NNMi Basic Administration and Configuration

Module 01: Course overview

• Identify the content and objectives of the course
• Define the class schedule and class logistics
• Identify the related courses
• Discuss lab environment details

Module 02: Introduction to NNMi

• Describe how NNMi supports the best business practices
• Describe how NNMi fits in the Open Text family of management products
• Differentiate NNMi and NNMi advanced feature sets
• List add-on and integrated products available from Micro Focus
• Describe how NNMi supports efficiency and effectiveness in managing a complex network

Module 03: Managing SNMP and ICMP communication

• 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 (CLI)

Module 04: Discovery architecture and operation

• Describe what NNMi discovers, how far, which objects
• Describe how NNMi groups discovered objects
• Describe how NNMi discovers connectivity
• Describe limits of duplicate IP address management

Module 05: Configuring discovery

• Turn auto-discover (inventory) on/off
• Schedule discovery
• Initiate manual discovery (single, group, all nodes)
• Expand discovery (single node, from a file, for the 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)

Module 06: Using the Management Console

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

Module 07: Configuring 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

Module 08: Customizing Views

• 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

Module 09: Status Monitoring Architecture and Operation

• 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 neighbor analysis

Module 10: Customizing Status Monitoring

• 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 the polling settings for an object
• Perform an on-demand status poll of an object
• Check polling backlog/performance
• Exclude objects from status polling (individual, region, type)

Module 11: Configuring Users

• Configure a user account for each of your NNMi users with the appropriate capabilities
• Describe what each user group may access in the console
• Configure Custom Security groups
• Configure tenants
• Configure command-line permissions
• Audit account activity

Module 12: Troubleshoot Network Issues

• Describe the incident life cycle, assignments and ownership, and 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
• 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

Module 13: Troubleshooting Using MIBs

• Describe the use of Management Information Base (MIB) browsing and graphing during troubleshooting
• Graph MIB data
• Browse MIB data

Module 14: Event Monitoring Architecture

• Describe event sources and processing

Module 15: Customizing Event Monitoring

• Add and delete event definitions
• Customize event category/severity/message
• Create a new category or family
• Add vendor trap definitions
• Exclude an event from display
• Block trap storms
• Block reception of events

Module 16: Thresholds and Customized MIB Monitoring

• Configure Custom Polling Threshold Monitoring

Module 17: Administering NNMi

• Customize NNMi console settings
• Back up NNMi data and configuration
• Check NNMi health from the GUI
• Locate NNMi log files
• Move from test to production (import/export tools)