Installing NMServer for OpenVMS Tools for HP OpenView Network Node Manager Last Modified: 2/22/06 Table of Contents ----------------- I. Windows Installation Instructions II. UNIX Installation Instructions III. Custom Installation Instructions IV. Configuring OpenView to Use NMServer for OpenVMS Tools -->I. Windows Installation Instructions<-- Notes: If your OpenView path name includes spaces, the .bat procedure will not work. Instead, follow the installation directions listed under Section III, Custom Installation Instructions. The following commands use the OpenView environment variables for universal pathnames as defined by the HP OpenView ov.envvars.bat script. Make sure that these environment variables are defined or execute the appropriate script to define them. Refer to the HP OpenView help topic for ov.envvars for more information. To refer to the OpenView environment variables referenced in the instructions below, use %% format instead of the $ format shown here. For example, $OV_SNMP_MIBS\vendor becomes %OV_SNMP_MIBS%\vendor 1. FTP the nmservervms_openview.zip file to your OpenView NNM server and unzip it. 2. Run the install_nmservervms.bat batch command procedure. 3. Stop and restart ovw. 4. Configure VMS nodes as described in the "Configuring OpenView to Use NMServer for OpenVMS Tools" section below. -->II. UNIX Installation Instructions<-- Notes: The following commands use the OpenView environment variables for universal pathnames as defined by the HP OpenView ov.envvars.sh script. Make sure that these environment variables are defined or execute the appropriate script to define them. Refer to the HP OpenView help topic for ov.envvars for more information. 1. FTP the nmservervms_openview.zip file to your OpenView NNM server. 2. Unzip nmservervms_openview.zip using the following command: unzip -aa nmservervms_openview.zip 3. Use the UNIX chmod command to set install_nmservervms.sh to executable. 4. Run the install_nmservervms.sh shell script. 5. Stop and restart ovw. 6. Configure VMS nodes as described in the "Configuring OpenView to Use NMServer for OpenVMS Tools" section below. -->III. Custom Installation Instructions<-- Notes: The following commands use the OpenView environment variables for universal pathnames as defined by the HP OpenView ov.envvars.sh script. Make sure that these environment variables are defined or execute the appropriate script to define them. Refer to the HP OpenView help topic for ov.envvars for more information. On Windows, to refer to the OpenView environment variables referenced in the instructions below, use the %% format instead of the $ format shown here. For example, $OV_SNMP_MIBS\vendor becomes %OV_SNMP_MIBS%\vendor 1. FTP the nmservervms_openview.zip file to your OpenView NNM server and unzip it. 2. Load the NMServer for OpenVMS MIB: a. Create following directory: $OV_SNMP_MIBS\Vendor\COMTEK\VMS b. Copy all files from the OpenView_VMS_Tools\MIBs directory to the newly created directory c. Use xnmloadmib to load NMServer for OpenVMS MIB. xnmloadmib -replace -load NMServerVMS.mib d. Notify OpenView of the changes to the MIB database: xnmloadmib -event 3. Load NMServer for OpenVMS trap configuration definitions: a. Go to the OpenView_VMS_Tools\trapd directory b. Load the NMServer for OpenVMS trap definitions: xnmevents -replace nmservervms_trapd.conf c. Notify OpenView of the changes to the trapd.conf file: xnmevents -event 4. Copy field registration files to the appropriate directory: a. Go to the OpenView_VMS_Tools\fields directory b. Copy all files from this directory to the following directory: $OV_FIELDS\C c. Add NMServer for VMS field to the object database: ovw -fields 5. Copy application registration files to the appropriate directory: a. Go to the OpenView_VMS_Tools\ovmib directory b. Copy all files from this directory to the following directory: $OV_REGISTRATION\C\ovmib 6. Copy help files to the appropriate directory: a. Go to the OpenView_VMS_Tools\Functions directory b. Copy all files from this directory to the following directory: $OV_HELP\C\ovmib\OVW\Functions 7. Load data collection files: a. Go to the OpenView_VMS_Tools\snmpCol directory b. Load the NMServer for OpenVMS data collection definitions xnmcollect -merge nmservervms_snmpCol.conf c. Notify snmpCollect of the changes to the snmpCol.conf xnmcollect -event 8. Stop and restart ovw -->IV. Configuring OpenView to Use NMServer for OpenVMS Tools 1. Identify nodes running COMTEK's NMServer OpenVMS SNMP agent. a. On OpenView map, select VMS node that has NMServer for OpenVMS installed on it b. Right click and select "Object Properties..." c. Highlight "General Attributes" and click "Edit Attributes..." d. Click on "isNMServerVMS" to toggle it to "True" e. Click "OK" when done f. Click "OK" on "Object Properties..." dialogue box g. With VMS node still selected, click on "Tools" on the OpenView menu bar h. Scroll down to the "NMServer VMS" i. You may now use the "NMServer VMS" menus to access data gathered by NMServer for OpenVMS. 2. Customize NMServer for OpenVMS traps to cause automatic actions appropriate to your environment. Depending on your monitoring requirements, this step may not be necessary. a. Click on "Options" on OpenView menu bar b. Select "Event Configuration" c. Select the "comtekVmsNMSysMgrSubagent" Enterprise d. Double click on events in the Event window for this Enterprise e. Review event configuration on "Description" and "Event Message" tabs, modify, if necessary f. Use "Action" and "Forwarding" tabs to customize the event g. Repeat the above steps for all comtekVmsNMSysMgrSubagent events h. Repeat the above steps for the comtekVmsNMConsoleSubagent and comtekVmsNMTrpMgrSubagent Enterprises. Do not configure the comtekVmsNMOpcomSubagent Enterprise unless instructed to do so by COMTEK. 3. Enabling MIB data collection. The NMServer for OpenVMS tools for NNM include over 75 pre-configured data collection objects. These data collection objects are suspended when the tools are installed. You may choose to enable any number of these collection objects for any node that has NMServer for OpenVMS installed on it. a. Click on "Options" on OpenView menu bar b. Select "Data Collection & Thresholds: SNMP" c. Locate and highlight a collection object that you want to enable d. Click on "Edit" e. Click on "MIB Collection" f. Select "New..." g. Specify nodes that data should be collected from h. Set "Polling interval" to appropriate value (no less then 1m) g. Set any other values i. Click on "OK" j. Click on "File" and select "Save". Data collection only begins after changes have been saved.