Audience:

• HP Customers: System and network administrators who need to install, configure and maintain NNMi in their environment
• HP Partners, Support Engineers and Consultants who need to learn how to install and configure NNMi for their customers

Prerequisite:

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

• System administration experience on MS Windows 2003 or HP-UX
• Fluency with network device terminology, IP addressing, SNMP, and MIB concepts
• Familiarity with Java, XML, JBoss, and Database concepts is helpful

Course Objectives:

After completing this course you will be able to:

• Install NNMi 8.x
• Configure network communication
• Configure discovery
• Configure monitoring and polling
• Configure user accounts and roles
• Configure incident displays
• Monitor incidents and progress them through the lifecycle
• Review network inventory
• Take troubleshooting action based on incident or device status
• Integrate with NNM 6.x or NNM 7.x
• Perform administration tasks, such as backups for the product
• Install and use the NNM iSPI for Performance

Benefits to you

• Install NNMi 8.x
• Configure NNMi 8.x for a specific environment
• Operate and maintain NNMi 8.x

Introduction

• Position NNMi within the BTO Software Portfolio
• Describe how NNMi helps Network Operations meet SLAs
• High level overview of NNMi operation
• Describe the NNM iSPI for Performance and position it relative to Performance Insight

Installing NNMi 8.x

• Fulfill installation prerequisites
• Complete the NNMi installation process
• Use the Quick Start Configurator to initialize the NNMi software
• Verify NNMi installation
• Tour the NNMi Management Console and become proficient in basic operation

Configuring discovery and monitoring

• Review Communication Layer architecture and operation
• Configure SNMP and ICMP access defaults, regions, and for specific nodes
• Review Discovery architecture and operation
• Configure Auto-Discovery
• Configure discovery seeds
• Configure device profiles
• Review Status Monitoring architecture and operation
• Configure polling groups and intervals
• Configure monitoring modes (managed, unmanaged, out of service)
• Verify monitoring settings

Configuring users

• Describe roles available in NNMi
• Configure user accounts and map to roles

Monitoring incidents and nodes

• Review incident views
• Review detailed information available with incidents
• Interpret root cause incidents
• Change incident classifications
• Assign incident ownership
• Progress an incident through the lifecycle
• Review inventory and monitoring views
• Review detailed information available about a node, interface, or other object
• Perform troubleshooting actions from tables, forms, or maps
• Update object status or configuration information

Configuring events

• Review event monitoring architecture and operation
• Modify event defaults, including category, family, severity, and message
• Add a new event configuration
• Configure event correlation

Administration and troubleshooting of NNM

• Start and stop NNMi processes and services
• Backup and restore the database

Coexistence with NNM 6.x or 7.x

• Forward events from NNM 6/7 to NNMi
• Launch NNM 6/7 interface from NNMi incident

Installing and using the NNM iSPI for Performance

• Install NNM iSPI for Performance and integrate with NNMi
• Configure performance polling
• Configure thresholding and threshold incidents
• Review performance data on maps
• Review performance reports

Installing and using the NNM iSPI for Performance

• Install NNM iSPI for Performance and integrate with NNMi
• Configure performance polling
• Configure thresholding and threshold incidents
• Review performance data on maps
• Review performance reports

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