Dell OpenManage Network Manager version 5.
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Contents 1 Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Why Dell OpenManage Network Manager?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Key Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Networks with Dell OpenManage Network Manager . . . . . . . 11 Additional Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Online Help / Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 How to: Use “How To” . . . . . . . .
How to: DAP Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Aging Policies Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Aging Policies Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Sub-Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Repositories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Portlet Level Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 How to: Configure Portlet Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . .
Audit Trail Portlet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Schedules Portlet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 4 Key Portlets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99 Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
How to: Schedule Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Direct Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 MIB Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Ping (ICMP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 HTTP / HTTPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Ports. . . . . . . . . . .
Resource Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 Retention Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 Monitor Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251 How to: Create an SNMP Interface Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 How to: Create an ICMP Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 How to: Create a Key Metrics Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Compliance and Change Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 How to: Report on Change Determination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 11 Storage Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .333 Introducing Storage Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333 Storage Array Portlet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Preface Dell OpenManage Network Manager can give you automated, consolidated configuration and control of your network’s resources. It is customizable, unifying multiple systems while still communicating with other software systems (like billing) in generic WSDL, XML and SOAP. OpenManage Network Manager’s Administration Section describes security and some of the runtime features supporting these applications.
Automate and Schedule Device Discovery Device discovery populates Dell OpenManage Network Manager’s database and begins network analysis. You can also create network discovery schedules to automatically run Discovery whenever you need them. Dell OpenManage Network Manager Administration You can now conduct administrative tasks—adding devices, user accounts, and web portal displays—from a secure console on your network. Open Integration Dell OpenManage Network Manager supports industry standards.
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 Monitors and Performance Dashboards. Once you have done these initial steps, Dell OpenManage Network Manager helps you understand and troubleshoot your network.
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 capabilities, and can update your license for OpenManage Network Manager by putting the updated license file in a convenient directory.
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 Ideas, or a Problem, in the screen that appears next, then click Send. Dorado Software responds, and often uses customer suggestions in future versions of the software. A Note About Performance Dell OpenManage Network Manager is designed to help you manage your network with alacrity.
A Note About Performance | Preface
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 software’s features, consult its other manuals (the OpenManage Network Manager Administration Section of the User Guide, Synergy User Guide, Administration Section and User Guide) or the online help.
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 Version When you upgrade your OpenManage Network Manager installation from a previous version, keep the following in mind: • • • • • • • Upgrading requires a new license to activate new features. Performance capabilities have been completely reconfigured.
Linux Installation Best Practices How you install Linux has an impact on Dell OpenManage Network Manager’s installation. Here are some tested best practices: • • • You can install Linux in its Desktop option, or if you select Basic Server (default) - choose additional packages: XWindows, Basic / Core Gnome Desktop without Gnome utilities, although we suspect any Gnome will work). Turn off SE Linux in /etc/selinux/config. Change SELINUX=disabled. This typically requires a reboot.
mkdir /opt/ chown [your login name] /opt/[your installation directory] chmod 775 /opt/[your installation directory] NOTE: [your login name] is the original non-root user available when you imported the machine. Replace [your login name] with whichever user you are logged in as or will be installing as. You may need to change the permissions on the installer in our package in order to give it execute rights.
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/lib/32bit/libtcl8.4.so /usr/lib/ libtcl8.4.so Supported Web Browsers Supported web browsers include: • • • • Chrome (v 6 and above) Safari (v 5 and above) Firefox (v 3.6 and above) Internet Explorer (v 9 and above) Screen resolution should equal or exceed 1280 x N pixels.
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 software. NOTE: If Flash is installed, but the screen still requests it, reload the page in the browser. Also: Your screen must be at least 1250 pixels wide. Tip When no cursor or focus is onscreen, some browsers interpret backspace as the Previous button.
Sizing for Standalone Installations The following are suggested sizing guidelines for your Dell OpenManage Network Manager system. Operating System / Disks / RAM / Hardware Network Size Devices2 Application Constraints3 64-bit OS with 6GB RAM or 32-bit OS with 4GB RAM <5 Users <20 Installation Changes to Heap (RAM) Settings <2Mbs Internet egress and a Use defaults: (1 or 2GB 1:1000 sample rate application server heap (32 v.
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 information. Performance Management can support 600 inserts per second using a single disk (SSD) Drive. 1 insert = 1 monitored attribute. Expect better performance as you add more drives (and worse performance with slower drives).
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 outside the scope of these instructions. Consult with your network administrator to ensure this software has access to the devices you want to manage with the Protocols described below. Tip One simple way to check connectivity from a Windows machine to a device is to open a command shell with Start > Run cmd.
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) leases. If you do change your host’s IP address To accommodate a changed IP address, first delete the contents of \oware\temp. Change your local IP address anywhere it appears in \owareapps\installprops\lib\installed.properties. Then restart your machine.
• • 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 installation managing devices supported by this driver. This driver supports global group operations. NOTE: Discovery may display benign retry warning messages in the application server shell or log. You can safely ignore these.
• • Permit incoming traffic from all clients to the TCP ports (and UDP ports, if necessary) on your server in the Ports range(s) specified above. If you are using callbacks, permit incoming traffic on all ports where the TCP connection was initiated by your server.” WMI queries will succeed only if you add the User account to local admin group. Refer to the Microsoft knowledgebase articles for the way to do this. For example: Leverage Group Policies with WMI Filters: support.microsoft.
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 same credentials as the user installing WBEM on the device. Telnet / SSH credentials are necessary for other supported applications. For full functionality, this WBEM device driver requires administrative (root) access. Many devices may only allow root logins on a local console.
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 as the Administration Section of the User Guide guide instructs. Administering User Permissions—You can also set up users, device access passwords, and groups for users, as you begin to use it. See Control Panel on page 34.
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 \owareapps\installprops\lib\installed.properties: oware.server.min.heap.size=8192m oware.server.max.heap.size=8192m To manually change Dell OpenManage Network Manager web portal heap settings, change the setenv.sh file: JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dfile.
• 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 hostname:8080 where hostname is the name of the machine running application server (or it’s IP address). See Starting Web Client on page 33 for more information.
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, administrators can set hard and soft limits for the file handles for users and user groups. These settings take effect on reboot.
Uninstalling Use Control Panel to uninstall in Windows. Uninstall by running the following on Linux: $OWARE_USER_ROOT/_uninst/uninstall.sh NOTE: You must uninstall from Linux as root. No graphic wizard appears, and you must respond to the command-line prompts as they appear. SNMP in Multi-Homed Environment Trap listener, Inform listener and all outbound SNMP requests must bind to a specific interface in a multi-homed environment.
One of the recommended Perl packages is from ActiveState which can be found at: www.activestate.com/activeperl/ Starting Web Client You can also open the client user interface in a browser. See Supported Web Browsers on page 19. The URL is http://[application server hostname or IP address]:8080 The default login user is admin, with a password of admin. The first time you log in, you can select a password reminder.
30 The portal.properties file is in /portal/portal-impl/classes. The property containing the session timeout (in minutes) is: session.timeout=30 Control Panel To configure access to Dell OpenManage Network Manager, you must be signed in as a user with the permissions. (The default admin user has such permissions.
[My Account] To configure information for your login, look for the bar titled with your account login’s name. It has the following lines beneath it: My Account—This configures your information as a user, including your e-mail address, password, and so on. My Pages—This manages public and private pages visible to you as a user. Use the tree of pages that appears on the left of this screen to drag and drop pages in the order you want.
Portal > Users and Organizations Create organizations and locations in addition to groups with the appropriate permissions (operators, administrators, and so on) in these screens. Users are individuals who performs tasks using the portal. Administrators can create new users or deactivate existing users. Users can be organized in a hierarchy of organizations and delegate its administration. After creating them, add Users to roles which configure their permissions for access and action.
2 Click the Add > User menu item at the top of the Users and Organizations screen. 3 Enter the details of the new user. If you are editing an existing user, more fields appear. Screen Name, and Email Address are required. Optionally, you can enter Name, Job Title, and so on. 4 After you click Save notice that the right panel expands to include additional information. Make sure you specify a Password.
Deactivate—Retires a user configured on your system. You can also check users and click the Deactivate button above the listed users. Such users are not deleted, but are in a disabled state. You can do an Advanced search for inactive users and Activate them or permanently delete them. 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.
5 As you create these users, add each to one of the MyCorp organizational children, Admin or Headquarters. Tip Notice that you can View > Hierarchy to see the parent / child relationships between organizations. Users unassigned to organizations also appear below this portion of the screen. 6 Click MyCorp, and a screen appears displaying its components and a management menu where you can add additional properties. 7 Click Assign Organization Roles in the MyCorp menu.
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, Default Filter, Max Items per Page, and Column Configuration. These persist for Admin users or for users who have the portlet on their Public or Private pages (which makes them the owner of that instance).
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 users to the group by selecting and editing that user. Portal > Roles Roles determine the applications permissions available to users assigned them; manage them in this screen. To configure functional permissions for the application, see Redcell > Permission Manager on page 42.
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 given exclusive access to specific pages or content. Site Template—Configures pages and web content for organizations. Page Template—Configures a page and portlets, as well as permissions.
Click the Edit button (the pencil and paper) to the right of a listed group to see and configure its permissions. Edit permissions with the Edit button to the right of the listed permission.
Action Default Behavior write Enables the Edit, Save, and Import / Export. execute Lets you see the view altogether, launch from a portlet and query for elements. Alternatively this action can control a specific application function, (typically described by the permission name) like provisioning a policy. add Enables the New menu item, and Save. If you do not check this action, then the New menu item does not appear. delete Enables the Delete menu item.
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 want to create custom attributes. This opens an editor listing the available custom attributes for the entity type. Edit Custom Attributes on page 89 describes right-clicking to access this directly from the portlet menu, and the details of how to edit custom attributes.
Redcell > Mediation This panel monitors mediation servers in your system, appearing only when such servers exist. Mediation servers appear listed in the Servers tab of this manager if mediation servers are connected to application server(s). Mediation server, routing entries and partition entries appear automatically when mediation server connects for the first time. You can test connectivity from appserver cluster and medserver/ partition. You can export or import both server and partition configurations.
In addition to automatically detecting mediation servers, you can click Add Server to configure additional mediation servers. When creating a new server, enter a Name, Description and IP Address. You can also Add Partitions (or select from Existing Partitions), choosing a Name, Description, Routable Domain, and Routing Entries (click the ‘+’ to add your entries to the list).
Search for Mediation Server The Search button in the Partitions tab of the Mediation monitor opens a screen where you can enter an address in IP to Search for. Clicking Search locates the mediation partition that services the entered IP address (although it does not determine whether that partition is up and running). 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. Click the disk icon to export the filter. Clicking the Import button at the top of the screen lets you import previously exported filters. Tip To find a particular filter, click the Search (magnifying glass) icon in the lower left corner of this screen. 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.
Server > Server Administration— Monitor resources and administer settings like logging, caching, search indexes, file upload maximums, e-mail settings, and so on. See Search Indexes on page 34 for a description of a particularly important function. Tip This panel is visible to administrators only, and contains helpful settings and resource information related to the server. Server > Portal Instance—Lets you configure more than one portal instance on your server.
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 Aging Policies tab of this screen, with columns that indicate whether the policy is Enabled, the Policy Name, Details (description), Scheduled Intervals and icons triggering three Actions (Edit, Delete and Execute).
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 sub-policy elements. Which one you can specify depends on the type of DAP you are configuring. 6 Click Apply until the displayed screen is the DAP manager.
