Solstice Enterprise Manager 4.1 Management Information Server (MIS) Guide

Preface

This Guide provides information and instructions for administrating the Solstice Enterprise Manager (Solstice EM) Management Information Server (MIS).

Who Should Use This Guide

This guide is for system, network, and database administrators who are responsible for maintaining the Solstice EM MIS and database.

In this guide you will find the topics and tasks most central to administrating the MIS. Detailed instructions for using related applications, tools, and Solstice EM features are in other publications within the Solstice EM documentation set.

How This Guide Is Organized

Chapter 1 Introduction is an overview of the MIS in Solstice EM. This chapter is recommended reading for new administrators and administrators who are new to the Solstice EM product.

Chapter 2 Operating MIS provides instructions for starting, monitoring the daemon processes, and shutting down the MIS. Included in this chapter are instructions for starting the MIS after installation and when there are problems with data in the database.

Chapter 3 Accessing a Remote MIS details how to set up communication between a local and remote MIS. It includes explanations and examples that help you decide when to implement a multiple-MIS architecture.

Chapter 4 Managing MIS provides information and procedures for performing tasks that will help you effectively manage your MIS.

Chapter 5 Backing Up/Restoring and Exporting/Importing Data contains guidelines for backing up and restoring your database, network view, and agent data. Also, it provides instructions for exporting and importing data.

Chapter 6 Managing Event Logs contains information about how the MIS performs log management.

Chapter 7 Obtaining Data From the Database provides instructions for performing database queries.

Chapter 8 Adding New Data Definitions contains procedures for adding new event types and managed object classes. Also included are instructions for converting Sun Management Information Bases (MIB) and SunNet Manager schema to GDMO defined managed object classes.

Appendix A Database Schema contains information on how the database is structured and how log descriptions map or relate to the tables.

Appendix B Management Information Tree (MIT) provides a description of the compilers provided with Solstice EM.

Related Books

Refer to the following books for additional information and, in some cases, detailed instructions:

• Customizing Guide
• Managing Your Network
• Troubleshooting Guide
• Developing C++ Application

What Typographic Changes Mean

The following table describes the typographic conventions used in this guide.

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	Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. 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	#

User Interface Conventions

The following subsections define the conventions used in this guide for describing user interactions with the Graphical User Interface provided with Solstice EM.

Mouse/Menu Interactions

In the interest of clarity and brevity, we have streamlined the conventions used to describe user interactions with the Solstice EM system. For example, the following is a task description:

To exit, press the right mouse button on the File icon. In the pull-down menu that you receive, move the mouse pointer down to Exit and release the right mouse button.

And it would be condensed to the following:

To exit, select File \xd4 Exit.

The symbol \xd4 indicates movement to (selection of) the "level" or item indicated after the symbol.

The Solstice EM Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) are, with the exception of the MIS Objects tool, based on the standard Motif libraries. Therefore, the Motif conventions for selecting and manipulating GUI objects--such as icons, menu items--hold true for the Solstice EM interface.

The following table defines the conventions used in this guide to describe item selection and activation.

TABLE P-3   User Interaction Equivalents  

Complete Description	As Described in this Document
Select an item by clicking once with the left mouse button.	Select an item.
Activate an item by double-clicking with the left mouse button.	Activate an item.
Press left on the slider in the scrollbar and move the slider so that the item comes into view.	Scroll until the item comes into view.
Press right on the icon to obtain the icon pulldown menu. Move the mouse pointer over the item in the menu and release the mouse button.	Select icon -> item. or Invoke icon -> item.
Press and hold middle mouse button on the icon. Move the mouse pointer to the target location and release the mouse button.	Drag and drop.

Accessing Sun Documentation Online

The docs.sun.comsm web site enables you to access Sun technical documentation on the Web. You can browse the docs.sun.com archive or search for a specific book title or subject at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/documentation/index.html

Also, you can view the online documentation by pointing your browser to the following URL, file:/opt/SUNWconn/em/docs/SEMDOCHP/index.html

Sun Welcomes Your Comments

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