Author/Assessor: Anna Dowling

The SNMP Source Configuration creates the database connection for accessing the snmp_manager application. The SNMP Source Configuration is set on a per Configuration basis. To enable a particular snmp config, it must be assigned to the active Company Configuration. This can be found through the admin UI in Company Configurations.

Upon clicking on this snmp configuration entry we are presented with a number of values:

This is the name of this snmp configuration. This is usually customer indicative by convention.

This displays a link to the Database profile configurations for the snmp_manager. If we click into this we can see the entries for settings including the Name, user name, password, connection url and Driver associated with the database.

These are the markets which we want to display information for in the Noc Portal. If we click into one of these we can see the snmp_manager related information for the market/cluster in question. This includes its id in the snmp_manager, name, outage information for this market if any is available, outage update tine and the active snmp configuration associated with it.

These are the market/ cluster groupings which we want to display information for in the Noc Portal.

This represents the limit interval in days which is placed on the mysql query that runs against the snmp_manager database to pull back alarming and network element information.

This represents the limit on rows returned which is placed on the mysql query that runs against the snmp_manager database to pull back alarming and network element information.

This button allows the user to refresh the cluster list associated with the snmp_manager configuration in order to reload the list following an update.

1. In the Noc Portal find the active company configuration.
2. Locate the snmp configuration associated with this company config.
3. Name the database profile which this snmp config points to.
4. List the connection url that is associated with this database profile.
5. Outline how you would connect to this database to verify data returned in the Noc Portal.
6. Outline the purpose of specifying a Driver when establishing a database connection.
7. Locate a query from the SQLQuery List which is run against the snmp_manager database.
8. Explain how you would update the clusters list associated with an snmp configuration.
9. How does outage information display in a market?