Table Of Contents
Prerequisites
Product Overview
New Features in Cisco Unified Operations Manager 1.1
Server Requirements
Client Requirements
Supported Devices
Prerequisites
This chapter describes the prerequisites for installing Cisco Unified Operations Manager (with Cisco Unified Service Monitor) on a Windows system. It includes:
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Product Overview
•Server Requirements
•Client Requirements
•Supported Devices
Product Overview
Cisco Unified Operations Manager (Operations Manager) is a product from the Cisco Unified Communications Management Suite, which provides a comprehensive and efficient solution for network management, provisioning, and monitoring of Cisco Unified Communications deployments.
Operations Manager monitors and evaluates the current status of both the IP communications infrastructure and the underlying transport infrastructure in the network. Operations Manager uses open interfaces such as Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to remotely poll data from different devices in the IP communications deployment.
Note Operations Manager does not deploy any agent software on the devices being monitored and thus is nondisruptive to system operations.
Cisco Unified Operations Manager increases productivity of network managers in the following ways:
•Provides contextual diagnostic tools--Enables you to isolate problems more quickly using:
–Diagnostic tests provide performance and connectivity details about different elements of the converged IP communications infrastructure.
–Synthetic tests replicate end-user activity and verify gateway availability and other configuration and operational aspects of the IP communications infrastructure.
–IP service-level agreement (SLA)-based diagnostic tests can measure the performance of WAN links and node-to-node network quality.
–Clickable information in notification messages—Includes context-sensitive links to more detailed information about service outages.
–Context-sensitive links to other CiscoWorks tools and Cisco tools—For managing IP communications implementations.
•Presents service-quality alerts—Uses information from Cisco Unified Service Monitor 1.1, when it is also deployed, to:
–Display mean opinion scores (MOSs) associated with poor voice quality between pairs of endpoints (Cisco IP Phones, Cisco Unity messaging systems, or voice gateways) involved in a call and other associated details about the voice-quality problem.
–Enable you to perform a probable path trace between the two endpoints and reports on any outages or problems on intermediate nodes in the path.
•Provides information on current connectivity-related and registration-related outages affecting IP phones (both Session Initiation Protocol and Skinny Client Control Protocol based phones) in the network. In addition, provides contextual information that enables locating and identifying the IP phones involved.
•Tracks IP communications devices and IP phone inventory—Tracks IP phone status changes and creates a variety of reports that document move, add, and change operations on IP phones in the network.
•Provides real-time notifications—Uses SNMP traps, syslog notifications, and e-mail to report the status of the network being monitored to a higher-level entity (typically, to a manager of managers).
New Features in Cisco Unified Operations Manager 1.1
Operations Manager 1.1 adds the following:
•Support for Cisco Unified CallManager 5.0 and 4.2.
•Support for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express 1.1.1.
•Support for Cisco Unity Connection 2.2.
•Support (including synthetic tests) for SIP phones.
•Enhancements to Notifications Services workflow.
Server Requirements
Table 1-1 lists the minimum server system requirements for installing Operations Manager.
Table 1-1 Server System Requirements
Requirement Type
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Minimum Requirements
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System Hardware
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•Server platform with one of the following processors:
–Pentium 4 greater than 2.0 GHz—Small deployments (fewer than 1,000 phones).
–Dual Pentium 4 or Xeon, greater than 3.0 GHz—Medium deployments (1,000 to 10,000 phones).
–Dual Pentium 4 or Xeon processor, greater than 3.0 GHz—Large deployments (10,000 to 30,000 phones).
•Color monitor.
•CD-ROM drive.
•Support one or two 10/100 NICs (one required, one for failover support).
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Memory (RAM)
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One of the following:
3 GB—Minimum for small deployment.
4 GB—Minimum for medium deployment.
4 GB—Minimum for large deployment.
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Swap File Space
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One of the following:
4 GB—Minimum for small deployment.
8 GB—Minimum for medium deployment.
8 GB—Minimum for large deployment.
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Available Drive Space1
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•60 GB hard disk space.
•NTFS file system (required for secure operation).
•At least 16 MB in Windows temporary directory (%TEMP%).
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System Software2 , 3
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•ODBC Driver Manager4 3.5.10 or later.
•Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1, Standard and Enterprise Editions.
Note Windows Terminal Services is supported in remote administration mode only.
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Client Requirements
Table 1-2 shows the minimum system requirements for Operations Manager clients.
Table 1-2 Client System Requirements
Requirement Type
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Minimum Requirements
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System hardware
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•Any PC or server platform with a Pentium 4 processor greater than 1.0 GHz.
•Color monitor with video card set to 24 bits color depth.
•Screen resolution of 1024 x 768 dpi.
Note Not every LCD projector or monitor provides a clear display at the minimum resolution. On LCD projectors and monitors, dot pitch impacts the readability of the screen.
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System software
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•One of the following:
–Windows XP with Service Pack 2.
–Windows Server 2003 Standard or Enterprise Edition without Windows Terminal Services.
•Internet Explorer 6.0.28 or 6.0.37.
•Macromedia Flash Player 8.0 or higher.
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Memory (RAM)
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1 GB recommended.
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Swap file space
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1 GB
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Environment
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Clients must be able to access Operations Manager:
•From outside a firewall—Refer to documentation for your firewall for how to configure client access.
•Across a Virtual Private Network (VPN)—The VPN tunnel should connect the client and a VPN router or similar device.
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Supported Devices
Device adapter packages for all supported devices are installed when you install Operations Manager. Information about devices installed with Operations Manager can be found on Cisco.com.
As additional device adapter packages become available, you can download the IDUs that contain them, by logging into Cisco.com.
