Data acquisition, Connecting to the corba interface – IBM Netcool/OMNIbus Probe for Nortel CNM User Manual

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Netcool/OMNIbus Probe for Nortel CNM Reference Guide

Data acquisition

The Probe for Nortel CNM gathers events from the Nortel CNM 3GPP servers using a
Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) interface. CORBA is an Object
Management Group specification that provides a standard interface definition between
objects in a distributed environment; that is, it allows applications to communicate with one
another regardless of where they are located or who has designed them.

Connecting to the CORBA interface

The Probe for Nortel CNM acts as an Integration Reference Point (IRP) Manager. The
AlarmIRPOperation and NotificationIRPOperation points form a part of the IRP agent to
which the probe connects through a CORBA interface.

The probe uses the Using Interoperable Object Reference (IOR) files for this connection:

Using IOR files

To connect to the CORBA interface, the probe uses the SecurityIRPAgent Interoperable
Object Reference (IOR) file. If the IOR file is on a remote machine, specify the FTP command
that the probe must use to access it using the SecurityIrpFtpCommand property. If the
IOR file is on a local machine, specify its location using the NortelSecurityIrpFile
property.

Connecting to a remote system

The probe uses secure mode to connect to the remote machine where the IOR file is
available.

To access the IOR file on the remote machine, perform the following steps:

Set up the required OpenSSL environment in both the probe server and target system.

Create your own PKI key. Remember the password that you specify while creating the
PKI key.

Change the access permissions of the PKI key for the SSH to access.

Edit the download_ior.sh script so that the IOR_FILE_NAME script variable points
to the same value as the NortelSecurityIrpFile property.

Replace the :
text in the download_ior.sh script with the location and name of the remote
machine.

Replace the text in the add-passwd script with the password you
specified while creating the PKI key.

Run the probe.