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Administration Guide Netcool/Precision for Transmission Networks First Edition December 1 Contents Page Tables Page Figures Page Preface About this guide Audience Typographical notation Example Description Syntax and sample subheadings Syntax Associated publications Operating system considerations How to send your comments Introduction Introduction to Netcool/Precision TN How Netcool/Precision TN works NETypes Deep discovery Discovering the contents of an NE Discovering the existence of an NEDiscovering and resolving network topology Network circuits Network circuit After discovery maintaining a real-time view of the network After discovery alarm correlationNetcool/Precision TN product components Scales to large networks Netcool/Precision TN server Network Pilot client Overview of the Netcool Installer Netcool Installer modes Console mode Changing the Netcool suite installation directoryGUI mode Silent mode New relational database Installing Netcool/Precision TN Prerequisites Solaris system requirements Browser requirementsDatabase requirements Installing Netcool/Precision TN Obtaining the software Running the installation in GUI mode Netcool Installer Welcome window Click Next to go to the Setup Type window Netcool Installer Setup Type window Netcool Installer Feature Selection window Netcool Installer Installation Progress window Running the installation in console mode Running the installation in silent mode Running the Installation Program Viewing the installation log Setting up an Oracle database Viewing installed packages Creating the Oracle schema Configuring advanced Oracle features Prerequisites Oracle RACConnection concentration Setting up a MySQL database Using an existing copy of MySQLConfiguring your version of MySQL Configuring Netcool/Precision TN Creating the MySQL schema Netcool/Precision TN directory structure Netcool/Precision TN executables Third-party and Open Source software Xerces-J XML APIs XP XML Parser for Java Running Netcool/Precision TN Downloading NETypesStarting the product components Starting the database Starting the Netcool/Precision TN serverStarting Network Pilot Invoking the shutdown script from the command line Shutting down the serverShutting the server down from Network Pilot Page Integrating with Netcool/OMNIbus Introduction to visualization Configuring the Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer version Adding fields to the ObjectServer and migrating data Configuring the Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer versions 7.0 Connecting to an ObjectServer that is not named Ncoms Adding fields to the ObjectServer Connecting to an ObjectServer Configuring Netcool/OMNIbus probes Snmp Data Collection / Multi-Threaded Trapd probe TL1 data collection / TL1-TSM Creating the visualization menu option Adding the menu to the Netcool/OMNIbus desktop Visualizing alerts in a desktop Adding the menu to the Netcool/Webtop desktopStarting the components Starting the database Opening an event listStarting the ObjectServer Starting the Netcool/Precision TN server for visualization Monitor box window Using the visualization menu Event list window Populated event list window Visualize menu Network Pilot window Page Setting configuration options Configuring failover Shows an overview of the network in this configuration Implementation overview Configuring Oracle for use with failover How the semaphore mechanism is implementedHow the heartbeat mechanism is implemented Stopping servers running in failover configuration Configuring the Netcool/Precision TN serversSwitching the state of a server Running failover Using Netcool/Precision TN with Cisco WAN Manager Discovering Cisco WAN Manager NEs Polling CWM topological connections Polling CWM SubNetwork Connections SNCs Configurable properties in CiscoWanManagerExtension Property Property Description Configuring Netcool/OMNIbus process control Disabling use of Netcool/OMNIbus Configuring connections to known devices Packaging and configurationSyntax Rules See for details of each parameter Configuring on-demand connectivity to devices Configuring remote load balancing Dependencies Appendix A. Reference Precisiontn.xml properties file Sample Properties in the precisiontn.xml file Appendix A. Reference Defines the initial interval in seconds Netcool/Precision TN command line options Table A2 describes the precisiontn command line options Embedded nameserver. By doing this, the nameserver Appendix B. Notices JBFA/SOM1 Trademarks and Acknowledgements AIX AIX 5L