Dell OpenManage Network Manager Version 5.0- User Manual

Why Dell OpenManage Network Manager? | Preface 11 Networks with Dell OpenManage Network Manager The beginning of network management with Dell OpenManage Network Manager is Discovery Profiles of the resources on a network. After that occurs, you can configure Visualize (topology views), Resource Moni...

12 Why Dell OpenManage Network Manager? | Preface Updating Your License If you have a limited license — for example OpenManage Network Manager may limit discovery to a certain number of devices— then your application does not function outside those licensed limits. You can purchase additional capabi...

Feedback | Preface 13 Feedback To provide your input about this software click the Feedback link in the lower left corner of the Dell OpenManage Network Manager screen. Provide your contact information, enter Questions, Likes, New Idea s , or a Problem, in the screen that appears next, then click Se...

Overview | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager 15 1 Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager Overview This chapter describes how to install and start Dell OpenManage Network Manager for basic network monitoring and management. For more detailed descriptions of all this s...

16 Overview | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager Generally, base the minimum configuration of any system on its expected peak load. Your installation should spend 95% of its time idle and 5% of its time trying to keep pace with the resource demands. Upgrading from a Previous Versio...

Overview | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager 19 Make sure that libtcl8.4.so maps to /lib/libtcl8.4.so An Alternative for Red Hat Linux: 1 Copy /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so from a 32-bit RH system to /usr/local/lib/32bit on your 64-bit Red Hat system 2 As root, execute: ln –s /usr/local/l...

20 Single Server Sizing | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager for 64-bit browsers is currently a preliminary version, but you can typically run a 32-bit browser even in a 64-bit operating system, so Flash features will still be available even if you do not want to run Adobe’s beta s...

Sizing for Standalone Installations | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager 21 Sizing for Standalone Installations The following are suggested sizing guidelines for your Dell OpenManage Network Manager system. 1 Assumptions: Servers have at least four cores and are no more than four y...

22 Sizing for Standalone Installations | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager practice is to sample a maximum of one traffic flow for every 1000 (1:1000) . Higher sampling rates degrade database performance and increase network traffic without adding any significant statistical infor...

Sizing for Standalone Installations | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager 23 Dealing with any network barriers to communicating with OpenManage Network Manager, any required initial device configuration to accept management, and managing security measures or firewalls—all are outsid...

24 Sizing for Standalone Installations | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager Fixed IP Address OpenManage Network Manager includes a web server and application server which must be installed to hosts with fixed IP addresses or permanently assigned Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP)...

Sizing for Standalone Installations | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager 25 • Windows 2003 All Editions• Windows Vista The login credentials must be for an administrator on the installation host for complete functionality. Both this and .NET installation are requirements for any in...

Getting Started | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager 27 WBEM Prerequisites The following are common prerequisites: Credentials — WBEM credentials have a role in discovering the device. Your system must have access to the computer using Administrative only credentials. These are the...

28 Installation and Startup | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager Installation and Startup below includes instructions for a basic installation. If you have a large network, or anticipate a large number of web clients, then best practice is to install Dell OpenManage Network Manager...

Installation and Startup | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager 29 Heap Memory on a single machine installation serves the operating system, database and web server. You can configure the selected application server heap memory size any time, with the following properties in \owareap...

30 Installation and Startup | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager • Starting the Client . The client provides the user interface. In Windows, click Start > OpenManage Network Manager > Synergy , or after starting the web server, open a browser and go to the web address hostnam...

Installation and Startup | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager 31 File Handles Best practice is to modify file handles for Linux. If you do not do this, exceptions appear in application server log every fifth minute. To prevent this, alter /etc/security/ limits.conf. Here, administr...

Control Panel | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager 33 Changing the Session Timeout Period The timeout for the web portal extends automatically if data is changing onscreen. Nevertheless, you can change the timeout period with (non-override-able) properties in some files, as follows...

34 Control Panel | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager Tips describing these screens and fields appear when you hover the cursor over fields, or click the blue circle around a question mark next to them. This blue circle can also toggle the appearance / disappearance of the tip.User...

Control Panel | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager 35 RCSynergy / [Domain] RCSynergy appears as a default domain name in Control Panel . Global and [My Login’s] Site configurations appear as additional items to configure when you click the down arrow to the right of RCSynergy. The ...

36 Control Panel | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager After creating them, add Users to roles which configure their permissions for access and action. NOTE: By default, every user is assigned to the role User . To assign a new user to specific permissions only, remove all rights on...

Control Panel | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager 37 5 Notice that if you are editing an existing user, or creating a new one, you can use the links on the right to configure connections with Roles. Roles, in particular, configure the OpenManage Network Manager functional permissi...

38 Control Panel | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager Your organization has a number of geographic locations and you plan to manage the network infrastructure for all these locations using RC7 Synergy. You can define the geographic locations to which devices can be associated. This...

40 Control Panel | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager Public / Private Page Behavior Public pages are visible to everyone; private pages are only visible to the user who created them, and are not vulnerable to others changing their arrangement. Page Standard settings are Max Items ...

Control Panel | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager 41 10 After you have selected permissions, click Apply to accept them and add them to the role. Notice that you can revisit this role, manage it and its membership with the Action button to the right of the role. You can also add u...

42 Control Panel | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager Portal > [Other] Some of the remaining portal labels permit the following: Sites — Configure sites. Sites are a set of pages that display content and provide access to specific applications. Sites can have members, which are ...

Control Panel | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager 45 Redcell > Data Configuration This panel configures custom attributes for Dell OpenManage Network Manager. Click the Edit button next to the Entity Type (Managed Equipment, Port, Contact, Vendor, or Location) for which you wan...

48 Control Panel | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager Redcell > Filter Management This screen, accessible from Go to > Control Panel lets you manage the filters in OpenManage Network Manager. Click the Delete icon to the right of a listed filter to remove it from the system. ...

Control Panel | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager 49 Clicking the Edit icon to the right of a listed filter, or clicking the Add Filter button opens the filter editor. Use this editor to configure filters. Enter a Name and Description , and use the green plus (+) to select an enti...

50 Redcell > Database Aging Policies (DAP) | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager Server > Portal Instance — Lets you configure more than one portal instance on your server. Server > Plugins Installation — Configure portlet theme and layout plugins here. This panel lets you ...

Redcell > Database Aging Policies (DAP) | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager 51 To view and manage such policies, right click an item with them (for example, an alarm), or click Manage > Control Panel , and under Redcell click Database Aging Policies. Policies appear in the A...

52 Redcell > Database Aging Policies (DAP) | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager 5 In the Aging Policies Options tab, specify either the archiving and retention you want, or further specify Sub-Policies that refine the items archived, and specify archiving and retention for those...

Redcell > Database Aging Policies (DAP) | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager 53 The contents of the Options tab depend on the type of DAP you are configuring. Typically, this tab is where you set the retention thresholds. DAP SubPolicies Some Options tabs include sub-policies fo...

54 Redcell > Database Aging Policies (DAP) | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager Aging Policies Options The Options tab in this editor can vary, depending on the type of policy. Typical fields can include the following: Keep [Aged Item] for this many days — The number of days to ...

