Document Outline

• NetVue User Guide Rev 3
• Table of Contents
• PREFACE
  • About this User Guide
    • Intended Audience
    • Contents
  • Conventions and References
    • Patents and Trademarks
    • Copyright
    • Cautions and Warnings
  • Regulatory Compliance
    • Telecommunications Terminal Equipment Directive
    • CE Mark
    • RoHS Compliancy
    • EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility)
  • Electrical Safety
    • Fuses
  • Environmental
  • Related Documents
    • Equipment Drivers
  • Product Support
  • Comtech EF Data Headquarters
  • Warranty Policy
    • Limitations of Warranty
    • Exclusive Remedies
• Chapter 1. NetVue IMS Release 1.1 Overview and Introduction
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Architecture of a NetVue System
    • 1.2.1 NetVue System Description
    • 1.2.2 NetVue servers
    • 1.2.3 NetVue clients
    • 1.2.4 NetVue User Interface and browser compatibility
    • 1.2.5 NetVue databases
    • 1.2.6 NetVue peripherals
    • 1.2.7 NetVue processes
    • 1.2.8 Server System Requirements
  • 1.3 NetVue UI Graphics
    • 1.3.1 Visio drawings
    • 1.3.2 NetVue Microsoft Visio templates
    • 1.3.3 Customization (Engineering Support Center)
  • 1.4 Protocols
    • 1.4.1 XML-based protocol descriptions
    • 1.4.2 Protocol versions
  • 1.5 Licensing
  • 1.6 Trend graphs
    • 1.6.1 Trending techniques
  • 1.7 NetVue Reporter
  • 1.8 Hardware
    • 1.8.1 Physical
    • 1.8.2 Electrical
    • 1.8.3 Environmental
• Chapter 2. Operations
  • 2.1 NetVue Server Installation
    • 2.1.1 Configure the IP address of VMware ESXi Hypervisor from a local console
    • 2.1.2 Configure VMware through the GUI
    • 2.1.3 Verify and Start DataMiner
  • 2.2 UI Installation
    • 2.2.1 Prerequisites for running XBAPs
  • 2.3 Navigation
    • 2.3.1 Accessing NetVue UI
    • 2.3.2 Navigating the NetVue Cube UI
    • 2.3.3 Events/Alarms
    • NetVue Applications
• Chapter 3. Reports and Trending
  • 3.1 Reports
    • 3.1.1 User Activity, Daily or Weekly reports
    • 3.1.2 Inventory reports
    • 3.1.3 Performance, DMA Activity reports
    • 3.1.4 Disk Space Monitoring
    • 3.1.5 NetVue Cube Trending
    • 3.1.6 Change the time period of a trend graph
• Chapter 4. Protocols
  • 4.1 About Protocols
    • 4.1.1 XML-based protocol descriptions
    • 4.1.2 Protocol versioning
    • 4.1.3 Manage the Protocols
  • 4.2 Working with Protocols
    • 4.2.1 How to Add protocols
    • 4.2.2 Managing Protocol Versions
    • 4.2.3 Understanding the Alarm and Trend Templates’ association with Protocol
    • 4.2.4 Opening the Protocols page
    • 4.2.5 Opening the Alarm Template
    • 4.2.6 Manually Adding a Single Device (Element)
    • 4.2.7 Removing a Microsoft Visio VDX file from a protocol
    • 4.2.8 Creating an information overlay
    • 4.2.9 Assigning an information overlay to a protocol version
• Chapter 5. Service Level Agreement (SLA)
  • 5.1 Introduction to SLA
  • 5.2 SLA Interface Overview
    • 5.2.1 Main View
    • 5.2.2 Outage List
    • 5.2.3 Affecting Alarms
    • 5.2.4 History
    • 5.2.5 SLA Configuration Page
    • 5.2.6 Compliance Configuration Page
    • 5.2.7 Ticket Creation
    • 5.2.8 Offline Window
    • 5.2.9 Reporting
  • 5.3 Create an SLA
    • 5.3.1 Create an SLA in NetVue
  • 5.4 Configure an SLA
    • 5.4.1 Making corrections to an alarm
• Chapter 6. Alerter
  • 6.1 Introduction to the Alerter
  • 6.2 Install the Alerter
  • 6.3 Start the Alerter
  • 6.4 Configure the Alerter
    • 6.4.1 Connect to a different NetVue system
    • 6.4.2 Set the Alarm Filter
    • 6.4.3 Set the Notification Options
    • 6.4.4 Set the Program Preferences
  • 6.5 Using the Alarms list
  • 6.6 Popup Balloons
    • 6.6.1 Alarm Severity Levels
• Chapter 7. Spectral Analysis and Monitoring (SpectrumVue-8)
