Appendix A: Configuration
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2-a. Change your working directory to $PVMHOME/bin (/opt/datamart/bin, by default) on the
DataMart server.
2-b. Invoke the DataMart GUI by entering the following command and pressing Enter:
pvm
2-c. Click the Configuration tab, then click Request Editor to open the Request Editor.
2-d. Click the Collection tab.
2-e. Click Refresh.
The predefined data collection requests are loaded into the Request Editor from the database.
2-f. Click the Inactive button in the Filter group box to display only idle requests.
2-g. In the Sub-Element Groups pane, select all idle data collection requests in the following group or
groups:
Root->Sub-Element Collect->Adva Optical Metro Ethernet
2-h. Click the Active box under Details. The Request Editor toggles the idle setting for these data collection
requests from
idle to active in the Active column.
2-i. Click Save.
3. Merge the technology pack’s sub-element inventory text files.
Sub-element inventory control rules for the Adva Optical Metro Ethernet Technology Pack are contained in
the file
adva_ethernet_inventory_subelements.txt, which is installed in the following directory
on the DataMart server:
$PVMHOME/APFiles/adva_ethernet/datamart/conf
You must merge the contents of this file with the file inventory_subelements.txt located in
$PVMHOME/conf (/opt/datamart/conf, by default) on the DataMart server:
To merge the sub-element inventory control rules for the Adva Optical Metro Ethernet Technology Pack,
follow these steps:
3-a. Change your working directory to $PVMHOME/conf by entering the following command:
cd $PVMHOME/conf
3-b. Copy adva_ethernet_inventory_subelements.txt to the $PVMHOME/conf directory, by
entering the following command:
cp $PVMHOME/APFiles/adva_ethernet/datamart/conf/adva_ethernet_inventory_subelements.txt .
3-c. Make a backup copy of the inventory_subelements.txt file by entering the following
command:
cp inventory_subelements.txt inventory_subelements.txt.ORIG
3-d. Append the contents of adva_ethernet_inventory_subelements.txt to
inventory_subelements.txt, by entering the following command:
cat adva_ethernet_inventory_subelements.txt >> inventory_subelements.txt
Important: Ensure that you use two forward brackets (>>); otherwise, the original contents of
inventory_subelements.txt will be overwritten.
3-e. Perform a diff on the backed-up file and the appended file to ensure that the merge succeeded, as
shown in the following example:
diff inventory_subelements.txt inventory_subelements.txt.ORIG