The following videos showing you the integration between genius 3 and NPM are based on this how to guide
which you can get from the below links.
This may be useful to you after you've attended the training so if you want to setup NPM and June 3
refer back to this guide which contains a lot of information including how to install both genius 3
and NPM how to create the initial topology the commands used on the routers including commands such
as setting up an MP setting up the IP addresses and configuring EAI GOP.
I'll also include the commands on the riders on the relevant video in this training but you may find
the integration guide to be of benefit to you for reference later.
In the next few videos I'm going to show you how to build a topology within genus 3 that consists of
three routers connected via serial interfaces.
These are going to be the interfaces monitored by Network Performance Monitor the three Cisco routers
are connected to a switch which in turn is connected to NPM.
This is out of band network management subnet.
You don't need a dedicated network for management but in this example that's the way we're going to
configure it.
Ingenious three there are multiple ways to setup your Cisco routers.
You can either run cisco IOW routers directly within Windows using what's called the local server or
you can use a virtual box films or a VM where VMS it's up to you which method to use.
The recommendation is that if you are only going to have Cisco routers and other basic devices such
as the built in Ethernet switches ingenious 3 you can run genius 3 locally on your local windows P.C.
or Mac.
However if you want to run more complex typologies using iris layer two or other more complex setups
then you're going to want to use the genius 3 VM please refer to the genius 3 installation videos for
more detail on how to setup and integrate genius 3 so in this example I have a Windows 7 professional
or virtual machine running within a VM where workstation I've allocated for gig of ram to the 64 bit
operating system and I've allocated to cause so on the settings of a VM where workstation you can see
that 4 gig of ram has been allocated at the moment only one processor has been allocated.
Now some recommendations from solar winds.
You can run NPM on Windows 7 Windows 8 dot 1 and Windows 10.
It suggested that you used to cause and 4 gigs of ram as the bare minimum.
It is better however to use 80 giga RAM and full cores but as a bare minimum use to cause and 4 gigs
of ram so in this example I'm going to shut down my virtual machine and I'm going to increase the amount
of RAM and CCU so that it's a lot quicker when I do the demonstrations.
Now that's obviously dependent on what you have available on your P.C. but I'll set it to use for processor
cores and 8 giga RAM and I'll power on the virtual machine again now something I always do and this
is up to you but I always create snapshots of my virtual machines in case something goes wrong
so I've created a snapshot with for example a new install of Windows 7 with Chrome installed and that's
where I am at the moment virtual machine is saying that I need to restart so I'll do that here.
So what I'm simply doing here is getting Windows 7 ready so that I can install NPM.
You may also want to download windows 2012 so as an example you can download a v HD file and then import
that into a virtual box if you want to run NPM on Windows Server 2012.