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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

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . xiii IBM Tivoli Netcool®/OMNIbus™ Administration Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xiii

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

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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

Third-party and Open Source software. . . . . . . .29

Chapter 3. Running Netcool/Precision

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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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