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At 04:49 PM 6/1/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Good Day Netview Admins.
>
>We are running NV V4.1.2 on AIX platform. We are running the secured
>tecadapter to our TEC box (Solaris 2.5.1 TEC3.1). Once events pass
>through the TEC rulesbase, trouble tickets that are deemed critical or
>fatal are passed to our Trouble Ticket System - ala..Remedy.
>
>Here's the question.
>
>We want to monitor the entire process from the Netview Box through the
>adapter to TEC and onto Remedy. Knowing that NV6K polls
>the entire network, what do you need to do to ensure the NV6K box and
>all the necessary processes are up themselves all the time. Does NV6K
>issue a trap or other events before the processes on the box crash? We
>have Tivoli Distributed Monitor installed on NV6K monitoring files
>structures, and other processes. But then if the oserv dies on this
>box, we are out of luck for any of its monitors. Our attempt here is
>NOT to rely on Tivoli for all monitoring purposes. Sort of a
>contingency backup failover system to make sure our Enterprise Systems
>Management boxes are healthy.
>
>Our thinking here is creating a new event within NV6K EventConfiguration
>panel which would fire every 30-60 minutes. Using Tivoli
>rulesbase we could have the event pass eventually to Remedy where it
>could handle filtering and deem the system is up. If the event is
>not received at Remedy by a certain point, then we can assume somewhere
>in the process has experienced a failure.
>
>Thanks for any tips anyone can offer that may have configured a similar
>"HeartBeat" event to monitor the health of the entire process.
>John Mull
>Hershey Foods Corporation
>Information Technology & Integration
>Enterprise Systems Management
>(717)534-7959
>email:jmull@hersheys.com
>
Tim Clark
TAVVE Software Co.
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