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Fault and Performance management webinar with Analyst, Customer and HP

aruna13 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:18:00 GMT

Hello,

Listen to an on-demand webinar where leading consumer customer, analyst Jim Metzler, and HP discuss integration of fault and performance management, discuss some of the relevant best practices, while identifying some of the key features in Hp's integrated fault and performance management solution. The panelists on the Webcast present three different perspectives – that of an industry analyst, a senior IT manager and HP's view on network management solutions.

Webinar recording:

· http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/cli_NMCBlog/7/50673494/

Thanks
Aruna Ravichandran

Automated Network Lifecycle Management (ANLM) Webinar available now

aruna13 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:04:00 GMT

Listen to an on-demand webinar with leading industry network analyst Jim Metzler and Stelio D'Alo from HP's Network Management Center and hear them discuss:

Trends that are driving IT over the next 2 years
The changing practice of network management
The simple steps that can transform your network management processes using HP's Automated Network Lifecycle Management (ANLM) solution

Here is the link to the on-demand webinar now.

Thanks,
Aruna Ravichandran

Your "friendly" HP network management product marketing manager

New NNMi integration module with IBM Netcool Software now shipping

aruna13 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:50:00 GMT

We recently launched a new software product module which will now allow you to integrate NNMI with IBM's netcool software.

For more details on this integration, look at the latest NNMI deployment guide at:

http://support.openview.hp.com/selfsolve/document/KM763632/binary/nnmi_deployment_guide_81x_p5.pdf .

Read chapter à Integrations and Plug-ins à HP NNMi Integration Module for Netcool Software

Thanks,
Aruna Ravichandran

Sr. Product Marketing Manager,
Network Management Center, HP Software

aru@hp.com

The HP NNMi Integration Module for Netcool Software forwards NNMi management events as SNMPv2 traps to a Netcool/OMNIbus SNMP Probe on the NNMi management server. The probe filters the NNMi traps and forwards them to the Netcool/OMNIbus server. This module adds network-level fault and performance information to Netcool/OMNIbus, so that Netcool/OMNIbus users can detect and investigate potential network problem

The primary features of the integration module are as follows:

Automatic management event forwarding from NNMi to Netcool/OMNIbus.
Forwarded management events appear in the Netcool/Webtop event lists and the Netcool/OMNIbus Event List.
Access to the NNMi console from Netcool/Webtop and Netcool/OMNIbus.

NNMi integration with HP System Insight Manager ( HP SIM)

aruna13 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:40:00 GMT

Hi,

I have had several questions lately asking about the integration between NNMi and HP System Insight Manager.

The HP NNMi–HP SIM integration provides actions for accessing several SIM tool from the NNMi console. Wit this integration,

NNMi users can detect and investigate potential network problems for HP ProLiant servers and storage devices.

Detailed documentation outlining this integration can be found in our latest version of deployment and configuration guide at:

http://support.openview.hp.com/selfsolve/document/KM763632/binary/nnmi_deployment_guide_81x_p5.pdf .

Read chapter à Integrations and Plug-ins à HP System Insight Manager

Thanks,
Aruna Ravichandran
Sr. Product Marketing Manager
Network Management Center,
HP Software
aru@hp.com

New Exciting Promotions with great discounts- live and kicking now !

aruna13 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:15:00 GMT

Hello,

We are now offering 4 new exciting promotions which we just launched starting September 1st 2009 from HP Software Network Management Center !!!

In this blog post, I will cover 2 of the promotions and Joe Catalanotti, Sr. Product Marketing Manager for Network Performance Suite of products will introduce the other 2 promotions. I am responsible for the Fault and Availability Network Manager suite of products (NNMi/all the iSPIs). In short, I am "fault" and he is "performance", though I wish I could reverse it :-)

So, here are the details on these promotions....

3.645 HP Network Management Center (NMC) Promotion
3.644 - Back to the Future Promotion
3.643 - HP Automated Network Lifecycle Management (ANLM) Promotional bundles for New Opportunities Promotion
3.642 - HP Automated Network Lifecycle Management (ANLM) Promotional bundles for Installed base Promotion

3.645 HP Network Management Center (NMC) Promotion

Are you looking to buy the state of the art network management solution with the broadest and deepest integrations in the network management industry today ? Or are you an existing NNM/NNMi customer and want to expand your portfolio with advanced performance suite of products or our industry leader, HP Network Automation? If you answered yes to either of the above questions, then you now have the opportunity to buy these innovative products at a huge discount price !!!

