Integrating NerveCenter with a Network Management Platform - Integrating NerveCenter with HP OpenView Network Node Manager - Using OpenView as a node source - Identifying Parent-Child Relationships -
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Identifying Parent-Child Relationships

You can let OVPA extract relationship information from HP OpenView Network Node Manager and either store it in the NerveCenter database or in a text file. You can also create the text file manually.

 
  To identify parent-child relationships using OVPA:

  1. Make sure HP OpenView Network Node Manager is running. Also make sure the NerveCenter Server is running.
  2. Make sure that OpenView is set up as your node source in the NerveCenter Administrator.
  3. If OVPA is running, stop it by typing ovstop ovpa at the command line.
  4. Start OVPA in parenting mode from the command line by typing one of the following commands:

 
  To identify parent-child relationships manually:

  1. Open a new text file.
  2. Include a line for each node that has parents. Use the following syntax:
        child parent

    where child is the name of the node and parent is the name of each node on which the child is dependent. If you have more than one parent, separate parents by typing a space between each one.

    For example, if nodeA is dependent on nodeB.domain.com and nodeC, and nodeB.domain.com is dependent on nodeD, then the contents of the text file would look like this:


        nodeA nodeB.domain.com nodeC
        nodeB.domain.com nodeD
  3. Save and close the file.


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This file was last updated on 10 October 2000