Enabling Extended Topology

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Before Enabling Extended Topology

Extended Topology depends on NNM for inventory Set up your SNMP configuration. Set up discovery and/or topology filters on NNM Let NNM finish discovering your network Check the results in NNM to assure completeness and SNMP access

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SNMP Configuration
Configure community names for Extended Topology to use through Options SNMP Configuration menu item. To use changes, restart Extended Topology discovery.

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Starting Extended Topology Analysis

Run setupExtTopo.ovpl
Checks the system kernel parameters
Do you want to discover information about specific

protocols? Set your initial Extended Topology configuration (tomcat) user and password Determines the number of nodes NNM is managing In larger environments, offers to automatically partition NNMs IPv4 devices into smaller discovery zones Begins first discovery if possible

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Automatic Zone Partitioning

Zone-based discovery uses fewer resources and runs faster Extended Topology suggests zones that
Maintain switch and router connections Minimize overlap and duplicate SNMP queries Improve performance

Initial recommendations based on NNM topology data

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Automatic Zone Configuration

setupExtTopo.ovpl runs the automatic zone utility.

Verify your zones

1. Start Home Base. 2. Select Discovery Status. 3. Click [Extended Topology Configuration]. 4. Select Discovery Zones tab. 5. Click [Test All Zones].

Initiate discovery from GUI or run etrestart.ovpl.

If new nodes are added, rezone from the configuration GUI.

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Manually Starting Extended Topology Discovery

Running ovstart may launch a new Extended Topology discovery if you configure it To launch an Extended Topology discovery at any time
From Home Base, click [Initiate Full Discovery Now]

Run etrestart.ovpl Does not affect NNM

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Incremental Zone Discovery

Discover a zone by itself without discovering the whole topology Run a full discovery to completion first. Use incremental discovery if add or delete nodes in a zone Use full rediscovery if move node(s) from zone to zone

Use full rediscovery if remove a whole zone

Start zone discovery from Home Base or etrestart.ovpl zone <zone number> Updates the connectivity, containment, and redundancy models of a zone

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Incremental Node Discovery

Single nodes that are added or discovered can be automatically made a part of Extended Topology without a full or zone rediscovery.
Discovery
New added/discovered nodes automatically add to ET

Polling

No Full or Zone rediscovery needed Nodes & interfaces only no connectivity Connectivity requires full or incremental zone rediscovery Turned off by default Edit ovet_bridge.lrf to turn on incremental discovery
New nodes & interfaces monitored by APA

Controlled in paConfig.xml New attributes - isNewNode, isNewInterface Enable/Disable SNMP & ICMP polling Normal APA filtering configuration applies after next zone discovery
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Configuring Discovery Cycles

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Viewing Discovery Status

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Extended Topology Discovery Lab

In this lab you will
Enable Extended Topology with setupExtTopo.ovpl
Monitor Discover progress from Home Base Examine Discovery configuration from Home Base Trigger a rediscovery and observe the progress of the key

Extended Topology daemons Install the Extended Topology demo database Explore topology views

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