3.644 - Back to the Future Promotion

Were you a previous HP Software Network Management customer? Are you unhappy with your current network management solution? If you answered yes to both these questions, then it is time to explore our our new innovative NNMi product? Now, you have the opportunity to come back to HP and get our innovative NNMi product at a steep discounted price.

Please contact your direct HP sales rep or your HPSW certified partner about these promotions as they are only available for a limited short time !!!

Joe, will be blogging about the other 2 promotions soon....

Regards
Aruna Ravichandran
Sr. Product Marketing Manager
Network Management Center, HP Software

aru@hp.com

NOCStar/NNMi goes Social media - Twitter and Facebook

aruna13 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:05:00 GMT

Last week I did a posting announcing our HP NOC Star campaging for NNMi customers. We have now setup Facebook and Twitter accounts for the NOC Star/NNMi campaign. You can follow our updaes now on Facebook and Twitter...

NOCStar page: http://www.hp.com/go/nocstar

Facebook Page:
http://www.facebook.com/business/dashboard/#/pages/HP-NNMiSoftware/98948954292

Twitter
http://www.twitter.com/hpnnmi

Thanks,
Aruna Ravichandran
Sr. Product Marketing Manager,
Network Management Center,
HP Software

Be the next HP NOC Star and win prizes....

aruna13 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:05:00 GMT

Launching the NOC Star Campaign --- You could be the next HP NOC Star!

http://www.hp.com/go/nocstar

Are you currently using HP Network Node Manager i (NNMi 8.x) software? If so, you may be the next NOC Star we are looking for!

Share you share NNMi experience with us – along with any benefits you have received to date -- and you will get a free NOC Star t-shirt for just submitting your entry. You can submit videos, podcasts, or just text through the online form.

Entries are being accepted through August 15th, 2009. Users can then vote on their favorite entry for a chance to win a $500 HP gift certificate.

Start submitting your entry at www.hp.com/go/NOCstar and you could be our next HP NOC star !

Winning entries, along with a photo of the NOC star will be showcased on HP’s portal.

Thanks,
Aruna Ravichandran
Sr. Product Marketing Manager

Network Management Center

HP Software

Network Management at HP Software Universe

Michael_Procopio — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:46:00 GMT

by Michael Procopio

HP Software Universe is next week, 16-18 June, in Las Vegas. Network Management will be well represented.

Aruna Ravichandran is speaking in three sessions, you can see information on those at her post HPSoftware Universe/HP Technology Forum (HPTF) - Network Management sessions.

Here is the list of sessions, I have marked Aruna’s with an –A next to the session number:

Session ID	Title	Presenting company
1028	Deploying HP Performance Insight in large scale environments	HP
1076	HP Network Node Manager-i SPI for performance: become a power user in less than an hour	HP
1081-A	HP Network Node Manager 7 to 8i: a migration story	Melillo Consulting
1092	Melillo: how to deploy data center infrastructure monitoring in small and medium business environments	Melillo Consulting
1299	Integrating voice and video management into network operations	EMA
1345	NetScout: unified service-delivery management for improving application performance in the modern IP network	NetScout Systems
1353	Automated network lifecycle management: transforming network management to a fully integrated and automated approach with breakthrough ROI	HP
1354	HP Performance Insight: techniques to drive performance management productivity	HP
1403-A	HP Network Node Manager-i: a review of functionality that can yield significant ROI to your network management operations	HP
1404-A	Network Node Manager-i 8.11 Smart Plug-Ins: adding value to your network and fault management operations when deploying NNMi	HP
1410	HP Network Node Manager-i upgrade tips and tricks	HP
1411	HP Network Node Manager-i deployment by example	HP
1488	HP Network Node Manager-i upgrade tips and tricks	HP

You can get the details of all the Network Management sessions at the HP Software Universe Track Session Catalog.

I hope to see you there, but if you can’t make it we will be doing follow-up posts. You can also follow on Twitter, the hashtag is #HPSU09. There are already a number of Tweets and the show hasn’t started yet. The Twitter account for the show is HPSU09, if you’d like to follow us. Or visit the HP Software Universe Facebook page.

