IBM 5.5 manual

Invoking the shutdown script from the command line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Chapter 4. Integrating with Netcool/OMNIbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Introduction to visualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Configuring the Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer version 3.6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Adding fields to the ObjectServer and migrating data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Configuring the Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer versions 7.0 and 7.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Adding fields to the ObjectServer . . . . . . . . . 38

Connecting to an ObjectServer that is not named NCOMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

Connecting to an ObjectServer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Configuring Netcool/OMNIbus probes . . . . 40

Configuring Netcool/Webtop event lists in Netcool/Precision TN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Creating the visualization menu option . . . . . . . 42

Adding the menu to the Netcool/OMNIbus desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Adding the menu to the Netcool/Webtop desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Visualizing alerts in a desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Starting the components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Opening an event list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Using the visualization menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Chapter 5. Setting configuration options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Configuring failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Implementation overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Configuring Oracle for use with failover . . . 53

Configuring the Netcool/Precision TN servers

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Running failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Using Netcool/Precision TN with Cisco WAN Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Discovering Cisco WAN Manager NEs. . . . . 55 Polling CWM topological connections . . . . . 56 Polling CWM SubNetwork Connections (SNCs)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Configurable properties in CiscoWanManagerExtension . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57

Configuring Netcool/OMNIbus process control58

Disabling use of Netcool/OMNIbus. . . . . . . . . . 58

Configuring connections to known devices. . . . 59 Packaging and configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Configuring on-demand connectivity to devices61 Packaging and configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Dependencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Configuring remote load balancing . . . . . . . . . . 62 Packaging and configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Appendix A. Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

precisiontn.xml properties file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Netcool/Precision TN command line options. . 67

Appendix B. Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Trademarks and Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . 71

iv Netcool/Precision for Transmission Networks 5.5 Administration Guide