Top IBM Netcool/Omnibus Interview Questions & Answers:
1. Explain the steps to start the view builder?
• From the event list, click View Builder on the toolbar, or select Edit ? Edit View.
• From the UNIX Conductor, click View Builder on the button bar, or double-click a saved view (.elv) file in the personal library.
• From the Event List Configuration window, click the New or Edit button.
2. Explain the steps to view event list?
• Columns to include in the event list and the order in which they should be displayed
• Alternative titles or aliases for the columns
• Column formatting, including column widths, and alignment of the column headers and data
• Whether certain columns should remain in view at all times when scrolling horizontally across the event list
• Sort orders and the sort priority of the columns
• Whether to restrict the number of rows that are displayed in the event list
3. How to start the transient event list from the command line?
• For Unix
o $NCHOME/omnibus/bin/nco_elct option
• For Windows
o %NCHOME%omnibusdesktopNCOelct.exe option
4. How to open the transient event list from the command line?
• For Unix:
o Open the transient event list by command: nco_elct
• For windows:
o Open the transient event list by command:NCOelct.exe
5. How to start the Event list in Netcool/Omnibus?
• For Unix:
o From the Conductor window, click Event List in the button bar.
o From a command prompt, enter: $NCHOME/omnibus/bin/nco_event &
• For Windows
o From the Conductor menu, select Event List.
o From the Windows Start menu, select Programs ? Netcool Suite ? Event List.
o From a command prompt, enter: %NCHOME%omnibusdesktopNCOEvent.exe
6. How to access Conductor in Netcool/Omnibus?
• For UNIX: From a command prompt, type: $NCHOME/omnibus/bin/nco &
• For Windows: From the Windows Start menu, click Netcool Conductor.
• Type your user name.
• Type your password
• The ObjectServer name defaults to NCOMS
• Click Ok.
7. What is the process of Deduplication in Object Server?
• Single server can generate the alert repeatedly until the problem is not resolved related to that alert.
• So deduplication is used by object server in Netcool/Omnibus.
• This process makes sure to avoid the multiple entries generated in the Event List.
• Therefore repeated events are collected, identified and updated as a single event.
• This process reduces the size of data as well.
• The ObjectServer is the in-memory database server at the core of Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus.
• Event information is forwarded to the ObjectServer from external programs such as probes and gateways.
• This information is stored and managed in database tables, and displayed in the event list.
9. Name the components of Netcool/omnibus?
• The ObjectServer
• Probes
• Gateways
• Desktop Tools
• Administration Tools
• Ans. Netcool is a SLM tool which is used to monitor the real time networks, flow of data from one tool to another.
• It provides the consolidated view of the events generated on one screen collected from another tool
• Netcool can gather various informations like server down alerts, CPU utilization high alerts, memory alerts, disk space, mount point full related alerts etc. etc.
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