Cisco Cisco Prime Unified Operations Manager 9.0 White Paper

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4.3  Licensing and Registration of the Software ........................................................ 33 
4.4 Uninstallation....................................................................................................... 33 

5 Initial 

Configuration................................................................................................... 34 

5.1  Security and Users ............................................................................................... 34 
5.2  IP Address or Hostname Changes ....................................................................... 34 
5.3  Network Discovery and Device Management..................................................... 34 

5.3.1  Network Discovery Options ......................................................................... 35 
5.3.2  Device Import Options.................................................................................. 38 
5.3.3  Device Discovery Process............................................................................. 39 

5.4 Diagnostic 

Tests .................................................................................................. 41 

5.4.1 Synthetic 

Tests .............................................................................................. 41 

5.4.2  Synthetic Test Descriptions and Expected Results....................................... 41 
5.4.3  How Many Simulated IP Phones Do I Need?............................................... 43 
5.4.4 Node-to-Node 

Tests ...................................................................................... 45 

5.5 Notification 

Services ........................................................................................... 45 

5.5.1 CISCO-EPM-NOTIFICATION-MIB........................................................... 46 

5.6  Performance and Capacity Monitoring................................................................ 48 

5.6.1  Enabling Or Disabling Monitoring ............................................................... 49 
5.6.2 Polling 

and 

Thresholds ................................................................................. 49 

5.6.3  Trap Receiving and Forwarding ................................................................... 49 
5.6.4 SRST 

Monitoring.......................................................................................... 49 

6  Cisco Unified Communications Service Monitor ...................................................... 51 

7 Best 

Practices ............................................................................................................. 57 

7.1 Disabling 

Hyperthreading.................................................................................... 57 

7.2 Server 

Maintenance ............................................................................................. 57 

7.3  Cold Standby/Redundant Deployments............................................................... 57 

7.3.1  Preparing for Redundancy ............................................................................ 57 
7.3.2 Setting 

up 

redundancy................................................................................... 58 

7.3.3  Setting up the Active OM server .................................................................. 58 
7.3.4  Continuous data sync up ............................................................................... 62 
7.3.5  Setting up passive redundant server.............................................................. 65 

7.4  Operations Manager for MSP Environments ...................................................... 65 

7.4.1  ACS Integration for Securing Access to Devices ......................................... 65 

7.5 LMS 

Integration .................................................................................................. 82 

7.6  Cisco Unified Communications Service Monitor Integration............................. 83 

7.6.1  Determine a Quality of Voice Baseline for Your Network .......................... 83 
7.6.2  Cisco 1040 Sensor in Sampling Mode.......................................................... 84 
7.6.3  Cisco 1040 Sensor in a Branch Office.......................................................... 85 
7.6.4  Span Port Limitations ................................................................................... 85 

7.7  Identifying CPU-Intensive Operations ................................................................ 85 

7.7.1 Boot 

Up......................................................................................................... 86 

7.7.2  Device Management Operations................................................................... 86 
7.7.3  High Event Throughput Conditions.............................................................. 87 
7.7.4  Simultaneous Operations by Multiple Users ................................................ 88