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Display Information About NNMi

Two menu items provide current information about your installed NNMi:

  • Help → System Information

    The System Information popup provides a wealth of current information about NNMi. The information available depends on your assigned NNMi role:

    Within the System Information popup, click the icon for access to the Help.

  • Help → About Network Node Manager i Software

System Information

This topic includes the following sections:

Product Tab

To display the NNMi System Information, select Help → System Information. The System Information popup provides a wealth of current information about NNMi.

The information available depends on your assigned NNMi role.

For information about each tab: 

The Product tab: Displays information about NNMi.

  • Network Node Manager product name, version number, and date/time installed.

  • Locale Information (language) for the current NNMi session:

    • Client Locale
    • Server Locale
    • SNMP String Encodings
    • Web Browser

  • NNMi System Health shows the current status of NNMi health:

    • Status
    • Last Updated

  • User Information about the current NNMi user:

  • The name of the NNMi product currently installed:

    • Network Node Manager i Community
    • Network Node Manager i
    • Network Node Manager i Advanced
    • Network Node Manager i Premium
    • Network Node Manager i Ultimate

  • Type will be one of the following:

    Instant-On NNMi provides a 60-day 250 Node license automatically during installation.
    Community This means the free trial version of NNMi is installed.
    Capacity This means NNMi is installed.
    Capacity(Adv) This means NNMi Advanced is installed.
    Premium This means NNMi Premium is installed.
    Ultimate This means NNMi Ultimate is installed.

Health Tab

To display the NNMi System Information, select Help → System Information. The System Information popup provides a wealth of current information about NNMi.

The information available depends on your assigned NNMi role.

For information about each tab: 

Health tab: Displays information about the current health of the NNMi server.

Displays summary level information regarding NNMi health, including NNMi's overall status as well as information and any issues related to the following:

  • Memory
  • The NNMi database
  • System resources
  • Disk usage
  • SNMP requests and queues
  • Global Network Management (NNMi Advanced)

NNMi administrators can view more details by clicking the View Detailed Health Report button on the Health tab.

NNMi uses Status values to communicate about NNMi's overall health Status.

NNMi Overall Health Status
Status Description
Normal Indicates that NNMi is not experiencing any problems.
Warning Indicates performance issues that are not significantly affecting NNMi.
Minor Indicates problems that might result in out of date data. For example, an NNMi component, such as State Poller might be out of synch because it is operating outside of expected ranges.
Major Indicates problems that are significantly affecting the NNMi management server's operations, but are not yet critical. Major Status usually indicates that some action is required. For example, a trap threshold is reached.
Critical Indicates NNMi is not functioning. For example, NNMi is out of memory, all database connections are lost, or a major NNMi component has failed.

Server Tab

To display the NNMi System Information, select Help → System Information. The System Information popup provides a wealth of current information about NNMi.

The information available depends on your assigned NNMi role.

For information about each tab: 

Server tab: Displays information about the NNMi management server:

  • Hostname
  • IP Address

  • IPv6 Address (NNMi Advanced)

    (NNMi Advanced) If this is set to Disabled, consider the following:

    • Are you using NNMi Advanced (required for IPv6 support)?
    • Did your NNMi Administrator disable NNMi Advanced's IPv6 feature?
  • IPv6 Management (NNMi Advanced)
  • IPv6 Communication (NNMi Advanced)
  • Official Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN)
  • User Account and User Group information obtained from (either the NNMi database or Directory Service using LDAP)
  • Single Sign-On (configuration file name and whether the feature is enabled)
  • Operating System
  • Install Directory
  • Data Directory
  • Available Processors
  • NNMi's Free / Allocated Memory (% Free)
  • NNMi's Maximum Attemptable Memory

(NNMi Advanced) When using the Global Network Management feature, this tab displays information about two NNMi servers:

  • If your NNMi management server is a Global Manager, the displayed information's heading is Global Management Server.
  • If your NNMi management server is a Regional Manager, the displayed information's heading on this tab is Management Server.

Global Network Management Tab

Global Network Management tab: (NNMi Advanced) Lists relevant information when the Global Network Management feature is enabled.

  • If your NNMi management server is a Global Manager, the displayed information's heading is Regional Managers Reporting to this Global Manager.
  • If your NNMi management server is a Regional Manager, the displayed information's heading on this tab is Reporting to Global Managers.

For each management server listed, the following information is provided:

  • Name
  • Connection State
  • Node Count

Database Tab

To display the NNMi System Information, select Help → System Information. The System Information popup provides a wealth of current information about NNMi.

The information available depends on your assigned NNMi role.

For information about each tab: 

Database tab: Lists the number of each type of object stored in the NNMi database.

