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Skyline EPM Platform Availability

About

The Skyline EPM Platform Availability is an EPM Manager that is intended to be used with the Skyline Platform Collector connector.

This connector manages all the endpoints and ping statistics from the entire system and maintains relational information and aggregated data that can be viewed from a central frontend element and from the DataMiner Topology app.

Configuration

Connections

Virtual Connection - Main

This connector uses a virtual connection and does not require any input during element creation.

Initialization

If you use the EPM Setup Wizard automation script in the EPM TOOLS folder, the initialization detailed below is handled automatically.

If you create the managers manually without the script, follow these steps:

  1. Create a single frontend element and configure it as follows:

    1. On the Configuration page, change the Element Manager Type to Frontend.

    2. In the Import Settings, fill in the import directory where the MASTER_PING.csv file is located.

    3. In the Export Settings, fill in the location from which the backend elements will be importing.

  2. Create as many backend elements as needed.

    Typically, the frontend element should be on a DMA of its own, and there should be a backend element on all other DMAs. If the DMS only consists of one DMA, then it can have one frontend and one backend element.

  3. In the Import Settings on the Configuration page of the backend elements, fill in the directory where the frontend element will export.

  4. In the Export Settings on the Configuration page of the backend elements, fill in the directory from which the collectors will import.

  5. In the frontend element, fill in the necessary DMA ID/Element IDs:

    • In Frontend Registration table, fill in the DMA ID/Element ID of the frontend element.

    • In the Backend Registration table, fill in all DMA ID/Element IDs of the backend elements in the system.

    • In the Collector Registration table, fill in all DMA ID/Element IDs of the collector elements in the system.

  6. In the backend elements, fill in the necessary DMA ID/Element IDs:

    • In the Backend Registration table, fill in the DMA ID/Element ID of the current backend element.

    • In the Collector Registration table, fill in all DMA ID/Element IDs of the collector elements on the same DMA.

  7. On the Configuration page of the frontend element, click the Import button to begin the provisioning.

How to use

Once the EPM Manager elements have been configured, the only necessary procedure is for the frontend element to import the MASTER_PING.csv file whenever there is a change to the file.

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