56 Redcell > Database Aging Policies (DAP) | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager These appear listed in the Aging Policies Options tab. Click Add Sub Policy to create them. Notice that you can Edit or Delete listed policies with the icons in the far-right Action column in this li...

Redcell > Database Aging Policies (DAP) | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager 57 Repositories When you select a repository in the Aging Policies Editor, the available policies come from what is configured in this tab of the editor.

58 Redcell > Database Aging Policies (DAP) | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager Available repositories appear listed in the initial screen. Like the Aging Policies Editor, you can click Add Repository to create a new repository, and Edit or Delete selected, listed policies with ...

Redcell > Database Aging Policies (DAP) | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager 59 How To: Configure Portlet Permissions 1 As an admin user, click on the Configuration icon (the wrench) in the top right corner of the portlet of interest. 2 Click on the Configuration and go to the P...

Quick Navigation | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager 61 10 Log out as admin, and log back in as a user with Gold Customer permissions. 11 Confirm your permission configuration is operating on this page. Quick Navigation The Quick Navigation portlet lets you quickly perform some ba...

62 License Viewer | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager License Viewer This screen appears when you click License Management in the Quick Navigation portlet. Click Close to return to Dell OpenManage Network Manager. You may find Licenses in a name slightly different from the one you...

License Viewer | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager 63 How To: Register a License To register a license click the Select File button at the top, and use the subsequent screen to select a license file. Tip To import a license when application server is not running, type licenseimpor...

64 Discovery Profiles | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager Discovery Profiles Discovery profiles configure equipment discovery for Dell OpenManage Network Manager. The summary view displays the Name, Description, Default (the green check indicates the default profile), whether the ...

Discovery Profiles | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager 65 The Filters (by Location, Vendor, or Device Type ) let you narrow the list of devices discovered by the selected item(s). As the screen says, this filtering will not have any impact on the processing that occurs during the ...

66 Managed Resources | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager When they test successfully, the authentications appear in a nested tree under the Discover checkbox (checked when they test successfully). 9 Save — Click Save to preserve the profile. You can then right-click it to select E...

Common Setup Tasks | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager 67 Common Setup Tasks If you install it ( Add > Applications ), the Common Setup Tasks portlet can appear on the page of your choice. It reminds you of the following common tasks: • SMTP Configuration• Netrestore File Serve...

Common Setup Tasks | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager 69 Netrestore File Servers The Netrestore file servers provide FTP connections for retrieving and deploying devices’ configuration files, and for deploying firmware updates to devices on your network. See File Servers on page ...

Portal Overview | Portal Conventions 71 2 Portal Conventions Portal Overview This section explains how to navigate and configure the Dell OpenManage Network Manager web portal. Because this portal is based on open source features, and can be so flexible, this is not a comprehensive catalog of all it...

72 Portal Overview | Portal Conventions Tooltips Dell OpenManage Network Manager has extensive tooltips that appear when you click the blue circle with a question mark (one help icon—see also Online Help / Filter on page 12), or when you hover the cursor over a field. Tooltips also display the conte...

The Dock | Portal Conventions 73 The Dock This menu bar appears at the top of portal pages. Its exact appearance depends on your package. With it, you can open online help, add, edit, and navigate to portal pages and content. Click the down arrow to see menus for items on the dock. Here are its func...

74 The Dock | Portal Conventions Use the screen that appears after selecting Manage > Page to configure add or delete pages and to manage their appearance and permissions. You must refresh any altered page before edits take effect. Tip You can create a new page, then Copy Portlets from Page you c...

Status Bar Alerts | Portal Conventions 75 Status Bar Alerts The Status bar appears at the bottom of the portal. On the left, it catalogs messages and notifications you have received, including generated reports in My Alerts . Click the magnifying glass to the right of reports and Job Status notifica...

Status Bar Alerts | Portal Conventions 77 Colleagues (n) — A green dot indicates others are online (it is red when you are alone), and n is the number of colleagues online. Click to open the chat screen. Click on a colleague and enter text at the bottom of the popup that appears to send messages. Pr...

78 Status Bar Alerts | Portal Conventions Hovering the cursor over a listed item in the column where a question mark appears indicates a “tooltip” with more information is available for this item. An informational popup screen appears after a brief wait to query the application server. These pop- up...

Status Bar Alerts | Portal Conventions 79 contains several editing controls. Clicking on the wrench icon produces a menu that leads to editors for the Configuration of this portlet (user permissions to view and configure, Sharing, and so on). Tip Some portlets, like Site Map, let you import or expor...

Status Bar Alerts | Portal Conventions 81 Search You can search by clicking Search at the top of portlets. This opens a search field where you can enter search terms for all the fields that appear in the list at the top of the portlet. The search is for what you enter, no wildcards are supported. To...

82 Status Bar Alerts | Portal Conventions Sorting Portlet Lists Sorting tables that list items occurs when you click a column heading. The arrow to the right of that heading’s text displays the direction of the sort (ascending or descending). When the arrow appears in a heading, the selected column ...

Status Bar Alerts | Portal Conventions 85 Snap Panels (Reference Tree) These vary, depending on the portlet, but the convention of displaying a Reference Tree panel is common. This displays items related to the selected list item in tree form. Click the plus (+) to expand a node on the tree.Click Re...

86 Common Menu Items | Portal Conventions Create a name and description, then click Save on the next screen to preserve your filter configuration. See Redcell > Filter Management on page 48 for the screen that lists all such filters. Tip You can also filter what appears on a page with the Contain...

Common Menu Items | Portal Conventions 87 Export All — Export a file with a text or XML descriptions of all listed items in the manager. Tip Printing manager contents: You can Export a full size manager into PDF or Excel format and print from there. CAUTION: You must import into the correct portlet....

88 Common Menu Items | Portal Conventions How To: Share a Resource To share an something, first select it where it appears listed in the appropriate portlet. Right click and select Share Asset . In the subsequent screen, select a user with whom you want to share, type any message you want to include...

Common Menu Items | Portal Conventions 89 Edit Custom Attributes In several right-click menus (Managed Equipment, Port, Contact, Vendor, or Location), the Edit Custom Attributes menu item lets you open the custom attribute editor appropriate for the device type listed in the portlet. See Redcell >...

90 Common Menu Items | Portal Conventions View as PDF This displays the selected asset’s information as a PDF. You can search, print or save this to file, and use any of the other Acrobat capabilities. Clicking the acrobat logo docks the floating / disappearing Acrobat toolbar within this screen. Ti...

Audit Trail / Jobs Screen | Portal Conventions 91 Audit Trail / Jobs Screen When you execute an action, for example discovering network resources, an audit trail screen appears with a tree displaying the message traffic between Dell OpenManage Network Manager and the device(s) the action addresses. ...

92 Audit Trail / Jobs Screen | Portal Conventions Audit Trail Viewer Some portlets also offer an Audit Trail menu item that displays Audit Trail / Jobs Screens for the selected item. The top of this screen contains a list of Audit Records. Click one of this list to see the Job details as you would i...

