Users Guide

New Features/Devices Supported in 6.5

• In OMNM 6.5 license registration was enhanced to support two license

registration actions. If you intend to extend an existing license, choose Extend

License Expiration. This results in the new license being activated when the

existing license expires. Otherwise if you want to increase the number of

resources that you can have under management, choose Increase License Count.

This results in the new license being activated immediately. As a result the count

from the existing license is combined with the new license to increase the

number of resources that you can have under management. (28904)

• License expiration behavior was improved to eliminated the need for a command

line installation when the license has already expired. You can now use the GUI

interface to install the license (Settings > Application Configuration Settings

portlet > License Management) (28905)

• Automatically set community string for new devices so they can be discovered.

For environments/devices where snmp is not configured, OMNM automatically

sets an SNMP v2 community on the target devices so they can be discovered in

OMNM (limited driver support).

• A Post discovery action in discovery profiles can auto configure devices to send

traps to OMNM. Supported drivers, Force10, PowerConnect, Juniper, Cisco,

Aruba.

• Database free space low Event - Database Capacity EPR was added to trigger a

critical alarm notification when the Oracle or MySQL DB has capacity <=25%.

• Integration - OMMN 6.5 now supports a rich set of REST APIs for integration.

• Actions - A new action type called “Restful Web service” was added. Users can

write a custom JSON script to interact with any device or system that supports

REST.

• TFA - Similar to Resource Manager, right click from Topology brings up traffic

flow for a specific device.

• New Virtualization - To allow the users of OMNM to provide comparable support

for virtual network components as OMNM has traditionally provided for physical

network devices the OMNM 6.5 release contains new support for managing

Openstack virtualizaiton. 11 new portlet under Add-Applications-> Virtualization

Management.

• The Virtual Appliance was improved to automatically configure the OMNM file

server. When the virtual appliance setup menu option is executed to configure

the VM with its new IP address, the new file sever is also created in the OMNM

db. After bringing up OMNM for the first time, you will see two file server entries.

One is for a TFP/TFP server and the other is for an SCP server.

• In OMNM 6.5 to aid navigation, Additional Filters have been added to Reports,

Report Templates, Action and Compliance summary portlets. To select a filter

click the wrench icon to create a new Filter or set a new default filter for the

portlet. These filters are also available in filer option of the expanded portlet (+

sign upper right portlet) (28994)

• In OMNM 6.5 the default Job Viewer settings were changed to include the option

'Show Informational Messages by Default'. Job Viewer options can be re-

configured within the Control Panel under Redcell > Application Settings > User

Interface tab. (29520)