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
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
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