HP -UX B6941-90001 User manual

HP OpenView IT/Operations
Administrator’s Reference
Management Server on HP-UX
Edition 3
B6941-90001
HP OpenView IT/Operations
Version A.05.00
February 1999

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In This Book
This guide is for the person who installs ITO on the managed nodes, and
is responsible for administering and troubleshooting the ITO system. It
covers agent installation, first-time configuration, agent de-installation,
tuning, and troubleshooting. The guide assumes that the reader has a
sound knowledge of HP-UX system and network administration and
troubleshooting. The reader should be able to:
• update the system with new software
• perform remote logins to other systems
• search, locate and edit ASCII files
The reader should be thoroughly familiar with:
• file system organization
• X applications
• HP OpenView NNM platform user interface and services
• Database administration
• ITO concepts
For information on how to install ITO on the management server, see the
HP OpenView IT/Operations Installation Guide for the Management
Server.
For information about upgrading an earlier version of ITO , see the HP
OpenView IT/Operations Software Release Notes.
For information about ITO concepts, see the HP OpenView IT/
Operations Concepts Guide.

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Conventions
The following typographical conventions are used in this manual.
Font Type What the Font Type Represents Example
Italic Book or manual titles, and man page
names Refer to the HP OpenView IT/ Operations Administrator’s
Reference and the opc(1M) manpage
for more information.
Provides emphasis You must follow these steps.
Specifies a variable that you must
supply when entering a command At the prompt type: rlogin your_name where you
supply your login name.
Parameters to a function The oper_name parameter returns
an integer response.
Bold New terms The monitor agent observes...
Computer Text and items on the computer
screen The system replies: Press Enter
Command names Use the grep command ...
Function names Use the opc_connect()function to
connect ...
File and directory names /opt/OV/bin/OpC/
Process names Check to see if opcmona is running.
Window/dialog box names In the Add Logfile window...
Computer
Bold Text that you must enter At the prompt, type: ls -l

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Keycap Keyboard keys Press Return.
[Button] Buttons on the user interface. Click [Operator].
Click on the [Apply] button.
Menu
Items A menu name followed by a colon (:) means that you select the menu,
then the item. When the item is
followed by an arrow (->), a
cascading menu follows.
Select Actions:Utilities->
Reports…
Font Type What the Font Type Represents Example