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 for individual attribute retention. Click Add SubPolicy or click the Edit button to the right of listed policies to access the editor. Editing Tips Archiving options that appear in the Aging Policies Editor vary, based on type of policy selected.
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 keep the aged item before archiving it. Archive [Aged Item]— Check this to activated archiving according to this policy.
Sub-Policies Some types of Database Aging Policies can have sub-policies that further refine the aging for their type of contents.
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 list. Such sub-policies contain the following types of fields: Component— Select the component for the sub-policy from the pick list. Action Type—This further sub-classifies the Component. Retention (Days)—The number of days to keep the aged item before archiving it.
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.
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 the icons in the Action column. Notice the listed policies indicated whether the archiving destination is Online with a green icon (this is red, when the destination is offline).
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 Permissions tab in the next screen. 3 Uncheck the View permission for Guest and Community members. Make sure Owner and PowerUser still have View permissions. 4 Now check View for the relevant roles (for example, Silver Group). 5 Click Save.
Create a Container for each Customer 1 In Container Manager Portlet, right-click to select New. 2 Create a container for the desired customer, naming and describing it. 3 In the Authorizations tab for this container, delete authorization for ALL (non-portal), Add authorization for Synergy Admin, Add authorization for Power User Role, and delete the Vendors Child Container. Configure Membership for Container 4 Create Gold Customer as a Top Level Container.
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. Database Backup To back up your database, open a command shell (Start > Run cmd, in Windows), and then type the following at the prompt replacing USERNAME and owbusdb. By default, the database is owbusdb. mysqldump -a -u USERNAME --password=[name] owbusdb > FILENAME.mysql For example: mysqldump -a -u oware --password=dorado owmetadb > owmetadb.
mysql -u USERNAME -p owbusdb < FILENAME.mysql or mysql -u USERNAME --password=[password] owbusdb < FILENAME.mysql Portal Database Backup / Restore The web portal itself has a MySQL database. Back it up as follows: 1 Open a command shell and type oware. 2 Then type the following command: mysqldump –uroot -–password=dorado lportal > mybackup.sql 3 The mybackup.sql file is the backup.
License Management— This lets you see and manage the licensed capabilities of Dell OpenManage Network Manager. See License Viewer below for details. CAUTION: Do not remove this portlet. You cannot re-enable it once it is removed. Admin user and Power User can see all the above menu items. The User role sees only sees four. Link discovery and OS image upload do not appear by default. To see them, you must give User 'write' permission.
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 licenseimporter [license file name] on a command line. You must restart application server or wait up to 15 minutes before a license modification takes effect.
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 profile is Scheduled and Next Execution Date for scheduled discovery. The Expanded portlet adds a Reference Tree snap panel that displays a tree of associations between selected profiles and authentication and tasks that they execute.
attempts to manage devices that have no device driver installed. Management may be possible, but more limited than for devices with drivers installed, provided this capability is one you have licensed. 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 Inspection step. Network 5 After you click Next, the Network screen appears.
icon displays the authentication selection panel. The yellow dot on the Fix it icon means an optional authentication is missing. A red dot means a required one is missing. When authentications are unsuccessful, you can remove or edit them in this editor too. Click the icons to the right of listed authentications to do this. 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.
Managed Resources This portlet displays all the devices you have discovered. See Managed Resources on page 166 for the details of this screen’s capabilities. See also Managed Resource Groups on page 162. Common Setup Tasks If you install it (Add > Applications), the Common Setup Tasks portlet can appear on the page of your choice.
SMTP Configuration You can use Dell OpenManage Network Manager’s messaging capabilities to communicate with other users, but if you want to receive e-mails automated by actions like configuration file backups, Dell OpenManage Network Manager must have a mail account. This screen configures the e-mail server so Dell OpenManage Network Manager can send such automated e-mails. The Apply button accepts your edits. Test tries them. Cancel abandons them and returns to Dell OpenManage Network Manager.
SMTP Server Port—The port used by your SMTP server. Two settings for e-mail servers appear in Control Panel, one in the Control Panel > Portal > Settings Mail Host Names edit screen, and another in Control Panel > Server Administration > Mail. The Portal-based e-mail settings help Administrators limit signups to e-mails only existing in their organization. The screen in that panel provides a list of allowed domain names, if that feature is enabled.
2 Portal Conventions 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 its features. The following discusses only features significant for using Dell OpenManage Network Manager.
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 content most fields in portlets. If the screen does not allow a full field to appear, you can still find out what is in a field by letting the tooltip re-state what it contains. Refresh You may have to refresh your browser to see screen updates.
Custom Debug For more advanced users, any component under owareapps can define a log4j.xml file for each component matching the following pattern: owareapps\\server\conf\*log4j.xml Consult these files for categories you want to change, and copy those (altered) properties to the file you created in owareapps\installprops. The categories altered in this file override any others. Changing such properties can produce enhanced error output in server logs.
Page (page order [note that you can drag-and-drop pages within the Pages tab] permissions, appearance and so on). You can create Children pages, and can Import / Export page configurations as described below. 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.
Go To—Makes the selected screen type appear. Select My Public Pages or My Private Pages, for example. When you add a new Community, its configured pages appear in this menu too. This also provides access to Control Panel (see Control Panel on page 34). CAUTION: Dell OpenManage Network Manager does not support multiple tab browsing as a reliable way to see its screens. Pages overcome that limitation.
Chat / Conferencing This portion of the message bar lets you send and receive messages to colleagues who are online at the same time you are. This has the following fields and other possibilities for you to configure: [Saying]—Configure this text in the menu produced by the Settings icon (the next item). (Settings)—This configures your user settings for any online chat with your colleagues, including the saying, whether your online presence appears, and whether to play a sound when messages arrive.
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. Previous chat history also appears above any current text on that chat popup. Click the minus icon in the top right corner of these screens to close them. Menu Bar The Menu Bar appears on the left side of the screen.
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 popups can include graphs of recent activity too. Graphs can appear as lines, bars or pie graphs, depending on the portlet, device and activity monitored. NOTE: Install the latest Adobe Flash for graph functionality.
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 export .lar files of their setup and user preferences. The plus or minus (+ or -) icons Minimize, displaying only the title bar, or Maximize, displaying an Expanded Portlets, and X removes the portlet from the page.
Settings The Settings button opens a screen where you can configure the Max Items that appear in, and the Filter applied to the summary portlet with an Apply button to activate any changes you make there. The Settings screen also includes a tab where you can Show / Hide / Reorder Columns. For performance reasons, Max Items are set to relatively low defaults. Settings in expanded portlet does not include the Filter item. See Filter Expanded Portlet Displays on page 85 for information about the alternative.
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 clear a search, clear the field. This searches all available items in the database, whether they appear listed or not. Tip Sort on a column by clicking on that column’s heading. Reverse the sort order by clicking it again.
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 is the basis for sorting. Expanded Portlets Some portlets appear with a plus (+) icon in their upper-right corner, and can expand to display more information and permit multi-selection of listed items.
See Control Panel on page 34 for more about setting up user privileges for portlets. You can right-click to act on listed elements as in the basic, smaller portlet, but here you can also see details about a selected row in the Snap Panels below the table list items in an expanded portlet. Snap Panels The snap panels that appear below the expanded portlet’s list can “stack” on top of each other, so several can appear simultaneously in each slot for Snap Panels.
How To: Show / Hide / Reorder Columns Click the Settings button in an expanded portlet, and screen appears with a Columns tab where you elect to show or hide columns. Click the appropriate buttons (they change color) to display the columns you want. You can also drag-and-drop the order in which columns appear to re-arrange the display. Click Apply to change the columns that appear on screen by default. Abandon any changes and Close this screen.
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 Return to previous in the upper right corner of the expanded portlet to return to the page where you started, with the smaller portlet.
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 Container View portlet. Select a container, and the rest of the portlets on that page confine displayed data to reflect the selected container’s contents. NOTE: When using a filter you must click the refresh icon to the right of the drop down list to populate it.
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. You cannot import event processing rules into the Actions portlet, for example. You must import event processing rules into the Event Processing Rule portlet.
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 and click Share Asset. The chat message to the selected user includes your text and a link that opens to display the Snap Panels for the selected item. Cancel aborts sharing.
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 > Data Configuration on page 45 for another way to get to this editor. Selecting a row in the editor lets you edit rows describing custom fields directly.
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. Tip To search the PDF produced, click the binocular icon in the docked toolbar. You can also create PDF reports containing descriptions of multiple selected assets, but you must open an expanded portlet to multi-select.
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. To see the details of any message, click on it, and those details appear in the lowest panel of this screen. If you click on a summary message (not a “leaf” on the tree), a graph appears displaying the duration for its component messages.
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 in the Audit Trail / Jobs Screen.
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, Subject, Action (the summary message of the audit trail), User ID (the login ID of the user whose actions resulted in this trail), and Status of the messages appear in the table (hover the cursor over the icon for a text message describing status).
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 the screen with the Advanced Filter capabilities at its top. In addition to the summary screen’s columns, the following are available in this screen: User IP— The IP address of the user who created this audit trail.
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, right click and select Schedule. The Schedule panel appears, where you can create a new schedule, entering a Starting On date and time, and Stopping On date and time or occurrence number. You can also configure recurrence in this screen.
Disable Schedule—Appears on an already enabled scheduled item. Execute—Executes the scheduled item. If the scheduled item is an activity-based or discoveryprofile based scheduled item, an audit viewer appears progress of the selected item. For other types of scheduled actions, a dialog appears saying The scheduled item(s) has been sent to the application server for immediate execution. You can monitor its progress in the audit trail portlet.
Expanded Schedules Portlet When you expand this portlet, the additional columns that appear include Submission Date, Start Date, whether the schedule is still active (Scheduled), and the Execution Count. If a green icon appears in the Scheduled column, it means the schedule will be executed on next start date. If the schedule has exceeded execution count or passed stop date (if specified), then a red icon appears there.
Schedules | Portal Conventions
3 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 assigned by the portal administrator. To see all available Dell OpenManage Network Manager portlets, click Add > Applications and use the field at the top of the menu to search for the portlet functionality you want to add.
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 over a portion of the chart and a tooltip with information about that slice also appears. By default, the chart appears only when there are alarms. See Configuring the Alarms Chart below for options available in configuring the display.
Configuring the Alarms Chart Turn the chart on or off in the Settings screen’s Chart Options panel. If no data exists for the chart and the Chart option is on, the portlet returns to “no-chart” mode. When you enable the chart Filtering is disabled since the chart, in effect, provides the filter. When the chart is disabled then filtering options are available. Settings are saved if you have Admin rights or the Portlet is on your Public / Private pages (like standard behavior).
This displays listed alarms and Snap Panel details of a selected alarm. By default this screen adds the first of the following columns to those visible in the Event History’s summary screen view. To add the others listed here, right click, and select Add Columns to change the screen appearance. The following are available additional columns, besides those visible in the Alarms summary portlet: Count— A count of the instances of the alarm.
Acknowledge / Unacknowledge Alarm—Acknowledges the selected Alarm(s). The current date and time appear in the Ack Time field. Unacknowledges previously acknowledged alarm(s), and clears the entries in the Ack By and Ack Time fields. The red “unacknowledged” icon appears in the expanded portlet and turns to a green check “acknowledged” icon the alarm has been acknowledged. Assign User—Assign this alarm to one of the users displayed in the sub-menu by selecting that user.
