Building rulesets in UNIX and trying to get them to work on NT is a very bad
idea in the current version.
What you have in NT is a very incomplete version of the ruleset functionality
and you are right that there is no good documentation. It is also the case that
action nodes do not work, which means that the pager doesn't either, and that
you cannot invoke a console application (like nvplay which pops up a window)
from a ruleset.
The biggest problem is even more serious. The current version was designed to
only handle NetView traps. If you try to build a ruleset using non-NetView
traps then you will get weird results at best, or nvcord will crash. The crash
is due to the fact that NetView traps have five variables, the second of which
is always a hostname and that the linkup traps don't. But the code doesn't
expect that. There is an open APAR on this (PJ26540) , and until it is fixed, I
wouldn't even attempt to do what you are doing.
The very simple sample rulesets are what the NT developer had in mind and they
are not very useful, but they are about the only ones that work. But even they
expect that all traps will be NetView traps.
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
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