The one I am talking about is called PJ26414.
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
Xu He <xuhe@YAHOO.COM> on 07/12/99 12:40:35 PM
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: Re: Does Netview 5.1.1 on NT support RDBMSes???
James,
Do you happen to know the exact E-fix number for the
event purging problem? I am starting to have problem,
with purging events, just after I upgraded to version
5.1.1, last week. I've contacted support, and for
some reason, the engineer is not aware of this fix.
Thanks
Xu He
--- James Shanks <James_Shanks@TIVOLI.COM> wrote:
> In my view the short answer to this question is
> "yes" and the long answer is
> (supposed to be) "at least as much as the UNIX
> version does, and more because
> events are kept there by default, in whatever RDBMS
> your SQL Server/ ODBC
> drivers support". At least that is how I
> understand it, and because I am a
> real rookie with NT, ODBC and all that, I urge all
> those users familiar with
> that stuff to respond.
>
> 1. Events on NT are kept in a relational database,
> either MS-Access (the
> default) or whatever RDBMS your SQL Server on NT is
> configured for. There was
> a problem with using SQL Server at 5.1.1 when it
> came time to do a purge, so
> some users stopped doing that and went back to
> MS-Access. But this problem has
> been fixed and an efix is available from Support if
> you need it.
>
> 2. You can manually load topology up to that RDBMS
> any time you want, according
> to my notes, by using the topo2sql.exe
> You can also do this from the GUI: Programs -->
> NetView --> Tasks --> Export
> Topology, and the you can view it.
> You can also automate the topo upload with the "at"
> command I am told.
>
> 3. I thought there was a similar command to upload
> snmpCollect data too (so that
> the NT product would at least as much functionality
> as the UNIX one with regard
> to RDBMS) but as I don't deal with this on a regular
> basis, I cannot confirm
> that now.
> Anyone else tried this? Want to look in /usr/ov/bin
> for a likely executable?
> I could be wrong here but I urge you to go look
> first.
>
> I know the User's Guide is very deficient in this
> area but development decided,
> when they could not get additional resources for
> documentation updates for 5.1,
> that they would provide function anyway, and try to
> address the lack of doc in
> the next one (5.2??). Some of this function was
> even available in 5.0a I
> believe.
>
>
> James Shanks
> Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
>
>
>
> Xu He <xuhe@YAHOO.COM> on 07/09/99 08:25:13 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: Re: Does Netview 5.1.1 on NT support
> RDBMSes???
>
>
>
>
>
> Unfortunately, I have the answer you probably don't
> want to hear. For the main databases under
> \usr\ov\databases\openview, the format for the
> ovwdb,
> topology, and mapdb is the same as the older
> versions.
> I did remember hearing from someone that it's still
> in Btrieve format. However, the event database is
> in
> RDBMS Compliant, it can be in either Access or MS
> SQL
> format. I think Tivoli was trying to convert the
> database to RDBMS, from the two other DSN
> (snmpcollect
> and Topology) it created in Windows ODBC Settings.
> I
> did query the those DSNs and notice it was empty.
> In
> theory, I think you can write the event database to
> another RDBMS, but I haven't tested it. With the
> current version, I think the default MS Access
> database is sufficient for storing the events.
>
> Xu He
>
>
>
>
>
> --- Don Seitz <don_seitz@INS.COM> wrote:
> > I have been asked, and cannot find it specifically
> > written out, but does
> > Netview 5.1.1 on NT support any relational
> > databases, like: Oracle,
> > Sybase...etc?????
> >
> > Thanks for your clarification
> > Don Seitz
> >
>
> ===
> Xu He
> Consulting Services Engineer
> Network Solutions, Inc
> http://www.netsol.com/consulting
>
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