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About This Book

This is the first of several books shipped with NerveCenter, and takes about one to two hours to complete. If you are new to NerveCenter, it is recommended that you read this book and perform its exercises before proceeding with any other NerveCenter tasks -- including installation.

Getting a Quick Start with NerveCenter is primarily intended for people who:

• Have never used NerveCenter before and want a brief tour before they begin learning to customize the application
• Are evaluating NerveCenter

The material covered in this book is designed to help you acquire a degree of confidence and familiarity with NerveCenter. First, you will perform a simple NerveCenter installation that requires no configuration. Afterward, you will define a few nodes for NerveCenter to manage, and then monitor certain conditions on these nodes.

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   The stand-alone installation that you will perform using this book does not enable NerveCenter to be integrated with a network management platform, such as OpenView Network Node Manager. If you intend to set up integration, you will need to reinstall.

In addition to the above restriction, the installation here does not support SNMP v2c or v3 agents.

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After completing this book, you will likely need to reinstall the software to customize NerveCenter to work with your network. The last chapter of the book, Where To Go from Here, expands on the information covered in the exercises. For example, the chapter describes a full range of options for node discovery, event correlation, and integration with a network management platform.