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5th Step: Installing the Operations Center Collector License(s)
6th Step: Registering NetMRI Collectors
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- Keep device management levels below the licensed device limits on each collector appliance.
- Though you have greater flexibility for network connectivity through using network views, multiple scan interfaces and virtual scan interfaces, these features do not influence the licensing limits and capacities of your appliances.
- License limits should be defined to allow for organic and anticipated growth of the network. Consult with your Infoblox sales representative for a detailed assessment of your licensing needs.
- License limits are enforced on each collector appliance in an OC deployment. Your OC design should avoid having excessive numbers of licenses on collectors, which can overwhelm the Operations Center and prevent timely operation.
- New devices can 'bump' older previously-discovered devices from the license limit.
- Devices in higher-ranked device groups will be prioritized for licensing. (You can change device group rankings in Settings icon –> Setup –> Collection and Groups –> Groups tab.)
- Avoid using device licenses on devices in end-user network segments.
- During setup of a new deployment, use the default network view when you define your first discovery ranges to initially discover the network.
- An initial network view will be present in a new Operations Center deployment. Initial setup for a new Operations Center deployment automatically creates a default network view, named Network 1, as part of the procedure. This network view is automatically assigned to the Collector appliance's LAN1 port before you perform discovery of the network.
- When you create your initial discovery ranges, the Network 1 network view is automatically assigned to the LAN1 interface on the Collector. This network view represents the global routed network, which is the network that NetMRI will discover that is not reliant on virtual networks to route traffic.
- When you create your discovery ranges, static IP addresses and Seed Routers (in Settings icon –> Setup –> Discovery Settings –> Ranges/Static IPs/Seed Routers), each range provides a Network View drop-down menu. You select one network view for each discovery setting; however, a network view can work with multiple discovery ranges. A single network view can use all three discovery objects.
You define network views (under Settings icon –> Setup –> Network Views) and can assign other networks to those views. - For VRF discovery, you do not need to define discovery ranges in the initial rollout. NetMRI will discover VRF-aware devices in its first discovery of the global enterprise network. The system then displays a System Health alert notifying you that unassigned VRFs have been discovered.
3. Avoid using too many device groups. Target using 50 or fewer Extended device groups. Platform Limits also influence the number of device groups allowable in your system.
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Default values can be erased by pressing the spacebar and pressing Enter or by entering new values.
5. Enter the new Database Name and press Enter.
Database Name is a descriptive name for this deployment. It is used in reports titles, headers, etc.
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Note: When using the automated database backup, you must first log in to the Standby Operations Center through your web browser, and set the admin password to a value different from the "admin" factory default.
In this case, after the Standby OC system is activated as the Primary, you must also go to the Settings –> Database Settings –> Scheduled Archive tab and define another remote system to back up the new OC's database archive.
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If you schedule the transfer to occur within six hours of the start of weekly maintenance, no new archive will be created. Instead, the archive generated by weekly maintenance will be used. For large deployments with a lot of data, configuring backups to occur more frequently than the weekly interval may affect overall system performance.
5. Using the Admin Shell on the Standby Operations Center, restore the database archive on the Standby Operations Center. Restore time depends upon the size of the database, and may take several hours for a large system.
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