Audience:

Prerequisite

Before taking this course, you should have completed the following training:

• HP-UX System and Network Administration I (H3064S) and HP-UX System and Network Administration II (H3065S), or equivalent HP-UX hands-on experience
• Alternatively, you should have experience as an MS Windows system/network administrator

Course Objectives:

After completing this course you will be able to:

• Understand the new NNM 7.51 features, such as the new dynamic views
• Navigate and interpret all NNM user interfaces
• Use maps and submaps to develop network architecture that will maximize network performance
• Use the simple network management protocol (SNMP) to access and change the network configuration and status parameters
• Troubleshoot problems in an NNM environment and use key concepts to dramatically reduce down time
• Describe the NNM architecture, processes, and databases
• Configure NNM discovery domains (extend and limit)
• Describe the Extended Topology component and enable its operation
• Configure alarms to provide specific feedback and take automatic actions
• Collect unique MIB data from any managed network nodes
• Save data to the Data Warehouse for long term trend analysis
• Backup the NNM data

Course Outline:

•The network management model
•A network management protocol SNMP
•The management information base

Introducing the NNM User Interfaces

• Describe the basic troubleshooting path for management by exception
• Start Network Node Manager Home Base
• Launch Dynamic Views from Home Base, the Alarm Browser, or the Tools menu
• Compare operation with ovw

NNM Processes and Databases

• NNM directory structure
• NNM databases and how to interact with them
• NNM processes and their interaction

Viewing Your Environment with Dynamic Views

• Interpret visual cues used in Dynamic Views
• Access and sort information in Active Tables
• Expand only relevant areas of displays
• Print a diagram

Viewing Your Environment with ovw

• Map and submap operations
• IP Submap hierarchy
• Visual cues in ovw
• Retrieving an object’s attributes

Creating and Customizing Maps

• Creating a new map
• Setting map permissions
• Customize map background, layout, etc.

Viewing Your Environment with the Network

• Access ovw maps from the Network Presenter

Using NNM Monitoring Tools

• Test basic connectivity
• Check the configuration of a device
• View connectivity in your network
• Configure the NNM grapher

Using Problem Diagnosis

• List the components of Problem Diagnosis
• List the requirements for Problem Diagnosis
• Start the Problem Diagnosis view
• Configure endpoints
• Read a Path Map, Path Detail and Trek Detail diagram
• Describe Problem Diagnosis’ brownout alarms

Viewing Alarms

• Browse and acknowledge alarms
• Access correlated alarms
• Access a graphical view of the node in an alarm

Viewing Automatic Web Reports

• Access and read web reports

Working with the MIB

• The management subtree
• Loading additional MIB modules
• Browsing MIB data on a node

Working with SNMP

• Basic SNMP communications
• Configure SNMP community names
• Configure SNMP and status polling

For more information on Acumen Classes
Please contact Deb Wagnon 314.333.3330
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