> I have tried to display up to $NVATTR_15, but still meaningless.
> Therefore, I stop at there.
> Thanks for your advise, I will try all the $NVATTR and take a look on the
> programmer guide first.
>
> Can I ask other question ?
>
> I am using 5.0 Netivew for AIX for whole network. We have bought several
> TME 10 Netview for NT for distributed monitoring.
>
> The idea is
>
> several big site ( out of headquarter ) will install MLM ( NT ) for
> monitoring and then send an important information to headquarter ( where
> we have Netview for AIX ).
>
> May be I am not understand MLM in deep, I have several concerns below :
> Do anyone using MLM, please kindly make you advice :
>
> Question 1 :
>
> If the headquarter one implement MLM also ( MLM take a
> responsibility for monitoring and discovering ) , default snmp trap port
> should be changed. If any MLM in local node or in remote node have failed,
> whether it can be a backup or not ( due to the change of the snmp trap
> port ).
>
>
> Question 2 :
>
> If the headquarter one not implement MLM, is it can properly receive
> an important message from MLM of remote node. And how can I stop the
> netview ( central one ) to poll the remote area ( which suppose to be the
> responsibility of MLM of remote node.) And for this case, the central
> netview can act as a backup of MLM of remote node.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Shanks [SMTP:James_Shanks@TIVOLI.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 8:50 PM
> To: NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
> Subject: Re: Problem for represent meaningful information in action
> box of ruleset
>
> Maggie -
>
> Perhaps it is just me but I am having a very hard time following what you
> are
> trying to tell me. Perhaps the problem is that you are expecting to get
> something out of the ruleset action that is not there. But without seeing
> your
> action command for sure, I cannot tell.
>
> You keep jumping back and forth between how the trap can be displayed in
> trapd.log or in the event window and what you get out of the action node
> of a
> ruleset. These are two entirely different things. You are correct that
> loading
> a MIB and adding traps to trapd.conf has no effect whatsoever on what you
> get
> out of the ruleset. Did you expect that it would?
>
> In a ruleset action, you must do all the formatting. In trapd, for the
> most
> part, you need only tell trapd what you want, by configuring trapd.conf.
> I hope
> the difference is clear. All that gets passed to the ruleset is the raw
> trap.
> It is not formatted.
>
> Now we are back to the beginning. You MUST make the effort to figure out
> what
> the trap variables in the 8260 mean. I cannot do it for you. Once you
> know,
> then you can fix your action node script to send a meaningful mail
> message.
> Perhaps you can use the trap formats in trapd.log and the event window to
> help.
> If you make the event log message read "$*" it will show you all the
> variables
> with what whatever MIB definitions you have loaded. Then you can use that
> information to add your own formatting to mail message. But if all you do
> is
> echo the variables, $NVATTR_1 to $NVATTR_50, then all you will get is
> whatever
> was in that position in the trap, and there will be no formatting done.
> What
> you are seeing is not only normal but expected.
>
> There are NO APIs to read trapd.conf and extract the message formatting
> but you
> can do that in a script if you like. I am afraid you are on your own here.
>
> All NetView APIs you may use for whatever purpose are documented in the
> NetView
> Programmer's Reference. Hints on how to design programs are discussed
> in the
> NetView Programmer's Guide.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> James Shanks
> Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
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