  • 7.1 Introduction to the NetVue™ SpectrumVue-8
  • 7.2 Getting Started with the SpectrumVue-8
    • 7.2.1 Integrated Operation for SpectrumVue-8
    • 7.2.2 Single-seat Operation for SpectrumVue-8
  • 7.3 Configure the SpectrumVue-8 for real-time spectrum analysis
• Chapter 8. NetVue Cube Desktop Application
  • 8.1 Introduction to the NetVue Cube Desktop application
  • 8.2 Install the NetVue Cube Desktop application
  • 8.3 Start the NetVue Cube Desktop application
• Chapter 9. Licensing
  • 9.1 Overview
  • 9.2 Licensed Features
    • 9.2.1 Managed Devices
    • 9.2.2 Redundancy
• Chapter 10. Advanced Configuration (System Display)
  • 10.1 Logging into the System Display
  • 10.2 Backup and restore procedures
    • 10.2.1 Back up a NetVue Server
    • 10.2.2 Restore a NetVue Server
  • 10.3 Clustering
    • 10.3.1 Configuration: Adding the NetVue Agent to the NetVue Cluster
    • 10.3.2 Adding NetVue to a Cluster using NAT
  • 10.4 Redundancy
    • 10.4.1 Set up a pair of redundant NetVue Servers
  • 10.5 User Management
    • 10.5.1 CEFD convention of Security Layers
    • 10.5.2 User identification
    • 10.5.3 User rights
    • 10.5.4 Groups
    • 10.5.5 Users
    • 10.5.6 Opening the Security page
  • 10.6 NetVue UI Graphics
    • 10.6.1 Visio drawings
  • 10.7 NetVue Maps Configuration
    • 10.7.1 Top-level structure of a NetVue Maps configuration file
    • 10.7.2 Attributes of the <Layer> tag
    • 10.7.3 Layer types
    • 10.7.4 Layer configuration tags
  • 10.8 Notifications
    • 10.8.1 Configuring notifications
    • 10.8.2 Notification layout
  • 10.9 Databases
    • 10.9.1 Local database
    • 10.9.2 Central database
• Chapter 11. Customization
  • 11.1 Non-CEFD Element/Device management
    • 11.1.1 Additional Device management
  • 11.2 Custom backgrounds
    • 11.2.1 NetVue background maps
    • 11.2.2 Rack elevation views
  • 11.3 Custom reports 1
  • 11.4 Dashboards
    • 11.4.1 Custom Dashboards1
  • 11.5 Notifications
• Chapter 12. NetVue Redundancy
  • 12.1 NetVue redundancy configuration
  • 12.2 CTOG/CDM-800 redundancy
  • 12.3 CDD-880 Redundancy
  • 12.4 Redundancy Operation
    • 12.4.1 CTOG/CDM-800 1:1 Redundancy operation
    • 12.4.2 CDD-880 1:3 Redundancy operation
• Appendix A. SNMP Managers
  • A.1 SNMP Terminology
  • A.2 Interaction between SNMP manager and SNMP agent
    • A.2.1 Graphical representation
    • A.2.2 SLSNMPManager
    • A.2.3 UDP Ports settings
    • A.2.4 SLSNMPAgent
  • A.3 Configuring the SNMP manager
    • A.3.1 In System Display
  • A.4 Enabling the virtual SNMP agent of an element
    • A.4.1 In NetVue Cube
    • A.4.2 In System Display
  • A.5 Changing SNMP Agent ports
    • A.5.1 Changing the SNMP port used by a Windows SNMP service
    • A.5.2 Changing the SNMP port used by a NetVue Agent
    • A.5.3 Identify which port NetVue is using
  • A.6 Configuring SNMP agent community strings
    • A.6.1 On a DMA level
    • A.6.2 On element level
    • A.6.3 Default community strings
  • A.7 Resending history alarms
    • A.7.1 In System Display
  • A.8 NetVue MIBs
    • A.8.1 General MIBs
    • A.8.2 Protocol-specific MIBs
  • A.9 Generating a protocol-specific MIB
  • A.10 NetVue SNMP trap definition
  • A.11 Default NetVue trap
    • A.11.1 SNMPv1 header data
    • A.11.2 SNMPv2 special bindings
    • A.11.3 Default bindings
  • A.12 Custom NetVue trap
    • A.12.1 Custom trap OID
    • A.12.2 Custom trap bindings
  • A.13 Syntax of OIDs referring to properties
• Appendix B. Operational Considerations
  • B.1 NetVue operational considerations
    • B.1.1 Disk / Storage considerations
    • B.1.2 Bandwidth considerations
    • B.1.3 Device management overhead considerations
• Appendix C. Glossary
• Appendix D. Acronyms
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