Table of Contents

1.1 ViewRunner for HP OpenView Architecture Overview
1.2 Feature Overview
1.3 ViewRunner Server Applications
1.4 ViewRunner Client Applications
1.5 Downloading System Software from CCO

ViewRunner for HP OpenView Overview

1.1 ViewRunner for HP OpenView Architecture Overview

ViewRunner for HP OpenView is the Element Management System (EMS) for the Cisco 6100. It is built on the industry-leading Hewlett-Packard OpenView SNMP management system, and uses an Oracle Relational Database Management System as an underlying data store.

ViewRunner for HP OpenView is composed of two sets of applications: ViewRunner Server Applications and ViewRunner Client Applications. A single workstation may support both server and client applications, and multiple workstations may be configured as clients to a single server. The following diagrams illustrate the configurations supported by this release of ViewRunner for HP OpenView.

1.2 Feature Overview

This section presents an overview of the major features of ViewRunner for HP OpenView. These features are discussed in detail in subsequent sections of this document and in the ViewRunner for HP OpenView Provisioning and Operation Guide, a companion document to this one. The primary features of ViewRunner for HP OpenView include:

• Security Management

  • Provides for three levels of user permissions - guest, operator, and administrator

  • Uses a feature capability matrix (FCM) file to customize both the GUI and operational features for a particular Cisco 6100 based on the system controller (SC) software release level to prevent attempts to use features that are not available

• Map Synchronization

  • Synchronizes the current OpenView map information with the information in the Oracle database (using standard OpenView symbol visual cues)

  • Updates displays in all read-write maps dynamically to allow for multiple user management

  • Updates to read-only maps are manual to prevent performance degradation

  • Discovers all Cisco 6100 IP addresses from the OpenView IP devices database (automatic or manual)

• Configuration Synchronization

  • Synchronizes the Oracle cache with the Cisco 6100 element database for all physical and logical entities within the system, including modules and subscribers

  • Determines the least impact level on users to synchronize the systems (through intelligent configuration synchronization)

  • Provides for automatic, manual, or scheduled synchronizations

• Configuration Management

  • Allows for service provisioning in different configurations (Digital Off-Hook (DOH) and direct connect)

  • Allows for bulk provisioning through the configuration save and restore capabilities

  • Provides for pooling of subscribers and setting of CAP RADSL and ATM properties per subscriber

  • Allows up to seven Cisco 6100s to share a single ATM connection through subtending

  • Tracks inventory for equipment, software images, subscribers, and subscriber PVCs

  • Displays inventory screens for nodes, subtend groups, or wire centers

• Fault Management

  • Receives traps from the Cisco 6100, uses sequence numbers to detect missed, duplicated or out of order traps, and synchronizes with the current state (with background polling and intelligent configuration synchronization)

  • Dynamically updates all client windows with event and configuration changes

  • Uses color to indicate highest level alarm of any entity within a node in the View Map windows (background of the icon), types of alarms in the Event History and Event Category windows, and module state (on module tabs)

  • Displays the current alarm count on the menu bar and displays a Current Alarm window

• Performance Management

  • Provides counters for logical pool connections, line connections, RADSL trains, and pool utilization thresholds of 80% and 100%.

  • Displays counter information on performance management screens

  • Displays all active ADSL connections and a summary of pool usage

• Alarm Synchronization

  • Synchronizes the ViewRunner client GUIs and Oracle alarm database with the Cisco 6100 slot, module, port, and image alarm states

  • Allows the setting of polling intervals for alarm synchronizations with minimal impact on users

• Loss of Communication Management

  • Detects loss of communication when the SC is out of service, network is down, or network is congested

  • Indicates loss of communication through ViewMap symbol background color, Error Events category, pop-up error window, Current Alarm window entry, Chassis View SC ejector tab red, or all other ejector tabs white

  • Polls periodically to see if communications are restored

  • Performs an intelligent configuration synchronization as soon as communication is restored

1.3 ViewRunner Server Applications

The following are ViewRunner Server Applications:

• View Process Monitor (vrProcessMon)

  • Handles all communication with clients

  • Monitors other ViewRunner servers

  • Restarts other ViewRunner servers if they exit abnormally

  • Started and monitored by the vrStart utility

• View Data Collector (vrDataCollect)

  • Collects performance management data from Cisco 6100s upon client request

• View Network Monitor (vrNetMon)

  • Discovers Cisco 6100s and Cisco 6100 resources such as chassis, modules, pools, and subscribers

  • Synchronizes the Oracle database with Cisco 6100 configuration data

  • Services client requests, such as retrieving dynamic data from Cisco 6100s and sending provisioning data to Cisco 6100s

• View Alarm Formatter (vrAlarmFormatter)

  • Receives traps from Cisco 6100s

  • Formats the trap for display in the HPOV Event Browser

  • Stores the alarms in the database

  • Distributes the alarms to registered clients

  • Executes the View Alarm Synchronization application

• View Alarm Synchronizer (vrAlarmSync)

  • Synchronizes alarms between Cisco 6100s and the Oracle database

  • Generates either a set or clear alarm (tagged as "Discovered by ViewRunner") if a mismatch is detected

1.4 ViewRunner Client Applications

The following are ViewRunner Client applications:

• View Map

  • Provides the user login function for ViewRunner

  • Started automatically by OpenView Windows (OVW). HP OpenView maps must be created explicitly with support for View Map to use this application

  • Provides a hierarchical structure for partitioning the management of Cisco 6100s. Typically, the partitioning is based on geographical separation, but it is not required to be

  • Operates similarly to HP OpenView's IP Map Application in that it discovers managed entities and propagates alarm colors

• View LoopRunner

  • Provides a graphical view of the Cisco 6100

  • Provides the mechanism for provisioning and querying the status of Cisco 6100s

  • Provides substantially the same functionality as ViewRunner for Windows

• View Admin

  • Provides the mechanism for administering ViewRunner users

  • Allows creation, deletion, and modification of user accounts

  • Permits the restriction of user permissions by feature or location

1.5 Downloading System Software from CCO

The ViewRunner for HP OpenView software, the latest Feature Compatibility Matrix File (FCM), and other system files can be found on the following Cisco Connection Online Web sites:

http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/viewrunner

ftp://username@www.cisco.com/cisco/netmgmt/viewrunner

Posted: Fri Apr 23 13:57:21 PDT 1999
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