Dell NNM SE 1.2 - Manuals

viii ‡ Command lines consist of a command and may include one or more of the com-mand’s possible parameters. Command lines are presented in the Courier New font. Example: del c:\myfile.doc ‡ Screen text is text that appears on the screen of your monitor or display. It can be a system message, for ex...

ix &RQWHQWV &KDSWHU ,QWURGXFWLRQ HP OpenView NNM SE With Dell OpenManage HIP Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 Managed Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 Dell OpenManage Managed Node for the Windows NT Server Opera...

xi &KDSWHU 8VLQJ1106( Accessing NNM SE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1 How to Use NNM SE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2 Navigating Through NNM SE Submaps. . . ...

xii Table 1-4. Dell PowerEdge System Out-of-Band Management Features for DRAC Version 2.0-Capable Systems (2300, 6300) . . . . . . . . . . 1-12 Table 2-1. Modem Switch Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-18 Table 3-1. NNM SE Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Introduction 1-1 & + $ 3 7 ( 5 ,QWURGXFWLRQ H P OpenView Network Node Manager Special Edition (NNM SE) enhances your capa- bility to monitor and manage Dell ® PowerEdge ® servers running Novell ® NetWare ® and Microsoft ® Windows NT ® operating systems with Dell OpenManage TM Hard- ware Instrume...

1-2 HP OpenView NNM SE 1.2 With Dell OpenManage HIP 3.2 User’s Guide 0DQDJHG1RGHV A managed node is managed by a management station and is viewed from a manage-ment console. The Dell OpenManage managed node is a server that runs the Dell HIP. Dell enhancements to the HP OpenView NNM SE management st...

Introduction 1-3 'HOO2SHQ0DQDJH0DQDJHG1RGHIRU1HW:DUH The Dell OpenManage managed node for NetWare provides enhanced management of Dell servers running Novell NetWare with the following instrumentation: ‡ Dell DMI and SNMP instrumentation — Allows the Dell OpenManage Server Console to provide enhance...

1-6 HP OpenView NNM SE 1.2 With Dell OpenManage HIP 3.2 User’s Guide )LJXUH'HOO2SHQ0DQDJH0DQDJHPHQW'DWD)ORZLQ1HWZRUN +32SHQ9LHZ1106(:LWK'HOO 2SHQ0DQDJH+,3)HDWXUHV HP OpenView NNM SE with Dell OpenManage HIP has features that apply to all sys-tems and features that are system-specific. *HQHUDO)HDWXUH...

1-8 HP OpenView NNM SE 1.2 With Dell OpenManage HIP 3.2 User’s Guide ‡ Dell Inspector, which enables network administrators to do the following tasks: — Remotely manage desktop, workstation, and portable computers in a Dell DMI client network — View and modify a local system’s hardware configuration...

Introduction 1-13 *HWWLQJ+HOS If you receive an error message, see “Messages” in the online Dell NNM SE Tools Help and perform the corrective actions recommended. If the problem persists, see “Contacting Dell” in the online Dell NNM SE Tools Help for instructions on obtaining technical assistance.

Installation and Upgrade Procedures 2-1 & + $ 3 7 ( 5 ,QVWDOODWLRQDQG8SJUDGH 3URFHGXUHV T his chapter provides the software installation and upgrade procedures for the HP OpenView Network Node Manager Special Edition (NNM SE) with the Dell OpenManage Hardware Instrumentation Package (HIP). It ad...

2-2 HP OpenView NNM SE 1.2 With Dell OpenManage HIP 3.2 User’s Guide 2SHUDWLQJ6\VWHP5HTXLUHPHQWV The following are operating system requirements for a managed node server: ‡ One of the following operating systems: — Microsoft Windows NT 3.51 with Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/...

Installation and Upgrade Procedures 2-3 2SHUDWLQJ6\VWHP5HTXLUHPHQWV The following are operating system requirements for the management station or remote console: ‡ Windows NT 3.51 or Windows NT 4.0 Server/Workstation with TCP/IP network-ing installed and configured. Refer to the system documentation...

Installation and Upgrade Procedures 2-5 8. Click Yes to accept the new directory or No to select another directory. The Select Program Folder window appears. 9. Click Next to accept the default name or type in another name. Then click Next . Your system begins copying files to the directory you have...

2-6 HP OpenView NNM SE 1.2 With Dell OpenManage HIP 3.2 User’s Guide In this command line, public is the SNMP trap community name configured for the SNMP service (the community name is case-sensitive). NOTES: You must ensure that snmp.nlm is not automatically loaded by another .nlm file because the ...

Installation and Upgrade Procedures 2-7 8. Select a destination directory. Click Browse to find the drive mapped to the Net- Ware drive. After you have selected the NetWare drive, you must type system in the drive path. If you choose the default directory and it does not exist, a dialog box appears ...

2-8 HP OpenView NNM SE 1.2 With Dell OpenManage HIP 3.2 User’s Guide ,ID3UHYLRXV9HUVLRQRI'HOO+,3,V,QVWDOOHG After you have clicked Yes to continue the installation (step 5 of the procedure described in “Installing a Dell Managed Node for NetWare”), perform the following steps: 1. Click Dell Managed ...