HPSoftware Universe/HP Technology Forum (HPTF) - Network Management sessions

aruna13 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:30:00 GMT

I will be presenting the following 3 sessions at HP Software Universe, which runs in 2 weeks from June 16th - 18th, at Venetian in Las Vegas. The overall theme of the conference is “focusing on initiatives that can deliver immediate improvements and rapid ROI.” All of my sessions fit very well into that theme. Here are the three sessions I will be presenting:

Session 1081 - HP Network Node Manager 7 to 8i: a Migration story - Thursday, June 18 09:00am - 10:00am Speaker(s):
Keith Wilson, Director, Melillo Consulting
Ken Herold, Principal Architect, Melillo Consulting
Aruna Ravichandran HP

Abstract:
Attend this session and hear how, at a time when most IT organizations were taking a wait-and-see approach to HP Network Node Manager-i version 8 (NNM 8i), a global consumer products company made the commitment to migrate NNM 7 to 8i in its production network management infrastructure. Presenters will explain how they migrated from NNM 7.5, running on three distributed Solaris servers and a DR server, to NNM 8i on a single primary server with one DR server. They’ll describe the project from proof of concept to 24 x 7 monitoring of nearly 6,000 nodes to eliminate two servers and client software, reduce the number of hardware vendors, simplify the management of NNM, and provide a complete disaster-recovery solution. They’ll cover the cultural and technical challenges of moving from UNIX to Windows, the training required to bring staff up to speed on NNM 8i, and the need to migrate custom action shell scripts to Windows without rewriting them. And you’ll come away with detailed knowledge that can make your migration to NNM 8i a success.

Session 1403 HP Network Node Manager-i: a review of functionality that can yield significant ROI to your network management operations
Speaker(s):
Aruna Ravichandran

Schedule
Tuesday, June 16
03:00pm - 04:00pm

Abstract:
This session will go into detail about the key features of HP Network Node Manager-i (NNMi) 8.11. Specific topics will include spiral L2/L3 discovery, advanced scalability, advanced root-cause analysis, the intuitive GUI with advanced map management, and the n-tier architecture. You will also learn how the innovative NNMi technology with the intuitive design, intelligent automation, and immense scalability delivered breakthrough ROI for one our NNMi customers.

Session - 1404 Network Node Manager-i 8.11 Smart Plug-Ins: adding value to your network and fault management operations when deploying NNMi
Speaker(s):
Aruna Ravichandran

Schedule
Wednesday, June 17
10:30am - 11:30am

Abstract:
The session will focus on the Smart Plug-ins (iSPI) that add value to NNMi. It will cover the features, capabilities, integrations, and benefits of the iSPI for Performance, iSPI for Network Engineering Toolset, iSPI for Multicast, iSPI for MPLS, and iSPI for IP Telephony.

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If you are planning to attend HP Technology Forum which runs at the same time at Mandalay Bay, I will be presenting an ANLM (Automated Network Lifecycle Management) session along with the Product Manager, Pete Zwetkof. Here are the details to the HPTF session.

Session - 3780 - Automating Network Management

Speaker(s):
Aruna Ravichandran, Pete Zwetkof

Schedule
Wednesday, June 17
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Room: Surf F

Abstract:
This session will show how daily operational tasks around fault, performance, and configuration management can be automated, human errors reduced, and network availability improved with detailed usecases. A demonstration of integrated network management tools applied to common real-life network problems will visualize the concepts discussed. This session will provide you with a thorough understanding of the capabilities of automated network management. You’ll also understand the concepts of map-based management, continuous spiral discovery, causal engine and management by exception, and how to apply them to increase the efficiency of your network department. Through this session, you will gain insights into the use of automation to move beyond labor-intensive approaches to network management. Today labor accounts for 70 percent of IT costs. Networks continue to grow in size and complexity but IT staffs do not. The challenge is to increase IT staff productivity. The traditional silo approach of deploying point tools to address network management is inefficient. Manual processes used to manage the network are prone to human error.

Hoping to meet see you all soon !

Aruna

NNMi Technical Vivit Webinars Recording now available on the NNMi Portal

Michael_Procopio — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:26:00 GMT

by Aruna Ravichandran

The much awaited Webinar recording of : NNMi Upgrade; Tricks, Tips and Best Practices is now available on the NNMi portal at: http://www.hp.com/go/nnmi. This live webinar was held on April 13th and was done by our lead deployment engineer, Kevin Smith who has a lot of experience in migrating and deploying NNMi at customer sites world-wide. A lot of you have sent me emails asking for this recording as this live webinar was held unfortunately during the Easter/Spring Break week. We had some “hiccups” in terms of getting the recording posted on the portal, but finally have it up.

