HP Network Node Manager Software II

Course overview

This course provides the tools for you to move from Network Management Administrator to Network Management Architect. You'll learn how to design a distributed solution and implement it effectively. This course covers complete training on Extended Topology and Problem Diagnosis. The Extended Topology deployment section includes labs using an SNMP simulation package (MIMIC), which allows the product to be run in a live environment to simulate common problems that can occur during deployment and how to troubleshoot them. This 5 full-day course is 40 percent lecture and 60 percent hands-on.

NOTE! This class is for NNM 7.x students only! It will not assist you in using or administering NNM i 8.0 Please see UC344 for NNM 8.0x training.

Prerequisites

• HP Network Node Manager Software I (UC340S)
• Basic Training for HP Software Products (H9739AAE), an instructor-led web-based class is highly recommended

Audience

• System and network administrators

Ways to save

Course objectives

• Understand the use and importance of replication, domains and collection stations
• Become familiar with the DIM automatic failover feature
• Discover and manage Layer-2 switched environments as well as layer-3 routed environments
• Maximize scalability for Extended Topology discovery
• Describe and configure how ET supports network protocols (VLAN, OSPF, HSRP, IPV6, etc…)
• Describe and configure ET discovery of Overlapping Address Domains (private IP addresses and static NAT)
• Describe the operation of the Active Problem Analyzer

Next steps

• Managing Events with NNM, Operations and ECS Composer Software (UC342S)

Benefits to you

• Maximize network resources and network speed
• Dramatically reduce downtime
• Utilize advanced operational features
• Design and implement a distributed NNM solution
• Successfully deploy NNM in large, complex environments
• Configure additional connectivity discovery including VLANs and meshes
• Customize Extended Topology monitoring of the protocols and services in your network, such as Overlapping Address Domains (NAT), HSRP, and OSPFP

Course outline

• Positioning NNM products
• Describe the basic troubleshooting path for management by exception

• Understanding distributed internet monitoring (DIM)
• Simple management station
• Complex management station

• Synchronization and updating
• Purpose of topology filter
• Example topology filter

• Apply a topology filter
• Improving SNMP security
• Management station setup
• Identifying potential collection stations

• Symbol properties & types of domain overlap
• Overlap modes on the management station
• Changing local overlap modes
• Changing the primary collection station

• Improving polling reliability
• Using failover wisely

• NNM event handling review
• Forwarding events
• Configuring event forwarding

• Describe the differences between NNM and Extended Topology discovery
• Describe the integration between NNM and Extended Topology discovery

• Activate and verify automatic zone configuration
• Configure protocols for Extended Topology discovery
• Update SNMP configuration
• Enable NNM Extended Topology (start discovery)
• Manage NNM Extended Topology processes
• Check process status
• Configure Extended Topology discovery schedule
• Check discovery status
• Start an Extended Topology discovery
• Stop a running discovery

• Configure Extended Topology discovery zones
• Limit the devices passed from NNM topology to Extended Topology based on IP address or filters
• Modify zone configurations
• Discover a single zone
• Review Extended Topology data using ovet_topodump.ovpl

• List the reasons for using private IP address domains
• Describe how network address translation works
• Identify various types of NAT
• Describe how NNM manages NAT overlapping IP environments
• List the required ports to open on a NAT device
• Configure overlapping address domains for NNM Extended Topology discovery
• Read NNM’s Overlapping Address Domain views

• Describe the objectives and operation of the Active Problem Analyzer
• List the environments in which APA provides status for devices
• Compare and contrast APA functionality with netmon
• Configure APA operation. ***requires NNM 7.01***
• Describe event flows through APA
• Describe how neighbor and down stream analysis is handled
• Interpret the APA statistics display to verify health of the software

• Manage boards on Cisco devices
• Manage Cisco aggregated ports
• Describe APA status determination algorithm

• Configure OSPF seed file and run discovery
• Display and interpret OSPF views

• Enable HSRP monitoring
• Display and interpret HSRP views
• Configure and monitor VRRP management

• Locate the Extended Topology filter file
• Create filters to select nodes, interfaces, and addresses
• Verify filter operation using views and command line tools

• List the components of Problem Diagnosis
• List the requirements for Problem Diagnosis
• Start the Problem Diagnosis view
• Configure endpoints
• Read a Path Map, Path Detail and Trek Detail diagram
• Describe Problem Diagnosis’ brownout alarms

• Start and stop a Problem Diagnosis Server
• Link a Server to a Probe
• Link a Probe to a Server
• Install a probe on a network node
• Configure a probe
• Uninstall a probe

• Configure IPv6 seed files
• Configure IPv6 addressing and prefix groups
• Display and interpret IPv6 views

• Console Setup Overview
• Management Consoles for Windows Server
• Management consoles for UNIX Server
• Controlling Access to the Object Database