Installation and Upgrade Procedures 2-9 NOTE: If you want to install both a Dell managed node and a management workstation on the same server, make sure to reboot the server between the two installations. ,ID&XUUHQW9HUVLRQRI'HOO+,3,V,QVWDOOHG After you have selected a Windows NT or NetWare insta...

2-10 HP OpenView NNM SE 1.2 With Dell OpenManage HIP 3.2 User’s Guide The hardware component instrumentation is as follows: ‡ DRAC version 2.0 NOTE: If you do not have a DRAC version 2.0 card, you should not install DRAC version 2.0 instrumentation (for example, if you have a PowerEdge 2200 system w...

Installation and Upgrade Procedures 2-11 4. Select Microsoft Peer Web Services or Microsoft Internet Information Service from the list. 5. Insert the Windows NT Workstation or Windows NT Server CD into your CD-ROM drive. A window appears prompting you for the location drive and directory. 6. Enter t...

2-12 HP OpenView NNM SE 1.2 With Dell OpenManage HIP 3.2 User’s Guide 3. Select a destination directory. Click Browse to find the directory you want, or click Next to accept the default, c:\openview . The Setup Option window appears with two setup options: ‡ Typical — Installs OpenView management st...

Installation and Upgrade Procedures 2-13 ,ID3UHYLRXV9HUVLRQRI'HOO110 6(,V,QVWDOOHG After you have chosen the community name for your default gateway (step 6 of the procedure described in “Installing the Management Station”), the following message appears: You have a previous version of Dell NNM SE i...

2-14 HP OpenView NNM SE 1.2 With Dell OpenManage HIP 3.2 User’s Guide To uninstall the Dell OpenManage Server Console, use the following procedure: 1. Double-click the Uninstall Dell OpenManage Server Console icon in the HP OpenView NNM/NT folder. 2. Remove the following line from the trapd.conf fil...

2-16 HP OpenView NNM SE 1.2 With Dell OpenManage HIP 3.2 User’s Guide To remove HP OpenView NNM SE from a system, use the following procedure: 1. Click the Uninstall HP OV NNM SE icon. A window appears with the following message: Uninstall NNM SE and all add-in components? 2. Click OK . A window app...

Installation and Upgrade Procedures 2-17 8QLQVWDOOLQJ+DUGZDUH&RPSRQHQWV)URPD:LQGRZV17 6HUYHU If you installed hardware components separately, an Uninstall Hardware Compo- nents icon is created in the Dell Node folder. Use this icon to uninstall the hardware components. 8QLQVWDOOLQJD'HOO0DQDJHG1R...

2-18 HP OpenView NNM SE 1.2 With Dell OpenManage HIP 3.2 User’s Guide 3RZHU(GJH6HUYHUV(TXLSSHG:LWK'5$&9HUVLRQ Refer to your DRAC version 2.0 documentation for configuration information regarding the card and optional PC Card modem. )RU'HOO5HPRWH$VVLVWDQW6HUYHU6HUYLFHRQD 0DQDJHPHQW6WDWLRQ Use the...

Installation and Upgrade Procedures 2-19 ‡ Dell OpenManage Remote Assistant and Dell Remote Assistant Server service ‡ Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID Console ‡ Adaptec CI/O Array-Based Management ‡ Adaptec Duralink Server Manager ‡ American Power Conversion (APC) PowerNet Console ‡ MobileChoice Pagi...

2-20 HP OpenView NNM SE 1.2 With Dell OpenManage HIP 3.2 User’s Guide The Remote Assistant allows you to view the following information: ‡ Health of the system ‡ POST logs ‡ Event logs ‡ Console redirection on servers equipped with DRAC version 2.0 ‡ Control reset and power to the remote server. The...

2-22 HP OpenView NNM SE 1.2 With Dell OpenManage HIP 3.2 User’s Guide For more information, refer to the MobileChoice Paging for HP OpenView help. To access the help file, follow these steps: 1. Start the MobileChoice Paging application. 2. Click the Help button to launch the help file. ,QWHJUDWLQJ6...

2-24 HP OpenView NNM SE 1.2 With Dell OpenManage HIP 3.2 User’s Guide ,QVWDOOLQJ/'60$JHQWV:LWK1R3UHYLRXVO\,QVWDOOHG'HOO +,30DQDJHG1RGH To install the LDSM agents with no previously installed Dell HIP 3.2 managed node, follow the instructions in the Dell Hardware Instrumentation Package 2.2 for Intel...

Installation and Upgrade Procedures 2-25 c:\smm32 directory to the path environment variable. You can make this modification to the environment variables in the System Properties Environment tab, which is accessible through the Control Panel System option. After making these changes, reboot your sys...

Using NNM SE 3-1 & + $ 3 7 ( 5 8VLQJ1106( N etwork Node Manager Special Edition (NNM SE) delivers fault, configuration, and performance management. NNM SE can be used to perform the following tasks: ‡ Discover your network environment and monitor its status. ‡ Draw Internet Protocol (IP) or Inte...

