Cisco Cisco Unified Operations Manager 8.5 White Paper

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Setting Up the Active Operations Manager Server

This is the same as setting up a standalone Operations Manager server. Typical tasks include:

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Setting up users and associating roles

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Providing a device list by manually adding devices or syncing up with LMS Device Credential Repository or

discovering the network using a seed device

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Setting up the polling intervals based on your monitoring requirements (the default is 4 minutes)

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Creating phone status tests

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Creating synthetic tests

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Creating node-to-node tests

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Setting up SRST polling by creating SRST tests

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Enabling performance polling

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Setting up notification profiles for northbound notifications

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Configuring Service Monitor to forward traps to Operations Manager

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Configuring Cisco 1040 Probes to register to Service Monitor

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Configuring system preferences such as forwarding trap servers, trap community strings, and SMTP

servers for northbound notifications and cross-launchable LMS servers

Refer to the user guide for an explanation of each task.

Setting Up the Standby Server

Once the active server is set up, the standby server needs to be set up in such a way that it has exactly the same

configuration as the active server. This can be achieved using the Backup and Restore feature in Operations

Manager. The procedure to back up and restore files is detailed below.

Backup

Go to the Active Operations Manager server:

<INSTALL_DIR>\bin\perl <INSTALL_DIR>\bin\backup.pl <BackUp Dir> <Log file> <Num_Generations>

This tool creates a backup of all the data on the active Operations Manager server and copies it into the backup

directory mentioned. The number of generations refers to the maximum number of backups that can be stored

under the backup directory. For example, if the number of generations is 2, then 2 consecutive invocations of this

script will create <Backup dir>\0, and <Backup_dir>\1 until it starts wrapping.

Instead of the command line, you can also use the Common Services user interface (Administration > Server

Administration > Administration > Backup).

From the user interface, it is possible to schedule a periodic backup of the active server. Periodic backups allow

you to move to the latest backups, if required.

It is recommended that this backed-up data directory be kept on a separate system so that it is not affected by

disk crashes or any issues associated with the active server.

After the data backup is completed, this information must be imported to the standby server using the Restore

Facility in Operations Manager.