User guide

Chapter 7. Configuring the technology pack

Configure the Alcatel-Lucent 5620 SAM LogToFile 2.3.0.0 Technology pack.

Before you begin

Ensure that you:

v Have the following software and documentation for your version of Tivoli

Netcool Performance Manager:

– IBM Tivoli Netcool Performance Manager: Pack Release Notes for the current

technology pack release

– Installing Tivoli Netcool Performance Manager - Wireline Component.

– IBM Tivoli Netcool Performance Manager: Pack Installation and Configuration

Guide.

– Configuring and Operating DataMart

Important: Refer to this guide to run a bulk inventory profile.

– Access to the Tivoli Netcool Performance Manager DataMart server

Note: Alcatel-Lucent 5620 SAM LogToFile 2.3.0.0 Technology pack is

supported on Tivoli Netcool Performance Manager 1.3.2.

– An X Window server on the DataMart server

– Access to the Tivoli Integrated Portal

– Access to the DataChannel server.

v Ensure that you completed the following tasks:

– Reviewed the release notes for the current technology pack.

Note: Release notes contain important information that you must consider

before you install a technology pack. They also contain information about

specific patches that must be installed before you configure a technology

pack.

– Installed the current version of the Tivoli Netcool Performance Manager

components, as described in the Installing Tivoli Netcool Performance Manager -

Wireline Component.

– Installed the Alcatel-Lucent 5620 SAM LogToFile 2.3.0.0 Technology Pack.

– Configured at least one DataChannel.

– Configured two UBA Bulk Collector subchannels.

– Created a user on the Alcatel-Lucent 5620 SAM server with permission to FTP

and delete files.

v Configured the XSD file. To configure the XSD file,

1. Open the Topology Editor, and click Topology > Open existing topology to

load existing topology from database

2. On the Technology Packs pane, load the Alcatel-Lucent SAM 5620 LogToFile

XSD file.

3. In the Logical View, create the following collectors on any new or existing

channels, and configure their corresponding parameters:

– Performance UBA