Using NNM SE 3-5 'LVFRYHU\0RQLWRU The Discovery Monitor is a background process that runs on a system management station along with the OpenView background process ( netmon , ovcapsd , and so on). It listens to events from the OpenView background processes relating to the discov-ery of managed nodes...

3-6 HP OpenView NNM SE 1.2 With Dell OpenManage HIP 3.2 User’s Guide 7UDS)RUZDUGHU The Trap For warder application lets you for ward certain traps the management station receives to other management stations. Trap For warder consists of a user interface and a background process. All traps sent to th...

Using NNM SE 3-7 &RQILJXULQJWKH'HVWLQDWLRQIRU)RUZDUGHG7UDSV To configure the SNMP service on a management station to for ward traps to another management station, you must configure the SNMP trap destination(s) on the send-ing station as follows. NOTE: Do not use the SNMP Emanate Agent Trap Dest...

3-8 HP OpenView NNM SE 1.2 With Dell OpenManage HIP 3.2 User’s Guide 'HOO2SHQ0DQDJH5HPRWH$VVLVWDQW$OHUW$FWLRQV You can configure a particular action to take place when an alert or event associated with a Dell enterprise occurs. Select Event Configuration from the Options menu of the NNM SE map user ...

Frequently Asked Questions A-1 $ 3 3 ( 1 ' , ; $ )UHTXHQWO\$VNHG4XHVWLRQV Why don’t the Event and POST log tabs of the version 1.0 Server Console cor-rectly display data when monitoring a Dell PowerEdge 2300 or 6300 server? Version 1.2 of the Server Console is required to correctly display this data...

A-2 HP OpenView NNM SE 1.2 With Dell OpenManage HIP 3.2 User’s Guide What light-emitting diode (LED) flashes when the Adaptec Comprehensive Input/Output (CI/O) Blink Hard-Disk Drive Light feature is used? The hard-disk drive activity LED flashes at 1-second intervals. If there is any hard-disk drive...

Frequently Asked Questions A-3 Where are alert events logged by the Dell Remote Assistant Server? The events are logged into the Windows NT Application log on the management station where the Dell Remote Assistant Server Service is running. Why doesn’t the Dell OpenManage Remote Assistant console ap...

Tivoli/Enterprise Console Requirements and Installation B-1 $ 3 3 ( 1 ' , ; % 7LYROL(QWHUSULVH&RQVROH 5HTXLUHPHQWVDQG,QVWDOODWLRQ This product supports Dell Hardware Instrumentation Package (HIP) 2.2 or later integration with Tivoli/Enterprise Console version 2.6 and Tivoli/Enterprise Console Wi...

B-2 HP OpenView NNM SE 1.2 With Dell OpenManage HIP 3.2 User’s Guide ,QVWDOODWLRQRI5$,'&RQWUROOHU(YHQWV:LWK 7LYROL(QWHUSULVH&RQVROH To install the RAID controller events with the Tivoli/Enterprise Console, perform the following steps on the Windows NT system to be monitored: 1. Stop the TECN...

Tivoli/Enterprise Console Requirements and Installation B-3 7. Load the new rule base by using the following command: wloadrb My_rb 8. Restart the event server by using the following command: wstartesvr ,QVWDOODWLRQRI'HOO+,3(YHQWV:LWK7LYROL (QWHUSULVH&RQVROH To install the Dell HIP events with t...

Glossary 1 *ORVVDU\ The following list defines or identifies technical terms, abbreviations, and acro-nyms used in Dell ® user documents. AC Abbreviation for alternating current. APC Abbreviation for American Power Conversion. backup A copy of a program or data file. As a precaution, you should back...

2 HP OpenView NNM SE 1.2 With Dell OpenManage HIP 3.2 User’s Guide the disk-cache utility can retrieve the data from RAM faster than from the disk drive. CBT Abbreviation for computer-based training. CD-ROM Abbreviation for compact disc read-only memory. CD-ROM drives use optical technology to read ...

Glossary 3 enterprise A systems-management software product that is either a source or a receiver of SNMP traps. ESM Abbreviation for embedded server management. FAT Abbreviation for file allocation table. FTP Abbreviation for file transport protocol. GB Abbreviation for gigabyte. A gigabyte equals ...

4 HP OpenView NNM SE 1.2 With Dell OpenManage HIP 3.2 User’s Guide term is often rounded to mean 1,000,000 bytes. 0+] Abbreviation for megahertz. MIB Acronym for management information base. MIF Acronym for management information format. MIF is a file that contains informa-tion, status, and links to...

6 HP OpenView NNM SE 1.2 With Dell OpenManage HIP 3.2 User’s Guide subsystem uses a method of data stor-age called striping. With this method, data is divided into a series of pieces called blocks and each data block is stored on a different physical drive. When each drive contains a block of data, ...

Index 1 ,QGH[ $ Adaptec CI/O Array-Based Management System, 2-20 Adaptec Duralink Server Manager, 2-20 alerts configuring actions, 3-7 American Power Conversion. See APC APC PowerNet Console, 2-21 assistance technical, 1-13 & cautions, vii console applications, 2-18 ' Dell Inspector about, 2-19i...