Share with User—Selecting this opens a screen where you can select the user you want to send the selected alarm, and can enter a message you want to send with it. See Sharing on page 87. Clicking Share Asset sends a chat message to the selected user with a link that opens to display the Alarm Snap Panels for the selected item. Tip Hover your cursor over the Device IP Address column, and a tooltip appears with information about the alarm source’s Model, Vendor, Discovery Date, and a Ping Rate bar graph.
Entity Name = Entity Type = Entity Description = Equipment = Region = SUPDEMOPartition Location = Assigned By = OWSystem Date Assigned = Thu Dec 16 10:40:24 PST 2010 Assigned User = qatester Acknowledged = false Ack By = Ack Time = Cleared By = Date Cleared = MIB Text = Monitor session was skipped due to resource constraints. Typically, this implies one or more monitors should run less frequently.
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, Device IP, and Event Name. You can rightclick to Share with User in this screen.
Expanded Event History Portlet Clicking the plus (+) in the upper right corner of the initial portlet view displays the expanded Event History. As in other expanded portlets, you can use the filtering capabilities at the top of the screen to further limit the default view of all events. This screen has columns described in Alarms on page 99 or Expanded Alarm Portlet on page 101. Configure these as visible or hidden by clicking Settings. The following are some additional columns available.
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 Snap Panel displays the event’s varbind information, including the trap OID, the device’s IP address, and other event-specific information. The MIB Details Snap Panel includes MIB information like the Notification OID and MIB Text.
Expanded Event Processing Rules Portlet The expanded portlet displays additional columns. Details about selected rules appear in the snapin panels at the bottom of this screen. The Reference Tree panel displays the selected rule’s connection to events. The Rule Actions list any configured actions associated with the rule. The Event Filter Summary summarizes any configured filter(s) for the selected rule.
Settings on page 112, Syslog Escalation Criteria on page 115, and Actions on page 116 for more about the differences available between rule types. 2 For this example, we select Pre-Processing > Device Access. The Rule Editor screen appears. Enter a Name to identify the rule, an optional Description, and check Enabled if you want this rule to begin working immediately. 3 Click Next to open the Filtering / Settings tab. Specify Event Filtering In this panel select the Event Definition.
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 User Name Variable and/or User Name RegEx match string in those fields. This confines rule response to the selected users. 6 Check Suppress Correlated events if you do not want to see events correlated with this one.
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 all rule types, select the Event Definition. Click Add to open a screen where you can select events to include in the event you are creating. This incudes a filter at the top that you can use to search for specific events.
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 information about the available types. Post-Processing—Also called Automation rules, these execute specified actions for the rule after the event processing occurs.
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 same interface. After you select the event and filtering, enter the Interval (seconds), the Action (Reject or Suppress the event) and check Publish Event if you want it to register for Dell OpenManage Network Manager.
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 text to the list below the Message Match Text field. Check the Match Any to match any or all of the entered match text, rather than one or more specific strings.
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 screen lets you test your message against the pattern and/or template. Click the Test button to the right of the top field to activate this testing. Test Message—Enter a message to test.
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 another host, then configure automation in this screen to do that. Enter the following fields: Destination Address—The IP address of the northbound destination. Destination Port— The port on the northbound destination.
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 following is the relevant snippet from RFC 1908: 3.1.2. SNMPv1 -> SNMPv2 When converting responses received from a SNMPv1 entity acting in an agent role into responses sent to a SNMPv2 entity acting in a manager role: (1) ...
If sending as proxy, the trap is forwarded from application server using the application server IP as sourceIP. The relevant snippet from SNMP-COMMUNITY-MIB is the following: --- The snmpTrapAddress and snmpTrapCommunity objects are included -- in notifications that are forwarded by a proxy, which were -- originally received as SNMPv1 Trap messages.
Dell OpenManage Network Manager always adds snmpTrapAddress to every trap forwarded as proxy, (never adding snmpTrapCommunity). It does not keep track of the community string on the traps received. Email Email actions configure destinations and messages for e-mail and SMS recipients. You can include fields that are part of the event by using the variables described in Email Action Variables on page 122.
The SMS tab is similar to the e-mail tab, but limits the number of characters you can enter with a field at its bottom. NOTE: You must send SMS to the destination phone carrier’s e-mail-to-SMS address. For example sending text to 916-555-1212 when Verizon is the carrier means the destination address is 9165551212@vtext.com. When enabled, notification emails go to the Contact associated with the Managed Equipment for the notification event.
severity 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 common actions include those you have used most recently. To search for actions, either enter a keyword, or click the search icon (the magnifying glass) to produce a pick list below the Action field.
• • Entity Type: Port Entity Type: Interface, Logical interface CAUTION: To successfully retrieve Custom attributes, you must first create them. See Edit Custom Attributes on page 89. You can also configure more limited variables that are slightly more efficient in performance, if not as detailed as those described in the following section. For example, you can retrieve the following attributes: {RedCell.Config.EquipmentManager_Custom1} {RedCell.Config.EquipmentManager_Custom2} {RedCell.Config.
The following section describes variables whose use may have a performance impact. Managed Equipment Variables 124 Attribute Description Email Action Variable Custom 1 Note that although you {RedCell.Config.EquipmentManager_Cu can re-name any Custom stom1} attribute, you must use the variable’s original name. For example here, that is {RedCell.Config.Equipm entManager_Custom1} Custom 2 {RedCell.Config.EquipmentManager_Cu stom2} Custom 3 {RedCell.Config.
Attribute Description Email Action Variable Equipment Type Equipment Type {RedCell.Config.EquipmentManager_Co mmonType} Firmware Version Version of the equipment’s firmware {RedCell.Config.EquipmentManager_Fir mwareVersion} Hardware Version Version of the equipment’s hardware {RedCell.Config.EquipmentManager_Har dwareVersion} Last Backup Last Backup {RedCell.Config.EquipmentManager_Las tBackup} Last Configuration Change Last Configuration Change {RedCell.Config.
Attribute Description Custom 4 126 Email Action Variable {RedCell.Config.Port_Custom4} Encapsulation Encapsulation {RedCell.Config.Port_Encapsulation} Hardware Version Version of the port’s hardware {RedCell.Config.Port_HardwareVersion } If Index SNMP If Index {RedCell.Config.Port_IfIndex} MAC Address “Typically a MAC Address, {RedCell.Config.Port_UniqueAddress} with the octets separated by a space, colon or dash depending upon the device.
Entity Type: Interface, Logical interface Attribute Description Redcell Email Action variable Custom 1 Note that although you {RedCell.Config.Interface_Custom1} can re-name any Custom attribute, you must use the variable’s original name. For example here, that is {RedCell.Config.Equipm entManager_Custom1} Custom 2 {RedCell.Config.Interface_Custom2} Custom 3 {RedCell.Config.Interface_Custom3} Custom 4 {RedCell.Config.Interface_Custom4} Encapsulation Encapsulation {RedCell.Config.
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 screen, you can configure events that, when correlated as described in Event Processing Rules on page 108, trigger actions. Columns include the MIB Name, Event Name, Notification OID, Severity for associated alarms, and Default Behavior.
General This tab manages basics for Event Definitions. It has the following fields: Event Name— A text identifier for the event. Notification OID— The object ID. Severity—The severity of any associated alarm. If a new alarm is a clearing severity, then it closes any existing alarm to which it correlates. Otherwise, if a new alarm severity does not match the existing severity then the existing alarm is closed and a new alarm opened for the new severity. MIB Name—The MIB with which this event is associated.
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 up noisy alarm views since you can filter to conceal these. Propagation policies configure “Alarm Propagation”—associations based propagation paths to generate calculated alarm states against associated entities like links and services.
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 MIB bindings for this event. This displays the varbind contents of the event, matching the Binding Object Name and the OID (object identifier). Message Template—A template for messages that accompany this event.
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. Tip Putting an OID in curly brackets amounts to a tag replaced by the MIB text for that OID. Look for OIDs and messages in the MIB browser (as described in MIB Browser on page 188).
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 contacts or alter existing ones. Details— Displays a screen with contactassociated alarms, and the information entered in Contacts Editor. Visualize—Displays a mapping of the selected contact’s association to devices.
Contacts Editor This editor has two panels where you can enter contact information (Name, Address, Phone, and so on). Click the tabs at the top of this screen to move between the panels. The Contact ID, a unique identifier for the contact in your system, is a required field at the top of the first page. Click Save to preserve your new or modified contact information. Click Cancel to leave the contact unmodified.
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 locations. If you select Visualize, a map of the selected location’s connection to equipment appears. See Chapter 5, Visualize My Network for more. The Update Coordinates option lets you revise a location’s longitude and latitude.
Location Editor When you click New or Open, an editor appears. The Name field is mandatory. Name—A unique name for the Location. If you alter the name of an existing location already in use by existing equipment, the editor creates a new location. To change a location name, you must delete the original location and the equipment using it then re-make it. You can change the name of an unused location without deleting anything.
Expanded Location Portlet The location portlet displays a list of all locations, with Snap Panels to display a selected location’s connection to the network and details. The New menu option appears in the expanded location portlet. Click Settings to change the column appearance (see Show / Hide / Reorder Columns on page 84). This has the same columns as Locations on page 135.
Tag When creating a location, Dell OpenManage Network Manager automatically selects the latitude and longitude of the address entered for a location. To update or make these more accurate, select Update Location by right-clicking a location in the Locations portlet. The location created by default is the address entered in the Locations editor. You can also enter the address in the Search field, or click and drag the marker that appears on this screen. Click Apply to accept the re-location.
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 alarms, registered models, and identifiers for the selected vendor.
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 button to select from contacts in Dell OpenManage Network Manager to associate with this vendor. See Contacts on page 133 for instructions about configuring contacts.
Vendors Snap Panel The snap panel displays the icon for the selected vendor.
Vendors | Key Portlets
4 Resource Management 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 technical (vendor, subcomponents, and so on).
Functions common to many menus, in addition to the Import / Export and Sharing, include the following actions are available in the right-click menu: New / Edit—Opens Authentication Editor, where you can create a new authentication or edit the selected authentication. You cannot change the Authentication Type when you edit an existing authentication. Details— Displays a reference tree, associated equipment, and the configuration created or altered in Authentication Editor.
Expanded Authentication Portlet The Settings button in the expanded Authentication portlet lets you configure column appearance (see Show / Hide / Reorder Columns on page 84). This offers the same column setup as the summary screen. Authentication Snap Panel When you select a listed authentication the Reference Tree Snap Panel displays a tree of that authentication’s connections to Discovery profiles and equipment.
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 menu with New, Edit and Delete, and Refresh Members. Selecting New, or Edit displays the Container Editor, described below.
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. The container selected acts as a filter for a screen’s other Dell OpenManage Network Manager portlets. If you select “Folsom” as a location in the container portlet, then only items related to Folsom devices appear in the other portlets on the page.
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 navigate the container tree. Click Add Child (or Delete Child) to create (or remove) a node to / from the node you have selected in the tree. Clicking a node in the tree displays the tabbed panel on the right where you can edit it.
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 other users can access a container, but even for Shared containers, you must assign Roles to give others access to the container. The all role grants access to everyone. Owner—Select an owner for the container.
Authorizations This tab configures user or group access to the container you are editing. Click Add User or Add Group to select the users or groups with permission to access the container you are configuring. By default containers are accessible to everyone. Each entry in the Container Authorizations list specifies the name of the user or group, and whether the entry is inherited or not.
