for the Windows®, HP-UX, Linux, and Solaris operating systems
Software Version: 9.00
Publication date: April 2010
This document provides an overview of the
changes made to HP Network Node Manager iSPI Performance for Quality Assurance
Software (NNM iSPI Performance for QA) version 9.00. It contains important
information not included in the manuals or in the online help.
For a list of supported hardware platforms,
operating systems, and database, see the support matrix. You can find both the
Support Matrix (nmQAispi_supportmatrix_en.html)
and the Release Notes (nmQAispi_releasenotes_en.html)
at the root directory of the installation media.
NNM iSPI Performance for QA 9.00
Features
Documentation Updates
Deployment
Reference
Installation Guide
and Support Matrix
Licensing
Known Problems, Limitations, and Workarounds
HP Software Support
Legal Notices
NNM iSPI Performance for QA enables you to
monitor and analyze the performances of the network elements managed by HP Network Node Manager i Software System (NNMi). NNM iSPI Performance for QA discovers the QA probes
that you configured in these elements and displays the status of each of these
probes in the QA Probes inventory view.
You must have Network Performance Server
installed before you can install NNM iSPI Performance for QA. However, you can
have different deployment scenarios to integrate NNM iSPI Performance for QA
with NNMi and other iSPIs
(see the Deployment Reference).
For an overview of NNM iSPI Performance for
QA 9.00, see Introducing Network Node Manager iSPI Performance for Quality
Assurance Software in the Installation Guide (see Installation Guide and Support Matrix).
·
New Features
§ Discovery and Inventory of
QA Probes:
o
NNM iSPI Performance for QA enables you to discover the
QA probes configured on the NNMi managed nodes and
interfaces.
o
The QA Probes view displays the state of each of these
discovered QA probes.
o
The Site Configuration feature enables you to manage
quality inventory of your network by categorizing network elements in sites.
o
The Discovery Filter Based on QA Probe Owner enables you
to filter out the QA probes that you do not need to display in the QA Probes
view.
§
Reporting
o
NNM iSPI Performance for QA monitors and collects data on
the following metrics:
o
Some of the reports that the Quality Assurance extension
pack displays are as follows:
Note: You must have the Network
Performance Server to store the quality assurance information.
§ QA Probes Status Management
§ Threshold Based Performance
Monitoring
§ Support for Shadow Router
§ Content SPI Integrations
·
User Interface
§ QA Probes View in Quality
Assurance workspace
§ QA Probes Form
§ Quality Assurance Site
Configuration Forms
§ Quality Assurance Threshold
Configuration
§ Discovery Filter
Configuration
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For information on supported environments and MIBs , see the Support Matrix.
The complete documentation set is available
on the HP Product Manuals web site at h20230.www2.hp.com/selfsolve/manuals.
You can run the NNM iSPI Performance for QA Help
system independently from the NNM iSPI Performance for QA console. Refer to
"iSPI Performance for QA Help for Administrators" and “iSPI
Performance for QA Help for Operators” in Help → Help for NNM iSPIs.
A web-only document
providing advanced deployment, configuration, update, and integration
information for NNM iSPI Performance for QA is available at http://h20230.www2.hp.com/selfsolve/manuals.
Use your HP Passport
sign-in to access this site, or register a new HP Passport identifier. Choose
the "network node manager iSPI Performance for Quality Assurance"
product, "9.00" product version, and choose your operating system.
From the search results, open the Documentation List and click the link for the
appropriate version of the Deployment Reference.
NOTE: To view files in
PDF format (*.pdf), Adobe Acrobat Reader must be installed on your system. To
download Adobe Acrobat Reader, visit the Adobe web site at http://www.adobe.com/.
To obtain an electronic copy of the most
up-to-date version of the Network Node Manager iSPI Performance for Quality
Assurance Software Installation Guide, point your browsers to http://h20230.www2.hp.com/selfsolve/manuals.
Installation requirements, as well as
instructions for installing NNM iSPI Performance for QA, are documented in the
installation guide provided in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
format. The document file is included on the product's installation media as: nmQASPI_InstallGuide_en.pdf. After installation the document can be found from the
NNM iSPI Performance for QA User Interface by picking Help → NNM iSPI Documentation Library → iSPI Performance for QA Install Guide.
For a list of supported hardware platforms,
operating systems, and databases, see the support matrix.
NNM iSPI Performance for QA installs with an
60-day unlimited Instant On license.
To check the validity of your NNM iSPI
Performance for QA licenses, from the console select "Help → System Information" and click on "View Licensing
Information".
For information about installing and managing
licenses, please see the Installation Guide.
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QCCR1B45367:
QA Discovery filter configuration doesn't allow filters with characters '@',
single quotes or double quotes or '\','#'.
· QCCR1B45406: Cisco IOS IP SLA allows for configuration of a history distribution of statistics for reporting a statistical distribution of response times. When this feature is enabled, the NNM iSPI Performance for QA reports will report incorrect values for RTT. This configuration can be detected, if RTTMON MIB is enabled, in the value of rttMonStatisticsAdminNumDistBuckets (1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.42.1.2.7.1.4). If that MIB value is greater than 1, the QA values reported will be incorrect. A workaround is to redefine the IP SLA on the source router as having no history, or history distribution-of-statistics-kept 1.
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Research and register for software training
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To find more information about support access levels and HP Passport, go to the
following URL:
http://support.openview.hp.com/new_access_levels.jsp
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