MLM, initially
set
> to the local subnet of that MLM. Then you just modify the definition of
> that
> Collection to cover the whole area. The MLM is informed of the
membership
> of the Collection automatically.
>
> The collection is defined in terms of nodes. If you are using different
> DNS domains for the two areas, and everything in that domain has a
> name, you could use a criteria like 'IP Hostname ~ \.noc\.com$'. Or you
> could do it with a list of subnets. The list might be longer than you can
> do with the dialog form of the collections editor, but the text form will
> handle
> it. I've cut and pasted from a file to make one of these, after starting
it
> in the gui. Keeping it in a file might make it easier to administer.
>
> I just took a quick look and don't see any reports of problems using the
> MLM on HP. But I don't know how many people are using it.
>
> Cordially,
>
> Leslie A. Clark
> IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
> Detroit
> ===============================================================
>
> We have two different NOC's, I will describe:
>
> NOC A) Platform HP-UX 10.2, Openview's NNM 4, ITO 3.2, CiscoWorks 4.0
> Manages network equippment (Cisco mostly), 800 servers: HP-UX and SUN.
>
> NOC B) Platform AIX, TME10 Netview 5.1.1, Patrol 3.3, SNA Server, Netview
> FTP
> Manages 20 AIX Servers with System Monitor (SIA, and MLM), 200 NT servers
> with Patrol,
>
> Our management direction, want to have a new single NOC integrating A)and
> B). We are planning this NOC (NOC C) to have:
> Platform AIX (2 S7A nodes with HACMP), TME 10 Netview, Patrol,
Command/Post
> (will be the manager of managers), Patrol and CiscoWorks.
> We have chosen AIX because we have some in-house developped software
> (Inventory, Software Distribution) that we want to keep. (That's the
reason
> why we don't need a Framework in this moment). Also we perfer AIX because
> of
> better integration with SNA, CICS and MQ-Series.
> Initially we are planning to replace the NNM in B) with a MLM for HP-UX
> module in charge of managing the elements that NNM used to. The
destination
> trap of B) network elements wont have to be changed.
>
> My questions are:
> 1) Someone has other tested alternatives for doing the integration on
AIX?
> 2) How is MLM working on HP-UX. ?
> 3) MLM assignment: If I understood correctly MLM's assume management of
IP
> adresses within their own LAN segment. How can B) MLM be assigned to
manage
> the whole B) network and not just its own LAN segment ?.
>
>
> Regards/Saludos
>
> Francisco Gurrea-Nozaleda
> Telefonica Sistemas
> fgurrea@ts.es
>
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