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 zoom in / out (+/-) buttons. The menu in the upper right corner lets you select a Map or Satellite views, and fine-tune them to include labels, terrain and so on. You can configure locations with the Tag menu item.
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 displayed resources, alarms, and so on, to those for the selected tag. Each tagged coordinate is cross-correlated with the Alarm State table (if there are alarms against it) and its color reflects the current Alarm state.
Discovery Profiles The discovery profiles set up equipment discovery for Dell OpenManage Network Manager. The summary view displays the Name, Description, Default (the green check indicates the default profile), whether the profile is Scheduled and Next Execution Date for scheduled discovery. NOTE: When Dell OpenManage Network Manager discovers unknown devices, it examines the RFC1213 MIB for hints of the device's capabilites, determining if it looks similar to a layer 3 router or a layer 2 switch.
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 open this screen to quickly discover equipment. (See Network on page 156 for more about the screen this displays.) Schedule—Opens schedule editor where you can create and/or modify the schedule for a discovery profile’s execution.
1 General Parameters— Set the Name, Description and a checkbox to indicate whether this profile is the discovery default. 2 Profile Options—Select the Device Naming Format (how the device appears in lists, once discovered), whether to Manage by IP address or hostname, and check whether to Resolve Hostname(s), ICMP Ping Device(s), Manage ICMP-only Device(s), or Manage Unclassified Device(s).
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 Inspection step. NOTE: Fields like Location query the database for current information, so even though its field may appear empty, Locations may exist. Click the Search button to the right of this field to populate it. Keeping such fields empty until you use them enhances performance.
3 After you click Next, the Network panel appears. Network Type and Addresses— Select the type of entry in the pick list (IP Address(es), CIDR Address, Hostname, SNMP Broadcast, Subnet). The tooltips in the data entry field tell what valid entries look like. NOTE: When specifying network addresses using the Subnet type, you must specify the Network address at the beginning of the subnet since Dell OpenManage Network Manager assumes it is the starting IP address for the range.
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 frustration. If you cannot import authentications, or have not created them when you do attempt to edit them, the easiest solution is to delete the un-imported un-created authentication the profile refers to and create a new one.
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 116 for more about these. Edit, Delete, Move—These icons appear to the right of each action. If you Edit a profile with parameters, you can change them. The screen looks like the one that appears when you Add actions.
Notice that the Inspection Status fields at the bottom of the screen indicate the success or failure of Ping, Hostname resolution, and Authentications, and the Status column displays whether a valid authentication exists, whether it has been tested, and whether the test is successful. When authentications are unsuccessful, click the icons to their right to remove or edit them.
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. See also Audit Trail / Jobs Screen on page 91 for more about retrieving archives of such screens. 9 10 A message (Discovery Profile Execute is complete) appears in the Messages at the bottom left of the status bar.
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 do the following: New— Lets you make either a Static Group (one in which you select devices) or a Dynamic Group (one in which a filter selects devices). See details of these screens below.
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. See also File Management on page 223 and more about deploying updates to the OS for the selected resource group. See Deploy Firmware on page 238 for details.
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 create a filter for members of ResourceGroupABC or members of ResourceGroupXYZ.
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, create the filter. To see what the group would look like, click Preview Group. This opens the Preview tab, concealing the General tab. To return to General, click that at the top of the screen.
Managed Resources The Managed Resources summary portlet displays the discovered devices on your network, their Network Status, Severity (of their highest recent alarm), Equipment Name, IP Address, and Vendor Name. Hovering the cursor over a listed device’s IP address produces a popup with its alarm status in the headline (both severity name and color), the % CPU, % Memory, and Ping.
• Management Interface Click Save to preserve any changes made in these screens to Dell OpenManage Network Manager’s database, or Close to abandon any changes made in editor screens. Unless the device is a printer, changes to these screens typically make database changes, not changes on the device. General This screen may vary for different kinds of devices. Its General Details panel displays the Name, Description, Vendor, Location, Contact, and Equipment Icon for the selected device.
Management Interface This lists the management interfaces for the selected device, including the IP Address, Port, Retries, and Timeout. Notice you can Add interfaces with the button in the upper right corner. Authentication This lists the authentications for the selected device. You can Add authentications with the button in the upper right corner too. These authentications originate in the portlet described in Authentication on page 143.
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 Network Details panel displays VLAN(s) by ID, VLAN(s) by Port, or STP Data.
Actions—Actions you can initiate here can include things Adaptive CLI Actions (see Chapter 11, 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 categories. The list that appears depends on the device selected. You can also open search field by clicking the magnifying glass at the bottom of this screen. Using that field, the list narrows to actions matching your search string.
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 occurs. When you Start alarm suppression, first enter a description in a subsequent screen, then a Success / Failure message appears confirming suppression has started.
Performance—Select from the following options: Show Performance–This displays a dashboard with various performance metrics for the selected device. These can include packet counts, RTT (round-trip time) measurements, and CPU / Memory utilization graphs. See Dashboard Views on page 277 for more about re-using and managing these capabilities. Show Top Talkers–This displays a Top Talkers Dashboard of performance metrics for the selected resource.
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 default, seeded filters with the pick list at the top left corner of the screen. You can also create your own custom filter by clicking Advanced Filter to the right of this pick list (see Filter Expanded Portlet Displays on page 85 for more).
IP Address—The IP address of the device. Vendor Name—The vendor for this device. Model— The model of the device. Equipment Type—The type of equipment. Firmware Version—The firmware version of the device. Software Version—The software version of the device. Last Backup—The device’s last backup date. Location Name— The device’s location. Hardware Version— The hardware version for the device. Backup Result—The result the device’s last backup. Restore Result— The result the device’s last restoration.
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 for CPU, Disk I/O, Memory and ping rate. Bandwidth Utilization A graph of the device’s bandwidth utilization. Notice that you can change the number of top interfaces graphed, when this is applicable.
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 of device features that provide link information. Links discovered can also appear in the screen described in Links in Visualization on page 220. When you elect to discover links from a right-click menu, the Network Link Discovery screen appears.
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 to schedule link discovery, or Execute to run it now (and confirm you are willing to wait for results in a subsequent screen).
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 use the Container View portlet to select individual devices that appear in it. In that case, you must select an individual device before it displays data.
Details screens are available for a variety of things besides equipment, too. The Equipment Details screen (and others) can have the following sub-panels: • • • • • • Performance Indicators Interfaces Top Configuration Backups (see Top Configuration Backups on page 277) Alarms Ports Details You can also right-click to open further Details screens about some subcomponents like Interfaces and Ports. These display a Reference Tree (like Snap Panels (Reference Tree) on page 85) too.
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 > Details screen. NOTE: Some devices populate the ports panel, but not the interfaces panel. This panel is empty for such devices.
Alarms The alarm panel in Equipment Details displays alarms connected to the selected equipment. You can right-click these and Acknowledge, Clear, or Email the selected alarm. You can also Assign User and Share with User. Hover the cursor over an alarm and a popup appears with that alarm’s details just as described in Alarms on page 99. Ports This displays the equipment’s ports.
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 resource for the A or Z endpoint A / Z Endpoint Address— The IP address, if available, for the endpoint. Click Save to preserve your edits, or Close to abandon them.
Ports > Details You can right-click to Share port information, or to open a Details screen for the selected port. This includes the device’s Reference Tree so you can see this port in relation to other parts of the device. It also includes a Details panel that can include the following fields: Hardware Version—The port’s hardware version Port Description—A text description of the port. Model—A model number. Date created—When the port was discovered. Creator—The logged-in user who discovered it.
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 in use with no operating capacity to spare. IP Address—The port’s IP address Hardware Version—The port’s hardware version MAC Address— The port’s Media Access Control (MAC) address. Administrative State—One of the following values: Locked—Device use is prohibited.
Details This panel displays detailed information about the equipment selected. This can include the following fields: Serial Number— The selected resource’s serial number. Last Configuration— The date for the last backed-up configuration file. Change— The date for the last configuration file change. System Object ID—The SysObjectID of the resource. Operational State—One of following possible values, selected from a drop-down menu, describing the availability of the resource.
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. Creator— The logged in user that created this record in the database. Firmware Version—This resource’s firmware version. Backup Result—The result of any attempted configuration file backup for this resource. Managed By Hostname—True/false.
1 Select the action in the right-click menu. For example: Netconfig Backup. 2 Rather than clicking Execute, click Add Schedule. 3 The schedule panel appears. 4 Once you click Apply on this panel, the previous panel returns, the Add Schedule button now appearing as Edit Schedule. 5 If you click Save, Dell OpenManage Network Manager creates a scheduled item around the activity and its data. A row also appears in the screen described in Schedules Portlet on page 95 for this schedule.
Direct Access Direct access provides less-mediated access to the device in the following ways: • • • • MIB Browser Terminal Ping (ICMP) The following sections describe those direct options in more detail. MIB Browser As part of the Direct Access menu, the MIB Browser lets you examine SNMP data available about devices. The screen that opens when you select this option displays MIBs available in Dell OpenManage Network Manager in a tree on the left.
Select a MIB and expand it to see the contents for a selected node appear on the right. In addition to the Device Results tab, which displays what the currently selected device uses from the MIB, the MIB Information tab displays the parameters available for the selected node. Notice that the Description, Comments, Notification Variables, and Valid Values tabs appear at the bottom of this screen.
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 also appears in the lower left corner, when the connection is active. The following menus appear for your terminal session: File— This menu lets you Connect or Disconnect to the device.
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 less than one millisecond, results appear in a table with <1ms entries. HTTP / HTTPS Selecting this menu item opens the default browser, connected to the selected device.
Port Details This screen displays all the port’s settings that have been retrieved, including a Reference Tree of logical interfaces below the port, a Learned MAC Address panel, Alarms related to the port, and other Details.
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 the attributes that appear in Port Details on page 192, above. This screen also includes a Reference Tree displaying a tree of the selected port’s relationship to logical interfaces and monitors.
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— The port’s model. Date created—The date this port was created. Port Details - Properties IP Address—The IP address for the port. MAC Address— The port’s Media Access Control (MAC) address. Hardware Version— The port’s hardware version.
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 port’s SNMP If Index number. NOTE: The polling frequency is once-an-hour. This is not configurable. Report Templates Report Templates are the basis of reports. This portlet displays the Template Name, Description, and Type in columns.
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 (top is first, bottom is last). 6 Notice you can also configure the font size, color, alignment, and so on when you select a column in this tab. 7 Click Save. You have successfully created a template.
If you view H1 you see Template T’ is in use and this template creates a report with columns A, B and D. Unfortunately, H1 only has data for columns A, B and C, so the report created has data for columns A and B only. Column D is empty. When viewing H2 you can see Template T’ is in use and can create a report with columns A, B and D. H2 has data for columns A, B and D, so all data appears. General The following are fields that appear on these screens. Not all screens have all fields.
M18 ge/0/1/4 Down The same report looks like this with Group on First Attribute enabled: Device Name Gig/e Port Name Health Status M5 ge/0/0/1 Up ge/0/0/2 Down ge/0/0/3 Up ge/0/0/4 Unknown ge/0/1/1 Up ge/0/1/2 Starting ge/0/1/3 Up ge/0/1/4 Down M18 The Inventory and Layout tabs are common to all editors. Inventory Select the type of inventory for a report, and its data types in this screen.
