Configuring the probe

After installing the probe you need to make various configuration settings to suit your environment. You also need to install NNMi utilities.

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:
	NNM system connection information Specifies how the probe subscribes to the NNMi system for events.	NnmAddress NnmPort ProbeReceiverPort SubscriptionFilter	Connecting to the NNMi system
	Authentication Credentials for authenticating with the TMF endpoint.	NnmPassword NnmUserId	Authentication
	ObjectServer host name	Server	ObjectServer information
Optional features:
	Event synchronization policy Specifies whether the probe synchronizes with the NNM system at startup and on regular occasions.	InitialResync ResyncInterval ResyncBatchSize ResyncFilterName ResyncFilterOperation ResyncFilterValue	Event synchronization
	Reconnection policy Specifies whether the probe attempts to reconnect to the NNM system following a communications failure.	RetryCount RetryInterval	Reconnection and backoff strategy
	Inactivity policy Specifies whether the probe disconnects from the NNM system following a period of inactivity.	Inactivity	Inactivity
	Support for Unicode and non-Unicode characters Enables the probe to process alarms that contain characters encoded in UTF-8, such as Asian languages.	None	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

Installing the NNMi SDK JAR libraries

The NNMi SDK JAR libraries must be installed in order for the probe to connect with the NNMi.

To install these JAR file, use the following steps:

Create the following directory on the probe system:
```
$OMNIHOME/probes/java/nco_p_hp_nnm
```
Copy the nms-sdk.jar file from the $NNM_HOME/OV/NNM/lib directory located on the NNMi system to the $OMNIHOME/probes/java/nco_p_hp_nnm directory on the probe system.

Note: The $NNM_HOME variable specifies the location where NNMi is installed.

Ensure that the default location setting for the utility JAR file exists on the respective operating system platforms:

On Windows:

File:

%OMNIHOME%\probes\win32\nco_p_hp_nnm.bat

Where the default configuration is:

set PROBE_CLASSPATH=%CLASS_DIR%\nco_p_hp_nnm.jar;%OMNIHOME%\probes\
java\nco_p_hp_nnm\nms-sdk.jar

On Unix:

File:

$OMNIHOME/probes/java/nco_p_hp_nnm.env

Where the default configuration is:

CLASSPATH_SETTING=${OMNIHOME}/probes/java/nco_p_hp_nnm/nms-sdk.jar