HP OpenView: Network Node Manager i-Series 8.11: Essentials UK Classes & Lessons (HP)

About this class

This course is designed for those Network and/or System administrators tasked with the installation, configuration and maintenance of the Network Node Manager i-series product. It will teach the skills needed to successfully implement the product to manage small, medium or large networked enterprises. It includes the iSPI for Performance and iSPI Network Engineering Toolsets.

Who will the lesson benefit?

Network or system administrator
Network engineer

What delegates will learn

At the end of the course, you will be able to:

Configure SNMP and ICMP communication
Configure spiral discovery
Configure status monitoring
Customize NNMi user interface
Configure traps and incidents
Configure threshold monitoring
Monitor incidents and perform network diagnostics
View performance reports
Administer the NNMi system

What prerequisites are required

Working knowledge of:

Windows system administration
Network protocols
Network device administration

Contents of this class

Day 1

Introduction

Describe how NNMi supports best business practices.
Describe how NNMi fits in the HP family of management products.
Differentiate NNMi and NNM iAdvanced feature sets.
List add-on and integrated products available from HP.
Describe how NNMi supports efficiency and effectiveness in managing your complex network

Touring the NNMi Console

Start the NNMi console
Locate workspaces
Navigate tables, maps, views, and forms
Access object details
Sort and filter tables

Managing Incidents

Describe incident lifecycle, assignments and ownership, states
View network incidents and incident details
Sort and filter incidents
Assign and reassign incidents
Delete an incident
Annotate an incident
View historical incidents (closed)
Cross-launch to graphical visualization
Interpret root cause incidents
Troubleshooting Network Problems
Launch and interpret network visualization (different types)
List nodes, interfaces, and addresses in the network
View object details
Filter a view by Node Group or Interface Group
Invoke troubleshooting tools
Check the status and configuration of a device
Display incidents for a device

Day 2

Architecture and Configuration of Communication Settings

Configure authentication for SNMPv1, SNMPv2, SNMPv3 (individual, region, type, filter, default)
Configure alternative authentication names
Use an alternate SNMP port or timeout
Use an SNMP proxy
Use the SNMP Command Line Interface

Architecture and Configuration of Spiral Discovery

Describe what NNMi will discover, how far, which objects
Describe how NNMi groups discovered objects
Describe how NNMi discovers connectivity
Describe limits of duplicate IP address management
Turn auto-discover (inventory) on/off
Schedule discovery
Initiate manual discovery (single, group, all nodes)
Expand discovery (single node, from file, for region)
Limit discovery (filter by region, type, node or interface level, before/after SNMP query)
Recheck node configuration
Recheck connectivity
Remove discovered objects (individually, by filter, by region)

Creating Node and Interface Groups

Describe how node and interface groups are applied in NNMi
Configure a group by object type, region, specific object, default
Use advanced filtering on object capabilities

Customizing the User Interface Maps

Create a map of a node group
Place the map in the list of topology maps
Control the default map displayed when the console opens
Add a background to a map
Control status propagation
Add connections to Path View maps
Add menu items to the Actions menu
Launch NNMi maps, views, and forms from other applications

Day 3

Architecture and Configuration of Status Monitoring

Differentiate between fault monitoring and performance monitoring
Identify data gathered for interface monitoring and component health
Describe the roles of State Poller and Causal Engine
Describe the operation of neighbour analysis
Turn polling on/off (specific nodes, region, type)
Set polling interval by node or interface group
Set objects to out of service mode
Select polling protocol and set of data to be gathered
Verify polling being used for an object
On-demand status poll
Check polling backlog/performance
Exclude objects from status polling (individual, region, type)

Adding and Configuring User Accounts and Roles

Configure a user account for each of your NNMi users with the appropriate capabilities
Integrate with Directory Services for authentication
Describe what each user role may access in the console
Configure command line permissions

Architecture and Configuration of Events

Describe event sources and processing
Add and delete event definitions
Customize event category/severity/message
Create new category or family
Configure automatic actions for an event
Add vendor trap definitions
Exclude event from display
Block reception of events
Block traps
Block trap storms
Forward traps
Connect duplicate/repeated events
Close cancelling pairs of events

Day 4

Running Network Diagnostics

Describe the integration between NNMi and Operations Orchestration (OO)
Gather baseline device metrics
Configure diagnostic access to devices
Configure diagnostics to be run when specific incidents arrive for nodes in particular groups
Review diagnostic reports
Enable and disable diagnostic collection

Architecture and Configuration of Thresholding

Configure NNMi iSPI for Performance thresholding and incidents
Configure custom poller thresholding and incidents

Day 5

Architecture and Access for Performance Reports

Describe how NNMi passes data to the NNM iSPI for Performance
Describe how the iSPI for Performance stores data
Perform basic troubleshooting steps

List the reports available from the NNM iSPI for Performance

Explain the difference between Reports and Live Reports
Modify the report settings to change the way a report displays data
Determine the appropriate report to view based on use cases Integrating with NNM 6/7
Receive events from NNM 6/7
Cross launch to NNM 6/7 visualizations

Administering the NNMi System

Customize NNMi console settings
Configure NNMi failover to a backup server
Back up NNMi data and configuration
Check NNMi Health from the GUI
Locate NNMi log files

HP OpenView: Network Node Manager i-Series 8.11: Essentials