Configuring the IP Manager

Configuring the IP Manager consists of the following tasks:

• Configure the IP Manager with the SM_IP_VERSIONS environment variable for name resolution and server-to-server communication.

• Configure the IP Manager to discover, monitor, and analyze the network devices.

• Enable light discovery for the satellite Domain Managers (optional).

• Configure ICMP and SNMP polling for IP Availability Manager and IP Performance Manager (optional).

• Configure ICMP and SNMP thresholds for the  IP Availability Manager and IP Performance Manager (optional).

• Create CLI device-access objects for the satellite Domain Managers (optional)

• Create IP tag filters to enable IP Availability Manager and IP Performance Manager to model overlapping IP addresses (optional).

• Configure policies to manage discovered objects, to determine which objects are to be monitored by the IP Managers (optional).

  “Policy Settings to control the managed state of interfaces” on page 118, provides information for performing this task.