Using NNM GUI

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Invoke NNM Map

 ovw GUI
 Options
– ovw
– ovw –map <mapname>
– ovw –map <mapname> -submap <submapname
– ovw –copymap <sourcemap> <destmap>
– ovw –newmap <mapname>
– ovw –deletemap <mapname>

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Symbol status
 Operational Status
– Unknown (Dark Blue)
– Normal/Up (Green)
– Warning (Cyan)
– Minor/Marginal (Yellow)
– Major (Orange)
– Critical/Down (Red)
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 Administrative Status
– Unmanaged (Off-white)
– Testing (Salmon)
– Restricted (Tan)
– Disabled (Dark Brown)
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Map Options

 Quick Navigator
 Pan and Zoom
 Connection Port Labelling
 Hiding symbols
 Automatic Layout
 Submap overlay and geometry

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NNM Tools for Monitoring

 Fault
– Tools for testing network connectivity
– ping, remote ping, poll node (SNMP),
status poll, trace route
– Test IP/TCP/SNMP
– Locate Route via SNMP

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NNM Tools for Monitoring

 Configuration
– verify certain configuration aspects of node
– IP Addresses
– IP Routing Table
– IP ARP Cache
– IP Services

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NNM Tools for Monitoring

 Performance
– Network activity
– System Utilization
– Network Polling Statistics
 NNM Grapher (xnmgraph)
 SNMP MIB Browser
 Topology Summary

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NNM Event Processing - Overview

 Definitions
– Trap
 Specific message sent by an SNMP agent to NNM
management station, received by ovtrapd
– Event
 Internal message format resulting from a trap which has NNM
header information added to it or a message that occurs
between two NNM processes
– Alarm
 After an event is received, it is processed to result in an alarm.
Not all events will result in an alarm

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NNM Event Processing - Overview

 Event Processing
– Outside events received by ovtrapd and passed to
pmd
– Inside events passed to pmd
– pmd sends all events to Event Correlation System
(ECS)
– ECS processes event
– Events may be correlated or an alarm may be
generated

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NNM Alarms

 Alarm Browser
– Alarm Categories
– Alarm Details
– Show Correlated Events
– Grouping Alarms
– Filtering Alarms
– Acknowledging Alarms
– Deleting Alarms

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