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• Does your organization have a manager of IMC systems or other system that processes events from
many management systems?
• Does your organization have a help desk to which events and alarms should be forwarded?
Translating requirements into actions
The first step in a successful deployment is gathering requirements. The next step is translating
requirements into actions, which vary by organization.
The following lists provide some ideas for configuring IMC.
Compiling information
• Compile a list of vendors that include vendor contact information.
• Compile a list of vendor series information for all unique device series.
• Compile a list of vendor model information for all unique device models.
• Identify what metrics collected by IMC can be translated into key metrics or performance indicators
to meet stakeholder requirements. Do any of the metrics require enterprise MIBs that need to be
compiled into IMC? New user-defined global monitors created?
• Obtain MIBs to compile into IMC to support additional fault and performance monitoring.
• Compile MIBs into IMC.
• Compile a list of devices that includes the following information for each device:
{
Vendor
{
Series Name
{
Model Name
{
SNMP Settings
{
Telnet Parameters
{
SSH Parameters
{
Default or Custom status polling requirements
{
Default or Custom configuration polling requirements
{
Default or Custom performance monitoring requirements
{
List of services running on the device that require monitoring
{
Management IP Address
{
Identify people that require access for viewing or managing the device
{
Identify recipients of email or text notifications for alarms for this device
{
Identify device groups to which this device should belong
{
Identify custom views to which this device should belong
Network infrastructure
• Work with your organization's network, security, and change control teams to implement network
management VLANs and to permit traffic between IMC and all devices managed by IMC for all
zones and tiers in application environments.
• Make or request changes to device naming conventions to simplify and standardize naming
between IMC and the physical devices.