Exporting custom reports (distributed integration architecture)

After you have installed Network Manager on a server other than your existing Netcool Configuration Manager installation and performed all integration tasks, you export your custom reports. You also disable and uninstall the existing Netcool Configuration Manager version of Tivoli Common Reporting.

Before you begin

You export reports after installing Network Manager when all of the following circumstances apply to your scenario:

  • You are already running Tivoli Common Reporting as part of an existing, non-integrated Netcool Configuration Manager installation.
  • You are deploying a distributed integration architecture and have already installed Network Manager on a server other than your existing version of Netcool Configuration Manager.
  • You have customized Netcool Configuration Manager reports that need to be migrated into your planned integrated solution.

About this task

When you install the Network Manager version of Tivoli Common Reporting on a server other than your existing version of Netcool Configuration Manager, the previous reports as well as the previous version of TCR remain on the Netcool Configuration Manager server. To migrate such reports into an integrated solution, you perform the following tasks:

If you are installing Netcool Configuration Manager and Network Manager on different servers
  1. Install Network Manager and integrate it with the existing version of Netcool Configuration Manager as documented.
  2. Export the custom reports from the existing Netcool Configuration Manager version of Tivoli Common Reporting and copy them to the Network Manager server.
  3. Import the custom reports into the Network Manager version of Tivoli Common Reporting.
  4. Disable the existing Netcool Configuration Manager version of Tivoli Common Reporting.
Remember: You do not have to migrate the standard Netcool Configuration Manager reports, because these will be installed together with the Network Manager version of Tivoli Common Reporting (in addition to a number of Network View reports). You only migrate reports you have customized since installing the standard reports, or new reports you have created.

Procedure

  1. Log into the Netcool Configuration Manager version of Tivoli Common Reporting using the following URL:
    http://hostname:16310/ibm/console
    where hostname is the name of your Netcool Configuration Manager server and 16310 is the default port number for Tivoli Common Reporting.
  2. Click Reporting > Common Reporting.
  3. Click Launch on the toolbar, and then select Administration from the drop-down menu.
  4. Select the Configuration tab, then click Content Administration.
  5. Click New Export to launch the New Export wizard.
  6. Enter a name and description for the report export, then click Next.
  7. Accept the default deployment method and click Next.
  8. Click the Add link and select the ITNCM Reports checkbox, then move ITNCM Reports to the Selected Entries list.
  9. Click OK, then Next > Next > Next, accepting the default values.
  10. Select New archive, then Next > Next, accepting the default values..
  11. Click Finish > Run > OK.
    The reports are exported and the new export archive is displayed.
  12. Navigate to the following directory:
    /opt/IBM/tivoli/netcool/ncm/tipv2Components/TCRComponent/cognos/deployment,
    where you can view the report archive, for example:
    -rw-r--r-- 1 icosuser staff 262637 23 Feb 10:27 ncm_export.zip
    where ncm_export.zip is the report archive.
  13. Copy the file to the following directory on the Network Manager server:
    $TIP_HOME/../TCRComponent/cognos/deployment

Results

You have exported the custom reports and copied them to the Network Manager server.

What to do next

Next, you import the archived reports into the Network Manager version of Tivoli Common Reporting, and then disable the Netcool Configuration Manager version of Tivoli Common Reporting.