Overview
This course is designed for those Network and/or System administrators tasked with the installation, configuration, and maintenance of the Network Node Manager i Software (NNMi) product. This course teaches the skills needed to successfully implement the product to manage small, medium, or large networked enterprises. The course includes training on the NNM i Smart Plug-In (NNM iSPI) Performance for Metrics Software.
This course is designed for administrators of the NNMi software 10.x application.
The hands-on lab exercises in this course use NNMi software version 10.0.
Prerequisites
To maximize success in this course, students should have a working knowledge the following topics:
- Windows system administration
- Network protocols
- Network device administration
Target group description
This course is intended for network or system administrators and network engineers seeking a more in-depth knowledge of Network Node Manager i Software 10.x.
Delegates will learn how to
At the end of the course, you should be able to:
- Configure network discovery
- Manipulate NNMi tables and device object records
- Design topology maps
- Configure incidents
- Generate performance graphs
- Generate performance reports
- Perform core administration tasks
Outline
Module 1: Introduction to HP Network Node Manager i (NNMi) Software
- Course Objectives
- Configure network discovery
- Manipulate NNMi tables and device object records
- Design topology maps
- Configure incidents
- Generate performance graphs
- Generate performance reports
- Perform core administration tasks
Module 2: Managing SNMP and ICMP Communication
- Configure authentication for SNMPv1, SNMPv2, SNMPv3 (individual, region, type, filter, default)
- Configure alternative authentication names
- Use an alternate SNMP port or timeout
- Use an SNMP proxy
- Use the SNMP Command Line Interface (CLI)
Module 3: Discovery Architecture and Operation
- Describe what NNMi discovers, how far, which objects
- Describe how NNMi groups discovered objects
- Describe how NNMi discovers connectivity
- Describe limits of duplicate IP address management
Module 4: Configuring Discovery
- Turn auto-discover (inventory) on/off
- Schedule discovery
- Initiate manual discovery (single, group, all nodes)
- Expand discovery (single node, from file, for region)
- Limit discovery (filter by region, type, node or interface level, before/after SNMP query)
- Recheck node configuration
- Recheck connectivity
- Remove discovered objects (individually, by filter, by region)
Module 5: Using the Management Console
- Start the NNMi console
- Locate workspaces
- Navigate tables, maps, views, and forms
- Access object details
- Sort and filter tables
Module 6: Configuring Node and Interface Groups
- Describe how node and interface groups are applied in NNMi
- Configure a group by object type, region, specific object, default
- Use advanced filtering on object capabilities
Module 7: Customizing Views
- Create a map of a node group
- Place the map in the list of topology maps
- Control the default map displayed when the console opens
- Add a background to a map
- Control status propagation
- Add connections to Path View maps
Module 8: Status Monitoring Architecture and Operation
- Differentiate between fault monitoring and performance monitoring
- Identify data gathered for interface monitoring and component health
- Describe the roles of State Poller and Causal Engine
- Describe the operation of neighbor analysis
Module 9: Customizing Status Monitoring
- Turn polling on/off (specific nodes, region, type)
- Set polling interval by node or interface group
- Set objects to out-of-service mode
- Select polling protocol and set of data to be gathered
- Verify the polling settings for an object
- Perform an on-demand status poll of an object
- Check polling backlog/performance
- Exclude objects from status polling (individual, region, type)
Module 10: Configuring Users
- Configure a user account for each of your NNMi users with the appropriate capabilities
- Describe what each user group may access in the console
- Configure Custom Security groups
- Configure tenants
- Configure command-line permissions
- Audit account activity
Module 11: Troubleshooting Network Issues
- Describe the incident life cycle, assignments and ownership, and states
- View network incidents and incident details
- Sort and filter incidents
- Assign and reassign incidents
- Delete an incident
- Annotate an incident
- View historical incidents (closed)
- Cross-launch to graphical visualization
- Interpret root cause incidents
- Launch and interpret network visualization (different types)
- List nodes, interfaces, and addresses in the network
- View object details
- Filter a view by node group or interface group
- Invoke troubleshooting tools
- Check the status and configuration of a device
- Display incidents for a device
Module 12: Troubleshooting Using MIBs
- Describe the use of Management Information Base (MIB) browsing and graphing during troubleshooting
- Graph MIB data
- Browse MIB data
Module 13: Event Monitoring Architecture
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Describe event sources and processing
Module 14: Customizing Event Monitoring
- Add and delete event definitions
- Customize event category/severity/message
- Create a new category or family
- Add vendor trap definitions
- Exclude an event from display
- Block trap storms
- Block reception of events
Module 15: Thresholds and Customed MIB Monitoring
- Configure iSPI Performance for Metrics Software thresholds and incidents
- Configure Custom Polling Threshold Monitoring
Module 16: iSPI Performance for Metrics Software Architecture
- Describe how NNMi passes data to the iSPI for Performance Metrics Software
- Describe how the iSPI Performance for Metrics Software stores data
- Perform basic troubleshooting steps
- Verify that data are being collected by NNMi
- Verify that collected data is being used by the iSPI Performance for Metrics Software
- Check that the iSPI Performance for Metrics Software is configured properly
- Start the iSPI Performance for Metrics Software service
- Verify that performance polling is enabled
- Verify that the iSPI Performance for Metrics Software Home Page opens
Module 17: Viewing Performance Data and Reports
- List the reports available from the iSPI Performance for Metrics Software
- Explain the difference between Reports and Live Reports
- Modify the report settings to change the way a report displays data
- Create Custom Dashboards
Module 18: Administering NNMi
- Customize NNMi console settings
- Back up NNMi data and configuration
- Check NNMi health from the GUI
- Locate NNMi log files
- Move from test to production (import/export tools)
Module 19: Managing Virtualization
- Identify the Hypervisor (ESXi Server) hosting a virtual machine (VM)
- Use a loom map to identify the hosting Hypervisor's Network Interface Card (NIC) that the Virtual Machine is connected to
- Use a wheel map to identify the hosting hypervisor's Network Interface Card (NIC) that the Virtual Machine is connected to.
Appendix A: iSPI Engineering Toolset
- Describe the functionality provided by the iSPI Network Engineering Toolset
- Generate Incident-triggered diagnostic execution
- Generate Trap Analytics reports