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hp toptools for openview nnm user guide
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Figure 3-6. NNM now includes an HP Toptools menu item.
Note that all the items will be grayed out and disabled since no HP devices have been selected on the map.
Particular menu items will be enabled depending on which devices have been selected.
A second indication that the platform bridge is working is that the background processes, hpttBrdgMgr and
hpttBrdgDisc, are listed in the task manager as shown below:
Figure 3-7. The platform bridge adds two new processes: hpttBrdgDisc and hpttBrdgMgr.
hpttBrdgDisc is always running whenever ovservices are started. Launching the NNM Status application will list
hpttBrdgDisc as one of the encapsulated applications and indicate whether it is running or not. Its job is to transmit
newly discovered nodes to the HP Toptools server, and also to do its own advanced “2
nd ” level discovery on each
node to see if it is an HP device. One general benchmark is that hpttBrdgDisc takes less than 10 minutes to do the
2
nd level discovery on 1000 nodes. If hpttBrdgDisc is restarted, say by using ovstop/ovstart, or on a reboot, the
entire ovwdb node database is transmitted to the toptools server.
Note that hpttBrdgMgr is only running when ovw is running. When ovw starts, hpttBrdgMgr is launched, and
manages the menu items and icons for each map node classified as an HP device.