Developing event correlation circuits with HP OpenView ECS

Prerequisites

HP Network Node Manager Software I (UC340S) and HP Network Node Manager Software II (UC341S) or equivalent hands-on experience.

Audience

HP-UX system administrators and system integrators of Windows NT systems.

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Benefits to you

• Examine the behavior of the correlation specification to find flaws in the design and to make improvements
• Use the powerful HP OpenView ECS Designer to design and parameterize correlation specifications for correlating Common Management Information Protocol (CMIP)/Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and text-based events and IT/O messages
• Create circuits that use run-time parameters
• Save your old work for re-use by creating circuit libraries

Course outline

• Introduction to ECS
• Overview of event correlation
• ECS architecture
• Installation, start-up, shutdown and removal
• Software installation, start-up, shut-down
• Event metadata configuration
• Fundamental concepts
• ECS event representation
• Node, event flow and circuit paradigm
• High-level circuit design process
• Identifying input event patterns and relationships
• Determining desired input/output events
• Constructing a circuit
• Building circuits
• Source, sink, and filter nodes
• Simulating a circuit
• ECS designer graphical user interface (GUI) (Simulator Mode)
• Examining event attributes
• ECDL data types
• ASCII events
• SNMP events
• CMIP events
• Defining values
• Global values, node values
• Further node parameterization
• The IF, CHOOSE, and TYPECASE expressions
• Modular circuits
• Constructing compound nodes
• Parameterizing circuits
• Loading and viewing data stores
• Defining 8-Bit Text Events
• Creating event definitions
• Configuring circuits for Network Node Manager (NNM)
• Event type identification
• Event OID manipulation