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NNMi / NNMi Advanced / NNM iSPI Performance patch available has new functionality

Network Node Manager i (NNMi) 8.11 is now available. This applies to NNMi, NNMi Advanced and NNM iSPI Performance. In addition to a variety of defect fixes, we have included some new functionality. All of the new functionality is turned off by default, so check the docs to see how to turn on what you want.

Some of this functionality may have been discussed before but for completeness…

• Custom poller collection (NNMi NNMi Advanced) – this allows you to pick an OID you would like to poll and set a threshold. You can also define the state of the OID based on a returned value and have that state reflected on the node and/or create incidents. This is useful if you have some special metric you want to monitor and be alerted when it goes off your norm.

We had many requests for this functionality. There is a new doc just for this called - Online Help: Custom Poller for Administrators. In addition, a whitepaper called - NNMi Step-by-Step Guide to Using the NNMi Custom Poller White Paper. You can find these at the same place as all the manuals at the Selfsolve site.

• Application Level Failover (NNMi, NNMi Advanced) – this is the ability to have a backup NNMi system monitor the primary and assume polling et al if the primary is unavailable. This is useful when your organization doesn’t use a cluster technology for failover. Read the post on Application Level Failover

• Enhanced Network Automation Integration (NNMi, NNMi Advanced) – this includes a variety of integration capabilities but there is one I think is really cool – automated duplex mismatch detection. (Note this requires the iSPI Network Engineering Tool Kit).

• MyBSM Integration (NNMi, NNMi Advanced, NNM iSPI for Performance). What is MyBSM? It is portal in our BAC (Business Availability Center) product. NNMi and iSPI Performance windows are now also portlets that are usable by the MyBSM portal. In addition, you can create new portlets.

• Enhanced Performance Insight integration (NNM iSPI for Performance) – this is near and dear to my heart as I was previously the product manager for both these products. In NNMi 8.10, device metrics were added to iSPI Performance. However, the existing Datapipe that brings information from iSPI Performance to Performance Insight only brought interface data over. Now device metrics move to Performance Insight and are shown in the Device Resources reports.

• LDAP support - Support for users, passwords and roles from an enterprise directory service through Active Directory.

• Alcatel Device Support

• Migration tools to help you migrate from 6.x/7.x to 8.x

  1. nnmmigration.ovpl - Runs on the NNM 6.x/7.x system and calls several other migration tools
  2. nnmtrapdload.ovpl - Imports NNM 6.x/7.x trapd.conf definitions as Incident configurations. See the nnmtrapdload.ovpl reference page
  3. nnmmibmigration.ovpl - Imports the MIB definitions from the NNM 7.x snmpmib file.
  4. snmpCapture.ovpl - Lists the NNM 6.x/7.x community strings.
  5. nnmmapmigration.ovpl - Runs on the NNM 6.x/7.x system to gather node group and background information about the NNM 6.x/7.x location submaps for one OVW map

You can find the patches at http://support.openview.hp.com/selfsolve/patches - Search for NNM810W_00002 (updated)

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Posted 02-16-2009 3:58 AM by Michael_Procopio
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Comments

Sathya Sastry wrote re: NNMi / NNMi Advanced / NNM iSPI Performance patch available has new functionality
on 02-17-2009 10:46 PM

All the patch links are broken or not functional.

Michael_Procopio wrote re: NNMi / NNMi Advanced / NNM iSPI Performance patch available has new functionality
on 02-19-2009 12:47 AM

Sathya - thank  you for the heads up I have corrected the post as follows:

You can find the patches at support.openview.hp.com/.../patches - Search for NNM810W_00002 (updated)

Michael Procopio

dbunn wrote re: NNMi / NNMi Advanced / NNM iSPI Performance patch available has new functionality
on 10-16-2009 2:47 PM

I was just advised there is a new SPI for Perf 8.13 but am unable to find it.

Thanks

aruna13 wrote re: NNMi / NNMi Advanced / NNM iSPI Performance patch available has new functionality
on 10-19-2009 4:47 AM

With 8.13 (patch 5), we are announcing 2 new products to enhance our Performance Suite of products. NNM iSPI Performance for Metrics 8.13 and NNM iSPI Performance for Traffic 8.13 are shipping today (electronic media).  Physical media ships next week.

1. iSPI Performance for Metrics -- This would be very similar to our existing iSPI Performance product, but long term this new Performance for Metrics product will replace our existing iSPI Performance product. The new Metrics product has better scalability and will be able to scale along with NNMi

2. We are introducing another brand new Performance product - iSPI Performance for Traffic. The HP NNM iSPI Performance for Traffic 8.13 is a net new product to the portfolio.   The product has the ability to collect traffic information (NetFlow / sFlow), store it and present it in interesting ways.   The UI is the exact same UI as the HP NNM iSPI Performance for Metrics 8.13 (which is the replacement for the NNM iSPI for Performance 8.11).   In fact, you have the ability to navigate between the two types of data in time/object context for troubleshooting purposes.   Like the iSPI Performance for Metrics, iSPI Performance for Traffic has a connection to NNMi for topological context.    

Thanks

Aruna Ravichandran

FREDDIE2004 wrote re: NNMi / NNMi Advanced / NNM iSPI Performance patch available has new functionality
on 10-28-2009 2:58 PM

Aruna,

So when will the iSPI for Performance product be replaced by iSPI Performance for Traffic and Metrics?  

Will these require seperate servers to run on or same server?

Thanks

Freddie (Capital Group)

freddie_lewellen@capgroup.com

aruna13 wrote re: NNMi / NNMi Advanced / NNM iSPI Performance patch available has new functionality
on 11-04-2009 11:45 PM

Hi Freddie,

    We are shipping 2 new Performance products -

1. iSPI Performance for Metrics - This would be the product which would eventually replace our current iSPI for Performance. We are working on the transition plan. But, if you are interested in moving to the Metrics product, you can exchange your licenses and do so immediately.

2. iSPI Performance for Traffic - This is a NEW product and would need to be purchased seperately.

This is a network traffic monitoring solution that is based on monitoring and collecting traffic data flowing across the network in order to create a complete picture of network traffic, identifying who (servers, clients) & what (applications) are making use of network bandwidth. NNM iSPI Performance for Traffic (Windows only) is designed for network operations to be able to accurately account for network usage, quickly isolate performance issues, provide rapid MTTR, and reduce network costs.

You should be able to find the support matrix in terms of servers and OS on the HP docs website - support.openview.hp.com/.../manuals  

Thanks

Aruna Ravichandran

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