Learning How to Create Behavior Models - How to Start Using NerveCenter Client - Before You Begin... -
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Before You Begin...

Learning How to Create Behavior Models is a tutorial for introducing you to some of the most commonly used features of NerveCenter.

The activities and exercises in this tutorial are self-paced and hands-on. They will give you the knowledge and skills necessary to design and manage NerveCenter behavior models.

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Note    The activities and exercises depend on behavior models that you create and modify in previous chapters. Therefore it is important that you complete each section and each exercise in the order presented. Also, be sure to save your work at the end of each chapter.

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Although you will be working in your network's real environment, you don't need to be worried about causing too much traffic or "messing things up." The activities in How to Define Property Groups and Properties,will help you to isolate a small subset of devices on your network. The rest of the activities will involve only those devices. The last chapter, How to Reset Your Environment,will step you through setting your network back to normal.

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Tip    To fully understand and appreciate the information provided in this tutorial you'll probably need a couple of days.

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The answers to the review questions are listed in Answers to Questions.

What You Need to Know

Whether you are a network operator, administrator, or manager, you should be familiar with the following topics to get the most out of this tutorial:

• Computer networking concepts
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) basics
• Common MIB-II objects and related terminology
• Your network management platform (if applicable)
• The Windows NT or UNIX environment

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  Note    Although you do not need to know Perl to use NerveCenter, several NerveCenter features can be enhanced and customized by Perl scripts. Knowledge of Perl is not necessary to complete this tutorial.

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What You Need to Use

The activities and exercises in this tutorial make extensive use of the NerveCenter Client. Before you can begin, you must have

• A NerveCenter Client installed on your local machine
• A NerveCenter Server installed on your local machine or a machine accessible to your local machine
• A NerveCenter administrator should configure the NerveCenter Server before you begin this tutorial. Where applicable the following items should be configured:
  • Inform recipients
  • Paging information
  • SMTP mail server
• At least three devices running SNMP agents
• Access to your network management platform (if applicable)