Connecting to the CORBA interface

The probe acts as an Integration Reference Point (IRP) Manager and connects to the ZTE EMS using a 3GPP CORBA interface. The probe connects to the interface using Interoperable Object Reference (IOR) files.

Before it begins retrieving events from the ZTE EMS, the probe acquires the EntryPointIRP CORBA object. It gets this from the local IOR file specified by the EntryPointIrpFile property.

After it has acquired the EntryPointIRP object, the probe acquires the AlarmIRP and NotificationIRP objects. It needs the AlarmIRP object to perform resynchronization and the NotificationIRP object to get real time alarms.

The probe uses the value specified by the AlarmIrpName property to locate the AlarmIRP object within the EntryPointIRP object. It uses the value specified by the NotificationIrpName property to locate the NotificationIRP object within the EntryPointIRP object.

Using FTP

If the Entry Point IRP file is on a remote system, the probe uses an FTP command to retrieve it. To enable this, you must specify the following value for the EntryPointIrpFtpCommand property:

ftp://user:password@host/path

Where user and host are the user name and host name of the Entry Point IRP server, password is specified by the FtpPassword property, and path is the location of the Entry Point IRP file as specified by the EntryPointIrpFile property.

Note: Encrypt the password using the nco_g_crypt utility supplied with Netcool/OMNIbus and use the encrypted string as the value of the FtpPassword property. For more information about encrypting passwords, see the IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Administration Guide (SC14-7605).