Appendix A: Configuration

2-a. Change your working directory to $PVMHOME/bin (/opt/datamart/bin, by default) on the DataMart server.

2-b. Invoke the DataMart GUI by entering the following command and pressing Enter:

pvm

2-c. Click the Configuration tab, then click Request Editor to open the Request Editor.

2-d. Click the Collection tab.2-e. Click Refresh.

The predefined data collection requests are loaded into the Request Editor from the database. 2-f. Click the Inactive button in the Filter group box to display only idle requests.

2-g. In the Sub-Element Groups pane, select all idle data collection requests in the following group or groups:

Root->Sub-Element Collect->Adva Optical Metro Ethernet

2-h. Click the Active box under Details. The Request Editor toggles the idle setting for these data collection requests from idle to active in the Active column.

2-i. Click Save.3.Merge the technology pack’s sub-element inventory text files.

Sub-element inventory control rules for the Adva Optical Metro Ethernet Technology Pack are contained in the file adva_ethernet_inventory_subelements.txt, which is installed in the following directory on the DataMart server:

$PVMHOME/APFiles/adva_ethernet/datamart/conf

You must merge the contents of this file with the file inventory_subelements.txt located in $PVMHOME/conf (/opt/datamart/conf, by default) on the DataMart server:

To merge the sub-element inventory control rules for the Adva Optical Metro Ethernet Technology Pack, follow these steps:

3-a. Change your working directory to $PVMHOME/conf by entering the following command:

cd $PVMHOME/conf

3-b. Copy adva_ethernet_inventory_subelements.txt to the $PVMHOME/conf directory, by entering the following command:

cp $PVMHOME/APFiles/adva_ethernet/datamart/conf/adva_ethernet_inventory_subelements.txt .

3-c. Make a backup copy of the inventory_subelements.txt file by entering the following command:

cp inventory_subelements.txt inventory_subelements.txt.ORIG

3-d. Append the contents of adva_ethernet_inventory_subelements.txt to inventory_subelements.txt, by entering the following command:

cat adva_ethernet_inventory_subelements.txt >> inventory_subelements.txt

Important: Ensure that you use two forward brackets (>>); otherwise, the original contents of inventory_subelements.txt will be overwritten.

3-e. Perform a diff on the backed-up file and the appended file to ensure that the merge succeeded, as shown in the following example:

diff inventory_subelements.txt inventory_subelements.txt.ORIG

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