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Useful Scripts
HP OpenView Network Node Manager 5.0 Documentation in PostScript.
Useful Books on Network Management
Network Management Resources
- FAQs
- HP OpenView NNM
- Other Network Management Systems
- HP-UX System Administration
- Multi-Router Traffic Grapher
- Event Correlation
- Frame Relay
- Apache
- Bay Networks
- TCP/IP Tutorials
- Telnet and TN3270
- MQ-Series
- Internet Access - Firewalls, Looking up DNS Names, Internet network numbers
- SPAM and what you can do about it.
- Java
Kudos & Brickbats

Useful Scripts

Beeper

Send alphanumeric pages via Internet connection to Skytel and PageNet:: /usr/local/bin/beep
Sample script for OpenView or other management system to select who to send page to:: /usr/local/bin/selective_beep

OpenView Backup

These are my scripts for incremental and full back up of an HP-UX 10.20 box running HP OpenView NNM 4.10.

The root crontab entries are as follows:

#Full back up of OpenView every Wednesday night at 10 p.m. 
00	22	*	*	3	/usr/local/bin/openview_full_backup
#Incremental back up of OpenView Mon,Tues,Thu, Fri nights at 10 p.m.
00	22	*	*	1,2,4,5	/usr/local/bin/openview_incremental_backup

I would love some comments.

My operators prefer it now that ovw is up and running on the console in the morning. Anyone know how bring it up with the correct user id?

Whitelisting Outbound E-Mail Addresses

Network Management Books

Hot Books

LAN Performance: Issues and Answers, by Gilbert Held

Great book! Very practical throughout. The examples used are of real world LANs and internetworks. A number of short BASIC programs are included (easily converted to Excel or Perl) to perform the calculations.

HP Openview : A Manager's Guide, by Jill Huntington-Lee, et. al.

Internetworking With TCP/IP

Volume I: Principles, Protocols, and Architecture, by Douglas E. Comer

Volume II: Design, Implementation, and Internals, by Douglas E. Comer, David L. Stevens

Volume III: Client-Server Programming and Applications, by Douglas E. Comer, David L. Stevens

BSD Sockets Version

Windows Sockets Version

AT&T TLI Version

IPv6 : The New Internet Protocol, by Christian Huitema.

Interesting reading (even if you are not about to convert to IPv6) because it explains all the problems being faced by today's TCP/IP.

TCP/IP Addressing : Designing and Optimizing Your IP Addressing Scheme

By Buck Graham.

How to split your TCP/IP network into subnets. Avoid problems like having to change subnets because they have grown larger than anticipated. Plan the IP addressing to allow route summarization reduce the size of routing tables.

OpenView

HP OpenView : A Manager's Guide, by Jill Huntington-Lee, et. al.
Focus on Open View : A Guide to Hewlett-Packard's Network and Systems Management Platform , By Nathan J. Muller.
Power Programming in HP OpenView : Developing CMIS Management Applications , by Mark Kean, Raymond P. Caruso.

TCP/IP

Internetworking With TCP/IP

Volume I: Principles, Protocols, and Architecture, by Douglas E. Comer

Volume II: Design, Implementation, and Internals, by Douglas E. Comer, David L. Stevens

Volume III: Client-Server Programming and Applications, by Douglas E. Comer, David L. Stevens

BSD Sockets Version

Windows Sockets Version

AT&T TLI Version

IPv6 : The New Internet Protocol, by Christian Huitema.

Interesting reading (even if you are not about to convert to IPv6) because it explains all the problems being faced by today's TCP/IP.

TCP/IP Addressing : Designing and Optimizing Your IP Addressing Scheme

By Buck Graham.

TCP/IP and Related Protocols.

By Uyless D. Black

TCP/IP : Architecture, Protocols, and Implementation With IPv6 and IP Security.

By Dr. Sidnie Feit.

Capacity Planning and Management

LAN Performance : Issues and Answers: by Gilbert Held; Great book! Very practical throughout. The examples used are of real world LANs and internetworks. A number of short BASIC programs are included (easily converted to Excel or Perl) to perform the calculations.
Practical Planning for Network Growth: by John Blommers
LAN Traffic Management: By Peter Phaal.

SNMP

SNMP: A Guide to Network Management.: By Dr. Sidnie Feit.; Emphasizes practical network management. Provides descriptions of what is managed using SNMP, such as a frame relay port.
Total SNMP: Exploring the Simple Network Management Protocol.: By Sean J. Harnedy
Managing Internetworks with SNMP: The Definitive Guide to the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and SNMP version 2.: by Mark A. Miller; Definitely not intended for beginners.
How to Manage Your Network Using SNMP: The Network Management Practicum.: by Marshall T. Rose, Keith McCloghrie
SNMP, SNMPv2, and CMIP: The Practical Guide to Network Management Standards.: By William Stallings
SNMP, SNMPv2, and RMON: Practical Network Management.: by William Stallings Updated to cover the final standards of SNMP and RMON network management utility, this book provides a tutorial on the basic concepts of network monitoring, a survey on network management technology, and up-to-date and thorough coverage of the final version of SNMP and RMON. Errata for this book
Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1): The Tutorial and Reference: by Douglas Steedman.
Technology Appraisals, Ltd., 1990.
ISBN 1-871802-06-7.
Excerpt

