The problem is with inoculan and arcserve(cheyenne products) snmp traps for
netware.
These traps come into netview with the information in hex.
I questioned this group about this before and you replied with:
"I'll bet if you translate the hex, in addition to the printable
ASCII
characters, there are non-printable ones, like pads of x'00'. When
NetView gets a trap which says it is sending ASCII
but contains non-printable stuff, it "assumes" that what it is
getting is
something like a MAC address and displays it all in hex, because it
has no
idea which characters are significant and which aren't. There is
nothing
you can do about it, except to notify the vendor who is sending the
malformed trap and ask him to change it. He should agree, since
sending
non-printable characters in an octet string is a violation of SNMP
protocol.
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support"
Which is spot on.
I have contacted the vendor about this, they have past the problem
onto their development team, but I think thats all I'll hear from them for
some time.
In the meantime I have to finish this project.
If possible I would like netview to convert the data from hex to ascii
before forwarding the event to the TEC server.
Ideas?
Thanks heaps
Marcel.
-----Original Message-----
From: James Shanks [mailto:James_Shanks@TIVOLI.COM]
Sent: Saturday, 1 May 1999 00:41
To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
Subject: Re: amending values in a netview snmp event
What ultimately are you trying to do? Tell us that first and perhaps we
can suggest how best to do it. Your overrides in a ruleset will not
affect the trapd.log. They only affect what happens to the event after you
change it.
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
"Rafter, Marcel A." <marcel.rafter@NZ.UNISYS.COM> on 04/30/99 12:04:12 AM
Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on
NetView <NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
cc: (bcc: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
Subject: amending values in a netview snmp event
HI ALL,
I have an snmp event arriving in netview for which I would like to amend a
couple of the slot values i.e NVATTR_1 and NVATTR_2. Using an inline action
from the ruleset I am calling a script which does the needed conversion of
the attribute values and sets them correctly as a envirnoment variables.
The
problem is the script ends and these correct variables are then lost
forever
:-(.
Is there is a way read in the correct values back to NVATTR_1.
Is there a better way to do this.
Cheers
Marcel
marcel.rafter@unisys.com
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