Audit Trail Portlet | Portal Conventions 93 Audit Trail Portlet The audit trail summary portlet displays an archive of the message traffic between Dell OpenManage Network Manager and monitored devices, as well as OpenManage Network Manager’s reaction to failed message transmission. The Creation Date...

94 Audit Trail Portlet | Portal Conventions Expanded Audit Trail Portlet When you click the plus (+) in the upper right corner of the summary screen, the expanded portlet appears. Click the Settings button to configure the columns that appear in this screen and their order. Filter the appearance of ...

Schedules | Portal Conventions 95 Click the binocular icon to check (info, warning, error) filters that limit the types of visible messages. Notice that the date and time of the message appears to the right of the binocular icon. Schedules To schedule an action, for example using a discovery profile...

96 Schedules | Portal Conventions Disable Schedule — Appears on an already enabled scheduled item. Execute — Executes the scheduled item. If the scheduled item is an activity-based or discovery- profile based scheduled item, an audit viewer appears progress of the selected item. For other types of s...

Overview of Key Portlets | Key Portlets 99 3 Key Portlets Overview of Key Portlets This section describes some of the key Dell OpenManage Network Manager portlets. You may not have access to all of these in your installation, or you may not be able to use them with the user permissions you have been...

100 Alarms | Key Portlets Alarms In its summary form, this portlet displays alarms The chart can act as a filter, too. For example, clicking the Critical alarms slice means only Critical alarms appear listed. Notice also that the chart “explodes” to highlight the selected slice. Hover the cursor ove...

102 Alarms | Key Portlets Expanded Alarm Portlet The expanded Alarm portlet appears when you click the plus (+) in the top right corner of the smaller screen. This displays listed alarms and Snap Panel details of a selected alarm. By default this screen adds the first of the following columns to tho...

Alarms | Key Portlets 105 Alarm Email The e-mail sent by right-clicking an alarm has the subject specified when you send it, and contains the information within the alarm. For example: Alarm: monitorIntervalSkip Alarm Attributes: =============================== Device IP = Message = Alarm State = Op...

106 Event History | Key Portlets Event History Not all events appear as alarms. Event History preserves all event information for your system. The initial portlet view displays an icon whose color reflects any alarm state associated with the event. It also displays the Receive Time, Entity Name, Dev...

108 Event Processing Rules | Key Portlets Event History Snap Panels Click a listed alarm to display its details in the Snap Panels. The Reference Tree displays the event’s relationship to any alarms, and to the source device. Click the plus (+) next to an item in the tree to unpack it.The Bindings S...

Event Processing Rules | Key Portlets 109 Expanded Event Processing Rules Portlet The expanded portlet displays additional columns. Details about selected rules appear in the snap- in panels at the bottom of this screen. The Reference Tree panel displays the selected rule’s connection to events. The...

Event Processing Rules | Key Portlets 111 4 The Device Access example creates a specific device access event for user login, logout, login failure or configuration change. Select the Access Type ( Config Change, Login Failure, User Login, User Logout ) from the pick list for that field. 5 Enter the ...

112 Event Processing Rules | Key Portlets Description — An optional text description of the rule Alarm Only — This is visible only in post-processing rules. Check this to enable the rule only if an alarm is generated, not suppressed. Enabled — Check this to enable the rule. Filtering / Settings For ...

Event Processing Rules | Key Portlets 113 Pre-Processing — These rules either override the event definition, change the behavior of an event or generate another event. The following are the different subtypes. These are also called Correlation rules. See the descriptions below for additional informa...

114 Event Processing Rules | Key Portlets Set Severity — This rule overrides the default alarm severity of an event selected and filtered in the upper screen. State Flutter — This type of rule changes event behavior on transient state change events like a series of LinkUp and LinkDown events for the...

Event Processing Rules | Key Portlets 115 Syslog Escalation Criteria This tab of Syslog Event Rules lets you manage events based on matching text, and configure messages in response to such matches. Criteria: Syslog Match Text In this tab, enter the Syslog Match Text. Click the plus to add matching ...

116 Event Processing Rules | Key Portlets Message Template — The configuration of the message when sent. For example: the template %1 occurred on %3 for %2 creates a message with the first message pattern retrieved, followed by the third, then the second within the specified text. Message Test This ...

Event Processing Rules | Key Portlets 117 Click Apply to accept configured actions, or Cancel to abandon their editor and return to this screen. Tip Actions available here are like those for Discovery Profiles on page 153. Forward Northbound When you want to forward an SNMP v2 event (trap) to anothe...

118 Event Processing Rules | Key Portlets Trap Forwarding Process SNMPv1 and SNMPv3 traps become SNMPv2 Traps SNMPv1 traps are converted according to RFC 1908. SNMPv3 traps are already in SNMPv2 format and the application simply does not use SNMPv3 security when sending these northbound. The followi...

Event Processing Rules | Key Portlets 121 to the Pager Email field for the contact. If a Contact was not found or the required addresses are not specified for the Contact, then Dell OpenManage Network Manager uses the Recipent addresses configured in the the Email Action.This screen has the followin...

122 Event Processing Rules | Key Portlets Custom This screen lets you configure Action based on Adaptive CLI actions available in the system. Notice that you can select by most common or by keyword search, depending on which of the links in the upper right corner of the screen is selected. The most ...

128 Event Definitions | Key Portlets Event Definitions You can define how the system treats messages (events) coming into the system. Administrators can define event behavior deciding whether it is suppressed, rejected or generates an Alarm. Manage the definitions of events in this portlet.In this s...

130 Event Definitions | Key Portlets Not Service Effecting means that alarm propagation ignores alarms for this event. In other words, no impact to associated entities occurs. This also means alarms created for this event type appear as Not Service Effecting in the alarm manager—handy to help clean ...

Event Definitions | Key Portlets 131 Message Template This panel lets you view or alter MIB Text, Bindings and the Message Template for the event selected. This contains three sections: MIB Text — A read-only reminder of the MIB contents for this OID. Bindings in Event — A read-only reminder of the ...

132 Event Definitions | Key Portlets If a message template exists for an existing, correlated alarm and the generated text does not match the original alarm, then Dell OpenManage Network Manager closes the existing alarm, and generates a new one. Leaving this blank transmits the original message. Ti...

Contacts | Key Portlets 133 Contacts The contact portlet displays available contacts for your system. There is no expanded version of this portlet.You can right-click to act on the the selected contact with the following menu items. New / Open — Displays the Contacts Editor, where you can create new...

Locations | Key Portlets 135 Locations In its summary form, the locations portlet displays configured locations in your system.You can right-click to create, modify or remove ( New, Open, Delete ) the selected location. See Location Editor description below for more about editing or creating locatio...

Vendors | Key Portlets 139 Vendors In its summary form, this portlet displays the available vendors for network resources. Right-clicking a row lets you do the following: New / Edit — Opens the Vendor Editor where you can configure or re-configure a vendor. Details — Displays a panel showing the ala...

140 Vendors | Key Portlets Vendor Editor This editor configures (or re-configures) vendors. It has the following fields: General Vendor Name — A text identifier for the vendor. Enterprise — A numeric identifier for the vendor. Vendor Icon — Select an icon from the pick list. Contact Click the Add bu...

