Netview gets events in essentially 2 ways - either an agent generates a trap
due to some condition, or Netview generates it based on snmp polling.
However you are monitoring CPU and disk activity today with Netview must be
similar - either an agent on the ADSM box is generating them, or you have
Netview poll the box for disk & CPU. Somehow you need to have a trap
generated when the application is stopped or started, so you need to ind out
if there is a way to have the ADSM box generate such a trap, or find out if
there is a MIB value that will indicate application up or down. If the
latter is the choice, you'll need to setup Data Collections and Thresholds
to poll this value every so often and generate a trap when it receives a
value of down. One catch, though, is that Data Collections and Thresholds
only works with numeric values, so the MIB would have to return a numeric
indicator (i.e. 1=up, 2=down).
I will add, though, that Netview is not really the right tool for
applications management in my opinion. If you will have a need to do much
more of it, I'd suggest looking at other tools such as Distributed
Monitoring.
-----Original Message-----
From: Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
[mailto:NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU]On Behalf Of Tehmina Khan
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 9:37 AM
To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
Subject: ADSM and Netview
Hello,
Can anyone help me with configuring Netview to receive ADSM alerts. I have
Netview 5 installed on AIX 4.3.2. I would like to monitor an ADSM Server. I
have
loaded all the ADSM mibs into Netview. But do not get any event cards come
up
when the ADSM application is stopped or started. SNMP communications appears
to
be working ok between the two servers as I can monitor CPU and disk activity
without a problem.
has anyone come across this problem before?
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