Configuring the probe

After installing the probe you need to make various configuration settings to suit your environment.

The following table outlines how to use the probe's properties to configure the product's features. Configuration of some features is mandatory for all installations. For those features set the properties to the correct values or verify that their default values are suitable for your environment. Further configuration is optional depending on which features of the probe you want to use.

Table 1. Configuring the probe
  Feature Properties See

Mandatory features:

 

CORBA connection method

The method that the probe obtains the reference to the object needed to connect to the CORBA interface.

IORFile
NamingServiceHost
NamingServicePort
NamingServiceIORFile
NamingContextPath

Connecting to the CORBA interface

 

Authentication

Credentials for authenticating with the TMF endpoint.

Password
Username

Authentication

 

TMF release version in use

ReleaseTMF814

Properties and command line options

Optional features:

 

Resynchronization policy

Specifies whether the probe resynchronizes with the TMF endpoint.

InitialResync
ResyncInterval
ResyncBatchSize
ResyncProbableCauseFilter
ResyncSeverityFilter

Alarm retrieval and synchronization

 

Reconnection policy

Specifies whether the probe attempts to reconnect to the TMF endpoint following a communications failure.

RetryCount
RetryInterval

Reconnection and probe backoff strategy

 

Inactivity policy

Specifies whether the probe disconnects from the TMF endpoint following a period of inactivity.

Inactivity

Inactivity

 

Heartbeat policy

Specifies whether the probe periodically checks that the connection to the TMF endpoint is still operational.

HeartbeatInterval

Heartbeat

 

Support for Unicode and non-Unicode characters

Enables the probe to process alarms that contain characters encoded in UTF-8, such as Asian languages.

EncodingStandard ORBCharEncoding ORBWCharDefault

Support for Unicode and non-Unicode characters

 

Peer-to-peer failover pair

Allows you to set up two probes to act as a failover pair to improve availability. If the master probe should stop working, the slave probes takes over until the master is available once more.

MessageFile
Mode
PeerHost
PeerPort
PidFile
PropsFile
RulesFile

Peer-to-peer failover functionality

 

HTTP/HTTPS command interface

Enables the HTTP/HTTPS command interface and defines the port that it uses.

NHttpd.EnableHTTP
NHttpd.ListeningPort
NHttpd.ExpireTimeout

Configuring the command interface

 

Running multiple instances of the probe

Allows you to run two or more instances of the probe on a single host machine.

ORBLocalPort
Name
MessageLog
PidFile
PropsFile
RulesFile

Running the probe