Introduction | Resource Management 143 4 Resource Management Introduction The Resource management portlets let you manage devices you have discovered or created on your network. Resource Management portlets let you view device-specific information, both general (name, type, location, contact) and te...

146 Container Manager | Resource Management Container Manager Container manager lets you create, edit and delete Container tree models displayed in Container Views (described in the next section).The relationship to users and devices appears in Container Manager Expanded.Right-click to select from a...

Container View | Resource Management 147 Container View This (non-instanceable) container portlet displays configured containers for Dell OpenManage Network Manager. Because it is non-instanceable, only one can appear on a page.Expand the container tree by clicking the plus to each container’s left....

148 Container View | Resource Management Container Editor This editor lets you create and manage containers. You can also associate user authorizations with container models to specify which groups or users have access to contained items. In this editor, a tree panel on the left lets you build and n...

Container View | Resource Management 149 Description — A text description of the container. Parent — A read-only reminder of the container’s parent, if one exists. Access — Select Private (creator only), or Shared . A private container is accessible to the container owner alone. Shared indicates oth...

Map Context | Resource Management 151 Map Context In addition to displaying filtered-by-container portlets, you can view discovered devices in the Map Context portlet, automatically placed by location. Notice that you can move the center of the map with the arrows in its upper left corner above the ...

152 Resource Discovery | Resource Management Map Context without Containers If a page has no containers then the Map Context can act like a container too. It displays all tagged resources within the system (see Tag on page 90). Clicking on a tagged item behaves like clicking a Container, confining d...

154 Discovery Profiles | Resource Management Inspect —Validate the profile’s credentials, and that the device pings, and is licensed for discovery. Described in Inspection on page 159. Quick Discovery — Opens discovery wizard displaying network and authentications. Click the Execute button once you ...

158 Discovery Profiles | Resource Management which credentials are tried (top first). Ordering only applies when two credentials are of the same type. Tip If you have imported a discovery profile without importing or creating the authentications it uses, editing authentications is an exercise in fru...

Discovery Profiles | Resource Management 159 appear in the pick list. When you select an item, if it has parameters, they appear listed below that item. Use the checkbox(es) or pick list to configure these parameters, then click Apply to select this action as part of the profile. See Actions on page...

Discovery Profiles | Resource Management 161 Results 8 Execute — Clicking Execute begins discovery, and the message traffic between Dell OpenManage Network Manager and the device appears on the Results screen. This produces a standard Audit Trail / Jobs Screen screen displaying the message traffic. ...

162 Managed Resource Groups | Resource Management Managed Resource Groups These groups make acting on several devices at once more convenient, making management of groups of devices possible. The summary screen displays columns describing the group Name, Type, and Icon . You can also right-click to ...

Managed Resource Groups | Resource Management 163 File Management > Backup, Restore, Deploy — Lets you call on Dell OpenManage Network Manager’s NetConfig configuration file backup, restore and deploy capabilities. See Backup Configurations on page 225 for an example of the steps this follows. Se...

164 Managed Resource Groups | Resource Management Dell OpenManage Network Manager does not supports static groups that include members retrieved by (dynamic) filters. You can configure membership with dynamic resource groups that include group memberships as filter criteria. For example you can crea...

Managed Resource Groups | Resource Management 165 Dynamic Group In contrast to Static Groups, Dynamic Groups do not let you select individual equipment. You simply configure a filter, and OpenManage Network Manager creates the group on the fly. After you enter the Name and Category for the group, cr...

Managed Resources | Resource Management 169 Details — Displays several panels with detailed resource information. These include Alarms, Performance Indicators graphs , Ports, Audit Trail, Interfaces, Associated Link(s), Latest Configurations . and a Details panel with model and other information. A ...

170 Managed Resources | Resource Management Actions — Actions you can initiate here can include things Adaptive CLI Actions (see Chapter 10, Actions and Adaptive CLI), and other actions specific to the selected device. Actions (including Adaptive CLI) appear in SHOW, CONFIG and in some cases MANAGE ...

Managed Resources | Resource Management 171 resync for all devices. This corrects the display when the alarm color displayed, either here or in topologies, does not match the highest severity alarm for the device in the alarm portlet. Dell OpenManage Network Manager issues no alerts when resync occu...

Managed Resources | Resource Management 173 Managed Resources Expanded If you click the plus (+) in the upper right corner of the summary screen, this expanded screen appears. As in all such screens, you can limit what appears listed with the filters at the top of the screen. Select the filter from ...

Managed Resources | Resource Management 175 Network Details This displays network information like VLAN(s) by ID, VLAN(s) by Port and STP Data . Use the pick list in the upper right corner of this snap panel to select which to display. Utilization Summary A graph of the device utilization, typically...

176 Managed Resources | Resource Management Link Discovery This is an automated network link discovery feature that you can initiate from individual devices in the Managed Resources portlet, or with the Link Discovery button on the home screen. See Link Discovery Prerequisites on page 177 for a list...

Managed Resources | Resource Management 177 Advanced Options Archive Data — Checking this archives current data before collecting information about and discovering links. Ignore / Include Links with Incomplete Endpoint Information — Select the option best suited for your network. Click Add Schedule ...

178 Equipment Details | Resource Management Equipment Details This screen lets you “drill down” to display equipment details for resources. You can see it by selecting Details in the right-click menu for the Managed Resources portlet. You can also install an Equipment Details portlet on a page and u...

180 Equipment Details | Resource Management Interfaces This panel displays interfaces on the selected device. Notice that you can right-click these to display additional details, or to share this list with another user. You can right-click to Share an interface’s information, or to open a Interfaces...

182 Equipment Details | Resource Management Ports > Links When you add or edit a link, the Link Details screen appears. It contains the following fields: Link Name — An identifier for the link Link Type — Select the type of link to create in the pick list. A / Z Endpoint Resource — Select a resou...

184 Equipment Details | Resource Management Disabled — Inoperable because of a fault, or resources are unavailable. Enabled — Operable and available for use. Active — Device is operable and currently in use with operating capacity available to support further services. Busy — Operable and currently ...

186 Equipment Details | Resource Management The appearance of Network Status depends on the default ICMP monitor (see Resource Monitors on page 245. If you exclude this equipment from the monitor or disable it (for example, for performance reasons) then a status may appear, but it is not meaningful....

188 Direct Access | Resource Management Direct Access Direct access provides less-mediated access to the device in the following ways: • MIB Browser• Terminal• Ping (ICMP)• HTTP / HTTPS The following sections describe those direct options in more detail. MIB Browser As part of the Direct Access menu...

190 Direct Access | Resource Management Terminal This opens a terminal shell connected to the selected device. A green icon in the lower right corner indicates the device is online, while the IP address of the device appears in title bar. The IP address of Dell OpenManage Network Manager’s server al...

Ports | Resource Management 191 Ping (ICMP) Select this option from the Direct Access menu to initiate ICMP ping, and to display a progress bar, and graph of the selected device’s ping responses.Alternatively, an error message can appear describing the device’s lack of response.When ping responds in...