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 to Selected. The Selected Columns appear in the template’s report. Layout This tab outlines the column layout for the template. Click on the up/down arrows on the right of each row to re-order data columns.
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 summary screen lists the available reports that you can run with Dell OpenManage Network Manager. The report Icon, Name, Template, and Subtitle appear in the columns in this summary screen.
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 audit trail or the report. NOTE: Reports with lots of data may take a long time to appear without much indication that they are in process.
These include the following: Report Email / Export Type— Select the export file type from the pick list. Options include CSV, HTML, PDF, XLS, and XLSM. Overwrite Existing—Check to activate overwriting any existing report. Save— Check to activate saving the report to the database. Notify—Check to activate emitting a notification event. Email Address— Enter an e-mail destination for the generated report, and click the plus (+) to list it. You can enter several such e-mails.
Expanded Reports Portlet Clicking the plus (+) icon displays the expanded portlet, which adds Add / Remove Column to the menu options available in the summary screen. Available columns are the same as the summary screen’s. The Reference Tree snap panel displays the selected report’s connection to devices, historical reports and any report template. Right-click to view the reports in the Historical Reports node.
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”) 4 Select a template for the report in the pick list. (For example, the template configured in How to: Create a Report Template.
General This screen configures the Name, Title (displayed text in the report), Subtitle, and lets you select the Report Template for the report (see Report Templates on page 195 for more about them) Filter This screen configures a filter to retrieve devices that are the source of the report. Click Add Filter in the filter panel to select an existing filter, create a new filter, or copy an existing filter.
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 come with a default logo, but you can change that, as is illustrated in the above screen. Put the .png, .jpg or .gif graphic file with your desired logo in owareapps\redcell\images on the application server.
5 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 213 for more about these capabilities). How To: Create a Visualization Creating a topology map of devices or services is as simple as right-clicking the item(s) you want to map, and selecting 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. (Figures below display them expanded.) Hover the cursor over an icon or link between icons to see a small screen describing its contents and alarm state.
• OVERVIEW Click on the title bars when these appear collapsed on the left of the screen to expand them. Click the blue left arrow at the top of them to re-collapse them. In addition to the screen components immediately displayed, you can right-click an icon or component, and Drill in or Expand a device to see its subcomponents. If you expand, then its subcomponents appear on screen with the rest of the topology.
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 Styles • • • • ZOOM DISPLAYED LEVELS STYLE OPTIONS VIEW DETAILS ZOOM Click the + or - icons to zoom in or out. The 1 icon returns to the original default magnification (100%). The Autofit icon zooms to fit all devices in the topology.
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 fist two have Tooltips tabs in addition to the first one you see: Node Style Options—Configure how nodes appear in topology. In the Label / Node View tab, you can elect to Enable Node Labels so labels appear next to icons in topology.
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 clicking the lower right corner of the colored boxes that appear next to speed range labels. You can also configure the thickness of the edge next to that color selector.
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 and enter a Description for the view you are saving. You can also configure a saved view for Dell OpenManage Network Manager to Use as Default, so it appears by default whenever you see a topology view.
GRAPH INVENTORY This displays a legend of icon types followed by a count (in parentheses) of how many of each appear in the topology. The switch at the bottom of this panel centers the display around the selected icon. Click the plus (+) to the left of the inventory category icons to display a list of devices in that category in the topology. Click on a list item to highlight that device and its network connection in the topology view.
Icons The the icons next to listed devices mean the following: Icon Type Explanation Alarm This shows the alarm state of the devices listed. In a composite list, like appears in Inventory, it shows the highest alarm state. Indeterminate No alarm information is available for this device. Status Green means the device is Online, red means Offline, and yellow means indeterminate. Topology Alarm Triangle These appear next to the device icons.
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. Here are the available layouts, and the fields that go with them: Balloon Balloon layouts display links between managed objects in a balloon tree structure. The root is typically whatever device you have expanded or drilled into.
Even angle distribution–Enable even angle distribution of nodes. Cluster Policy–Select Vertical or Horizontal. This determines the (automated) orientation of the topology. Remember, you can click and drag device icons. Cluster Spacing—Use the slider to determine the spacing between icons not in child / parent hierarchy. Orthogonal Orthogonal connections include right angles. You can specify the following settings for such layouts Minimal nodes spacing–Use the slider to configure the node spacing.
Circular Circular layouts arrange all nodes in a circle. Minimal circle radius – Use the slider to determine the radius of the circle. Minimal nodes spacing– Use the slider to determine the nodes spacing. Wedge Angle –Use the slider to determine the arc where child nodes appear. Overlap avoidance method–Select Approximate or Deterministic. Root node selection policy–Select Most weighted (for general graphs), Manual (for general graphs) or Directed (only for tree graphs).
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. Cluster Spacing—Use the slider to determine the spacing between icons not in child / parent hierarchy. OVERVIEW This displays a thumbnail of the entire topology that appears in the larger screen to the right.
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: Ethernet), A / Z Names for the endpoints). NOTE: Dell OpenManage Network Manager currently does not support displaying one-ended links.
6 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 server mode, and Show or Hide not applicable File Servers depending on the file server mode by checking/unchecking the Show All Servers check box. When this is unchecked, only the relevant file server(s) appear onscreen.
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 (optional) IP addresses, and Net Masks, and the login and password for the file server. Once you have configured a server, you can test the file server credentials by clicking on the Test button at the bottom of the screen. Click Save to preserve your changes.
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 capabilities appear below.
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 also Backup or Restore what you are viewing with buttons at the bottom of the screen. Assign Labels— Use this option to select an existing label or create a new one. You cannot assign System labels (Current, Compliant, and so on). Compare Current v.
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) to locate text within these views. Backup / Restore— Select these to backup or restore a configuration file. See How to: Backup Configurations on page 225 or Restore Configurations on page 227 for step-by-step instructions.
Here are the steps to back up a device: 1 Make sure you have configured an FTP or TFTP server to handle the backup. See Netrestore File Servers on page 70. 2 Right-click a device in the Managed Resources portlet. 3 Select File Management > Backup. 4 Configure the subsequent Backup Device screen. This screen lets you configure the following: File Name—A text identifier for the file Description—A text identifier for the file Update User Label—A text identifier for the file.
Device Options—This portion of the Backup Options screen displays detailed configuration 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 buttons at the bottom of the screen to initiate the next backup action. Add Schedule opens the scheduling screen to let you automate the backup you have configured on a specified date, time, or repetition. See Scheduling Actions on page 369.
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 Restore Config / Label Selection. Click the icon in the Action column to remove the listed target.
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 is not a binary file. See File Management on page 223 and Configuration File Editor on page 231 for a description of these capabilities. Compare to Label / Compare Selected— Compare labeled configuration files to the current selection.
The Labeled column appears with green or red icons depending on whether the config file has a label. When a label applies to a configuration, you cannot Delete or Archive it. The Labels Using Config File snap-in displays all labels connected to the selected configuration file, and the date on which that connection was made. The Reference Tree displays the configuration file name, and lets you right-click it to access the available operations it supports.
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 appears with the following features. Find / Replace— Click the magnifying glass icon to open a text search feature. Notice that you can check A/a to make your search case-sensitive, or RegEx to use regular expressions to search.
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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 summary screen listing these images displays their Name, Description, File Name, Image Type and Installed Date. Right-clicking this screen displays the following menu items: New—Select either Firmware Image, or Configuration Image.
Expanded Image Repository portlet. When you click the plus, this portlet expands to display the OS images list, a snap panel Reference tree of the connections to devices, and another panel listing the files within the selected image.
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 that lets you create new OS Images, retrieving files from the local file system (Import from Disk) or a URL (Import from URL). Because such images can consist of multiple files, you can import multiple files here.
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 can name and describe the configuration file, and configure a filter to screen restoration targets. The Version field automatically tracks changes to the original.
Configuration This panel lets you configure what is restored, and what is variable in mass deployments. This screen appears without contents when you create a new Configuration Image, but appears with data from any promoted configuration file, if it originated as a promoted config file. Target Param The panel of parameters that appears to the right of this screen lets you insert a value retrieved from Dell OpenManage Network Manager’s database into the restored configuration file.
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 deploying the same config to many devices while retaining individual Target Params like contacts, DNS Hostname, and so on. NOTE: Target Params include all available discover-able parameters.
How To: Deploy Firmware To deploy firmware, follow these steps: 1 Make sure you have an FTP / TFTP server correctly configured. See File Management on page 223. 2 Right click a device in Managed Resources or the groups or Image Repository pages and select File Management > Deploy. 3 The Deploy Firmware screen appears. You can Select OS Image in the top panel, and configure deployment with the following fields: OS Image—Select an image. It must already have been uploaded in the Image Repository.
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 image Generate and Save Configuration Only—Check this if you simply want to configure for later restoration. Label for Configuration— Enter a label name, if applicable.
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 is nearest to the kind you would like to see generally. 2 Right-click this backed up file in the File Management portlet, and Promote it so it appears in the Image Repository portlet.
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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 that come with your installation by default. Finally, this chapter contains a reminder about scheduling refreshes of monitor target groups. See Scheduling Refresh Monitor Targets on page 276.
• • • • • Ports in the Ports portlet 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 options. OpenManage Network Manager Server Statistics This summary screen has no expanded view. It displays the statistics for the OpenManage Network Manager application server. The bar graph displays Total, Used, and Free memory on the server.
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 Type column typically displays what the monitor covers. Hover your cursor over this column to see a popup with the selected monitor’s properties.
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 resources), while disabled monitors do not. Refresh Monitor—Re-query to update any targets for the current monitor. See Scheduling Refresh Monitor Targets on page 276 for instructions about automating this.
Expanded Resource Monitor This screen appears when you click the plus in the upper right corner of the summary screen. As in most expanded views, this one displays a list ordered by the Name of the monitor. Click Settings to configure the column display. Available columns include those on the summary screen (Name, Enabled, Monitor Type) as well as Description, Poling Interval, Target Count and Retention Policy.
The Monitor Status Summary Snap Panel displays the status of each individual member (Target) of the monitor, showing the Last Polled time and date, and a title bar and icon indicating Availability (green is available, red is not). Hover the cursor over the Availability icon, and a popup appears with details about availability. If the device is available, the RTT (round-trip time) for communication appears in Avg (average), Max (maximum), and Min (minimum) amounts, along with the PacketCount.
To reduce resource impacts, the scope of retained data may exclude some of the collected data. A monitor may have no retained data and only emit events based on transient results in the execution/calculation. For example, the application can derive a metric from several collected values and you may opt to retain only the derived result. All monitors rely on a polling engine which provides runtime mediation activities for distributed device interaction at regular intervals.
Editor Monitors may share a retention policy. The retention policy controls how long data is held per rollup period. The editor for Retention policies lets you assign characteristics and monitors to them. General Retention Policy Options The editor contains the following fields: Policy Name—A text identifier for the policy. Description— An optional description for the policy. Detail / Hourly / Daily Data (Days)—How many days to retain the selected data.
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 the following panels and fields: • • • • • • General Monitor Options Calculated Metrics Thresholds Inventory Mappings Conditions General The General panel is common to all different monitor types.
Polling Interval—Use these fields to configure how often the monitor polls its target(s). Retention Options Retention Policy— This configures how long Dell OpenManage Network Manager retains the monitor’s data. Manage these by right-clicking in the Resource Monitors portal, and selecting Retention Policies. You must make retention policies before you can select them here. Enabled—Check to enable. Emit Availability Events—Check to activate emitting availability events.
