Well, Moe, I am frankly in the dark. Looks like the GUI function is
broken. If you want to pursue that, then please call Support. But I can
give you a manual procedure to get trapd to forward traps. I know this
function works in V5 because I am currently doing it.
I don't know what is wrong with the Framework GUI. The panels have the
option included, the show command shows the values being passed, but the
underlying script just doesn't work. I have no idea why the book says
"N/A" because the daemon still does this function (and it makes no sense to
have it on the panel and in the man pages, and then not do it). But I did
not develop V5. I am just a bug fixer. (maybe they'll assign me this
one!)
Here's how to manually configure trapd:
(1) Find the option you want in the man pages for trapd. In this case it
is -Mhostname to forward all traps.
(2) cd /usr/OV/lrf and edit trapd_dm.lrf
(3) This is a colon-delimited file. Look for the part that says
OVs_YES_START: After that are the daemons which must be up before this
daemon, and then its options. If you have no options, it looks like this:
OVs_YES_START:nvsecd,pmd::OVs_WELL_BEHAVED::
You want to add your options to whatever is between the colons that are
flanked by OVs_YES_START and OVs_WELL_BEHAVED. So your entry will look
like this (using my hostname):
OVs_YES_START:nvsecd,pmd:-Mjshanks.raleigh.ibm.com:OVs_WELL_BEHAVED::
If there is an other option already present, you separate them with a comma
and a space, like this:
OVs_YES_START:nvsecd,pmd:-x,
-Mjshanks.raleigh.ibm.com:OVs_WELL_BEHAVED::
(4) Once you have saved the file, ovstop your daemon (ovstop trapd)
(5) Issue ovdelobj /usr/OV/lrf/trapd_dm.lrf to de-register the old
trapd configuration
(6) Issue ovaddobj /usr/OV/lrf/trapd_dm.lrf to register the new trapd
configuration.
(7) ovstart
(8) ps -ef | grep trapd should show your daemon running with his new
option
This procedure can be generalized to any NetView daemon. These commands,
and the use of lrf files, is documented in the Administrator's Reference if
you are interested. I believe that is dynatext-only in V5.
Hope this helps
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
DignardM@STENTOR.CA on 06/30/98 11:00:04 AM
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To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
cc: (bcc: James Shanks)
Subject: Re: How to send my traps to another network management station ?
Hi James,
I did what you recommended (Framework -> Configure -> ... -> Set
options for Trapd). And from that menu (in Set option for trapd) scroll
down to " Forward ALL traps to: (hosts) " and wrote the IP of the box that
I wanted the trapds to be sent. After I click on O.K (the message said
"completed successfully") then Close.
But after a few minutes realizes that this wasn't working(nothing had
been received by the other box). Therefore I went back to Set options for
Trapd and saw that the change wasn't saved. I can changed it as many times
that I want and when I go back to Set options for Trapd the changes dot not
appear. If you go in the Tivoli book " NetView.. Installation and
Configuration " on page 8-10, you will see the "Set options for trapd"
window. If you look beside "Forward ALL traps to: (hosts)" you will see
N/A. Those that means that it is not available. If it's not available what
you suggested will not work. And if it doesn?t work, is there a way to do
want I wanted to do initially, or is it impossible. But if it is possible I
would really appreciated you (or anybody else) to tell me how I'm supposed
to do this, or what I'm doing wrong.
extra info on my NV box:
1) I have MLM and NV running on the same box
2) if you look in "Set options for trapd" -> Port used to receive SNMP
traps over UDP: 165
-> Port used to receive SNMP traps over TCP:
165
Regards
Moe
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