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All probes released after OMNIBus 7.3 GA are in 7.3 format. Those probes can be installed onto 7.3 via $NCHOME/omnibus/install/nco_install_integration tool. if you want to use the same package to install the probe on 7.2 you need to do:
1. unzip the package.
2.find the full path that contains the patch
3. install the patch,using $NCHOME/omnibus/install/nco_patch
eg:
#tar -xvf CZ81IEN.tar
#cd patches
#ls -lart
total 4
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 216 2009-10-31 02:37 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 392 2009-10-31 02:37 omnibus-linux2x86-probe-nco-p-mttrapd-11_0
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 2010-09-14 11:51 ..
#/opt/netcool/omnibus/install/nco_patch -install omnibus-linux2x86-probe-nco-p-mttrapd-11_0
Installing Patch "omnibus-linux2x86-probe-nco-p-mttrapd-11_0" ...
Short Description : Multi-Thread Trapd Probe
Revision : 0
Requires : common-libncrypt-1_0
Obsoletes : probe-nco-p-mttrapd probe-nco-p-mttrapd-2 probe-nco-p-mttrapd-3 probe-nco-p-mttrapd-4 probe-nco-p-mttrapd-5 probe-nco-p-mttrapd-6 probe-nco-p-mttrapd-7 probe-nco-p-mttrapd-8 probe-nco-p-mttrapd-9 probe-nco-p-mttrapd-10 probe-nco-p-mttrapd-ems-8
Installation Date : Fri Oct 9 20:09:57 EST 2009
Creation Info : Tue Oct 20 08:33:34 BST 2009
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Which encryption algorithm should I use for objectserver
OMNIBus users are divided into two groups, external and internal authenticated. internal authenticated user have their user name and password stored in security.users table. passwords are encrypted for obvious reason.
those passwords can be encrypted using different algorithm. you have choice between DES and AES mode. DES is the default. Which encryption algorithm to use is totally up to security compliment requirement. for example I use plan taxt password in all my Netcool vmware images. However, in a production environment, one should always use AES(or AES_FIPS) instead of DES, this is because that WEBTOP (WEBGUI) doesn't support DES encryption algorithm. if you ever want to encrypt the password stored in Webtop datasource definition file, then you have to run objectserver with PasswordEncryption property set to "AES". Things might change with new releases, above is only true to current version. OMNIBus 7.3.0 and WEBGui 7.3 |
Failover/Failback in OMNIBus 7.3 is differentBest practice for configuring probe/gateway Failback has been changed in OMNIBus 7.3. Failback is an OMNIBus client component feature that allows client to connect back to Primary objectserver after it recovers. In pre-7.3 versions, the best practice are to configure Server , ServerBackup and PollServer in probe properties file as following: ------------------------------------------- Server:"PRIMARY" ServerBackup:"BACKUP" PollServer:60 NetworkTimeout:30 ------------------------------------------- The reason for above configuration is explained very well in those emails (I am attaching those because some of those emails were deleted from INUG archives) : why shouldn't we use virtual server in probe propsfile In 7.3 this has been changed due to the introduction of Controlled Failback, you are supposed to use following in probe properties file: -------------------------------------------- Server:"VIRTUAL" ServerBackup:"" PollServer:0 --------------------------------------------- Please be advised that above settings rely on detect_agg_gate_resync_complete,disconnect_all_clients and resync_complete triggers. detailed information can be found here:Configuring Controlled Failback of Clients |
