The Netminder System's Network Trouble Patterning (NTP) Feature

The NetMinder® System’s Network Trouble Patterning (NTP) Feature Set Release 9.2 System Administration Guide Lucent Technologies — Proprietary This document contains proprietary information of 190-405-553 Lucent Technologies and is not to be disclosed or used except in accordance with applicable agreements Issue 1.0 November 2002 Copyright© 2002 Lucent Technologies Unpublished and Not for Publication All Rights Reserved Copyright Copyright© 2002 Lucent Technologies. All Rights Reserved. This material is protected by the copyright and trade secret laws of the United States and other countries. It may not be reproduced, distributed or altered in any fashion by any entity, including other Lucent Technologies Business Units or Divisions, without expressed permission in the Software Right to Use contract or the expressed written consent of the Lucent Learning Organization (LLO) organization. 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Lucent Technologies — Proprietary See notice on first page System Administration Guide Contents 1 About This Document ■ Overview 1-3 ■ Documents 1-4 ■ Software Release Notes 1-5 ■ Prerequisites 1-6 ■ Format, Typography, and Conventions 1-7 2 System Description ■ Overview 2-3 Users ■ Logins 2-4 ■ User Interfaces 2-6 Hardware and Software, and Connectivity ■ Overview 2-7 ■ Hardware and Software 2-8 ■ TCP/IP Connectivity 2-11 Data Flow ■ Overview 2-12 ■ CIMs 2-15 ■ Sources 2-16 ■ Thresholds 2-17 ■ Conversions 2-18 ■ System Backbone and Processes 2-23 ■ Entity Roles 2-25 Files and Databases ■ Overview 2-28 ■ Oracle Databases 2-29 ■ Application Directory Structure 2-30 ■ Application Software Files 2-36 Lucent Technologies — Proprietary See notice on first page NetMinder® System’s NTP Feature Set Release 9.2 Issue 1.0 November 2002 i System Administration Guide Contents ■ CIM Data 2-37 Administrative Tools and Routine Tasks ■ Overview 2-38 ■ Administration Tools 2-39 ■ System-Level Tasks 2-40 ■ User-Related Tasks 2-41 ■ Tasks Affecting Output 2-43 3 Start and Stop ■ Overview 3-3 Verify Run Status ■ Verify NTP Run Status 3-4 ■ Verify BB-GUI Run Status 3-5 ■ who and whoall Commands 3-6 Start ■ Start NTP 3-8 ■ Start the Host-Based NTP Software 3-9 ■ Start the Host-Based Oracle Software 3-10 ■ Start the BB-GUI 3-11 ■ How Users Access the NTP Interface 3-12 Stop ■ Stop NTP 3-13 ■ Stop NTP but Not Oracle 3-16 ■ Stop NTP and Oracle 3-17 ■ Stop Oracle 3-18 ■ Stop Oracle if Shutdown Immediate Hangs 3-19 ■ Stop the BB-GUI 3-20 System Time ■ Overview 3-21 Cron Lucent Technologies — Proprietary See notice on first page ii Release 9.2 Issue 1.0 November 2002 NetMinder® System’s NTP Feature Set System Administration Guide Contents ■ Overview 3-22 ■ Modify crontab Files 3-24 ■ root crontab File 3-25 ■ ntp crontab File 3-26 ■ Other crontab Files (adm, oracle, and scp) 3-31 4 Reference Data Tables Introduction ■ Overview 4-3 ■ Tables 4-5 ■ Records 4-6 ■ Fields 4-7 ■ Table and Field Helps 4-9 ■ describe Command 4-10 ■ Edit (vi) ASCII Files 4-12 sui find ■ Overview 4-16 ■ sui find for dbedit 4-17 ■ Search Expressions in sui find 4-20 Dbedit ■ Overview 4-24 ■ ASCII Files for dbedit 4-25 ■ dbedit Command 4-28 ■ During and after dbedit 4-31 ■ Correct dbedit Errors 4-33 ■ dbedit Insert or Update Example 4-37 ■ dbedit Delete Example 4-40 Field Dependencies ■ Field Dependency During Updates 4-42 ■ Field Dependency During Installation 4-48 Lucent Technologies — Proprietary See notice on first page NetMinder® System’s NTP Feature Set Release 9.2 Issue 1.0 November 2002 iii System Administration Guide