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 status becomes indeterminate. Tip For clarity’s sake, best practice has only one monitor per device updating network status. By default ICMP monitoring enables Update Network Status, and monitors all discovered devices.
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. The entity and options panels for the various types of monitors appear below in Monitor Options Type-Specific Panels on page 266.
The Configured Metrics table lists the calculated metrics. An edit and delete action appears to the right of each row. The Add button creates a new calculated metric and the Remove All button deletes all the calculated metrics. Clicking on the Add button or edit button displays the calculation editor.
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 The thresholds panel allows the user to set threshold intervals on attributes in the monitor. The table lists the attributes for which attributes have been configured. Each row has an edit action and delete action.
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 than Editing a selected threshold. Use the pick list that appears in this screen to select the attribute for which you are specifying threshold information. When you Edit, the name of the attribute appears as a title within the editor screen.
Apply to Series — Check to enable on composite attributes only. Checking this applies the threshold to individual elements within the series. When it is unchecked, the threshold applies only to aggregate measurements (the overall value of the series), not individual elements within the series. For example; a Key Metric monitor for CPU utilization on a device with two CPUs actually monitors both CPUs.
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 as white. Inventory Mappings The inventory mappings panel allows the user to associate any of several predefined inventory metrics with a monitor attribute.
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 following: Metric ID—Inventory metric name Attribute ID— Attribute to associate with the inventory metric Conditions This panel lets you add multiple conditions to the monitor you are editing.
The editor has the following fields and settings to configure: Condition Properties Name— Enter a text identifier for the conditions. Alert— Check this if you want Dell OpenManage Network Manager to emit an alert when the monitor satisfies the conditions. Trendable— Check if the conditions specified are trendable. Severity— Specify the severity of the emitted alert, if any. # of Occurrences— Enter the number of occurrences of what is specified in the Condition Filter to satisfy the Conditions.
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, an SNMP Interfaces monitor. NOTE: Some devices have ports rather than interfaces. This monitor works for them too, even though it is an “interface” monitor. 3 In the General screen, enter a polling interval (5 minutes is the default).
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 can even alter existing thresholds by selecting one then clicking Edit to the right of the selected threshold. 10 Click Apply for each threshold interval you configure, then Apply for the entire threshold configuration.
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 clicking the Add button in the top portion of the Monitor Options screen. 5 Select devices you want to ping, (Ctrl+click to add more than one), then click Add Selection then Done to confirm your entity.
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 Template by right-clicking the Report Templates portlet, selecting New > Table Template. 2 Name the report (here: Test SNMP Interface Report). 3 Select a source in the Source tab. Here: Active Monitoring > SNMP Interfaces.
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 Options Type-Specific Panels The following describes the panels associated with the following Monitor Options types.
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 you select resource groups and Resource manager objects. Clicking Add button displays a selector panel for these.
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 redeploys the monitor. Key Metrics The Key Metrics Properties panel contains a list of key metrics you can add to the monitor. They are grouped by category.
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.
SNMP The SNMP attributes panel lets you specify which SNMP attributes are to be monitored. Specify SNMP attributes as follows: • • 270 With the SNMP browser, or Entering SNMP attribute properties explicitly.
The Browse button launches the SNMP browser. Click on the desired SNMP nodes and then click on the Add Selection button to add an SNMP attribute. When done selecting, click the Done button to add selected attributes to the monitor or Cancel to abandon the operation and close the browser.
The Add and Edit buttons in the SNMP attribute panel launch the SNMP Attribute editor. This panel contains the following properties: Oid—The object identifier for this attribute Name—This attribute’s name Instance—SNMP instance. 0 for scalar or the ifIndex value for an SNMP column. View Type—Scalar or Column. Syntax— Integer, Boolean, DisplayString, and so on. Meta Syntax— Counter, Gauge, and so on.
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 a port filter or interface filter is configured for the entity. Click the icons on the right side of the list of Monitor Entities to configure filters. Clicking these buttons displays an interface configuration panel.
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 is the same as described in SNMP on page 270. SNMP Table Monitor This panel appears if you are creating an SNMP Table monitor. The application stores not absolute numbers from counters but the counter’s change since its last measurement.
MIB Browser This lets you select attributes to monitor as described in MIB Browser on page 188. The SNMP table monitor lets you pick a table column, not the entire table. Add / Edit SNMP Attributes This screen lets you specify individual attributes. It has the following fields: Oid— A field where you can enter the object identifier. This also has an integrated search function. Click the magnifying glass icon on the right to activate it.
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: “Device fault: Return packet too big” in the Monitor Status Summary, then you have selected too many SNMP attributes to poll in a single request.
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 portlet described in Managed Resources on page 166. For some portlets (for example Top CPU Utilization, Top Interface Errors and Top Memory Utilization), the right-click Performance menu items include Key Metrics.
You can also Convert Simple Dashboards to Custom Dashboards, as described below. When you Edit a view, Dashboard Editor appears. It lets you select which monitors appear in the dashboard, the monitored entities, and attributes. The expanded portlet offers similar capabilities.To make a monitor appear on a page, use the portlet described in Performance Dashboard on page 279. Launch a Dashboard View Launching a view lets you view the monitors active for a Dashboard view.
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 graph has multiple lines, the data points for different lines are charted at different times (Dell OpenManage Network Manager distributes polling to balance the load on its mediation service).
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 which you can select. See Dashboard Views on page 277 for more about creating and configuring the views from which you select.
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 components of the dashboard. This screen has the following fields: View Name—The identifier for the dashboard. The default is “Performance dashboard for [IP address],” but you can edit this. This is what appears in the Dashboard Views list.
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 controls: View Name—The name of the dashboard view (Required) Time Frame—The period over which to display the data. May be either relative (like last 30 minutes) or absolute (between specific dates and times).
Layout—Select the desired layout style used to display the dashboard components. 2 To select a layout style, click on the ... button next to the current layout. The layout chooser appears. 3 Click on the desired layout or click Close to keep the current layout. The components displayed to reflect the selected new layout. If no dashboard components have been configured yet a default configuration appears with three or four rows depending on the dashboard style.
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 another component. When you release the mouse, the components exchange places. Configuring Dashboard Components 5 To configure a dashboard component, click the Edit button in the upper right corner of the component.
Other controls appear depending on the component type selected. These components also have a Monitor control, a pick list where you can select from which monitor the charted data originates. See Dial Chart Properties, Top Talkers Properties and Top Subcomponents Properties below for specifics about those. The line and bar components have two tabs under the general properties section: Monitor Targets and Attributes. The Monitor Targets section lets you select the devices that are sources of data.
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 Entities—The number of entities to display Order— Select either Ascending (Bottom n), or Descending (Top n). Convert Simple Dashboards to Custom Dashboards To convert a simple dashboard to a custom dashboard use the Convert command on the Dashboard Views menu.
3 To create a new performance template, click on the Add button. The Performance Template Editor appears. 4 Name your template. The Show Composites and Time Frame fields are the same as in the dashboard (see Dashboard Editor on page 281).
5 To specify which device model(s) this template will apply to, click on the + button in the Device Models panel. The model selector appears. Select multiple devices by clicking + repeatedly, selecting a single device each time. You can also make several templates for each device. See Multiple Performance Templates on page 289 for the way that works. 288 6 Click on a vendor to see the device types for that vendor. Then click on a device type to see the models available for that vendor and device type.
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 checks whether a template for that device type exists. If one exists, then that template guides what appears in the performance view for the device.
Metrics This panel’s display depends on the selected device.
Chart Click Chart to first select up to three metrics you want to graph, and the polling interval for the graph.
Then click Save, and the graph appears. Click the screwdriver / wrench icon in the upper right corner to return to the chart configuration screen.
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.
How does it work? • • • • • • The NetFlow exporting router monitors traffic traversing it 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? Definitions NetFlow— NetFlow is a traffic profile monitoring technology J-Flow—Juniper's implementation of NetFlow. sFlow—For Dell devices.
Set up Dell OpenManage Network Manager with the following: Exporter Registration—To register a device, right-click in Resources portlet, after you select the router and choose Traffic Analyzer > Register. The system should then be ready to accept flow data from the device. Router Configuration—You must configure the router to send flow reports to the Dell OpenManage Network Manager server on port 9996 by default.
Exporter Registration Before you can collect traffic data from a device, you must Register it as a traffic flow exporter. If a device is not registered, the Register command appears in the menu. If it is registered the Unregister command appears. When you successfully register an eligible device, a success message appears; otherwise, a failure message appears, and no registration occurs.
When you add one of the traffic analyzer portlets to a page, its summary, or minimized form appears. This displays a simple view containing a pie chart and a table showing the summarized collected data over the configured time period. The only thing that can be changed in this view is the period. Change this by clicking the clock dropdown button in the upper right corner of the portlet. The Expanded Traffic Flow Portlet displays an interactive graph.
Expanded Traffic Flow Portlet When you expand the portlet, a more complex interactive view appears. Initially, it displays a line graph for the selected period. NOTE: It may seem a device reporting the same value as others is not graphed properly, but mousing over the graph displays the value. The following controls appear in its title bar: Select Chart Type— Lets you change the chart type. Available chart types include Pie, Line, Bar, Stacked Bar and Column.
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 appears in the navigation bar. When a detail view appears, the entity type appears as in the title bar.
To go back up through the drill-down path the user can click anywhere on the navigation bar.
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 search support the following actions: View Top Conversations—Displays the top n conversations for the selected entity. Show Detail View—Displays a top level detail view of the selected entity.
2 Enable NetFlow on most impacted routers that support NetFlow. Also, register a number of exporters to enable an efficient and scalable data collection environment. NOTE: You can disable NetFlow and unregister exporters. 3 After NetFlow has been running for a while, verify that bandwidth utilization is within expectation. This will help insure optimum performance of critical business applications. 4 Select the Top 5 Applications portlet (or add it to the page).
9 Change Management – ProScan Dell OpenManage Network Manager’s change management utility is ProScan, which lets you scan stored configurations to verify managed devices compliance with company, department or industry standards. This application automatically tracks all changes occurring to managed devices. You can report on user-specified values found in persisted backup configuration files for a group of devices.
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 they are scanned too. A benign warning (“No proscan policies have target group(s)”) lets you know you have not selected either dynamic or static groups when you execute a ProScan policy without them. 4 Specify Proscan Compliance Criteria. Add Criteria. 5 Save.
How To: Do Change Management (Example) The following describes an example use of Change Manager. This backs up a configuration file, modifies it, then scans the file for the modified text, and acts according to the result. The following steps describe how to do this: 1 Back up a device configuration. Select a device and click the File Management > Backup right-click menu in Managed Resources portlet. 2 Right click, and Export this backup to a file in the Configuration Files portlet.
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, not an alarm (visible in the Event History portlet) called redcellProScanClearNotification. To create a response, create processing rules for the event / alarm (see Event Processing Rules on page 108).
Overall Compliance Overall Compliance can have the following values and flag icon colors: All Compliant— Icon: Green. All selected equipment is in compliance with the policy. None Compliant—Icon: Red. None of the selected equipment is in compliance with the policy. None Determined— Icon: blank. None of the equipment has been tested for compliance. Partial Compliance—Icon: Yellow. Not all equipment complies with the policy but all equipment has been tested.
