Icon Status Question

["Smith, Kristi" <Kristi_Smith@mentorg.com>]

Environment:  NetView 5.1.2 running on Solaris 2.6 

Situation:  I need to be able to create and set the status of icons
representing non-IP addressable Nortel Passport Trunks on our NetView map.
The Passport Nodes have one SNMP queryable IP interface for management
purposes. The Passports send traps to NetView when these trunks go down and
come back up.  I want to be able to trigger a status change on a non-netmon
controlled icon based on these traps. 

Problem:  I am trying to use the NetView 58916871 trap to change the status
of the icons that I have created and I can't get the status to change at
all.  I have tried to follow the steps in James' "Change the status of an
icon" document that he wrote awhile ago but I'm missing something.  I am
running the event window in the control-desk attached to the read-write map,
I have modified the nvevents.overrideCompoundStatus option in the Nvevents
file to be "True", I have set the status source of the icon as "symbol" ,
and I am able to run the snmptrap script to send a trap to NetView (this
works) etc.

I'm guessing that my problem lies in the way I'm creating or naming the
icons.  Do the icons I create have to be copied and modified based on an
existing node on the map?   I have tried copying the existing icon for a
Passport at the node level, pasting it at the interface level, changing the
status source to "Symbol"   and modifying the label to represent a trunk
interface per a post done by Jim Bingen awhile ago but it didn't work for
me.  I have tried multiple variations on this theme and haven't been
successful. 

Any suggestions would be appreciated. 

Regards,
Kristi Smith
Mentor Graphics Corporation
(503) 685-1971
kristi_smith@mentorg.com

Environment:  NetView 5.1.2 running on Solaris 2.6

Situation:  I need to be able to create and set the status of icons representing non-IP addressable Nortel Passport Trunks on our NetView map.  The Passport Nodes have one SNMP queryable IP interface for management purposes. The Passports send traps to NetView when these trunks go down and come back up.  I want to be able to trigger a status change on a non-netmon controlled icon based on these traps.

Problem:  I am trying to use the NetView 58916871 trap to change the status of the icons that I have created and I can't get the status to change at all.  I have tried to follow the steps in James' "Change the status of an icon" document that he wrote awhile ago but I'm missing something.  I am running the event window in the control-desk attached to the read-write map, I have modified the nvevents.overrideCompoundStatus option in the Nvevents file to be "True", I have set the status source of the icon as "symbol" , and I am able to run the snmptrap script to send a trap to NetView (this works) etc.

I'm guessing that my problem lies in the way I'm creating or naming the icons.  Do the icons I create have to be copied and modified based on an existing node on the map?   I have tried copying the existing icon for a Passport at the node level, pasting it at the interface level, changing the status source to "Symbol"   and modifying the label to represent a trunk interface per a post done by Jim Bingen awhile ago but it didn't work for me.  I have tried multiple variations on this theme and haven't been successful.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Regards,
Kristi Smith
Mentor Graphics Corporation
(503) 685-1971
kristi_smith@mentorg.com