AT&T OneVision DEFINITY G3 Fault Management and... Quick setup guide

585-229-109

Issue 1

October, 1995

OneVision™ DEFINITY® G3

Fault Management

Installation and Integration

for AT&T OneVision™

Graphics © AT&T 1988

Table of

Contents

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About This Book vii

■Intended Audiences vii

■Prerequisites vii

■How This Book Is Organized viii

■Conventions Used in This Book ix

■Trademarks and Service Marks x

■How to Use This Book xi

■Your Fault Management Documentation Package xii

Online Documentation xii

■How to Make Comments About This Book xiii

1 Before You Begin 1-1

■Overview 1-1

OneVision Management Solutions DEFINITY

G3 Fault Management 1-2

Standard Network Management Components 1-2

Network Connectivity 1-4

■Installation and Setup Task List 1-5

■Requirements for Fault Management Installation 1-7

Certified Hardware 1-7

Contents

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2 Installing Fault Management 2-1

■Installation Prerequisites 2-1

■Installation Procedures 2-2

■Changing the Environment 2-3

3 Integrating OneVision Fault Management 3-1

■Adding DEFINITY G3 PBX Nodes 3-2

Node Limitations 3-2

Adding a PBX as a Managed Node 3-2

Adding PBXIcons 3-3

Configuring PBX Objects 3-4

■Adding DEFINITY G3Proxy Agent Nodes 3-7

Node Limitations 3-7

Adding a Proxy Agent as a Managed Node 3-7

Adding Proxy Agent Icons 3-7

Configuring Proxy Agent Objects 3-9

4 Starting the Applications 4-1

■Starting Fault Management 4-1

Starting from the Network Map 4-1

Starting with the Mouse 4-2

■Opening the Online User Guide 4-3

Opening from the Network Map 4-3

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Opening from a Shell Prompt 4-4

■DynaText Documentation 4-4

5 Alarm States 5-1

■States of the DEFINITY G3 Icons 5-2

IconStates 5-2

Conditions Causing Change of State 5-3

■States of the Proxy Agent Icons 5-4

IconStates 5-5

Conditions Causing Change of State 5-5

■Verifying Connectivity 5-7

IconState 5-7

Startup Messages 5-7

Startup Screen 5-8

Switch View 5-9

Warning Messages 5-9

Data Refreshes 5-10

Refreshing Data Manually 5-10

The MIB 5-10

TroubleShooting Disconnects 5-11

A Advanced Customization A-1

■Changing the Polling Interval A-2

■Changing Default Values A-2

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The Setup Screen A-3

The Application Resource File A-3

Accessing the Resource File A-3

Default Values A-4

Editing the File A-4

■Other Options A-5

Changing Script Files A-5

Changing the Application Directory A-6

Changing the MIB A-6

B Telnetting to the Proxy Agent B-1

■Overview of the Proxy Agent B-1

■Why Should You Access theProxy Agent? B-2

■Telnetting to theProxy Agent B-3

IN Index IN-1

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About This Book

This book provides information about OneVision DEFINITY G3 Fault

Management and Proxy Agent connectivity and tells you how to install and

initially set up your OneVision DEFINITY G3 application.

Intended Audiences

This book is intended for AT&T's DEFINITY Generic 3 customers who use

OneVision DEFINITY G3 Fault Management (referred to hereafter as Fault

Management) to manage their switches on the AT&T OneVision and Network

Node Manager 3.3 network management system (NMS) .

Prerequisites

The level of information provided in this book is based on the assumption that

users have fulfilled the following prerequisites:

■Customers must understand the network management system (NMS) on

which Fault Management resides. It is not within the scope of this or

other Fault Management documentation to describe how to use the

NMS beyond what the Fault Management software requires.

■Customers must understand their DEFINITY G3 PBX configuration and

must be familiar with basic PBX alarm and error functionality.

How This Book Is Organized

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How This Book Is Organized

This book is organized as follows:

This book also contains an Index.

Chapter 1 Lists the hardware and software that is certified to run Fault

Management and provides preparatory steps.

Chapter 2 Gives you the procedures for installing the software.

Chapter 3 Provides information for integrating Fault Management and

Proxy Agent into the NMS.

Chapter 4 Explains how to start Fault Management and the online user

guide.

Chapter 5 Describes the OneVision states, alarms, polls, and masks,

for DEFINITY G3 PBXs and for DEFINITY Proxy Agents.

Appendix A Helps you troubleshoot Fault Management in the event a

problem occurs. Thisappendix also has guidelines for NMS

configuration and system administration for use with Fault

Management.

Appendix B Explains how to telnet to the Proxy Agent.

Conventions Used in This Book

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Conventions Used in This Book

This book contains the following typographic conventions:

■Information that is displayed on your screen is shown in typewriter-style

constant-width type.

■Information that you enter from your keyboard or select from a menu is

shown in bold type.

■Keys that you press are indicated by small type.

■The word "Enter" means to type the word shown in bold text, then press

the Enter key.

■Brackets indicate values that you supply.

Example: Please remove the installation

diskette and continue when ready.

Example: Enter attov_doc.

Click OK.

Example: Press Enter.

Example: Enter the command ovinstall.

Means type ovinstall and then press Enter.

Example: public!g3mgt!<client string> means that

you determine the value of the client string.

Trademarks and Service Marks

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Trademarks and Service Marks

The following trademarked products are mentioned in this document:

■DEFINITY®is a registered trademark of AT&T

■OneVisionTM is a trademark of AT&T

■DynaText®is a registered trademark of Electronic Book Technologies,

Inc.

■UNIX®is a registered trademark of Novell in the United States and other

countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company Limited

How to Use This Book

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How to Use This Book

This book is designed to help you quickly get the information you need to

install and set up Fault Management. You likely will not need to use the entire

book, but will need particular information in it to meet your requirements.

We recommend you read all of Chapter 1 first because it provides important

basic information. Then use the following table to determine which chapters

you need:

To do this: Use:

Prepare your computer environment Chapter 1

Perform prerequisite UNIX system administration Chapter 2

Install Fault Management software Chapter 2

Set up switches as nodes on the NMS Chapter 3

Set up the Proxy Agent node on the NMS Chapter 3

Troubleshoot problems encountered while

installing or running Fault Management Appendix A

Launch Fault Management Chapter 4

Read the online user guide Chapter 4

Understand the DEFINITY G3 alarm states Chapter 5

Telnet to the Proxy Agent Appendix B

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