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 308 for a description of the snap panel that appears below the listed policies in this manager. Compliance Policy Summary This snap panel appears at the bottom of the expanded portlet described in ProScan Portlet on page 306.
has run, you may also see a Not Executed (blue) status. Each run date for the policy and equipment combination selected in the list at the top of the detail panel screen appears as a row in this panel. Tip You can also see compliance failure messages in OpenManage Network Manager’s audit trails. Compliance scans do not stop the first time they fail. They continue so all failures of compliance in the entire device configuration appear cataloged in the result.
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 executes. Tip If you have more than one type of device, you must typically have more than one ProScan policy to address each device type. To run more than one ProScan, so you can address multiple types of devices, create a ProScan group.
Enabled—Check to enable this policy. Description— A text description of the policy. This also appears when the policy is listed in the manager. Input Source Use the radio buttons to select a source. Select from among the following options: Device Backup— Retrieve the configuration from the device and scan it for compliance. Current Config—The scan the current configuration backed up from the device. Configuration Label—Select the configuration to run against based on a label.
Targets The top of this screen (Current Inherited Targets) displays any targets inherited from alreadyconfigured ProScan Groups. Click Add Targets in the Current Implicit Targets panel at the bottom to select equipment that are targets to scan with this policy. You can also select listed equipment click the Remove icon to delete it from the list. Tip Use filtering in the subsequent selector screen to make individual selection easier, but do not forget this is not dynamic selection.
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 applicable policy. To create a policy, first select whether you want to Match Any (logical OR), or All (logical AND) of the criteria you configure with the radio buttons at the top of this screen.
Editing Compliance Policy Criteria After clicking Add Criteria, use the pick list on the upper right to select an operation to select a criteria match type (Contains, Doesn’t contain, [does not] match Regex (see Regular Expressions on page 320), [does not] Match Regex for each line, Count number of occurrences, Perl or Java (Groovy)). Specify the match string or regular expression (Regex) in the text editor below the pick list.
You can edit already listed compliance tests by clicking the Edit button (pencil and paper) in the list row. You can delete them by clicking the Delete button next to the criterion. Match Regex for each line In using this type of term, OpenManage Network Manager processes each line separately, comparing the input source to the match criteria. This returns a true value only if the criteria find a match in the source.
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 or end of the source group includes or excludes what that expression matches. Click Apply to accept your edits, or Cancel to abandon them. You can create multiple group criteria. OpenManage Network Manager applies the group criteria in order, from top to bottom.
redistribute bgp 88 metric 10010 metric-type 1 subnets tag 334 route-map allanRM02 network 2.3.4.0 0.0.0.255 area 123 network 2.3.5.0 0.0.0.255 area 124 network 2.3.6.0 0.0.0.255 area 125 ! router isis ! router rip version 2 network 175.92.0.0 no auto-summary ! address-family ipv4 vrf VPN_PE_A no auto-summary no synchronization exit-address-family ! router bgp 88 bgp log-neighbor-changes neighbor 2.3.4.5 remote-as 22 neighbor description "This is Test" neighbor test-parameter xxx neighbor 4.5.6.
default-information originate no auto-summary no synchronization exit-address-family ! 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 ! In addition, within this configuration, you want to check if the target lines are present under each address-family in the router bgp section.
address-family ipv4 redistribute connected route-map map-12 redistribute static route-map hjlhjhjhjk redistribute ospf 888 metric 500 match internal external 2 nssa-external 1 nssa-external 2 route-map allanRM03 neighbor 2.3.4.5 activate neighbor 2.3.4.5 route-map allanRM01 in neighbor 4.5.6.7 activate neighbor 4.5.6.
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 regex in the criteria field to each of the sources. It returns true only if both sources pass (we selected the Match All radio button). In this case “Source 2" does not have those lines, so OpenManage Network Manager returns a false value.
Label Pattern Ending Number \d+$ Character \w Word \w+ One or more. \w* Zero or more. Whitespace \s+One or more. \s* Zero or more. String w/o space \S+One or more. Newline \n \S* Zero or more. FormFeed \f Tab \t Carriage Return \r Backspace \b Escape \e Backslash \B URL (?:^|")(http|ftp|mailto):(?://)?(\w+(?:[\.:@]\w+)*?)(?:/ |@)([^"\?]*?)(?:\?([^\?"]*?))?(?:$|") HTML Tag <(\w+)[^>]*?>(.*?) Here are some examples of such expressions: Label Pattern Email address (U.S.
Perl / Java (Groovy) Language Policies In addition to regular expressions, you can enter Config Terms that use either Perl or Java (Groovy) language capabilities for scans. The following sections describe these. • • Perl Java (Groovy) These scans are compiled at runtime, and the Java scan uses the Groovy libraries, included with OpenManage Network Manager.
} else { print("Failure - no description found"); } Tip Notice that you can also combine these scans with the Edit Source Group Criteria regular expressions to streamline them. Java (Groovy) When you select Groovy as the type of Config term, an editor appears that lets you enter that type of scans. As the screen says this implements ProScanGroovy or Groovy Java classes.
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 have configured in these screens, or click Close (in the tool bar) to abandon your edits. Compliance Policy Job Status This screen displays the progress of compliance scanning you have configured.
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: Name—A text identifier for the group. Enabled—Check to enable this grouping. Grouped Policies — Click Add Policy to select ProScan policies in a selector screen. Click the Remove icon to delete a selected policy. You can use individual policies in several groups.
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 the date and time when the CD process runs. After running CD, you can then produce a report (see Compliance and Change Reporting on page 329), outlining all such changes by date and time. This report comes seeded with installation.
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 operation.
Change Determination Process then looks for Config Changed Flags, and if it finds such flags, indicating a change occurred on the device, it then compares the device’s changed configuration (in the Change Determination label) to the one in the Current label, storing the difference for future reporting.
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 Default Change Determination operation. 2 Right-click and select Open. 3 Configure the schedule This runs Change Determination with the target group of All Devices (all discovered devices).
You can also run the Change Determination Report that displays changes made to configurations. See Reports on page 200 for more about reporting capabilities. The Change Determination Report report displays detected changes based on a configuration change flag set when OpenManage Network Manager detects a change made to the device. To successfully execute this report, you must enable a scheduled Change Determination Process. The process must run before the reports has any contents.
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 the filter, in the Reports manager, right click the Configuration Change Report, and select Open, then edit the filter in the Filter screen by selecting that node on the left.
6 332 The report which can run to display these changes is OpenManage Network Manager’s Configuration Change Report. It displays the name of the device in question, the IP address, date/time of change, who made the change, what was removed and what was added. You can schedule this report to run immediately after an Change Determination process too, so you can capture a history of changes.
10 Storage Arrays Introducing Storage Arrays This chapter describes Storage Arrays as they appears in Dell OpenManage Network Manager’s web portal. These appear in the portlet described in Managed Resources on page 166, as well as the Storage Array Portlet, which offers storage-array-specific capabilities. The following sections describe these capabilities. Storage arrays appear in the Storage Array Portlet when they are discovered. See Resource Discovery on page 152 for a description of that process.
Delete— Remove the selected service array from the list. Show Key Metrics— Displays the key metrics for the selected array. See Key Metric Editor on page 289 for more about configuring these. Audit Trail—Displays the audit trails for the selected storage array, as described in Audit Trail Viewer on page 92. For additional information, you can click the plus in the upper right corner of this portlet to see the Storage Array Portlet Expanded. Tip Storage arrays also appear in the Managed Resources portlet.
• • Storage Array Capacity Disk Groups and Virtual Disks Reference Tree This panel displays the array’s connection to various components like Enclosures (including fans, power supplies, controllers and disk drives), Contacts, Locations, Vendors, Raid Groups, Authentications, and monitors. Tip You can right-click some of the reference tree items to edit or otherwise act on them. Summary This panel displays the following information about the selected array: STATUS— Whether the array is online.
MAX VIRTUAL DISKS— How many virtual disks the array can support. Host Access and Ports This panel displays the following information about the selected array: CONFIGURED HOSTS—The hosts configured for the array. MAX CONFIGURED HOSTS— The maximum number of configured hosts the array supports. HOSTS TO VIRTUAL DISK MAPPINGS—Connections between virtual disks and configured hosts. PORTS— The number of ports within the array. MAX PORTS—The maximum number of ports the array supports.
Disk Groups and Virtual Disks This displays the disk groups and virtual disks for the selected array. This lists the RAID Group Name, the RAID Type, and its Virtual Disk. General This editor lets you configure general features of discovered storage arrays. This screen has the following fields: General Details Equipment Name— The identifier for the array.
Vendor—The brand of the array. Use the + or - buttons to select this if discovery did not automatically populate this field. Location—The location of the array. Use the + or - buttons to select this if discovery did not automatically populate this field. See Locations on page 135 for information about configuring locations. Contact— The contact for the array. Use the + or - buttons to select this if discovery did not automatically populate this field.
Equipment Details / Settings This tab has the following fields: System Object Id—The Sys object ID of the array. Date Created— The date the Dell OpenManage Network Manager record for the array was created. Creator— The logged in user who created the record for the array. Install Date— The date the array was installed. Administrative State—The administrative state of the array (Not Determined, Unlocked, Locked, Shutting Down).
11 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. On the other hand, it also manages Adaptive CLI (command-line interface) commands to run against devices which can be complex. These commands amount to “mini-scripts” to query and configure those devices.
When using the CLI Format, The Adaptive CLI tool will prompt you to create new attributes based upon your script markup. This lets you quickly create a script and schema to create an ACLI. If you have attributes that are mainly simple String attributes, this is a very quick and automated approach. Using Perl in Adaptive CLI If you need conditional logic that goes beyond simple scripting, you can use Perl in Adaptive CLI. The example below checks to see if a String Attribute is empty (null) or not.
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: $count = 0; foreach @MyCommandList) { print (“$MyCommandList[$count]\n”); $count++ } Actions Portlet The Actions Portlet lets you manage actions like Adaptive CLI, backups, change management actions, and so on. The list of actions available to your system depends on the exact configuration you have installed.
Expanded Actions Portlet The expanded portlet adds columns for Description, Last Web Service ID, Access Level, Web Service Deployment, and Supports Groups. The expanded portlet also has snap panels to display Reference Tree connections between the selection and other elements within Dell OpenManage Network Manager, as well as an Execution History panel listing Device Name(s), Execution Date and Status for the selected Action, and a Scheduled Actions panel cataloging any Schedules for the selected Action.
The Execution History snap panel displays history by device. Right-click to see the details of what occurred when the selected action ran against a particular device (Execution Details). The Execution Details panel displays tabs showing the Results of running an Adaptive CLI, and the Sent Commands. You can also View Job to see a screen like the Audit Trail / Jobs Screen on page 91, or Delete to remove a listed Action record from the list.
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 Commands in another. Notice that you can Find text within a result (click Go to repeat the find). You can also see the bottom panel if you right-click a single execution within the Execution History snap panel in the Expanded Actions Portlet.
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 results appear highlighted green. Lines that are missing in one, but that appear in another appear highlighted red. Added lines appear highlighted in yellow.
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 Commands, External Commands, and Show Commands. The editor screen has the following tabs (the ones that appear depend on the type of command you are editing): • • • General Attributes Scripts NOTE: The Adaptive CLI Manager logs into devices in enable mode by default.