Contents Verify Reference Database Tables ■ Database Schema 4-53 Other Modifications ■ Updating the TimesTen Database after Certain Modifications 4-54 5 Add Network Elements ■ Introduction 5-3 Re and De ■ Re and De Overview 5-5 ■ Re Conversions 5-7 ■ Add an Re 5-14 ■ Tables to Edit to Add an Re 5-20 Add De-Only Elements ■ Overview 5-25 ■ Add and Map SCPs and STPs 5-26 ■ Add an AUTOPLEX Location Register as De 5-29 ■ Add an AUTOPLEX or DMS MTX Cell Base Station as De 5-32 ■ Add an Adjunct 5-36 ■ Add an ECOS Area 5-38 Rt’s ■ Overview 5-40 ■ Correct Wrong or Missing Rt Values 5-41 ■ Add an Rt 5-44 Shared Procedures ■ Purpose 5-45 ■ Add to Swarch (or other “arch”) Table 5-46 ■ Add to Rearch Table 5-48 ■ Map an Re to its Swarch De’s 5-50 Define Routes to Eliminate “?”s ■ Overview 5-54 Lucent Technologies — Proprietary See notice on first page iv Release 9.2 Issue 1.0 November 2002 NetMinder® System’s NTP Feature Set System Administration Guide Contents ■ Eliminate “?” in Lrne 5-55 ■ Eliminate “?” De 5-57 FDCs ■ Add or Modify FDCs 5-58 ■ 7R/E PLS FDCs 5-63 ■ DMS MTX FDCs 5-64 ■ OTR FDCs 5-65 ■ GeoProbe FDCs 5-67 ■ CDR FDCs 5-70 Delete a Network Element ■ Overview 5-72 6 Add or Delete Users Introduction ■ Task Overview 6-5 Add and Delete NTP Users ■ Overview 6-8 ■ Add a User Login ID on the NTP Host 6-9 ■ Attributes File for add_ntpuser Command 6-12 ■ Add NTP Users 6-20 ■ add_ntpuser Command 6-25 ■ Delete NTP Users 6-28 ■ del_ntpuser Command 6-30 Add and Delete BB-GUI Users ■ Overview 6-31 ■ Password Administration 6-33 ■ Web User Administration Page 6-36 ■ Web User Information Page 6-43 ■ Add BB-GUI Users 6-51 ■ Delete BB-GUI Users 6-52 Lucent Technologies — Proprietary See notice on first page NetMinder® System’s NTP Feature Set Release 9.2 Issue 1.0 November 2002 v System Administration Guide Contents Install and Uninstall Client Software for the BB-GUI ■ Overview 6-53 ■ Install Client Software for the BB-GUI 6-56 ■ Uninstall Client Software for the BB-GUI 6-75 Administer User Access ■ How Users Access NTP 6-80 7 Modify Users ■ Overview 7-3 Modify BB-GUI Users ■ Modify BB-GUI User Information 7-6 ■ Configure Oracle Client Connections for Pattern Painter 7-7 Manage Command Groups ■ Overview 7-8 ■ Define Command Groups 7-10 ■ Assign Users to Command Groups 7-13 Manage FDC Groups ■ Overview 7-15 ■ Define FDC Groups 7-18 ■ Assign Users to FDC Groups 7-21 Manage Network Groups and Segments ■ Overview 7-25 ■ Define Network Groups and Segments 7-28 ■ Assign Users to Network Groups and Segments 7-33 Manage User Environment Variables ■ Overview 7-37 ■ admset command 7-39 Manage User Files and Databases ■ Overview 7-45 ■ Remove User ASCII Files 7-47 Lucent Technologies — Proprietary See notice on first page vi Release 9.2 Issue 1.0 November 2002 NetMinder® System’s NTP Feature Set System Administration Guide Contents ■ Remove User Databases 7-48 ■ ptspace Command 7-50 ■ sui list Command 7-52 ■ sui remove Command 7-54 Set X-GUI Table Name Display ■ Overview 7-56 Restrict User cron Functions ■ Overview 7-59 8 Thresholding and Alerting ■ Overview 8-5 Basic Thresholding and Alerting ■ Types of Basic Thresholding 8-6 ■ Routine Tasks for Basic Thresholding 8-7 ■ System Variables for Basic Thresholding 8-8 ■ 5-Minute and Hourly Basic Thresholds 8-10 ■ sui showthresh Command 8-17 ■ See 5-Minute or Hourly Thresholds 8-21 ■ sui thresh Command 8-24 ■ Set or Unset Manual 5-Minute or Hourly Thresholds 8-27 ■ Stop or Restart Thresholding for Entity or FDC via Ai 8-30 ■ sui modmat Command 8-34 ■ Soak 5-Minute and Hourly Thresholds 8-37 ■ Soak

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