Ports | Resource Management 193 Ports Expanded Clicking the plus (+) in the upper right corner of the summary screen displays this expanded view of available ports. The Settings button lets you configure columns that appear and their order. The available columns for this view include many related to...

194 Ports | Resource Management Port Editor When you right-click a port, and select Edit this screen appears.It has the following fields: General Details Name — An identifier for the port. Port Description — A text description for the port. Install Date — The date this port was installed. Model — Th...

Report Templates | Resource Management 195 Port Details - Settings Encapsulation — An identifier for the port. MTU — The size of the maximum transmission unit. Speed — The port’s speed. Subnet Mask — Any subnet mask associated with the port. In Use — Checked if the port is in use. IF Index — The por...

196 Report Templates | Resource Management 4 Select Inventory Columns by clicking the arrow(s) between Available and Selected columns. (for example: Amigopod: Administrative State, Amigopod: DNS Hostname, Amigopod: Equipment Name, Amigopod:IP Address) 5 In the Layout tab, configure the column order ...

198 Report Templates | Resource Management M18 ge/0/1/4 DownThe same report looks like this with Group on First Attribute enabled: Device Name Gig/e Port Name Health StatusM5 ge/0/0/1 Upge/0/0/2 Downge/0/0/3 Upge/0/0/4 Unknown M18 ge/0/1/1 Upge/0/1/2 Startingge/0/1/3 Upge/0/1/4 Down The Inventory an...

Report Templates | Resource Management 199 Click the green plus (+) to select the Inventory Type . The types of data available for that inventory type appear in the leftmost column in this screen. Click on a Selected Type to see its Available Columns . Click the arrows to move columns from Available...

200 Reports | Resource Management Calculation Type — How to calculate for summarizing the numeric data. Select from the available options ( Average, High, Low, Sum ). Click Save to preserve any template you have configured, or Close to close the editor screens without saving. Reports This portlet’s ...

Reports | Resource Management 201 Execute Report — When you execute a report, a numbered message notification appears, and a link to the report appears in the Messages panel to notify you the report is ready for viewing. Click the magnifying glass to the right of the notification to view either the ...

204 Reports | Resource Management How To: Generate a Report The following steps configure, then generate, a report. 1 In the Reports portlet, right-click and select New. 2 Name the report (for example: Test Powerconnect Router Report) 3 Enter a title / subtitle for the report (“Powerconnect Routers”...

206 Reports | Resource Management Once you have configured or selected a filter, the Filter panel displays its characteristics in tree form. Click Edit to re-open the editor, or Del to remove the filter. NOTE: Filters appear only for the entity type of your Report template. Branding Reports Reports ...

Visualize My Network | Visualize 207 5 Visualize Visualize My Network The Visualize My Network portlet displays discovered devices, mapping them in relationship to each other. It also lets you store and retrieve views you have arranged, as well as configure the default view (see VIEW DETAILS on page...

208 Visualize My Network | Visualize Configuring Views Click and drag displayed portions of this screen to see other parts of the topology. To move the display more, click in the OVERVIEW panel. You can also expand / collapse the panels on the left of the screen by clicking their title bars. (Figure...

210 Visualize My Network | Visualize The Action Tree panel displays the available actions. The Action Search panel lets you enter a desired action and search for it. Select an action and click Execute to implement it. Click Cancel to dismiss this screen without running any action . Control and Style...

Visualize My Network | Visualize 211 Click the Apply Filtering button to implement your configuration, or Cancel to dismiss this screen without applying it. STYLE OPTIONS This tab’s options configure node and line appearance. It displays the following when you click buttons in this panel. Notice the...

212 Visualize My Network | Visualize Edge Style Options — This lets you configure the colors on connections between icons. First, click to Enable Edge Labels . To have the edge reflect speeds, you can then elect Layer 2 Speed Styling (enable Use Style Overrides ). Select colors for speeds by clickin...

Visualize My Network | Visualize 213 VIEW DETAILS This panel displays the saved status of the current View, and has buttons to let you Save or Load Existing saved views. The View Name defaults to Not Saved when the display has not yet been saved. Clicking Save displays a screen where you can Name an...

216 Visualize My Network | Visualize Layout The layout tab lets you select and configure the type of automated node layout that appears in the topology display. Under CURRENT LAYOUT, use the pick list to select the type of layout. The fields and selectors that appear below depend on the selection. H...

Alarms in Visualizations / Topologies | Visualize 219 Basic Spring Basic Spring is an algorithm attempts to produce a natural layout that optimizes a spread out topology. Optimal Edge Length – Use the slider to determine the distance between nodes. Cluster Policy – Select from Horizontal or Vertical...

220 Links in Visualization | Visualize Links in Visualization When you have discovered links between devices in your network (see Link Discovery on page 176), they appear in the visualization.Hover the cursor over a link, and a panel appears with the link information ( Name, Type (for example: Ether...

File Servers | File Server / File Management 221 6 File Server / File Management File Servers You must configure FTP and/or TFTP file servers to push and pull configuration files to and from devices, or to deploy firmware updates. With this portlet you can switch between internal and external file s...

222 File Servers | File Server / File Management File Server Editor This editor lets you configure new and existing file servers. This is where you specify the Name, whether the server is Enabled, whether the connection is secure ( Secure FTP/SCP Server ), supports TFTP, internal and external (optio...

File Management | File Server / File Management 223 File Management In addition to letting you back up and restore configuration files, and deploy firmware updates to devices, this menu manages viewing and comparing configuration files backed up from the selected devices. Details about these capabil...

224 File Management | File Server / File Management You can also compare two different configurations ( Selected Config and Labeled Current / Live Config ) in the tabs that appear on this screen. with the Compare Files tab at the top. Close the screen with the buttons at its bottom. Notice you can a...

File Management | File Server / File Management 225 the bottom that lets you navigate between adjacent pairs of such files (1 and 2, 2 and 3, 3 and 4, and so on). Click the Prev / Next links to move between pairs of files. Tip You can use the browser’s “Find” function (typically initiated by Ctrl+F)...

File Management | File Server / File Management 227 Device Options — This portion of the Backup Options screen displays detailed configura- tion options available for the selected target. For example, you could select between backing up the running-config and the startup-config. 5 Click one of the b...

228 File Management | File Server / File Management 4 Configure the subsequent Restore Device screen. This screen lets you configure the following: Select Targets for Restore — This portion of the screen lets you Add Equipment, Add Groups, or Remove All target devices. Listed targets and their Resto...

File Management | File Server / File Management 229 Configuration Files One place backed up configuration files can appear is in this portlet. Right-clicking offers you the following options (all options listed may not be available): View / Edit — See or edit the backed up configuration file, if it ...

File Management | File Server / File Management 231 Configuration File Editor This editor lets you manually edit configuration files, and save them to the Dell OpenManage Network Manager database. When you select a file in the Configuration Files portlet, and right-click to select Edit , this screen...

Image Repository | File Management 233 Image Repository The Image repository manages firmware updates to deploy to devices in your network, or configurations you want to deploy to several devices. You must add such files to your Dell OpenManage Network Manager system before you can deploy them. The ...

