Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix About this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x Typographical notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x Note, tip, and warning information . . . . . . . . xi Syntax and sample subheadings . . . . . . . . . . .xii Associated publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii IBM Tivoli Netcool®/OMNIbus™ Installation and Deployment Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xiii IBM Tivoli Netcool®/OMNIbus™ User Guide
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IBM Tivoli Netcool®/OMNIbus™ Probe and Gateway Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Online help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii Operating system considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii How to send your comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv
Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Introduction to Netcool/Precision TN . . . . . . . . . 1 How Netcool/Precision TN works . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 NETypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Deep discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Netcool/Precision TN product components . . . . 6 Netcool/Precision TN server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Network Pilot client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Overview of the Netcool Installer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Netcool Installer modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Changing the Netcool suite installation directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
New relational database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Chapter 2. Installing Netcool/Precision
TN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 Solaris system requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 Browser requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 Database requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Installing Netcool/Precision TN . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Obtaining the software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Running the installation in GUI mode . . . . . .14 Running the installation in console mode . . .19 Running the installation in silent mode . . . . .20 Viewing the installation log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 Viewing installed packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Setting up an Oracle database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Creating the Oracle schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 Configuring advanced Oracle features . . . . .23
Setting up a MySQL database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 Using an existing copy of MySQL. . . . . . . . . .25 Configuring your version of MySQL . . . . . . .25 Configuring Netcool/Precision TN . . . . . . . .26 Creating the MySQL schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Netcool/Precision TN directory structure . . . . .28
Netcool/Precision TN executables . . . . . . . . . . .28
Chapter 3. Running Netcool/Precision
TN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Downloading NETypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31
Starting the product components . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 Step 1 – starting the database. . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Step 2 – starting the Netcool/Precision TN server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Step 3 – starting Network Pilot . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Shutting down the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 Shutting the server down from Network Pilot . 33
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