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Learning How to Create Behavior Models      Preface

Learning How to Create Behavior Models

Preface

Overview of this Book
Overview of the Open NerveCenter Documentation and Help
Viewing the Online Documentation
Printing the Online Documentation
UNIX Man Pages for NerveCenter Commands
Getting Help While Working in NerveCenter
Accessing the Open NerveCenter Web Site
Accessing the Open Technical Support Web Site
Conventions
Typographical Conventions
Tips, Notes, and Cautions

How to Start Using NerveCenter Client

Before You Begin
What You Need to Know
What You Need to Use
What is the NerveCenter Client?
The Components of NerveCenter's Architecture
NerveCenter's User Interfaces
How to Use the NerveCenter Client
Starting the NerveCenter Client
Connecting to a NerveCenter Server
Quitting the NerveCenter Client
Review and Summary
Review Exercises
Review Questions
Summary of What You Learned

How to Define Property Groups and Properties

What is a Property Group?
How to Create Property Groups and Properties
Creating a New Property Group
Creating a New Property
Assigning a Property Group to a Set of Nodes
Review and Summary
Review Exercises
Review Questions
Summary of What You Learned

How to Use Polls

What is a Poll?
How to Create a Poll
Creating a New Poll
Writing a Poll Condition
Enabling a Poll
Modifying a Poll Condition
Review and Summary
Review Exercises
Review Questions
Summary of What You Learned

How to Use Alarms

What is an Alarm?
How to Create an Alarm
Creating a New Alarm
Designing a State Diagram
Enabling an Alarm
Modifying an Alarm's State Diagram
Adding Another State to an Alarm
Review and Summary
Review Exercises
Review Questions
Summary of What You Learned

How to Use Trap Masks

What is a Trap Mask?
How to Create a Trap Mask
Creating a New Trap Mask
Creating an Alarm to be Triggered by a Mask
Using Trapgen to Generate a Trap
Defining a Trigger Function
Review and Summary
Review Exercises
Review Questions
Summary of What You Learned

How to Use Behavior Models

What is a Behavior Model?
How to Create Useful Behavior Models
Using a Counter to Detect Persistence
Notifying of a Persistent Condition
Using a Timer to Detect Persistence
Detecting Unresponsive Nodes
Testing for an Unresponsive Node
Review and Summary
Review Exercises
Review Questions
Summary of What You Learned

How to Use Alarm Scope in Behavior Models

What is Alarm Scope?
How to Use Alarm Scope in a Multi-alarm Behavior Model
Creating the First Alarm of a Multi-alarm Behavior Model
Creating the Second Alarm of a Multi-alarm Behavior Model
Adding Reset Capabilities to a Multi-alarm Behavior Model
Review and Summary
Review Exercises
Review Questions
Summary of What You Learned

How to Define Conditional Actions with Action Router

What is Action Router?
How to use Action Router
Defining a Rule Condition in Action Router
Defining a Rule Action in Action Router
Using Action Router in an Alarm
Review and Summary
Review Exercises
Review Questions
Summary of What You Learned

How to Reset Your Environment

How to Reset Your Environment
Deleting NerveCenter Objects
Deleting Property Groups
Summary of What You Learned

Answers to Questions

Answers to the Chapter 1 Review Questions
Answers to the Chapter 2 Review Questions
Answers to the Chapter 3 Review Questions
Answers to the Chapter 4 Review Questions
Answers to the Chapter 5 Review Questions
Answers to the Chapter 6 Review Questions
Answers to the Chapter 7 Review Questions
Answers to the Chapter 8 Review Questions

Index


Learning How to Create Behavior Models Preface
29 July 2003