Installing Netcool/OMNIbus and Netcool/Impact

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Obtain and install the Netcool®/OMNIbus core components, Netcool/Impact, and the Gateway for JDBC and Gateway for Message Bus. All these products are installed by IBM® Installation Manager. You can use IBM Installation Manager to download the installation packages for these products and install them in a single flow. Extra configuration of each product is required after installation.

Procedure

Install the Netcool/OMNIbus 8.1.0.28 core components.
After the installation, you can use the Initial Configuration Wizard (nco_icw) to configure the product, for example, create and start ObjectServers, and configure automated failover or a multitier architecture. See related links later for instructions on installing Netcool/OMNIbus.
Install the Netcool/Impact GUI server and Impact server. See related links later for instructions on installing Netcool/Impact.
Apply the latest supported Netcool/OMNIbus core and Netcool/Impact fix packs. Also ensure that you apply the appropriate IBM Tivoli® Netcool/Impact Server Extensions for Netcool Operations Insight® feature. This is delivered in the Netcool/Impact fix pack.
For information on the product and component versions supported in the current version of Netcool Operations Insight including supported fix packs, see On-premises components.

The IBM Tivoli Netcool/Impact Server Extensions for Netcool Operations Insight feature is required for the event analytics capability. Fix packs are available from IBM Fix Central, see http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/ .
Create the connection from Netcool/Impact to the Db2® database as described in Configuring Db2 database connection within Netcool/Impact.
Configure the ObjectServer to support the related events function of the event analytics capability.
This requires a ParentIdentifier column in the alerts.status table.

Add the column using the SQL utility as described in Configuring the ObjectServer.
Configure the ObjectServer to support the topology search capability. In $NCHOME/omnibus/extensions, run the nco_sql utility against the scala_itnm_configuration.sql file.
```
./nco_sql -user root -password myp4ss -server NCOMS < /opt/IBM/tivoli/netcool/omnibus/extensions/scala/scala_itnm_configuration.sql
```
Triggers are applied to the ObjectServer that delay the storage of events until the events are enriched by Network Manager IP Edition data from the NCIM database.
Install the Gateway for JDBC and Gateway for Message Bus.
After installation, create the connection between the ObjectServer and the gateways in the Server Editor (nco_xigen). See related links later for instructions on creating connections in the Server Editor.

What to do next

Search on IBM Fix Central for available interim fixes and apply them. See http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/ .