After installing Netcool Configuration
Manager,
you must perform the standard configuration tasks that are required
to set up the product, and then configure the product to support the
integration. At a minimum, you must set up a Worker Server resource,
create an authentication set, change the server pool sizes, set up
realms, import or build policies, and grant permissions to modify
compliance policies.
You will require the IP address
and port of the probe host computer in order to configure communication
between Netcool Configuration
Manager and
the probe, so have these details at hand.
Before you begin
CAUTION:
When configuring Netcool Configuration
Manager trap
properties, ensure you guard against flooding Network Manager and Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus with
events.
To plan for the event volume that will be sent to
your Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer,
be aware that one policy issued against one device generates one event.
Therefore it is possible to generate a large number of events in a
relatively short period of time if you are operating against a large
number of devices.
If you have a large environment, consider
filtering to just those events that are of most importance to you.
Consult the Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus documentation
for further information.
About this task
- Compliance policies and processes
- At a minimum you must import or build network compliance policies,
and grant permissions to modify policies, and to create, modify, schedule
and execute processes.
- Additionally, you must configure the product to support the integration
by setting up a process and adding the relevant policies that are
required for achieving operational, security, and regulatory compliance
in the network. Ensure that this process is enabled for automatic
validations so that the policies are run against a device when it
changes, and an event is generated to indicate whether the device
is in compliance.
- Device configuration
- You must also set up a Worker Server resource, create an authentication
set, and change the server pool sizes.
- Additionally, you must configure SNMP trap settings, and enable
event generation for the different event types. To do so, set the
following properties in the Systems Manager's System Properties window.
Table 1. Netcool Configuration
Manager system
properties
| Property |
Description |
| Instance Identifier |
Specify a unique name for this particular instance
of Netcool Configuration
Manager. |
| Network Resource Event Registration |
Set this value to True to enable
network resource events to be generated and written to the database.
The default is True. |
| Resource Event Registration |
Set this value to True to enable
resource events to be generated and written to the database. The default
is True. |
| Work Event Registration |
Set this value to True to enable
work events to be generated and written to the database. The default
is True. |
| Compliance Policy Event Registration |
Set this value to True to enable
compliance policy events to be generated and written to the database.
The default is True. |
| SNMP Trap Recipients |
Use this property to configure Netcool Configuration
Manager to
forward events that are generated from SNMP traps to the SNMP Probe.
(This property setting also enables the traps to be raised.) Set
the value of this property by using the following format:
IP_address:port
where IP_address is
the IP address of the computer on which the SNMP Probe is
installed, and port is the port on which the probe
is listening.
You can use a comma-separated list to specify
multiple probe hosts to which all events should be forwarded, as follows:
IP_address1:port1,IP_address2:port2,...
Important: You must set the SNMP trap recipients before performing
device synchronization, otherwise the right-click functionality in Network Manager and Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus will
be restricted.
|
| SNMP Trap Flood Prevention |
Specify the minimum time in milliseconds (ms)
the system will wait after sending a trap before sending another. |
| SNMP Trap Retries |
Specify the maximum number of times that the
system attempts to resend unacknowledged traps. |
| SNMP Trap Timeout |
Specify the maximum time in milliseconds that
the system waits for a trap acknowledgement before resending. |
You perform a number of Netcool Configuration
Manager configuration
tasks after the TIP portal has been installed, and the tarball applied. See the related links for more information.