Thanks for all the suggestions, but this is not exactly what I am looking
for.
I am aware of configuring/retrieving RMON and MIB values, but I am trying to
get notification info. specific to our environment into the Cisco by using
Cisco commands (if such commands exist).
I am trying to get into the router configuration values such as e-mail
addresses or pager numbers, etc... directly into the Ciscos. The analyst
would need to configure this themselves when they configure a new router. I
am thinking that NetView could then query for this info and place it into
its database for future automatic actions (i.e., scripts executed by
NetView). The concept we are trying to achieve here is creating a process
and distributing the management of specific devices back to the analyst that
is configuring the device. Our network management group would define the
process and it would be expected for the analysts to follow this process in
order to assure availability and proper notification for outages or specific
events.
I do not think Cisco has such config. statements available in their IOS, but
it would be nice if they did. Nonetheless, I am wondering if anyone else
has tried to do something similar to this by using other Cisco
user-definable MIB variables such as the "locIfDescr" MIB, etc...?
Thanks in advance,
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
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Fitzwater [mailto:jfitz@PRINCETON.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 10:47 AM
To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
Subject: Re: Availability for Ciscos/Integration with NV automated
actions
The only things you can set and monitor are rmon events and alarms,
which you set up. You can fire a trap on alarm treshold. Its under the
rmon command. The event fires the trap when a corresponding alarm is
triggered.
Havn't tried it yet. Not sure what the limits are on the mib variables
you can test.
Jeff Fitzwater
Princeton University
"Prokott, Joe" wrote:
>
> 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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