Thanks James that answers that. Yes the enhancement would be nice.
Is there any way to know what new features will be in 6.0 ?
There are many things I am working on and if there is an eaiser way in
6.0 it would be nice to know.
Thanks much for your help.
Jeff Fitzwater
Princeton University
James Shanks wrote:
>
> Events processed by a ruleset are raw. The formatting that trapd does is not
> available through a ruleset, but the Event Attribute does have things like
> Severity, Category and so on. But the formatted text is not available. (Nice
> enhancement. Maybe someday).
>
> You may find that it is easier to do what you want by processing the trapd.log
> after the fact, rather than trying to use a ruleset, unless you are willing to
> change your mind and format it yourself by pulling the format out of
> trapd.conf
> .
>
> Since NetView events have their default formatted text present in var 3 they
> are
> seldom the problem. I suspect it is agent traps you wish to format .
>
> James Shanks
> Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
>
> Jeff Fitzwater <jfitz@PRINCETON.EDU> on 02/08/2000 12:08:23 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: RULSET editor ???
>
> Netview 5.1.2 on Sol 2.6
>
> I want to send only certain formatted events to a file.
>
> Do events passed thru a RULSET contain formatted event info, as defined
> in the EVENT CONFIGURATION window or do they only have the raw event
> data? I can pass the ENV variables to a file with an ACTION but do not
> know how to send the formatted event to a file using a RULESET.
>
> I would like to do this from within NETVIEW and not have to use a PERL
> script on the loged events themselves.
>
> Jeff Fitzwater
> CIT Systems & Networking
> Princeton University
> 609-258-2341
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