Image Repository | File Management 235 Firmware Image Editor When you open or create an OS image, its configuration appears in this editor. The General Parameters tab contains its OS Image Name, Description, Version, and the Device Class and Device Family . The Image Files tab displays a selector th...

236 Image Repository | Configuration Image Editor This editor appears for new configuration images, or for configurations you Promote in the Configuration Files portlet for mass restoration. This screen has the following tabs: • General Parameters• Configuration General Parameters In this screen you...

238 Deploy Firmware | Now, when you deploy this config file to the devices that pass the filter in the General Parameters editor screen, Dell OpenManage Network Manager first updates this parameter with discovered data retrieved from the device before restoring the configuration. This facilitates de...

240 Deploy Configuration | Deploy Configuration When you deploy a configuration, a screen appears to configure how that occurs. It has the following fields: Select Firmware Image Firmware Image — The identifier for the image Description — The description for the image Version — The version for the i...

Deploy Configuration | File Management 241 How To: Restore a single configuration to many target devices The following steps describe restoring a single configuration to many discovered devices without overwriting those devices’ essential information. 1 Back up a single device’s configuration that i...

How to’s | Monitoring 243 7 Monitoring This section describes Resource Monitors as they appears in Dell OpenManage Network Manager’s web portal. The following describes these monitors: • OpenManage Network Manager Server Statistics• Resource Monitors• Top [Asset] Monitors (pre-configured monitors th...

244 OpenManage Network Manager Server Statistics | Monitoring • Interfaces• Ports / Interfaces in the Details panels lets you Show Performance • Right clicking on any of the above within a Reference tree displays Performance Options. • All Top [Asset] Monitors right click to offer Performance option...

Resource Monitors | Monitoring 245 Resource Monitors This summary screen displays currently, active performance monitors in brief.The Name column displays the identifier for each monitor instance, Enable displays a green check if it is currently enabled, or a red minus if it is disabled. The Monitor...

246 Resource Monitors | Monitoring Details — Opens a Detail panel, with a reference tree, status summary, and general information about the selected monitor. Enable / Disable Monitor — Enables or disables the monitor. Only one of these options appears. Only enabled monitors report data (and demand r...

250 Resource Monitors | Monitoring Editor Monitors may share a retention policy. The retention policy controls how long data is held per roll- up period. The editor for Retention policies lets you assign characteristics and monitors to them. The editor contains the following fields: General Retentio...

Resource Monitors | Monitoring 251 Click Save to preserve your edits, and include the monitor as listed among existing Retention Policies, or click Cancel to abandon any changes. Monitor Editor This editor lets you fine-tune the monitor you selected and right-clicked to open the editor. It includes ...

Resource Monitors | Monitoring 253 If ping fails (an endpoint is down) and update network status is configured, then Dell OpenManage Network Manager tries to ping the switch/router in front of the endpoint to determine if that device is reachable. If that device also failed, then the endpoint’s stat...

254 Resource Monitors | Monitoring Monitor Options Monitor options contains two panels. The entity panel lets you select the monitor targets. The types of monitor entities allowed varies depending on the type of monitor. The second panel contains options specific to the monitor type being edited. Th...

256 Resource Monitors | Monitoring Type — Calculation Type - Gauge or Counter Units — Units string to appear in graphs Max Value — Maximum value to be used in graphing (0 = no max) Formula — The formula for the calculation using the assigned formula codes from the metric attribute legend. Thresholds...

Resource Monitors | Monitoring 257 The Add or Edit buttons open a threshold editor (blank or with existing, configured thresholds, respectively). Configure threshold intervals you Add at in the editor screen according to the following parameters. Attribute Name — Appears when you click Add rather th...

Resource Monitors | Monitoring 259 Threshold Graph Background If you configure a set of thresholds, the dashboard graph displaying the data monitored displays the threshold colors in the background. When an upper or lower threshold has no upper or lower bound, then those background colors may appear...

260 Resource Monitors | Monitoring You can Add a new mapping with that button, or Remove All listed mappings with that button. You can also edit or delete listed mappings with the Action icons to the right of each row. Adding or editing opens the Inventory Mapping Editor. This lets you configure the...

262 Resource Monitors | Monitoring How To: Create an SNMP Interface Monitor To set up a typical performance monitor, follow these steps: 1 In the Resource Monitors portlet, and create a new monitor by right-clicking and selecting New . 2 Select the type of monitor from the submenu—for this example, ...

Resource Monitors | Monitoring 263 Attributes available depend on the type of monitor you are creating. Notice that you can also check to make crossing this threshold emit a notification (an alarm that would appear on the Alarm panel). You can also configure the type of calculation, and so on. You c...

264 Resource Monitors | Monitoring 3 In the General screen, enter a name (Test ICMP Monitor), and a polling interval (5 minutes is the default). For this example, check Retain polled data and accept the remaining defaults for checkboxes and the retention policy. 4 Select an entity to monitor by clic...

Resource Monitors | Monitoring 265 8 Test Key Metrics Monitor appears in the Resource Monitors portlet. How To: Create a Monitor Report You can create reports based on your monitors. The following example creates a report based on How to: Create an SNMP Interface Monitor above. 1 Create a new Report...

266 Resource Monitors | Monitoring 14 Click the magnifying glass to the right of the Report Completed message in My Alerts to see the report. 15 Hover your cursor over the lower right corner of the report to see a set of icons that let you expand, zoom out and in, save, or print the report. Monitor ...

Resource Monitors | Monitoring 267 ICMP The ICMP Monitor Options panel contains the following properties: Packet Size — Size of packet for ICMP transmission Packet Count —Number of packets to send. Timeout — Number of seconds without a response before a timeout is issued The ICMP Entity Panel lets y...

268 Resource Monitors | Monitoring Select the type of entity you want to add, then select any desired filter attributes, then click Apply Filter . Select from the entities that appear and add them to the monitor. NOTE: Migrating from previous versions updates the Network Status check box to true and...

Resource Monitors | Monitoring 269 Proscan In this screen, you simply select the Proscan policy to monitor. In the Thresholds tab, you can set thresholds for both in and out of compliance numbers. The Proscan policy contains the target network assets.

270 Resource Monitors | Monitoring SNMP The SNMP attributes panel lets you specify which SNMP attributes are to be monitored. Specify SNMP attributes as follows: • With the SNMP browser, or • Entering SNMP attribute properties explicitly.

Resource Monitors | Monitoring 273 SNMP Interfaces The SNMP Interface Monitor Entity editor supports the following entity types: group, equipment manager, port and interface. It also supports port and interface filters on groups and equipment manager objects. The PF and IF table columns indicate if ...

274 Resource Monitors | Monitoring This panel lets you specify filter attributes for the port or interface filters you want to monitor. For example, if you select a device but only want to monitor active interfaces created by a particular user, then these filters do the job.The SNMP Attributes panel...

276 Top [Asset] Monitors | Monitoring Meta Syntax — Further refine the variable type with the pick list. For example, you can select Counter32 (a 32-bit counter). For Counter types, the monitor computes change from previous readings, and for Gauges it does not. NOTE: If a message appears saying: “De...

