What's New in Network Node Manager 7.0
For more details about the following features, see the NNM online help.
NNM 7.0
- Simpler Product Structure
- Network Node Manager Starter Edition
Improved Dynamic Views
- Access Dynamic Views via http://MACHINE:7510
- Home Base - index.html page replaced with a Home Base that provides
a pie chart of overall network status, easy access to alarms, and a launching
point for Dynamic Views
- Multi-framed Dynamic Views
- Change view or view parameters without launching a new window
- Resizable windows launched in separate windows from Home Base
- New OpenView look and feel
- New "Active Tables" allows you to view tabular data with sorting, grouping,
filtering, and fine control of fonts and color
- Dynamic update of table fields
- Status in Network View, Path View, and Overlapping Address Domain View
are dynamically updated
- Authentication & Authorization - control which users can access various
Dynamic Views. See dynamicViewsUsers.xml(4) reference page
- Improved view scalability
- Node View has IP address range filter
- Internet View has option to show/hide unmanaged networks
- Vendor specific icons
- New symbol icons have been added for connecting devices, based on
the vendor. Vendors include:
- 3Com
- Alcatel
- Cisco
- Extreme
- Hewlett-Packard
- NEC
- Nortel
- HP NonStop Servers
- Mapping of SNMP sysObjectID to symbol moved from $OV_CONF/oid_to_sym
to $OV_CONF/oid_to_sym_reg/ to allow for end-user customization.
This can have some backward compatibility issues with 3rd party integrations.
This replaces the obsoleted ovconfadmin.ovpl command. For more information,
see the 3rd Party Integrations section of the release notes, and see
oid_to_sym_reg(4) and ovdvstylereset(1M) reference pages.
- telnet to any port available on right click
- User extensible menu items allow you to integrate your own URLs into
the Dynamic Views menus by placing a registration file in $OV_WWW_REG/dynamicViews
directory
- Poster Printing - print large maps over multiple sheets of paper, see
Graph:Poster Print Options... on Dynamic Views
- Remotely Delete/Manage/Unmanage or Add Nodes from remote Dynamic Views,
see Edit:Add Node or Edit:Manage, Edit:Unmanage, or Edit:Delete.
Access is controlled through authentication and authorization, which is
configured during setupExtTopo.ovpl
- Toggle port labels - view and print all port labels
- Improved Node and Interface details pages (extended topology only)
- Interface port icons are dynamically updated
Improved Event Management
- Easier to use Composer GUI
For more information about Composer and ECS 3.2, refer to the ECS Release Notes placed under
/opt/OV/ReleaseNotes/ECS.
- More out-of-the-box correlations
- From event, launch to Overlapping Address Domain, or event
details
- Cisco specific trap definitions from NNM contributed application now
in default trapd.conf file
Changed default Windows install location to c:\Program Files\HP OpenView
Support of 31 bit subnet masks
Include OVPI and HP NonStop MIBs in $OV_SNMP_MIBS
Apache web server at port :3443 updated to Apache version 1.3.27 (Unix only)
Support for migratable IP addresses in netmon through 'netmon.migratable'
configuration file. See netmon.migratable(4) reference page
Support for filtering of MAC addresses discovered by netmon. See netmon.MACnoDiscover(4)
reference page
NNM on Linux
NNM 7.0 is now available on Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1.