If what James describes doesn't work, you can always use the
"postemsg" utility to send an event by automatic action to
another TEC.
Regards,
Gary Boyles, Intel
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James_Shanks@TIVOLI.COM [SMTP:James_Shanks@TIVOLI.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 1998 9:04 AM
> To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Re: NetView forwarding to multiple TEC servers
>
> Event forwarding to two TECs simultaneously?
> According to what I read, TEC does not support this. What it supports is
> a
> primary and any number of backups, which the adapter is supposed to try in
> sequence when the primary fails. As soon as it finds one that responds,
> then that is the new primary. It is supposed to switch back when the
> primary becomes available again. You won't find any doc in TEC about
> sending to two at the same time -- at least I haven't.
>
> But you MIGHT make this work by using two adapters, since they would be
> ignorant of each other, and as luck would have it, there are two available
> for NetView. There is the internal one in nvserverd and there is the
> external one shipped with TEC, tecad_nv6k. They use totally different
> files for configuration, so you should be able to get one to send to one
> NetView and the other to another. But, I hasten to add, I have not tried
> this.
>
> James Shanks
> Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
>
>
>
> Ken Guettler <Ken.Guettler@MARYVILLE.COM> on 07/29/98 11:42:44 AM
>
> Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on
> NetView et alia <NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
>
> To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
> cc: (bcc: James Shanks)
> Subject: NetView forwarding to multiple TEC servers
>
>
>
>
>
> I have an environment with where NetView is forwarding some events to a
> TEC server for display and correlation processing. The environment also
> has a backup TEC server. We would like to send the events to both TEC
> servers at the same time but have not been able to find a way to do
> this. Development has indicated this should be possible with the
> tecint.conf file but this did not work. Has anyone found a workaround
> for this. If not, any good suggestions on how to determine when the
> primary TEC goes away and automatically switch to the backup TEC server
> from NetView?
>
> Just to complicate matters we also have a backup NetView Server which we
> would like to get into the mix eventually.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions or comments.
>
>
> Ken
>
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