Dashboard Views | Monitoring 277 Devices appear, ranked by the monitored parameter. Hover the cursor over a row’s summary graph of Ping Rate and a popup graph of recent activity over time appears. If you right-click a monitored item, you can select from menu items like those that appear in the portl...

Dashboard Views | Monitoring 279 The icons in the dashboard’s upper right corner let you edit Dashboard Properties with the Dashboard Editor, or Save the dashboard with the other icon. Tip Hovering the cursor over the individual charts displays the charted attribute value(s) as popup tooltips. If a ...

280 Dashboard Views | Monitoring Dashboard View Selection This screen displays any existing dashboards so you can select one for the Performance Dashboard you want to appear on a page in Dell OpenManage Network Manager. Use the filter at the top of this selector to limit the listed dashboards from w...

Dashboard Views | Monitoring 281 Dashboard Editor When you Edit dashboard by right-clicking a resource in Managed Resources and selecting Show Performance , or create (select New ) a dashboard from the Dashboard Views portlet, an editor appears that lets you select and rearrange the monitor componen...

282 Dashboard Views | Monitoring How To: Create a Custom Dashboard View The following steps create a custom dashboard view: 1 In the Dashboard Views portlet, select the New Custom Dashboard command. An empty default view with twelve components appears. The Properties panel contains the following con...

284 Dashboard Views | Monitoring components. Add more rows by clicking on the Add Row button. An individual dashboard component can be deleted by clicking on the delete button on the component. Moving Dashboard Components 4 To move a dashboard component to another location, click and drag it over an...

286 Show Performance Templates | Monitoring Top Subcomponents Properties Top Subcomponents components have the following properties. Entity — The parent entity for the found subcomponents. Clicking on the + button brings up the entity selector. Attribute — The attribute to get data for. Max # of Ent...

Key Metric Editor | Monitoring 289 8 When you have selected all the parameters you want, click Save . It then appears in the template list. To edit or delete your template, use the buttons in the action column of the table. Now when you click on show performance, Dell OpenManage Network Manager chec...

How does it work? | Traffic Flow Analyzer 293 8 Traffic Flow Analyzer OpenManage Network Manager’s Traffic Flow Analyzer listens on UDP ports for NetFlow, or JFlow datagrams. A flow is a unidirectional stream of packets between two network nodes. The following key parameters appear in flows: • Sourc...

294 How does it work? | Traffic Flow Analyzer • The router becomes an Exporter of NetFlow data.• It forwards information to the NetFlow Collector• Collector stores, correlates and presents the information about• Traffic bottlenecks in networks?• Applications responsible for bandwidth utilization? De...

Traffic Flow Portlet | Traffic Flow Analyzer 295 3 Remember, you can Drill Down to specific data, and Search for specific devices monitored. For more about Traffic Flow in context of network management, see Traffic Flow Analyzer - Example on page 300. Exporter Registration Before you can collect tra...

298 Traffic Flow Portlet | Traffic Flow Analyzer Refresh — Refreshes the screen (runs the report) applying any new settings. Drill Down you can “drill down” into a report by clicking on one of the links in the table. This displays a detail view of the selected entity and the name of the entity appea...

300 Traffic Flow Analyzer - Example | Traffic Flow Analyzer Search Search by clicking on the Search (magnifying glass) icon in the title bar. Type any string in the next screen to search through the traffic data. A list of all entities found matching the string appears below it. Entity found in the ...

Introducing ProScan and Change Management | Change Management / ProScan 303 9 Change Management / ProScan Introducing ProScan and Change Management Dell OpenManage Network Manager’s change management utility is ProScan, which lets you scan stored configurations to verify managed devices compliance w...

304 Introducing ProScan and Change Management | Change Management / ProScan 3 Add Targets > Filter Option available for selecting Equipment/Group Tip The advantage of selecting dynamic device groups is that newly discovered devices of the selected type are automatically members of the group, so t...

306 ProScan Portlet | Change Management / ProScan 16 Re-execute the policy. 17 The audit screen that appears should indicate Failure. Alarms / Events Once you have a ProScan policy that has failed, the redcellProScanFailureNotification alarm appears in the Alarms portlet. Success produces and event,...

308 ProScan Portlet | Change Management / ProScan Expanded ProScan Portlet The expanded ProScan portlet lets you see the Compliance Policy Summary, a reference tree of the connections between a policy and its targets, and a Compliance Policy Chart snap panel. See Compliance Policy Summary on page 30...

310 ProScan Portlet | Change Management / ProScan Creating or Modifying a ProScan Policy This series of screens lets you configure ProScan policies. This screen has the following tabs: • General• Targets• Criteria The Compliance Policy Job Status screen displays progress of a ProScan policy as it ex...

312 ProScan Portlet | Change Management / ProScan Targets The top of this screen ( Current Inherited Targets ) displays any targets inherited from already- configured ProScan Groups. Click Add Targets in the Current Implicit Targets panel at the bottom to select equipment that are targets to scan wi...

ProScan Portlet | Change Management / ProScan 313 Criteria This screen lets you filter configuration files based on text, or Regular Expressions. Click Add to open an editor line. This screen ultimately determines whether the configuration file(s) for the selected equipment complies with the applica...

316 ProScan Portlet | Change Management / ProScan Click Add new group in the Input Source panel, and the grouping editor appears. (Click the red icon to the source grouping’s left to delete it.)Enter the starting and ending regular expressions ( Start at / End at ), and elect whether the beginning o...

320 ProScan Portlet | Change Management / ProScan Source 2: address-family ipv4 vrf VPN_PE_A redistribute ospf 10 vrf VPN_PE_A match internal external 1 external 2 no auto-summary no synchronization exit-address-family This creates two sources sections. 7 Now OpenManage Network Manager applies the r...

324 ProScan Portlet | Change Management / ProScan return "Success"; } else { return "Failure - no description found"; } Tip Notice that you can also combine these scans with the Edit Source Group Criteria regular expressions to streamline them. Click Save to preserve the policy you h...

ProScan Portlet | Change Management / ProScan 325 Creating or Modifying ProScan Policy Groups When you create or modify a ProScan Policy Group after right-clicking New > Group or Open when you have selected a group, the ProScan Policy Group editor appears. This has the following to configure: Nam...

326 Change Determination Process | Change Management / ProScan Change Determination Process If you run the Change Determination (CD) Process , it collects all the configuration changes that occurred on the target resources since the last time the CD process ran. It also associates these changes with...

Change Determination Process | Change Management / ProScan 327 Change Determination Process Workflow Change Manager seeds the Change Determination Process and ProScan group operations. You can configure this to run on groups of your choosing if you create a new Change Determination Process group ope...

Compliance and Change Reporting | Change Management / ProScan 329 To retrieve this information, see the instructions in Compliance and Change Reporting on page 329. How To: Run Change Determination Follow these steps to run the Default Change Determination: 1 In the Schedules portlet, locate the Def...

Compliance and Change Reporting | Change Management / ProScan 331 The Configuration Change Report includes a Filter that you can alter at runtime. By default, the report filters on Type only. If you want more filter criteria—like device IP, and/or date ranges—you must edit the Report filter. To edit...

