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Re: Availability for Ciscos/Integration with NV automated actions

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Subject: Re: Availability for Ciscos/Integration with NV automated actions
From: "Whitehead, Neil" <whitern@RBOS.CO.UK>
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 17:19:08 +0100
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Take a look at CiscoWorks 2000, it seems to do most of what you want to do.

You will also want to get hold of a Cisco White Paper called "Cisco Network
Monitoring and Event Correlation Guidelines" v1.5 Jan 1999.
This is a really excellent document which gives a lot of help on what sort
of MIB objects you want to monitor, what thresholds to set and how to
configure the routers and switches to allow you to do this.

There is also a very useful section towards the end on Event correlation.

Hope this helps...

Neil Whitehead (x22808)
IT Services (Telecoms)
The Royal Bank of Scotland
Tel: 0131-523 2808
Mobile:07803 501793
e-mail: whitern@rbos.co.uk

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prokott, Joe [SMTP:Joe.Prokott@WESTGROUP.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 2:18 PM
> To:   NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
> Subject:      Availability for Ciscos/Integration with NV automated
> actions
>
>
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>
> Has anyone configured a system that would allow a Cisco router analyst the
> ability to configure availability times, notification methods, etc...
> directly on the router and then have these propagated back to the NV
> database on a regular interval for automated actions done on the
> management
> system when certain conditions occur (interface down, interface link down
> trap, etc...)?  Does Cisco have any specific config. commands that allow
> such a configuration to be defined on the router?  Perhaps there are Cisco
> integrated tools with NV that help do this (although I am not sure if
> Cisco
> IOS supports such config. statements to allow for this?)?
>
> We have a mechanism in place today that does the notification, but it does
> not take into account any specific configuration defined by analysts on
> the
> router interfaces themselves.  Rather, it just uses the NV collections to
> determine notification.  It has been requested by analysts configuring the
> routers here to allow them the ability to configure some of these
> parameters
> on a per interface level and then send this info. back to the NV database
> for storage and retrieval when particular condtions arise.
>
> In doing this, it would offload some of the management functions to the
> analysts configuring the Ciscos and define a more robust process used for
> the management of these devices.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Joe Prokott - West Group
> Network Architect
> 610 Opperman Drive
> St. Paul, MN  55123
> Phone: 651-687-4536
> Fax: 651-687-6946
> E-mail: joe.prokott@westgroup.com


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