TNPFA 4.1.1 Installation and User Guide - e IBM Tivoli Composite ...

Contents
About this guide ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 1
Chapter 1. Overview ........................................................................................................................................................................ 5
1.1 Reporting ................................................................................................................................................................................. 6
1.2 Aggregation database ............................................................................................................................................................ 6
1.3 High performance and scalability ........................................................................................................................................ 7
1.4 User interface .......................................................................................................................................................................... 7
1.5 Interoperability ....................................................................................................................................................................... 7
Chapter 2. System requirements .................................................................................................................................................... 9
2.1 Hardware ................................................................................................................................................................................ 9
2.2 Operating system and software ........................................................................................................................................... 9
Chapter 3. Getting started ............................................................................................................................................................. 11
3.1 Installing ................................................................................................................................................................................ 11
3.1.1 Installing the package .............................................................................................................................................. 11
3.1.2 Installing as an upgrade .......................................................................................................................................... 11
3.1.3 Creating an administrator account ........................................................................................................................ 12
3.1.4 Starting and stopping the system ........................................................................................................................... 12
3.1.5 Logging into the Tivoli Netcool Performance Flow Analyzer server ............................................................... 15
3.1.6 Updating the license ................................................................................................................................................ 16
3.1.7 Creating a user account ........................................................................................................................................... 18
3.2 Uninstalling ........................................................................................................................................................................... 19
3.3 Memory management ......................................................................................................................................................... 20
Chapter 4. Configuration .............................................................................................................................................................. 25
4.1 Site management .................................................................................................................................................................. 25
4.2 Aspects ................................................................................................................................................................................... 27
4.2.1 Tivoli Netcool Performance Flow Analyzer filter expressions .......................................................................... 32
4.3 Domains................................................................................................................................................................................. 33
4.4 User management ................................................................................................................................................................ 36
4.5 Other configuration files ..................................................................................................................................................... 39
4.6 Reporting ............................................................................................................................................................................... 43
Chapter 5. Traffic analyzer ........................................................................................................................................................... 45
5.1 Overview ............................................................................................................................................................................... 45
5.2 Aspect views ......................................................................................................................................................................... 48
5.3 Domain views ....................................................................................................................................................................... 67
Chapter 6. Standard reports .......................................................................................................................................................... 69
Chapter 7. Zoom reports ................................................................................................................................................................ 71
7.1 Zoom report list page .......................................................................................................................................................... 71
7.2 Zoom Report configuration page ....................................................................................................................................... 72
7.3 Processing .............................................................................................................................................................................. 73
7.4 Viewing the results .............................................................................................................................................................. 73
Chapter 8. System status ............................................................................................................................................................... 75
Chapter 9. Import ............................................................................................................................................................................ 79
Chapter 10. Troubleshooting .......................................................................................................................................................... 81
Appendix A. Integration and scripting ........................................................................................................................................... 85
Appendix B. 95 th
percentile billing .................................................................................................................................................. 87
Notices ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 89
Glossary ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 93
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