Migrating to Netcool/Precision for IP Networks --Best Practices for Migrating from IBM Tivoli NetView

Migrating to Netcool/Precision for IP Networks --Best Practices for Migrating from IBM Tivoli NetView

by Stephen Hochstetler, Donald Hart, Leslie Clark, Mathias Scharfenberg, Pádraig Byrne, Rob Clark, Bob Louden
Released February 2007
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: None

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Book description

The IBM acquisition of Micromuse Inc. in 2006 marked a major milestone for IBM Tivoli software because it significantly strengthened the end-to-end IBM Service Management software portfolio. As new technologies emerge, the ability to manage networks and provide very high network availability has become increasingly important for most organizations.
While the IBM Tivoli NetView product has a long history of industry-leading utility, the addition of Netcool/Precision extends our network management capabilities to include enhanced layer2 network discovery and best-of-breed topology-based root cause analysis. This provides our customers with the most comprehensive, real-time understanding of their network infrastructures and the fastest possible resolution of network problems.
While significant focus is being placed on enhancing the ease of installation and use of coming versions of Netcool/Precision, IBM will continue to protect our NetView customers' investments and intends to provide a smooth upgrade path to a future converged network management product offering.
This IBM Redbooks publication will help companies determine if they should migrate now or wait. For those migrating, it provides detailed instructions for planning and performing the migration from IBM Tivoli NetView to Tivoli Netcool/Precision IP V3.6.

Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.