General The following are parameters to configure in this panel: Name—A unique identifier for this action. For example: “Retrieve MyDevice MAC addresses.” For a new action to appear on the right-click Action menu, begin its name with the vendor name. For example, Force10-showversion would appear under Actions in that menu. Otherwise, it appears under and Adaptive CLI classification. Description— A text description of the action. Type— Select a type from the pick list (Configure, External or Show Command).
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.
Version—An automatically-created version number. Attribute Settings Click the New Attribute button and select the attribute type and open editor panel and configure the attribute. Configured attributes appear in a tree to the left of the editor panel. Click a listed attribute to edit it after it has been created. The editor panel has the following fields: Entity Type Name—An identifier for the schema. Description— A text description for the attribute.
Truncate—Truncate the attribute. Attribute Settings You can create new attribute schemas. See Attribute Editor Panels below for information about different datatypes’ fields. Once you create a set of attributes, they remain available for re-use as a schema, or collection of attributes. To identify schemas, enter the following fields: Label— A unique, mandatory identifier for the collection of attributes. Description— A text description of the entity.
Date Default Value—Enter a default date, or use date icon to display a calendar where you can select one. Click off the calendar to make it disappear. Valid Values— Enter valid date values above the list, and click the green plus to add them to the list. Decimal Default Value—Enter a single or range of default decimal values. Constraints—Enter a range of acceptable numbers separated by a colon. For example, Constraints = 2:4096. At runtime, a field where you can enter numbers.
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 attributes from Available to Selected. You can change the Reference Type by deleting it with the red minus (-), then selecting a new type with the green plus. String Default String— Enter a default string.
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 255.255.255.0 If IP_MASK is true and SUBNET is true, then OpenManage Network Manager accepts a subnet id (the first IP address within a subnet). For example 10.10.10.0/24, with 10.10.10.0 as the first address within the subnet spanning 10.10.10.0 to 10.10.10.254. Entering an IP address within the subnet, say 10.10.10.
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. Embedded CLI scripts are command-line interface (CLI) interactions. See Perl Scripts on page 368 for more about using Perl. Clicking the Delete icon removes a selected item.
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 366 for more about these. All but Delete open a script editor with the following panels: • • • • Script Content Error Conditions Continue Pattern Attributes Extraction Script Content On the left, you can enter text, Search by clicking the magnifying glass, and use Cut, Copy, Paste, Undo, Jump to Line #, reformat.
Error Conditions The error condition lets you configure errors for your script. Click Add new error conditions to configure a condition at the bottom of this screen with the following fields: Error Pattern—Enter a regular expression for the error. Error Type— Select from the pick list of options (Error, Warning, Ignore). Number of lines to check— Enter the number of lines of the script output to check for the pattern specified above, after each command execution.
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 portion of this editor. This lets you Add, Edit or Delete extracted attributes, like Error Conditions’s editor, and configure them with the following fields: Attribute Name—This field specifies the name of the extracted attribute.
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. Lines that are missing in one, but that appear in another appear highlighted red. Added lines appear highlighted in yellow. Use the right/left arrows at the bottom of this screen to page through the side-by-side comparison.
Results Dell OpenManage Network Manager stores the results of running a script as lines the Execution Details snap panel. Right click the particular command run in the snap panel at the bottom of the Expanded Actions Portlet. Tabs show the Results, Sent Command, and Script and Parameters. When viewing a script run the results of running it appear target device-by-device.
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 359. Seeded Scripts Several external perl scripts come with Dell OpenManage Network Manager as examples of the kind of commands you can execute. These are in \owareapps\performance\scripts under the installation root.
perl ../../../owareapps/performance/scripts/http_test.pl Notice that these also include a parameter (Result) that contains values extracted. Set up attribute extraction in the Values Extraction tab of the script editor. Script Names and Functions common.pl— Common functions defined for scripts in this directory.
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 running on a specified host. nntp_test.pl— Check if the NNTP service is running on a specified host. (Public NNTP server to test: news.aioe.org) peping_test.pl—Check if a target is pingable from the specified remote host. pop3_test.
8 Look in Job Viewer for the results. Click Set attribute extraction results, click here to see the results appear in the bottom panel. Notice also that you must check informational messages for all these to appear, and that several additional sets of messages besides the extraction results appear. Create a Monitor for the External Script Adaptive ACLI Now that you have verified the script is working, you can create a monitor to see how this attribute is doing.
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 Script Language Syntax Here's the Adaptive CLI scripting language syntax: • • CLI script is a line-based syntax. In other words, each line’s syntax has to be completed. CLI script supports primarily two features: Attributes and Conditional Blocks.
The default mandatory delimiters are <>, and the default optional delimiters are [], but you can change those default settings. That means an Attribute variable like may represent a mandatory or an optional Attribute depending on what are set as delimiters. NOTE: Single delimiter symbols require a space after the attribute. These do allow values immediately before the symbol.
Perl Scripts This section describes the details of using Perl scripts within Adaptive CLI. See Using Perl in Adaptive CLI on page 342 for more about why to use Perl. The Perl output goes to the selected target device. Typically, this means creating lines like the following: println(“show $param”); or print(“show $param\n”); You must specify parameters within the script (like $param) in the screen described in Attributes on page 350.
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 panel define the Attribute Delimiter (< >) and Optional Attributes Delimiter ([ ]) and enter the following three scripts: show run show show [Optional] 4 Save this Adaptive CLI execute it with action > Execute.
General This screen lets you identify the scheduled item and its targets. This has the following fields: General Settings Action—Identifies the action being scheduled. Schedule Description—Identifies the schedule. Associated Targets Click the Add button to select target equipment. You can remove listed equipment with the icon to the right of listed items or with the Remove All button.
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 fields to make their description appear in a tooltip. Schedule This screen is a standard scheduler screen, as described in Schedules on page 95. Active Performance Monitor Support You can monitor Adaptive CLI execution results with Active Performance Monitor.
panel) and a particular Adaptive CLI (with the green plus [+] in the Adaptive CLI Properties panel at the bottom of this screen. Click the Edit (page) icon to select the Input Parameters to monitor once you have selected an Adaptive CLI. The user can choose an Adaptive CLI to monitor and may have to configure both its input values and metric type for each output attribute. The Input data depends on what is configured in the Adaptive CLI attributes.
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, select the row and click the Edit button to its right.
Adaptive CLI Records Archiving Policy | Actions and Adaptive CLI
Glossary Glossary ACCESS CONTROL — 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. ALARM — A signal alerting the user to an error or fault. Alarms are produced by events. Alarms produce a message within the Alarm Window.
ETHERNET TRUNK PORT — An Ethernet trunk port is a port that terminates a point-to-point Ethernet trunk. Since Ethernet trunk is a point-to-point connection, each Ethernet trunk contains two Ethernet trunk ports. ETHERNET SERVICE — An Ethernet service represents a virtual layer broadcast domain that transports or transmits Ethernet traffic entering from any one endpoint to all other endpoints. Often, this is a VLAN service across multiple devices.
FILTER — In network security, a filter is a program or section of code that is designed to examine each input or output request for certain qualifying criteria and then process or forward it accordingly. GUI — Graphical User Interface ISATAP — The Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) is an IPv6 transition mechanism which is defined as a tunneling IPv6 interface and is meant to transmit IPv6 packets between dual-stack nodes on top of an IPv4 network.
POLICY ROUTING — Routing scheme that forwards packets to specific interfaces based on user-configured policies. Such policies might specify that traffic sent from a particular network should be routed through interface, while all other traffic should be routed through another interface. POLICY RULES — In a policy enforced network (PEN), policy rules determine how the mem- bers and endpoint groups of a policy group communicate.
and a self-signed certificate does not provide any guarantee concerning the identity of the organization that is providing the website. SMTP — Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. SNMP — Simple Network Management Protocol. Network management protocol used almost exclusively in TCP/IP networks. SNMP provides the means to monitor and control network devices, and to manage configurations, statistics collection, performance, and security.
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Index Numerics 32-bit Linux Libraries 18 A A Note About Performance 13 About Box 72 Access Control 375 ACLI needs Perl 32 Acrobat 19 Action Job Screen Results panel 362 Actions 116, 343 Active Performance Monitor SNMP Performance Monitoring 262 SNMP Performance Monitoring Example 262 Active Performance Monitor Support 371 Adaptive CLI 343 Attribute Appearance and Validation 359 Attributes 350 Conditional Blocks 367 General 349 Monitor Attributes 373 Non Configuration attributes 357 Perl Scripts 368 Scripts
| Configuration File Editor 231 Configuration Files 229 Configure Alarm E-mail 103 Contacts Editor 134 Contacts Portlet 133 Container Editor 148 Container Manager 146 Container Manager Expanded 146 Container View 147 Containers Portlets filtered 147 Continue Pattern 358 Control Panel 34 CoS 375 Creating a new label 226 Creating or Modifying a ProScan Policy 310 Creating or Modifying ProScan Policy Groups 325 Custom Action 122 Custom attributes 45 Custom Debug 73 Customizing Report Logos 206 D DAP 50 D
Expanded Location Portlet 137 Expanded OS Images portlet.
| 227 Run Change Determination 329 Set Unix Permissions 31 Share a Resource 88 Use “How To” 12 Use Containers 147 Use Traffic Flow Analyzer 295 I ICMP Monitor 267 IIS 29 Import / Export 86 Installation and Startup 28 Installing Perl 32 Interfaces 180 Interfaces > Details 180 Internet Information Services 29 Introducing Storage Arrays 333 IP address changes 24 ISATAP 377 J Java 19 K Key 377 Key Features 9 Key Management 377 Key Metric Editor 289 Key Metrics Monitor 268 L Labels 224 Level 1 Filters 210
OS Image Editor 235 OS Images Portlet 233 OSPF 377 Portal > 42 Overall Compliance 307 P PDF 90 Performance Dashboard 279 Performance Dashboard Portlet 279 Performance Indicators 179 Performance Note 13 Perl 32 Perl / Java (Groovy) Language Policies 322 Permissions when installing to Unix 31 Policy 377 Policy Enforcement Points (PEP) 377 Policy routing 378 Policy Rules 378 Port Details 192 Port Expanded 193 Portal > Roles 41 Portal > Settings 41 Portal > Users 36 Portal Database Backup 62 Portal Database Res
| Schedule Refresh Monitor Targets 276 Schedules 95 Schedules Portlet 95 Scheduling 95 Scheduling Actions 186 Scheduling Monitor Target Refresh 276 Scheduling Refresh Monitor Targets 276 Screen resolution 19 Screen width in pixels 20 Search in Portlets 81 Search Indexes 34 Self-signed Certificate 378 Server 49 Server Statistics 244 Sharing 87 Show Performance Templates 286 Show Versions 72 Site Map portlet 77 Sizing memory 28 SMTP 379 SMTP Configuration 69 Snap Panels 83 SNMP 379 SNMP Interface Monito
Upgrade licenses from previous version 12 V Vendors Portlet 139 Vendors Snap Panel 141 View as PDF 90 Visualization 207 Actions 209 Alarms 219 Balloon 216 Basic Spring 219 Circular 218 Configuring Views 208 Data / Node Finder 213 Displayed Levels 210 Graph Inventory 214 Hierarchical-Cyclic 218 Icons 215 LAYOUT 216 Layout 216 Saving Views 213 STYLE OPTIONS 211 View Details 213 ZOOM 210 Visualize My Network 207 VLAN 379 W WBEM 26 root login 27 WBEM Prerequisites 27 Web-Based Enterprise Management 26 Why share
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