General Network Management

Managing Computer Networks: A Case-Based Reasoning Approach. By Lundy Lewis.
Network Management Systems Essentials: By Divakara K. Udupa. Excerpts
Applications for Distributed Systems and Network Management: by Kornel Terplan, Jill Huntington-Lee
Object-Oriented Networks: Models for Architecture, Operations, and Management.: By Subodh Bapat
LAN Operations: A Guide To Daily Management.: By Peter D. Rhodes
Network Management: A Practical Perspective.: by Allan Leinwand, Karen Fang-Conroy. Info at Addison-Wesley
Internet System Handbook: By Marshall T. Rose, Daniel C. Lynch (Editor)
The Simple Book : An Introduction to Networking Management: By Marshall T. Rose

General Data Communications

Data and Computer Communications, Fifth Edition: by William Stallings; Errata for this book

SunNet Manager Specific

Solstice Sunnet Manager : A Network Management Guide: by John R. Graham; This guide, written by the author of the SNM training manual, is the first source to show how to work with Sun Microsystem's SunNet Manager, now being bundled with Sun's new Solstice package. Featuring a diskette that offers source code and a sample SNMP agent that can be ported to other platforms, the book covers installation, start-up, creating and modifying the management database, customizing SNM, and more.
Sunnet Manager 2.2. User's Guide: For the neophyte user.
SunNet Manager 2.2: Programmer's Guide: Explains the API interface.
SunNet Manager 2.2: Reference Manual: Discusses features and functions.

HP-UX System Administration

HP-UX System Administration Handbook and Toolkit: by Marty Poniatowski
HP-UX 10.X System Administration : 'How To' Book: by Marty Poniatowski
Learning the HP-UX Operating System: by Marty Poniatowski
HP-UX System and Administration Guide: by Jay Shah
Disk and File Management Tasks on HP-UX: by Tom Madell
Clusters for High Availability : A Primer of HP-UX Solutions: by Peter Weygant

Solaris System Administration

Sun Performance and Tuning : Java and the Internet: by Adrian Cockcroft, Richard Pettit

Unix

The UNIX Programming Environment: by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike; How do you learn how to write scripts like these? Read this book!

Network Management Resources

NMS FAQs

All conveniently stored together at http://netman.cit.buffalo.edu/FAQs.html.

Multi-Router Traffic Grapher

MRTG is a great freeware tool for graphing any data accessible in SNMP.

Multi-Router Traffic Grapher Home Page

MRTG 2.5.2 distrib.pl (with some updates) and distrib executable compiled for HP-UX 10.20 (should work on any HP-UX 10.x).

mrtg mailinglist archive

mrtg-developers mailinglist archive

Willy's Scripps Pier Graphs

Average line utilization at a glance

Academic and Research Network of Slovenia Backbone Utilization

DeltaNet - Delta Internet Services, Inc.

Peter "WWW" Osel's mrtg projects including mrtg-ping-probe, which monitors round trip time to another host.

GETIF - Windows 95/98/NT utility to browse MIBs, traceroute, etc. By Philippe Simonet (philippe.simonet@swisscom.com)

Matthew Petach's MRTG helper scripts

HP OpenView NNM

NCAR Network Management System: Detailed hands-on style documentation for the network management system at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. This is a relatively straight forward OpenView NNM based installation. The Network Engineering & Technology Section's clear documentation should be an example to us all.
Understanding and Optimizing Status Polling with HP OpenView NNM, by Eric Jacobs.
Sample Network Management Programs, by Otto Helweg ohelweg@ahc.e-mail.com/mailto:otto@ottomatic.com

Other Network Management Systems

Tivoli

HP-UX System Administration

Software Porting And Archive Centre For HP-UX

Event Correlation

PC WEEK Labs has published the results of two hands-on evaluation of event correlators.

Seagate NerveCenter

Micromuse Netcool/OMNIbus

Frame Relay

Frame Relay Networks: An Introduction

Apache

You may need a web server to publish MRTG statistics, or to access OpenView via HTTP. Apache is probably the best web server of them all. It runs on about half the world's existing Web sites. Best of all, its free.

Apache Home Site

Apache Week

Books on Apache

Apache : The Definitive Guide (Nutshell Handbook) , by Ben Laurie, Peter Laurie Like all Nutshell Handbooks, this is the good one. Written and reviewed by key members of the Apache Group.

Apache Server Survival Guide , by Manuel Alberto Ricart

Apache Server for Dummies , by Ken A. L. Coar

Running a Perfect Web Site With Apache , Brian Behlendorf, David M. Chandler, Lee Brintle, Rich Casselberry