The other technical webinars done through Vivit are also available. Once you reach the main NNMi Portal, click on the “Web events” link on the left frame and scroll down to the bottom of the page to get a listing of ALL webinars.

HP Software Network Management goes to Interop, Las Vegas with ProCurve Networking next week

Michael_Procopio — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:16:00 GMT

by Aruna Ravichandran

HP's Network Management Center (NMC) products, Network Node Manager i software (NNMi) along with Network Automation, will be showcased on the exposition floor at Interop, happening next week from May 18 – 22nd in Las Vegas, Nevada. We will be showcased at the HP booth (booth # 1319) along with Procurve Networking. We would love for you to stop by and give us an opportunity to demo our NMC products.

The Interop conference URL is http://www.interop.com/lasvegas , or visit the fun HP-ProCurve microsite for Interop at http://tinyurl.com/dcxy32 .

The HP Software Network Management center crew (Aruna, Darren, Doug, Stelio, Darren) would love to chat with you, so please stop by!

8.x Spiral Discovery Explained – Feature, Benefits, How is it different from 7.x discovery

Michael_Procopio — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:30:00 GMT

HP Network Node Manager i software offers continuous Layer-2 and Layer-3 network discovery as a feature known as Spiral Discovery. This feature avoids episodic loads on the network for management purposes, and allows NNMi to track dynamic changes in near real time. Spiral Discovery uses a variety of MIBs and protocols to reduce overhead and manage multivendor environments. This means that NNMi can discover network topology changes, and use that information, much sooner than previous versions or competitor products. The new architecture improves the CPU and Memory performance of NNMi, so your management system has ample capacity to monitor larger networks and more interfaces.

In Spiral Discovery, discovery and inventory data collection occur in stages where each stage provides information that is used to drive subsequent stages. This figure illustrates the process:

You define the starting points for discovery, and your NNMi configuration settings flexibly control address ranges and system object ID ranges, exceptions, and limits to be added to the NNMi database. When a device is identified, Spiral Discovery collects the basic information to understand what kind of device it is. That information, in turn, tells it what additional device inventory information is available and details are then collected, augmenting the inventory with additional information and connections that continue the process.

NNMi gathers information about neighboring devices using ARP cache, DNS, discovery protocols and other protocols including BGP, EIGRP and OSPF. In Wide Area Networks such as ATM, Frame Relay, and Point-to-Point (where ARP cache is not available), the optional Ping Sweep feature locates nodes for Spiral Discovery to use when gathering neighbor information and evaluating connections. A new system for modeling proprietary MIBs lets NNMi define device-specific collections that are incorporated into Spiral Discovery, capturing proprietary inventory information and correctly representing devices in both OSI layer 2 and OSI layer 3 topology. Further, if the device is found to support virtual network services like VPNs, VLANs, routing systems such as multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) and other technologies, then NNMi will develop and maintain the topology of that logical network overlay so it can be depicted for the operator and used in root cause analysis.

In addition to automatic discovery, NNMi also allows for connection editing and subnet connection rules to override the link-level discovery protocol information when needed. A higher precedence connection overwrites a lower precedence one if both data are available and conflict with each other. Discovery protocols employed by Spiral Discovery include CDP (Cisco), EDP (Extreme), NDP (SONMP-Nortel), FDP (Foundry), EnDP (Enterasys), and LLDP (link-level discovery protocol). You can also configure when you would like NNMi to proactively look for new devices and connections.

Benefits of this new technology in NNMi:

Spiral discovery is dynamic. It continuously discovers the existence of network devices —so network changes are quickly detected and incorporated into topology automatically. The topology is always up-to-date, enabling NNMi operators to identify and troubleshoot problems in real-time as they happen.
Spiral Discovery is extensive. It collects detailed information about each device, including component health such as CPU, memory, fans, and maintains the detailed inventory information in the NNMi database. Spiral Discovery determines how devices are related to each other in network topology and topology overlays like virtual private networks (VPNs) and virtual LANs (VLANs). It also discovers and understands routing cluster protocols (HSRP, VRRP) and Port Aggregation (NNMi Advanced feature only)
Spiral Discovery is automatically incorporated into Root Cause Analysis -- When things change in your environment, your topology accurately reflects those changes in near real-time, and the NNMi casual engine reacts to topology changes as they occur for quick analysis of root cause for incidents. In older causal analysis technologies such as codebook approaches, topology changes require a recompile of rules.
Spiral Discovery is extensible—designed so that HP can easily support new devices with NNMi as they become a part of your network in the future.
Spiral Discovery benefits not only the core NNMi product, but also all the associated iSPI products which add content, performance, and analysis detail.

