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Netcool/Precision for Transmission Networks 5.5 Administration Guide

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Invoking the shutdown script from the
command line

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Chapter 4. Integrating with
Netcool/OMNIbus

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Introduction to visualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Configuring the Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer
version 3.6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Adding fields to the ObjectServer and migrating
data

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Configuring the Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer
versions 7.0 and 7.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Adding fields to the ObjectServer . . . . . . . . . 38
Connecting to an ObjectServer that is not named
NCOMS

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Connecting to an ObjectServer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Configuring Netcool/OMNIbus probes . . . . 40

Configuring Netcool/Webtop event lists in
Netcool/Precision TN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Creating the visualization menu option . . . . . . . 42

Adding the menu to the Netcool/OMNIbus
desktop

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Adding the menu to the Netcool/Webtop
desktop

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Visualizing alerts in a desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Starting the components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Opening an event list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Using the visualization menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Chapter 5. Setting configuration
options

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Configuring failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Implementation overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Configuring Oracle for use with failover . . . 53
Configuring the Netcool/Precision TN servers
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Running failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Using Netcool/Precision TN with Cisco WAN
Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Discovering Cisco WAN Manager NEs. . . . . 55
Polling CWM topological connections . . . . . 56
Polling CWM SubNetwork Connections (SNCs)
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Configurable properties in
CiscoWanManagerExtension

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Configuring Netcool/OMNIbus process control58

Disabling use of Netcool/OMNIbus . . . . . . . . . . 58

Configuring connections to known devices. . . . 59

Packaging and configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Configuring on-demand connectivity to devices61

Packaging and configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Dependencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Configuring remote load balancing . . . . . . . . . . 62

Packaging and configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Appendix A. Reference

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precisiontn.xml properties file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Netcool/Precision TN command line options. . 67

Appendix B. Notices

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Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Trademarks and Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . 71