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NerveCenter 3.7: An Overview - NerveCenter Integrated with a Network Management Platform - Universal Platform Adapter Integration -
NerveCenter's universal platform adapter, paserver, enables NerveCenter to send informs to the following platforms:
The adapter is typically installed on the network management platform host machine, though there are other possible configurations. Other NerveCenter components, including the Server, can be installed on the same machine or on a different machine.
The following sections describe a typical setup for each platform.
NerveCenter can forward important events to the Tivoli TME Enterprise Console on Sun Solaris. The following diagram shows TME Enterprise Console integration along with the other NerveCenter components.
Tivoli TME Enterprise Console Integration
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The NerveCenter Server forwards noteworthy events to the platform by sending inform messages to paserver, which relays the informs to the TME Enterprise Console. NerveCenter includes information about the associated node, the MIB values that were evaluated, the alarm that generated the inform action, and the severity of the states to and from, which the alarm transitioned when the inform was sent.
NerveCenter can forward important events to Computer Associates Unicenter TNG on Windows NT. The following diagram shows Computer Associates Unicenter TNG integration along with the other NerveCenter components.
Computer Associates Unicenter TNG Integration
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The NerveCenter Server forwards noteworthy events to the platform by sending inform messages to paserver, which relays the informs directly to the Unicenter TNG console. NerveCenter includes information about the associated node, the MIB values that were evaluated, the alarm that generated the inform action, and the severity of the states to and from, which the alarm transitioned when the inform was sent.
NerveCenter can forward important events to Micromuse Netcool/OMNIBUS on Windows NT and on UNIX. The following diagram shows Netcool/OMNIBUS integration along with the other NerveCenter components.
Micromuse Netcool/OMNIbus Integration
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To integrate the universal platform adapter with Micromuse Netcool/OMNIbus, you must obtain a NerveCenter probe from Micromuse. NerveCenter's inform messages travel from NerveCenter to the platform adapter, then to the probe, and finally to the Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer. You can customize the inform messages by editing the nervecenter.rules file located in $OMNIHOME/probes/platform.
Micromuse recommends that the probe be installed on the same machine as paserver, and this configuration is the default setting for paserver. See your Micromuse documentation for details.
The NerveCenter Server forwards noteworthy events to the platform by sending inform messages to paserver, which relays the informs directly to Micromuse Netcool/OMNIbus. NerveCenter includes information about the associated node, the MIB values that were evaluated, the alarm that generated the inform action, and the severity of the states to and from, which the alarm transitioned when the inform was sent.
The NerveCenter Server and paserver are not required to be installed on the same system as Micromuse Netcool/OMNIbus and the probe. NerveCenter Server can be installed on any supported platform and still relay messages through paserver to Netcool/OMNIbus on Windows NT, Solaris, or HP-UX.
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