Spiral Discovery with NNMi 8.x differs in many ways from the discovery engine which came with NNM 7.x. The NNM 7.x releases used an episodic discovery technology known as Extended Topology (ET) to find and create L2 connections. ET technology depended upon device-specific agents that used a device’s SNMP MIBs to acquire device information. The technology was not easily extensible, and changes were not discovered in real-time.

NNMi’s Spiral Discovery has dropped the outdated ET technology, as all connectivity logic has been rewritten using updated algorithms written exclusively in Java. Major benefits of refreshing the discovery technology are a reduction in technology complexity, superior node discovery rates and L2 connection creation performance. Moreover, NNMi L2 connection discovery also becomes dynamic and continuous. With properly configured state poll monitoring or via LinkDown/LinkUp traps, the L2 connection are updated instantly to accurately present up-to-date network topology. Competitive offerings still require batch or episodic processing of layer 2 connections.

In summary, NNMi Spiral Discovery is a key new technology that brings unique efficiency and depth to HP’s network management solution. HP has a 20-year legacy of commitment and success in this domain. Instead of resting on its laurels, HP has dedicated extensive development resources into NNMi’s java-based architecture and components, building an extensible platform to ensure HP will continue its leadership role for the next 20 years.

How does Discovery with NNMi differ from NNM 7.x discovery?

NNMi has just one consolidated discovery engine and one SNMP stack for both L2 and L3discovery that is easy to configure. NNM 7.x uses netmon and ET technology and 2 SNMP stack for L2 and L3 discovery.
Discovery is continuous and spiral with NNMi. The NNMi Spiral Discovery process provides ongoing updates to the topology information as changes occur in your network. Topology changes (both inventory and Layer 2) can be discovered more frequently than the scheduled rediscovery interval. Discovery is episodic and batch oriented with NNM 7.x
NNMi stores all the inventory and discovery information in one relational database – the built-in PostgreSQL database or Oracle database. Having a single relational database for holding all the inventory and discovery information, makes it faster, more reliable and more maintainable and very easy to do an online backup. NNM 7.x stores the data in Topology database, Object database, Map database, ET database which could be proprietary/Solid/oracle/MSSQL. Having different databases, makes it less reliable, and hard to maintain.
In NNMi, all discovered nodes are counted against the license limit regardless of the management mode ( managed , unmanaged , or out of service ). You cannot discover nodes beyond the license limit. With NNM 7.x, you could discover any number of nodes, and license only the nodes you managed.
NNMi Spiral discovery discovers device component health such as CPU, Memory, Buffers (needs iSPI for Performance) and Sensors such temperature, voltage and fan. This was not discovered in NNM 7.
Spiral discovery with NNMi Advanced automatically discovers and understands routing cluster protocols (HSRP, VRRP) and Port Aggregation (NNMi Advanced feature only). This feature in 7.x was available with ET discovery

Why do you need to set a discovery period if discovery runs ALL the time?

Continuous Spiral discovery uses "hints", such as the various boot traps, that appear in the network. These traps indicate possible changes in the network and trigger investigation by the discovery engine. If the network is very quiet, or if traps have been disabled, or if there is a trap consolidator, then spiral discovery might be handicapped. To prevent this possibility and to ensure accurate topology, a discovery period is established. Sort of like wearing a belt and suspenders to hold one's pants up.

Is there a way to throttle the discovery with NNMi?

With netmon (NNM 7.x discovery engine) if you set a discovery period to be once per week, netmon would spread that discovery over a 7 day period, thus we could "throttle" discovery to minimize SNMP traffic. There is no way to throttle the discovery with NNMi; it discovers "like crazy" until it completes the discovery and then goes into "hint mode" until the next discovery is triggered. Point here is that we don't have a throttle mechanism in NNMi but neither is SNMP a "heavy" protocol.

Is the Licensing for discovered nodes different than for Managed Nodes?

