ViewRunner for HP OpenView Overview
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ViewRunner for HP OpenView Overview
ViewRunner for HP OpenView is the Element Management System (EMS) for the Cisco 6100 Series. It is built on the industry-leading Hewlett-Packard OpenView Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) system and uses an Oracle Relational Database Management System as an underlying data store.
Note Modifying the Cisco 6100 Series configurations using another SNMP system, such as ViewRunner for Windows or Management Information Base (MIB) browsers, while also running ViewRunner for HP OpenView results in the Oracle database being out of synchronization with the actual node configuration. ViewRunner for HP OpenView detects the out-of-sync condition and automatically initiates a configuration synchronization, so that data integrity is not lost. However, because user requests are queued during configuration synchronization, ViewRunner for HP OpenView locks out users from managing that node during synchronization.
ViewRunner for HP OpenView comprises two sets of applications.
- ViewRunner Server Applications
- 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 diagrams shown in Figure 1-1 and Figure 1-2 illustrate the configurations supported by this release of ViewRunner for HP OpenView. Table 1-1 summarizes the operating system versions, HP OpenView versions, and Oracle versions that are supported with this release.
Figure 1-1: ViewRunner Server/Client---Single Workstation
Figure 1-2: ViewRunner Server/Client---Separate Workstations
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. ViewRunner for HP OpenView includes the following primary features:
- Security Management
- Provides for three levels of user permissions---guest, operator, and administrator.
- Uses a feature compatibility matrix (FCM) file to customize both the GUI and operational features for a particular Cisco 6100 Series system based on the SC module software release level, which prevents 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 Series system IP addresses from the OpenView IP devices database (automatic or manual).
- Configuration Synchronization
- Synchronizes the Oracle cache with the Cisco 6100 Series system 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 the pooling of subscribers and setting of CAP RADSL and ATM properties per subscriber.
- Allows up to seven Cisco 6100 Series systems 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 Series system. 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 the highest level alarm of any entity within a node in the ViewMap windows (background of the icon), the types of alarms in the All Events Browser and Event Categories windows, and the module state (on module tabs).
- Displays the current alarm count on the menu bar. You can choose to display a list of current alarms.
- Performance Management
- Provides counters for logical pool connections, line connections, rate adaptive digital subscriber line (RADSL) trains, and pool utilization thresholds of 80 percent and 100 percent.
- Displays counter information on performance management screens.
- Displays all active asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) connections and a summary of pool usage.
- Alarm Synchronization
- Synchronizes the ViewRunner client GUIs and Oracle alarm database with the Cisco 6100 Series system 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 system controller module is out of service, the network is down, or the network is congested.
- Indicates loss of communication through the ViewMap symbol background color, Error Events Browser, Current Alarms dialog box entry, a red Chassis View system controller module ejector tab, or through all other ejector tabs being white.
- Polls periodically to see if communication is restored.
- Performs an intelligent configuration synchronization as soon as communication is restored.
Following are the ViewRunner Server Applications:
Following are the ViewRunner Client applications:
The ViewRunner for HP OpenView software, the latest FCM files, 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 Oct 8 13:45:11 PDT 1999
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