Installing NerveCenter - Running Setup on Windows - Where to Go from Here -
Completing the Installation      Setting Up the Database on Windows

Where to Go from Here

After you finish the installation, you must do the following before you use NerveCenter on Windows:

Post-Installation Configuration Steps

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Want to install NerveCenter on other machines by doing silent or remote installations

Edit a configuration script and run setup from the command line or use Microsoft System Management Server (SMS).

Chapter 4, Doing Silent and Remote Installations on Windows

Installed the server and chose not to set up the database during installation

Install a database now.

Chapter 3, Setting Up the Database on Windows

Left the License Key dialog box empty

Start the server, use the administrator to connect to the server, and enter a license key.

Managing NerveCenter

Are ready to start and configure NerveCenter

Start the server, use the administrator to connect to the server, and configure your node source, inform hosts, email notification, and so on.

Managing NerveCenter

Chose to install a platform adaptor to integrate NerveCenter with a network management platform

Configure NerveCenter and your network management platform to work together.

Integrating NerveCenter with a Network Management Platform

Chose to integrate NerveCenter with Micromuse Netcool/Omnibus, but installed on a different machine than Netcool

Change the platform adapter's nhost setting to reflect the Netcool host machine.

Integrating NerveCenter with a Network Management Platform

Chose NerveCenter security

Add users to the appropriate user groups: NerveCenter Admins and NerveCenter Users on Windows.

Managing NerveCenter

Installed Web support, but the Web server is on another machine

Set up the URL map manually.

Managing NerveCenter

Installed Web support

Make sure that users have appropriate access to the server.

Your Web server documentation

Changed the default directory and you plan on using the IPSweep behavior model

Modify the IPSweep alarm to use the new path.

Designing and Managing Behavior Models



Completing the Installation Setting Up the Database on Windows
29 July 2003