IBM Netfinity 4500R, User Reference Manual

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IBM® Netfinity® 4500R User’s Reference
Netfinity Manager
12. Click Access Control... in the Database pull-down menu.
13. Set the Access Level for all Netfinity Manager systems that will be exporting data
to this database to Editor.
14. Check the Can Delete Documents check box.
15. Click OK.
Once the Lotus Notes database is installed, enable Netfinity Manager systems to
export to the Lotus Notes server.
• If the Netfinity Manager system is running Netfinity Manager for OS/2, ensure
that the Lotus Notes directories are included in the CONFIG.SYS file LIBPATH,
PATH, and DPATH statements. If the directories are not included in these
statements, it is not possible to export to the Lotus Notes database.
• If the system is running Netfinity Manager for Windows NT, ensure that the
Lotus Notes directory path is included in the Global Windows NT environment
settings.
• If the system is running Netfinity Manager for Windows 95, ensure that the
Lotus Notes directories are included in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file PATH
statement. If the directories are not included in this statement, it is not possible
to export to the Lotus Notes database.
Once these steps have been completed, export system information from Netfinity
Manager to an easy-to-browse Lotus Notes database.
Browsing the Netfinity Manager Lotus Notes
database
To browse the data contained in the Netfinity Manager Lotus Notes database:
1. Open the Netfinity Database object in the Lotus Notes Workspace.
2. Select from the View pull-down menu the section of the Netfinity Manager
database to be browsed.
The Netfinity Manager database is divided into sections that contain data
gathered by specific Netfinity Manager services. Click the name of the service that
gathers the data to be viewed (for example, Alert Logs).
Note: Some menu selections will contain submenus.
3. Information contained in the part of the Netfinity Manager database that has been
selected is now listed in the window. For more detailed information about any
displayed data item, double-click the data item.
4. Some data items can be expanded to reveal additional information. These items
are identified by a plus sign (+) in the left side border of the Notes window, beside
the name of the data item. To expand the data item, select the item and then click
Expand
in the View pull-down menu.
ODBC database support
Netfinity Manager supports exporting data via ODBC for use on SQL or DB2
database systems.
Note: ODBC database export is available only on systems that are running Netfinity
Manager.
System requirements
The minimum requirements for Netfinity Manager ODBC database export are:
• Windows NT