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Below is the Readme for the OVwww beta code, you can download the code from the links below, this code is
subject to the licensing statement below, this was posted after receiving approval from the Hewlett-Packard Co.
Download OVwww for Solaris 2.3
OpenView World Wide Web Interface (c) Copyright 1996 Hewlett-Packard Co.
Release Notes for OVwww
These release notes describe the World Wide Web interface to OpenView software.
HP OPENVIEW NETWORK NODE MANAGER WEB INTERFACE SOFTWARE LICENSE TERMS
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The Release Notes are organized as follows:
Description Requirements Installation Online Documentation Security Concerns Integrating Other URLs Known Limitations
Description
This is a read only interface to NNM information from a web browser. It allows browsing of the map hierarchy, OpenView NNM events and mib tree. Most web browsers should work with OVwww. Netscape Navigator, NCSA Mosaic, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Lynx have all been used successfully.
The purpose of this unsupported release is to get this functionality into your hands quickly and to get feedback on using the Web for access to OpenView information. Your feedback is valued.
Requirements
You will need the following hardware and software setup:
700 series machine running HPUX 9.3 or later or Sun Sparc running Solaris 2.3 web server such as NCSA httpd or CERN httpd. NNM 4.0 or later.
Installation
This release is distributed as a compressed tar file. Once you have copied the distribution file to the directory that you want to unpack it in, follow these steps:
Create a directory to unpack the distribution
mkdir /tmp/ovwww mv ovwww.9.0HPUX_800.tar.Z /tmp/ovwww cd /tmp/ovwww
Unpack the distribution
zcat ovwww.9.0HPUX_800.tar.Z | tar xf -
Configure the installation script
This distribution consists of a set of CGI programs that display dynamic information. It also includes some HTML files that display static information.
Edit the install script so that the pieces are installed in the correct locations. You need to specify where the cgi-bin files and the html files will go. The html files must be installed in a location that can be accessed with the URL http:/OV. The cgi-bin files must be installed in a directory that is allowed execution. You may need to configure your web server to allow execution of the cgi-bin files. See the Web server documentation for details. You may also want to secure access to OVwww.
Perform the installation
As root user execute the install script.
Change the authorization so that the CGI programs can connect to ovw
As root edit the ovw.auth file to allow all users access. On HPUX 9.0 /usr/OV/conf/ovw.auth and on HPUX 10.0 or Solaris /etc/opt/OV/share/conf/ovw.auth are the files that control access to ovw. For example, on a machine name riffraff, change ovw.auth from riffraff to riffraff + For more information consult the ovw(1) man page.
Start ovw
ovw always needs to be running on the same machine as your web server for OVwww to operate.
See if it works
Within a web browser such as Netscape Navigator, open the URL where you placed the cgi-bin scripts. For example: http://your-server/cgi-bin/OVwww
Register
From the OVwww screen select the About button and register with us. This will add you to the mailing list for updates and give us a feeling for how many people are using this. If you have any question, comments or suggestions send them to ovwww@cnd.hp.com. Since this is an unsupported product, there is no guarantee of the timeliness of the response.
Online Documentation
These release notes are in HTML format and can be viewed from a web browser (such as NCSA Mosaic or Netscape Navigator ).
To access with NCSA Mosaic:
1. Select "Open Local..." from the File menu.
2. Enter as the name of the local document: README.html in the directory that you unpack the distribution.
To access with Netscape Navigator:
1. Select "Open File..." from the File menu
2. Enter as the "Selection": README.html in the directory that you unpack the distribution.
Alternately, you can invoke the browser directly from the command line:
browser README.html
Security Concerns Once you have installed OVwww, anyone who can access your cgi-bin scripts on your machine can access your network information. One of the greatest benefits of the web is also one of it's dangers. If you want to control who has access to this information you will need to enable the security features of your web server. Most web servers have a facility for controlling what machines can connect to it. See your web server documentation for how to control access to cgi-bin files. If you used the default locations for installation, you installed the cgi-bin scripts in a subdirectory of cgi-bin called OV. This is the directory that you want to control access to.
Integrating Other URLs This version of OVwww contains very limited integration possibilities. The file /usr/local/lib/OVwww/operations.html can be edited to add any URL. This page is displayed when you select the "Perform Operation" button from the submap page.
Known Limitations
The Web based MIB browser does not work with NNM 4.1. Netscape Navigator corrupts large tables that may be generated by the Web based event browser.
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