Configuring the Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Web GUI data source name

If you installed the Network Manager GUI components and chose not to create a new Web GUI data source, you must configure Network Manager to use an existing data source. You can also follow these instructions if you want to change the data source.

About this task

A data source is another term for an ObjectServer or ObjectServer failover pair used by the Web GUI for event information. Some deployments contain many ObjectServers, and the Web GUI can contain events from several different ObjectServers. To display device status, the Network Views and the Hop View correlate the topology record for a device with any events on that device. To perform this correlation, the Web applications must have access to the name of a data source used by the Web GUI.

If you want to add a new data source in Web GUI, use the instructions about configuring data sources in the Web GUI documentation at the following location:

http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSSHTQ/landingpage/NetcoolOMNIbus.html

Ensure Network Manager is configured to use an existing Web GUI data source by completing the following steps.

Procedure

  1. Back up and edit the NCHOME/etc/precision/ModelNcimDb.DOMAIN_NAME.cfg file.
  2. Change the WebTopDataSource property to the new data source name.
  3. Save and close the file.
  4. Restart the ncp_model process.