Solstice Enterprise Manager 4.1 Managing Your Network

Preface

This guide provides step-by-step instructions and basic reference information for performing daily network management operations and for updating an existing Solstice Enterprise Manager network configuration.

Who Should Use This Book

This book is intended for individuals who have the authority and the responsibility to operate and maintain medium to large area local and remote networks. This book is not aimed at people who have not yet acquired the experience and expertise in managing systems and networks.

Before You Read This Book

If you have just acquired Solstice Enterprise Manager (Solstice EM) read the Solstice Enterprise Manager Release Notes for late-breaking information on compatibility and minimum machine and software requirements, and an inventory of the product components. Refer to online help and the books listed in Related Books for additional information about related topics.

How This Book Is Organized

Chapter 1 Introduction to Solstice Enterprise Manager provides an introduction to the components of Solstice EM and their architectural relationship.

Chapter 2 Getting Started With Solstice EM provides information for setting the necessary environment variables and starting Solstice EM. The chapter includes instructions on how to add, modify, and delete Solstice EM tools to the Network Tools window for quick access.

Chapter 3 Discovering Network Components provides information on using Discover to configure the Solstice EM database with hosts, routers, networks, and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) devices to be managed.

Chapter 4 Viewing Network Components provides information on the tools used to display graphical views of managed resources.

Chapter 5 Managing Alarms provides information on monitoring the alarms reports that have been sent to the MIS.

Chapter 6 Controlling User Accessprovides information on using Access Manager to set up groups and user accounts which control user access privileges within Solstice EM.

Chapter 7 Automating Nerve Center Requests provides information on configuring and starting/stopping the automatic management function.

Chapter 8 Gathering Attribute Data provides information on configuring and browsing the attributes of a Viewer's object.

Chapter 9 Viewing Collected Data provides information on collecting and viewing attributes from SNMP and SNM objects.

Chapter 10 Graphing Collected Data describes how to graph collected attribute data.

Chapter 11 Examining Log Entries provides the capability to browse through each log record within each log object.

Appendix A Integrating Solstice Enterprise^TM SyMON System Monitor With Solstice EM provides details on how to integrate SyMON with Solstice EM.

Appendix B Managed Object Definitions provides explanatory and reference information about the Management Information Base (MIB), an important part of the Solstice Enterprise Manager architecture, and MIBs supported by Solstice EM.

Related Books

Following is a list of related books:

• Installation Guide
• Customizing Guide
• Troubleshooting Guide
• Management Information Server (MIS) Guide
• CORBA Gateway Administration Guide

What Typographic Changes Mean

The following table describes the typographic changes used in this book.

TABLE P-1   Typographic Conventions 

Typeface or Symbol	Meaning	Example
AaBbCc123	The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output	Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. machine_name% You have mail.
AaBbCc123	What you type, contrasted with on-screen computer output	machine_name% su Password:
AaBbCc123	Command-line placeholder: replace with a real name or value	To delete a file, type rm filename.
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new words or terms, or words to be emphasized	These are called class options. You must be root to do this.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.

TABLE P-2   Shell Prompts

Shell	Prompt
C shell prompt	machine_name%
C shell superuser prompt	machine_name#
Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt	$
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt	#

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