NNM Data Warehouse

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Data Warehouse Overview

 Data Warehouse provides

– Export of topology, event and trend (snmpcollect)
data
– Summarization of trend and event data
– Trimming of trend and event data
– Support of relational databases
– Embedded database technology when no RDBMS
is available
– Published schemas for access by customers
– Command line interfaces

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Warehouse Data Flow
Current
Operational
Data Stores
Automatic
Data Collector Report
Delete Binary Database Generation
(SNMP Trend)
Data
Data Queries
Binary Event Warehouse Other
Store (Events Reporting
tools

Topology
Summarization Trim
Database

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Topology Data in Data Warehouse

 To place topology data in data warehouse

– ovdwtopo -export
 Previously written topology data is overwritten
 -v parameter prints out the summary
information of actions taken
 -trace parameter traces the operation and
stores it in \install_dir\logs\ovdwtopo.trace

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Event Data in Data Warehouse

 All events are stored in Binary Event Store

 Events are exported to the Data Warehouse
by ovdwevent
 Can be scheduled to export events
periodically
 2 options
– export events from binary event store
– trim data in Data Warehouse

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Event Data export options

 To export all new events to the Data

Warehouse
-export
 To export events that occur between certain
times
– exportstart 08:00 –exportstop 17:00 –
exportnoweekends
 To specify no. of records to be exported
– exportmaxrecords 500

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Event Tables

 Exported event data placed in following

tables
– nnm_event_details
– nnm_event_varbinds
 To trim old data in the data warehouse
– trim (data > 180 days)
– trimdetail 60 (data > 60 days)
– trimaggregatedepth 5

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Event Filters
 Set filters to filter out some events
 Filters are stored in nnm_event_limits table
ovdweventflt
– Insert with –n node –o object
– Update by replacing with new node/object
– Delete with –delete option
– Display with –display option
eg: ovdweventflt –n node –o ‘*’ –i N
ovdweventflt –delete –clean
ovdweventflt –display

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SNMP Trend Data in Data Warehouse
 Trend (snmpCollect) data is managed using the
command ovdwtrend
– export data from binary source to DW
– Summarize the data in DW
– Reduce (delete) some data in DW
– Delete some or all data from binary source
– Export data from DW to an archive file
eg: ovdwtrend –export
ovdwtrend –exportto raw
ovdwtrend –delpriorto [relhours | datetime]
ovdwtrend –trimpriorto 24

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Querying the Data Warehouse

 ovdwquery – primary query tool to

extract data from the database
 SQL commands are read from stdin or
–file <filename>
 SQL commands are processed by
ODBC driver
 Results are written to stdout or –out
<filename>

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Copying Warehouse data
 Copy event or trend data to or from a file
ovdwunloader – copy data from Data Warehouse to a file
ovdwloader – copy data from a file to the Data Warehouse
 Common parameters
– -rdb datasource
– -u user
– -p password
– -file outputfile
eg: ovdwunloader –file old-data –trend
ovdwloader –file old-data

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Clearing the Data Warehouse
 You may want to clear your DW to
– clear out test data before beginning production work
– reconfigure data exports to generate a smaller database footprint
 To clear the DW and return it to the installed state
– Stop database processes using ovstop ovdbcheck
– Change directory to \install_dir\databases\analysis\default
– Remove the following files
 solid.db
 solmsg.out
 solmsg.bak
 solerror.out
 *.log
– change directory to default/log and remove all files
– change directory to default/backup and remove all files
– change directory to default and execute ovdbrun –x exit
– execute ovstart ovdbcheck
– execute ovdwconfig.ovpl –type embedded -load

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