Introducing Actions and Adaptive CLI | Actions and Adaptive CLI 333 10 Actions and Adaptive CLI Introducing Actions and Adaptive CLI The Actions Manager lets you manage actions like enabling monitors, file backups, resyncs and so on. These actions are typically limited in scope, and not that complex...

334 Introducing Actions and Adaptive CLI | Actions and Adaptive CLI Using Adaptive CLI You can quickly take a set of commands or configuration file snippet from a device, copy it directly into the Script editor, mark it up, and save it as a working CLI.When using the CLI Format, The Adaptive CLI too...

Actions Portlet | Actions and Adaptive CLI 335 { print “set encapsulation $EncapsulationType\n”; } If any attributes in your script are a List (Collection), the only way to loop through the list’s items during the Adaptive CLI execution is to use Perl. For example: Processing a List of Strings: $cou...

338 Actions Portlet | Actions and Adaptive CLI History — Displays the history of the selected action. In the Results (top of screen panel) click to select the device for which you want additional information, and the Execution Details panel displays the Results of execution in one tab and the Sent C...

Actions Portlet | Actions and Adaptive CLI 339 If you select two executions in the top panel (or in the Execution History snap panel and right-click), a comparison appears. This has the same color coding as you would see comparing configuration files. Lines that differ between the two Adaptive CLI r...

340 Actions Portlet | Actions and Adaptive CLI Adaptive CLI Editor This editor creates new Adaptive CLIs When you click New, or Edit after, selecting an existing command, the command editor screen opens. You can create Configure Command s, External Command s, and Show Command s. The editor screen ha...

342 Actions Portlet | Actions and Adaptive CLI Last Executed On — Displays the last execution date. This is blank for New Adaptive CLIs. Attributes Adaptive CLI commands let you configure modifiable Attributes as part of the command you send to the selected equipment.Use the radio buttons to select ...

346 Actions Portlet | Actions and Adaptive CLI Valid Values — Enter ranges of valid values as described in Decimal above. Inventory Reference Select the Reference Type entity with the list that appears when you click the green plus (+), then use the side-by-side widget’s arrows to move available att...

Actions Portlet | Actions and Adaptive CLI 347 If IP_MASK is true and SUBNET is false, then OpenManage Network Manager accepts one of the 32 valid subnet masks. The widget displays pick list for user to choose from. For example 255.255.255.0If IP_MASK is true and SUBNET is true, then OpenManage Netw...

348 Actions Portlet | Actions and Adaptive CLI Script Settings Click Add New Script to create a new item in those listed at the top of this screen, or select and item and click the Edit icon to its right to alter it. When you create a new script, you must select either Embedded CLI or Perl . Embedde...

Actions Portlet | Actions and Adaptive CLI 349 Optional Attribute Delimiter — The delimiter(s) you select from the pick list here surround the attributes you designate as optional. See Adaptive CLI Script Language Syntax on page 358 for more about these. All but Delete open a script editor with the ...

Actions Portlet | Actions and Adaptive CLI 351 Attributes Extraction To support Adaptive Service and Active Monitor functions, Adaptive CLI provides a way for the user to define output schema attributes. This tab is active only if you have selected schema attributes previously in the Attributes port...

352 External Commands | Actions and Adaptive CLI Comparison Selecting (ctrl+clicking) two Adaptive CLI runs within the Execution History portlet lets you compare the two execution results. Right-click and select Compare . Lines that differ between the two configurations appear highlighted green. Lin...

354 External Commands | Actions and Adaptive CLI Results can also appear in the audit screen messages and in the Results panel of the Action job viewer screen. You can also extract parameters for these external commands as is described in Attributes Extraction on page 351. Seeded Scripts Several ext...

356 External Commands | Actions and Adaptive CLI dns_test.pl — Check if DNS can resolve the specified host name. finger_test.pl — Check if the finger service is running on a specified host. ftp_test.pl — Check the FTP service is running on a specified host. http_test.pl — Check the HTTP service is r...

358 Adaptive CLI Script Language Syntax | Actions and Adaptive CLI 11 Save your monitor NOTE: You may want to test your monitor, in which case, you may want to change the interval to 30 seconds. 12 Right-click to select View Monitor Data , and you can see the results of your efforts. Adaptive CLI Sc...

Adaptive CLI Script Language Syntax | Actions and Adaptive CLI 359 The default mandatory delimiters are <> , and the default optional delimiters are [] , but you can change those default settings. That means an Attribute variable like <var> may represent a mandatory or an optional Attrib...

360 Perl Scripts | Actions and Adaptive CLI Perl Scripts This section describes the details of using Perl scripts within Adaptive CLI. See Using Perl in Adaptive CLI on page 334 for more about why to use Perl.The Perl output goes to the selected target device. Typically, this means creating lines li...

Perl Scripts | Actions and Adaptive CLI 361 How To: Create Adaptive CLI Example The following describes the basics of creating and using Adaptive CLIs. 1 Create a new Adaptive CLI. Right-click and select New . 2 In the Attributes panel, create attributes named required and optional . 3 In the Script...

Active Performance Monitor Support | Actions and Adaptive CLI 363 Parameters This screen’s configuration depends on the selected action you are scheduling. Many actions have no parameters, so this tab is disabled. Enter the parameters for the action you are scheduling. Tip Hover the cursor over fiel...

Adaptive CLI Records Archiving Policy | Actions and Adaptive CLI 365 Monitor Attributes Configure Adaptive CLI output attributes for monitoring in this tab in the lower panel of the Monitor Editor screen. You can monitor only exposed attributes of numeric or boolean types. To change metric type, sel...

| Glossary 367 Glossary Glossary A CCESS C ONTROL — Refers to mechanisms and policies that restrict access to computer resources. An access control list (ACL), for example, specifies what operations different users can perform on specific files and directories. A LARM — A signal alerting the user to...

Index 373 Index Numerics 32-bit Linux Libraries 18 A A Note About Performance 13About Box 72Access Control 367ACLI needs Perl 32Acrobat 19Action Job Screen Results panel 354Actions 116, 335Active Performance Monitor SNMP Performance Monitoring 262 SNMP Performance Monitoring Ex-ample 262 Active Perf...

374 | 374 Index Configuration File Editor 231Configuration Files 229Configure Alarm E-mail 104Contacts Editor 134Contacts Portlet 133Container Editor 148Container Manager 146Container Manager Expand-ed 146Container View 147Containers Portlets filtered 147 Continue Pattern 350Control Panel 33CoS 367C...

Index 377 P PDF 90Performance Dashboard 279Performance Dashboard Portlet 279Performance Indicators 179Performance Note 13Perl 32Perl / Java (Groovy) Lan-guage Policies 322Permissions when installing to Unix 31Policy 369Policy Enforcement Points (PEP) 369Policy routing 370Policy Rules 370Port Details...

378 | 378 Index Targets 276Screen resolution 19Screen width in pixels 20Search in Portlets 81Search Indexes 34Self-signed Certificate 370Server 49Server Statistics 244Sharing 87Show Performance Tem-plates 286Show Versions 72Site Map portlet 77Sizing memory 28SMTP 371SMTP Configuration 67Snap Panels ...