Robert,
Our product Kardinia Performance Reporter for NetView will produce daily ,
weekly and/or monthly reports (such as on bandwidth utilization for serial
links) from the snmpCollect data that is stored in Access (or in the
binary files.).
You can download it from our web site, www.kardinia.com, for a free 30 day
trial. Kardinia Software is a Tivoli Partner.
At 05:30 PM 08-02-00 +0530, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>Thanks again for your response.I tried the "at" command,it did not list
>snmpodump, but it had two entries for nvsniffer.We are not ready for Tivoli
>Decision support yet.My responsibility now is to monitor the serial ports of
>about 8 routers we have and then produce reports on Bandwidth
utilization.May be
>I can collect data in longer time intervals,say every four hours and produce
>monthly or weekly reports.I have found that I can compress the collected data
>using snmpodump command.Last time I tried that,but it produced erroneous
data.I
>have purged my database and started again and since yesterday it has been
>collecting hourly data.May be I will try snmpodump again.Its a bit
embarassing
>for me for not being able to produce proper reports as we have also got an
>evaluation copy of Spectrum with us and it seems to be very good at producing
>reports.
>
>Is there a way of integrating the data collect with an RDBMS.The database
guide
>I possess has details only of Netview for Unix where RIM comes in to play.I
>already have Access installed but I am not able to open the
Snmpcollect_db.mdb
>file present in the usr/ov/databases/odbc directory.I even copied it
somewhere
>else with a different name,it was still not opening.The error was the I
did not
>have proper database rights to access that.Any clues...
>
>With Best Regards
>
>Robert
>
>
>
>
>Leslie Clark <lclark@US.IBM.COM> on 02/08/2000 03:14:11 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: M Robert Prakash/Hardware/TCSCHENNAI)
>
>Subject: Re: Reg Bandwidthutilhdx Mib - Netview NT
>
>
>
>
>It is my understanding that the grapher on NT does not show all collected
>data as the grapher on Unix does. It only shows the last cycle since you
>stop/started snmpCollect. The last time I asked support about this I was
>advised that the best route to go was to implement the Tivoli Decision
>Support product, and use the Netview Guides to view and analyse the
>data collected with Netview. If the data is actually in the database, you
>may
>be looking at a Feature.
>
>Cordially,
>
>Leslie A. Clark
>IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
>Detroit
>==========================================================================
>
>When you select 'Schedule snmpcollect data to delete' Netview creates a
>snmpodump scheduled command. Selecting 'do no schedule database purging'
>should remove the scheduled entry. Run "at" from the command line to see if
>there is still a snmpodump entry. If it is still there, you can safely
>delete it by running "at x /delete" where x is the ID of the snmpodump
>entry.
>
>Regards,
> Matt Moore
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: M Robert Prakash [mailto:robertprakash@CHENNAI.TCS.CO.IN]
>Sent: Tuesday, 8 February 2000 00:51
>To: NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
>Subject: Reg Bandwidthutilhdx Mib
>
>
>Hi
>
>I am pretty new to Netview,first of all I want to thank James shanks for
>his
>reply to my first mail,it was informative.But I din't put further questions
>because I had not read the Netview manuals then and I was just getting
>started.I
>am using Netview for NT ver 5.1.1.
>
>I have a question reg the Bandwidthutilhdx mib.By default the routers
>smartset
>starts collecting Bandwidthutilhdx Mib data for all routers.This data can
>be
>later saved or viewed as a graph.But I find that the collected data does
>not
>last more than 1 or 2 days .So everytime I view the data,I see only the
>data
>for
>the last two days.So if I have been collecting for a week,the previous 5
>days
>data I am not able to see.Under the options->server setup, files tab,there
>is an
>option-'Schedule snmpcollect data to delete',which was configured to purge
>the
>data everyday at 11.00pm, which I have changed to 'do no schedule database
>purging' and I have restarted the Netview server.It doesnt seem to be
>working.
>
>I installed netview on a server with no database software like MS-Access or
>Sql
>server.So it created its own Access database to store data.Later I
>installed
>MSOffice,so MSAccess also got installed.Do I have to do any
>reconfiguration.Could this be the problem.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Robert
>
Joe Fernandez
Kardinia Software
jfernand@kardinia.com
http://www.kardinia.com
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