Re: Howto "Cut and Paste" thru ovw API

[James Shanks <James_Shanks@TIVOLI.COM>]

You may want to wait to do this until you have V6.

One of the new features in V6 is called "Location sensitive Topology".  It
allows you to build a file (locations.conf) which specifies what IP address
ranges go into which locations, and you can nest them, with location A being an
element under location B.  Then when netmon does discovery, he will see to it
that that is how the map is built.  Of course, you might have to clear your
databases and rediscover until you get the map the way you want it, but the
benefit is obvious.  Your basic customization is safe and reproducible.

As for wteuiap6, that's redbook code and I think the developers are long gone.
As far as how NetView builds maps, you would have to start with the Programmer's
Guide and the Programmer's Reference.  There are long discussions in there about
callbacks for cut and paste.

James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support



"MERY Olivier (Neuilly Gestion)" <olivier.mery@CETELEM.FR> on 02/16/2000
07:10:30 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: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
Subject:  Howto "Cut and Paste" thru ovw API




Dear Netviewers,

The network I'm in charge of is rather complicated to display with the
standard way netview does.
So I intend to customize it with containers (Location), but our company is
composed of tens of offices and I can't afford spending time to customize it
by hand.
I'd prefer writing a procedure that reorganizes all the IP Internet submap
working with router and network names as input.

I had the idea to base this procedure on the wteuiap6 application developped
by ITSO guys, so I installed it. I did some testing to "emulate" the Cut and
Paste actions that have to be used thru the netview gui to do the job, but
it appears that wteuiap6 is not doing all that is done thru the gui (the
connection are not handled).

I was wondering if someone can explain step by step, how NetView does the
job so that I can have a look in the source of wteuiap6 and try to add
what's needed to make it work as I'd like to.

Thanks

Olivier



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Dear Netviewers,

The network I'm in charge of is rather complicated to display with the standard way netview does.
So I intend to customize it with containers (Location), but our company is composed of tens of offices and I can't afford spending time to customize it by hand.

I'd prefer writing a procedure that reorganizes all the IP Internet submap working with router and network names as input.

I had the idea to base this procedure on the wteuiap6 application developped by ITSO guys, so I installed it. I did some testing to "emulate" the Cut and Paste actions that have to be used thru the netview gui to do the job, but it appears that wteuiap6 is not doing all that is done thru the gui (the connection are not handled).

I was wondering if someone can explain step by step, how NetView does the job so that I can have a look in the source of wteuiap6 and try to add what's needed to make it work as I'd like to.

Thanks

Olivier

Tel.    : +33146399729
Fax     : +33146391554
Email   : <mailto:olivier.mery@cetelem.fr>

Olivier MERY
CETELEM
20, avenue Georges Pompidou
92595 LEVALLOIS-PERRET Cedex