Yes. In NNMi, all discovered and managed nodes are counted against the license limit regardless of the state of the management mode ( managed , unmanaged , or out of service ). You cannot discover nodes beyond the license limit. With NNM 7.x, only managed nodes are counted against the license limit. NNM 7.x customer could discover any no. of nodes, and only license the nodes that are managed. Hence, if any of the 7.x customers are using the discovered nodes in their database, (i.e beyond the number of licensed/ managed nodes), they will not be able to now have access to all their discovered nodes unless they buy additional licenses for the discovered nodes as well.

Questions: Contact : Aruna Ravichandran – aru [at] hp.com

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13 April event: Network Node Manager i software Upgrade: Tricks, Tips and Best Practices

Michael_Procopio — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:43:00 GMT

On Monday, April 13th, HP Software Network Management Center is hosting a free educational webinar titled: HP Network Node Manager i software Upgrade: Tricks, Tips and Best Practices

DATE: Monday, April 13th, 2009

TIME:
Location Date and Time
California, USA April 13 8:30 – 10:00 am
New York, USA April 13 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
London, England April 13 4:30 – 6:00 pm
Sydney, Australia April 14 1:30 – 3:00 am

Looking to upgrade to NNMi 8.x? Want to find out how to make the upgrade path from the older NNM 6.x/7.x to the new NNMi 8.x even easier? If you are looking to find answers to these questions, then attend the next webinar series hosted by HP’s Network Management team. Kevin Smith, Lead Deployment Engineer at HP will share with you various upgrade Tricks, Tips and Best Practices which will help make your upgrade path much easier. Kevin has a lot experience in helping customers upgrading to the new NNMi and will share his rich experience with you on this webinar.

Register now for the upcoming NNMi Upgrade: Tricks, Tips and Best Practices presentation at: http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/us/en/promo/nnmi/webinars/index.html

Visit the NNMi Portal : http://www.hp.com/go/nnmi to get information on anything NNMi

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Sr. Product Marketing Manager, NNMi/NNM/iSPI

aru [at] hp.com

Launching the NNMi Portal - your one stop portal for anything NNMi

Michael_Procopio — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:16:00 GMT

We have invested heavily in Network Node Manager i (NNMi) making it more cost effective for you to run and integrate with other products in the BSM portfolio. If you are an NNM customer and are thinking about upgrading to the new NNMi-series, this is the right time! To help ensure a smooth upgrade from your NNM 6.x/7.x version to the enhanced, innovative NNMi-series product line, we have created the NNMi Portal.

The portal contains everything you would need to upgrade to NNMi including white papers, webinars, upgrade tools, and license key step-by-step guidance. It can help you do a self-upgrade to NNMi or provide information on Services (HP SW Professional Services/ HP Software partners) to help with the upgrade.

The NNMi portal contains information and resources on:

» Top 10 reasons to upgrade to NNMi

» Links for recorded Webinars and whitepapers - e.g. NNMi Ready for Primetime: A deep dive presentation

» NNMi ROI Migration Handbook whitepaper

» License migration process information and links

» Do-it-yourself technical migration information

» Services information for NNMi upgrades for HP Professional Services Organization and HP Partners

Our goal is to create a one-stop experience for anything NNMi, and so this NNMi portal will be frequently updated with new goodies, so check back in here frequently, or sign up to receive updates on the portal.

Here is a quote from newly upgraded NNMi customer

"The transition from NNM 7.51 to NNM 8.1x was seamless and the results were better than expected. With virtually no loss of functionality and an increase in productivity, NNM 8.1x was an upgrade well worth undertaking. The increased stability and the ease of use have made NNM 8.1x a blessing for out department."

Frank Snyder, Network Engineer, INTERLINE BRANDS, INC.

So get started on the upgrade, and use our promotion which allows you to run your existing 6.x/7.x NNM version in parallel with the new NNMi 8.X until December 31, 2009 at no additional charge to you!

If you have any questions, suggestions, or want to share your upgrade experience, you can blog your request or reach me at:

Aruna Ravichandran

Sr. Product Marketing Manager, NNMi/NNM/iSPI

aru [at] hp.com

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

Michael_Procopio — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:58:00 GMT

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

nnmmigration.ovpl - Runs on the NNM 6.x/7.x system and calls several other migration tools
nnmtrapdload.ovpl - Imports NNM 6.x/7.x trapd.conf definitions as Incident configurations. See the nnmtrapdload.ovpl reference page
nnmmibmigration.ovpl - Imports the MIB definitions from the NNM 7.x snmpmib file.
snmpCapture.ovpl - Lists the NNM 6.x/7.x community strings.
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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