Configuring the Management Station

You will recall that configuring a collection station does nothing by itself. Indeed, during a large NNM deployment it is prudent to preconfigure all collection stations so they are ready when the management station is brought online. The actual management station to collection station relationship is initiated at the management station. There may be more than one management station in cases where high availability is required.

Begin the management station configuration process by turning off autodiscovery in the polling menu.

The management station must be configured to include all device community strings, icons, oid_to_type, and other such customized files consistent with those on all the collection stations. ...

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