Table of contents

  1. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  2. Preface
    1. The team that wrote this redbook
    2. Become a published author
    3. Comments welcome
  3. Part 1: Product comparisons
  4. Chapter 1: Introduction
    1. 1.1: IBM Service Management
    2. 1.2: Next Generation Networking
    3. 1.3: Netcool/Precision
    4. 1.4: NetView customer choices
    5. 1.5: The purpose of this book
  5. Chapter 2: Product review
    1. 2.1: Overview
    2. 2.2: Discovery
    3. 2.3: Monitoring
    4. 2.4: Network visualization
    5. 2.5: Event management
    6. 2.6: SNMP tools
    7. 2.7: Diagnostic tools
    8. 2.8: User consoles
    9. 2.9: Product administration and configuration
    10. 2.10: Integration with other products
  6. Chapter 3: Benefits of migrating to Precision
    1. 3.1: Full layer 2 discovery
      1. The OSI seven layer model
    2. 3.2: Filling in gaps in the discovery
      1. Inserting missing connections
    3. 3.3: MPLS networks
      1. Example MPLS discovery
      2. MPLS edge view
      3. MPLS core view
      4. More information on MPLS capabilities in Netcool/Precision
    4. 3.4: Topology-based root cause analysis (RCA)
      1. Netcool Knowledge Library example
      2. Netcool/Precision root cause analysis
    5. 3.5: Multiple domains
      1. Managed service provider (MSP) environments
      2. Distinct administrative areas
    6. 3.6: Failover
    7. 3.7: Extending your discovery
    8. 3.8: Event enrichment
      1. Event enrichment in the Netcool suite
      2. Event enrichment in Netcool/Precision
    9. 3.9: Asset management
      1. Basic asset information in standard installation
      2. Netcool for Asset Management - NfAM
  7. Chapter 4: Solution architecture
    1. 4.1: Netcool overview
      1. Netcool OMNIbus ObjectServer
      2. Netcool probes and monitors
      3. Netcool/Impact
      4. Netcool/RAD
      5. Netcool/Reporter
      6. Netcool/Webtop
    2. 4.2: A first look at Netcool/Precision
      1. Netcool/Precision components
      2. Inter component communication
      3. Precision services and OQL
    3. 4.3: Event flow through Netcool/Precision
    4. 4.4: Example Netcool/Precision deployments
      1. Small scale Netcool/Precision deployment
      2. Large scale Netcool/Precision deployment
    5. 4.5: Netcool/Precision in failover
      1. OMNIbus failover
      2. Webtop and NCSM failover
      3. Netcool/Precision failover
  8. Part 2: Migrations
  9. Chapter 5: Preparing the server for migration and installing the Netcool components
    1. 5.1: Planning for migration
    2. 5.2: Prepare the new monitoring servers
      1. Our lab server environment
      2. Operating system preparation and checks
    3. 5.3: Required Netcool components
    4. 5.4: Installation of Netcool components
      1. Install and verify Netcool License Server
      2. Install and verify Netcool OMNIbus 7.1.0
      3. Install and verify Netcool Knowledge Library
      4. Install and verify Netcool Mttrapd Probe
      5. Install and verify Netcool Security Manager 1.3
      6. Install and verify Netcool Precision IP 3.6
    5. 5.5: Starting Netcool products at server boot
      1. Running the OMNIbus script to create startup files
      2. Running the Precision script to create startup files
      3. Creating a startup script for Netcool License Manager
      4. Creating a startup script for Netcool GUI Foundation
      5. Creating a startup script for Netcool Security Manager
      6. Symbolic link creation to auto-start applications
  10. Chapter 6: Migrating NetView and Switch Analyzer
    1. 6.1: Architecture
      1. NetView architecture
      2. Netcool architecture
    2. 6.2: Gathering information from the NetView server
    3. 6.3: Migrating the discovery
      1. First pass at discovery
      2. Second pass at discovery
      3. Third pass at discovery
      4. Fourth pass at discovery
      5. Migrating discovery rules and adding agents
      6. Discovering extra information (1/2)
      7. Discovering extra information (2/2)
    4. 6.4: Migrating the network map visualization
      1. Migrating SmartSets (1/3)
      2. Migrating SmartSets (2/3)
      3. Migrating SmartSets (3/3)
      4. Migrating the network view
    5. 6.5: Migrating network monitoring
      1. Tivoli NetView preparation
      2. Netcool/Precision preparation
      3. Configure ping polling
      4. Configure SNMP link polling
      5. Configure SNMP threshold polling
      6. Activating the changes
      7. Passive monitoring
      8. Understanding how interfaces are managed
      9. Enabling new node events
      10. Examples of the monitoring events
    6. 6.6: Netcool OMNIbus automations
      1. Mail on critical automation (1/2)
      2. Mail on critical automation (2/2)
      3. Event enrichment
    7. 6.7: Creating users for Netcool components
      1. User creation in Netcool/OMNIbus
      2. Creating user in NGF with admin permissions
      3. Assign user roles and groups
      4. Creating a user with operator access
      5. Creating the operator user in the NGF
      6. Creating a limited access executive view in the NGF
      7. Summary of new Netcool/OMNIbus and NGF users
    8. 6.8: Adding tools to the user interface
      1. The Ping tool
      2. Adding a MIB application (1/2)
      3. Adding a MIB application (2/2)
      4. Adding an http management tool
  11. Chapter 7: Migration topics
    1. 7.1: Scheduled discovery
    2. 7.2: Provisioning Netcool/Precision (1/2)
    3. 7.2: Provisioning Netcool/Precision (2/2)
    4. 7.3: Problem determination
    5. 7.4: Populating the user interface by roles
      1. Create the network operators group
      2. Create the tabbed page for the operators view
      3. Create the network topology view
      4. Build the Operators tabbed view
    6. 7.5: The menus in Omnibus and Netcool/Precision
      1. Omnibus X11 menus
      2. NGF/Webtop menus
      3. NGF/Topoviz menus
    7. 7.6: Enriching interface events with chassis object attributes
  12. Appendix A: Useful information for Netcool installation and maintenance
    1. A.1: Environment settings
    2. A.2: License Server
    3. A.3: ObjectServer
    4. A.4: OMNIbus probes
    5. A.5: OMNIbus gateways
    6. A.6: Process control (PA)
    7. A.7: Menus, tools, and prompts
    8. A.8: Procedures
    9. A.9: Automation triggers
    10. A.10: Security Manager 1.3
    11. A.11: Webtop
    12. A.12: Precision
      1. Precision server
      2. Precision monitors
      3. Precision monitor probe
      4. Precision discovery
      5. Precision bidirectional gateway
      6. Precision Failover:
    13. A.13: mySQL
  13. Appendix B: Scripts and commands
    1. B.1: Commands and scripts used to extract information from the NetView installation
      1. Devices that are discovered and managed by NetView
      2. Custom fields information
      3. User account information
      4. Polling information
      5. Trap and event processing information
      6. Event processing information
      7. Other automation
    2. B.2: Scripts and commands for validating and customizing the Precision installation
      1. Perl script to extract all unknown OIDs from Precision
      2. Script to compare discovered nodes in NetView and Precision
      3. Perl script to handle unmanaged nodes or interfaces
      4. Sample of threshold polling definition to be put into *.aoc file
    3. B.3: Precision agents we modified
    4. B.4: Startup scripts modified to run at boot time
    5. B.5: NGF menu configuration files (1/2)
    6. B.5: NGF menu configuration files (2/2)
    7. B.6: Stitchers for event enrichment
  14. Appendix C: Additional material
    1. Locating the Web material
    2. Using the Web material
      1. System requirements for downloading the Web material
      2. How to use the Web material
  15. Related publications
    1. Other publications
    2. Online resources
    3. How to get IBM Redbooks
    4. Help from IBM
  16. Index (1/3)
  17. Index (2/3)
  18. Index (3/3)
  19. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: Migrating to Netcool/Precision for IP Networks --Best Practices for Migrating from IBM Tivoli NetView
  • Author(s): Stephen Hochstetler, Donald Hart, Leslie Clark, Mathias Scharfenberg, Pádraig Byrne, Rob Clark, Bob Louden
  • Release date: February 2007
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: None