IBM 5.5 User Manual

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Contents

Preface

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About this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

Typographical notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

Note, tip, and warning information . . . . . . . . xi
Syntax and sample subheadings . . . . . . . . . . .xii

Associated publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

IBM Tivoli Netcool®/OMNIbus™ Installation
and Deployment Guide

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IBM Tivoli Netcool®/OMNIbus™ User Guide
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IBM Tivoli Netcool®/OMNIbus™
Administration Guide

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IBM Tivoli Netcool®/OMNIbus™ Probe and
Gateway Guide

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Online help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

Operating system considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

How to send your comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv

Chapter 1. Introduction

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Introduction to Netcool/Precision TN . . . . . . . . . 1

How Netcool/Precision TN works . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

NETypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Deep discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Netcool/Precision TN product components . . . . 6

Netcool/Precision TN server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Network Pilot client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Overview of the Netcool Installer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Netcool Installer modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Changing the Netcool suite installation
directory

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New relational database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Chapter 2. Installing Netcool/Precision
TN

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Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Solaris system requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Browser requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Database requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Installing Netcool/Precision TN . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Obtaining the software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Running the installation in GUI mode . . . . . . 14
Running the installation in console mode . . . 19
Running the installation in silent mode . . . . . 20
Viewing the installation log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Viewing installed packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Setting up an Oracle database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Creating the Oracle schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Configuring advanced Oracle features . . . . .23

Setting up a MySQL database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Using an existing copy of MySQL. . . . . . . . . . 25
Configuring your version of MySQL . . . . . . . 25
Configuring Netcool/Precision TN . . . . . . . . 26
Creating the MySQL schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Netcool/Precision TN directory structure . . . . .28

Netcool/Precision TN executables . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Third-party and Open Source software. . . . . . . . 29

Chapter 3. Running Netcool/Precision
TN

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Downloading NETypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Starting the product components . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Step 1 – starting the database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Step 2 – starting the Netcool/Precision TN
server

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Step 3 – starting Network Pilot . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Shutting down the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Shutting the server down from Network Pilot .
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