Possible objects include:

  • Nodes
  • SNMP Agents
  • Interfaces
  • IP Addresses
  • Layer 2 Connections
  • Incidents
  • IP Subnets
  • VLANs
  • Node Sensors
  • Chassis
  • Cards
  • Physical Sensors
  • Ports
  • Card Redundancy Groups
  • Router Redundancy Groups (NNMi Advanced)

State Poller Tab

To display the NNMi System Information, select Help → System Information. The System Information popup provides a wealth of current information about NNMi.

The information available depends on your assigned NNMi role.

For information about each tab: 

State Poller tab: Lists statistics about the NNMi State Poller's current health:

  • Status
  • Collections requested
  • Collections completed
  • Collections in progress
  • error instances for skips, stale collections, or exceptions
  • Queue lengths

Extensions

This section displays information about the health of State Poller interactions with other NNM iSPI programs installed in your environment.

Monitored Objects

This section displays the details about which network objects are currently being monitored by NNMi; such as the number of object type and the current monitoring rates.

Nodes

This sections displays the number of nodes currently reporting faults, the total number of nodes being polled by each NNM iSPI and by NNMi.

Custom Poller Tab

To display the NNMi System Information, select Help → System Information. The System Information popup provides a wealth of current information about NNMi.

The information available depends on your assigned NNMi role.

For information about each tab: 

Custom Poller tab: Lists statistics about the NNMi Custom Poller's current health.

  • Status
  • Discoveries requested
  • Nodes waiting for discovery
  • Node discoveries in process
  • SNMP response queue size
  • Discoveries completed
  • Stale nodes in last 5 minutes
  • Stale node total

Extensions

This section displays information about the health of Custom Poller interactions with other NNM iSPI programs installed in your environment.

Monitored Objects

This section displays the details about which network objects are currently being monitored by NNMi; such as the number of object type and the current monitoring rates.

Causal Engine Tab

To display the NNMi System Information, select Help → System Information. The System Information popup provides a wealth of current information about NNMi.

The information available depends on your assigned NNMi role.

For information about each tab: 

Causal Engine tab: Lists statistics about the NNMi Causal Engine's current health.

NNMi's Causal Engine collects the data for calculating each object's Status value. Using the State information collected by the State Poller as well as this additional information, the Causal Engine calculates the Status of each Node, Interface, and SNMP agent.

State = This value is provided by the NNMi State Poller and is always up to date for each object.

Status = This value can run behind by the amount of time listed below for Delay Processing Input.

The following information is available on the Causal Engine tab:

  • Delay Processing Input
  • Failures pre-loading data for conditions
  • Average time to pre-load data for condition batch
  • Average time to process condition
  • Resynchronizing all NNMi components in progress (true or false)

Extensions Tab

To display the NNMi System Information, select Help → System Information. The System Information popup provides a wealth of current information about NNMi.

The information available depends on your assigned NNMi role.

For information about each tab: 

Extensions tab: Lists the NNMi Extensions deployed on your NNMi management server (click here for more information):

  • Product Extension Information

    NNMi is configured to allow communication with the items in this list:

    Network Performance Server (NPS): provided by the Network Node Manager iSPI Performance for Metrics Software (Enabled or Disabled)

    Diagnostic Server: provided by the Network Node Manager iSPI Network Engineering Toolset Software

  • NNM iSPI Software Deployed

    This section displays a list of currently installed Network Node Manager i Software Smart Plug-ins (iSPIs). In the far right column, NNMi displays the hostname of the server on which the NNM iSPI software and device extensions are installed.

  • Other.

    Other extensions that enhance NNMi functionality (independent of any NNM iSPI).

Integrations Tab

To display the NNMi System Information, select Help → System Information. The System Information popup provides a wealth of current information about NNMi.

The information available depends on your assigned NNMi role.

For information about each tab: 

Integrations tab: A table listing the other software products deployed on your NNMi management server that integrate with NNMi. This table includes the following columns of information:

  • Name of the integration
  • Identifier text string
  • Version number
  • A link that displays the actual configuration file currently in use for the selected integration.

Devices Tab

To display the NNMi System Information, select Help → System Information. The System Information popup provides a wealth of current information about NNMi.

The information available depends on your assigned NNMi role.

For information about each tab: 

Devices tab: A table listing the currently available Device Extension Information. This table includes the following columns of information:

  • Name of the device extension
  • Identifier text string
  • Version number
  • A link that displays the actual configuration file currently in use for the selected device extension.

Component Versions Tab

To display the NNMi System Information, select Help → System Information. The System Information popup provides a wealth of current information about NNMi.

The information available depends on your assigned NNMi role.

For information about each tab: 

Component Versions tab: Lists each NNMi component in your NNMi software by name and version number. Each component is a subset of the code that comprises the NNMi software.

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