3 Day Course

Course Overview

This course provides in-depth technical knowledge about the advanced administration of Network Node Manager i Software (NNMi) 9.x.

It is intended for those who might need to use features, such as Global Network Management, user interface customization, advanced incident handling, custom event correlation, integration with HP Software products, fail-over options, and advanced command-line options. This three-day course is a mixture of lectures and hands-on exercises. Network Node Manager i Software 9.1 is used during the hands-on exercises.

This course is designed for users who already have some prior knowledge and hands-on experience with Network Node Manager i Software 9.x.

Audience

NNMi 9 Administrators and anyone responsible for the installation and maintenance of NNMi

Skills Learned

• Configure the Global Network Management features of NNMi
• Explain the advanced integration options of NNMi with other HP Software products
• Explain the NNMi application failover options
• Forward Traps & Events
• Add custom attributes to nodes and their subcomponents
• Configure NNMi for IPv6 and SNMPv3 protocols
• Customize the NNMi user interface
• Use Advanced Incident Management options and custom correlation
• Use the Custom Poller
• Manage virtualized servers
• Understand the benefits of iSPI Performance for Traffic and iSPI Performance for QA
• Use the NNMi command-line tools for administrators
• Plan Your NNMi 9 installation

Course Outline

Course Introduction

• Participant introductions
• Administration and housekeeping
• Facilities
• Participants’ responsibilities
• Course objectives
• Course outline
• Exercises
• Survey

Module 1: Global Management

• Concepts
• Configuring the Global Manager (GM)
• Configuring the local NNM machines
• Identifying the data being replicated to the GM
• Identifying the data not being replicated
• iSPI considerations with GM
• Lab - Global NNM

Module 2: Application Failover

• Advanced failover options
• Failover with an Oracle database
• Failover with a WAN
• iSPI issues
• Lab - Application Failover

Module 3: Integration

• NNM 6/7 integration
• LDAP integration
• RAMS integration
• Network Automation (NA) integration
• Lab - Integrating RAMS and NA with NNM

Module 4: Custom Device Attributes

• Adding custom attributes to:
  • Nodes
  • Interfaces
  • Cards
  • Ports
  • Objects
• Adding custom attributes using the command line - nnmloadattributes
• Lab - Custom device attributes

Module 5: Advanced Protocols

• IPv6
  • Introduction to IPv6
  • How NNMi handles IPv6 nodes
  • Configuring NNMi for IPv6
• SNMPv3
  • SNMPv3 fundamentals
  • How to configure NNMi to work with SNMPv3
  • Device configuration for SNMPv3
• Lab - IPv6 and SNMPv3

Module 6: UI Customization

• Adding menus
• Using menu nesting
• Context sensitive menus
• URL actions with custom attributes
• Customizing the NNMi Realtime Grapher
• Lab - Advanced UI Customization

Module 7: Advanced Incident Configuration

Suppress/Dampen/Enrich
• Dedup/Rate/Pairwise
• Automatic actions
• Payload filtering
• Forwarding Traps/Events
• Node/Interface group filtering
• iSPI-Net diagnostics
• Custom correlations
• Lab - Advanced Incident Configuration

Module 8: Custom Poller

• Generating incidents with custom polling/thresholds
• Custom Polling
• How to add MIB expressions
• Export custom MIB data to CSV files
• Report custom MIB data via iSPI for Performance
• Lab - Custom Poller

Module 9: Managing Virtualization

• Supported virtual software
• Discovering ESX servers
• Monitoring virtual servers
• Managing ESX virtual switches

Module 10: QA and MPLS SPI:

• Performance iSPIs for Traffic
• Performance iSPIs for QA
• Performance iSPI for Metrics
• ISPi for MPLS
• Lab - Using iSPi for Traffic, iSPI for QA, iSPI for MPLS

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