James,
I believe the old "System Monitor" agent was a multi-plexing agent.
It handled all of the multi-plexing of messages between different
ports.
Was this function lost when they split it up (SIA, MLM, DLM)?
Regards,
Gary Boyles
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> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 1998 4:04 PM
> To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Re: Query More Than One Port
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> No, I did not say trapd can listen to more than one port (per protocol --
> udp or tcp). But you can pick what that is in /etc/services. What I said
> was that there are two cases where this would work, but as I do not know
> how either of those agents behave, I cannot say which is better, or even
> if
> either will work.
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> Case 1: both agents get traps off some port of their chosing, say 162/udp
> and 200/udp, but both are configured to send them out again to another
> port, say 300/udp, and this is what is configured in /etc/services for
> trapd. I don't know if the agents can do this. This is very similar to
> how the Optivity Fault Correlator works. He gets all the external traps
> and decides which ones to forward to NetView. Note that he does not get
> the netmon traps which are sent via tcp. Your agents will not get them
> either.
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> Case 2: trapd listens on the standard port 162/udp and all traps come to
> him first. But you configure trapd to forward traps to ports 200/udp and
> 300/udp, which are what these other agents are listening to respectively.
> Can they do that? I don't know.
>
> In either case, you can configure trapd to forward to the host and port
> you
> want as a daemon option, and you then configure which traps are to be
> forwarded in the Event Browser.
>
> If neither of these two scenarios is possible with these agents, then they
> cannot run on the same box as NetView.
>
> James Shanks
> Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
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> Vince Rosso <Vince_Rosso@TRANSALTA.COM> on 09/30/98 07:04:57 PM
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> Vince Rosso@TRANSALTA
> 30/09/98 05:04 PM
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> Are you saying that trapd can listen to more than one port. I checked out
> the services file and see the definition for trapd on port 162. Can I
> just insert another line so it is also looking at port 200?
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> I know nothing about those agents. But I do know that trapd can forward
> traps to any udp port you like. So he could get them first and forward to
> these agents, or he could be set to listen to a different port altogether
> (in /etc/services) if they can forward to him
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> James Shanks
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> Vince Rosso <Vince_Rosso@TRANSALTA.COM> on 09/30/98 12:06:35 PM
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> Vince Rosso@TRANSALTA
> 30/09/98 10:06 AM
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> The 2 agents we are looking at are the PEER SNMP Agent for an application
> called Genesys and the Native NT Agent. I'm not sure if that gives you
> enough information.
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> A udp port can be owned by just one application at a time. And trapd
> listens to the one you tell him to in /etc/services. The case you
> describe
> requires one trap receiver to forward the traps to another. What agents
> are involved?
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> Vince Rosso <Vince_Rosso@TRANSALTA.COM> on 09/29/98 03:43:28 PM
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> Vince Rosso@TRANSALTA
> 29/09/98 01:43 PM
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> We have a situation where we need to run 2 different application specific
> snmp agents on a managed node. My understanding is that managed nodes
> converse with Netview (v4.1) through port 162. I don't believe 2 agents
> can share the same port. I believe we can specify a unique port on the
> node for each agent ie. port 162 and port 200. Can Netview be
> configured
> to recognize 2 different agents on the same node with unique port numbers?
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