Ken -
I doubt you will think I am "d'man" after I reply here.
The status trap will alter perceived status on the map, by changing the map
database, but it will not alter the actual status of the object in the object
database. Not knowing anything aat all about HAVIEW, I don't know if this is
important or not.
The purpose of it was to alter object you created in the database which did not
have "real" IP status set by someone else.
I know of no way at all to change a Selection name in the object database. This
field is unique and is set only once when the object is discovered, which is why
you must delete and re-discover an object if you don't like what you get. I
don't know how you could change it. What's more I am completely confused about
your icons with different names all representing the
same object with the strange Selection name. I don't understand what you are
telling me. Probably because I don't understand what HAVIEW is putting on the
map.
In short I can't quite follow your description though that is probably my fault,
and the best I can do for you, is to show you how the status trap is used in
other cases and let you try to figure out what to do in your case. You can
always ask more questions, too, if you like.
Suppose you wanted to include in a node's propagated status that some software
application was up or down.
The you would go to the interface level of that node and create a software
object on the submap using Edit -->Add from the
map. Give it some unique name, such as "node_name:app1" -- here I am even
naming it like an interface, and make sure it has a Status Source of "Object".
Then you send your trap in using the snmptrap script with the originating
node as "node_name", the object name as "node_name:app1", and the status as one
of the standard values. This cause this
new object to turn the appropriate color on the map, and the parent node to
change color also if the newly propagated status from below warrants that.
Hope this helps (but I doubt it).
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX and NT) L3 Support
Ken Garst <Ken.Garst@kp.org> on 05/24/2000 04:48:51 PM
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To: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems@Tivoli Systems
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Subject: Re: [NV-L] Changing status of an Object
James, u d'man. Your little script was exactly what I was looking for to make
HAVIEW work but there's a problem.
In HAVIEW (using NetView 6.0, AIX 4.3.3), my cluster is discovered and displayed
in the NetView map area with icons for HACMP cluster resources such as
"oracledbms", "oraclevg", filesystem icons such as "/u01", etc.
Here's the problem -- everyone of these icons has the same object name of
"00015NONETNONODNONETNONODNO" in NetView's object database.
How do I change these object names in Netview? I would like the object name to
match the icon label such as "oracledbms", etc.
Incidentally, I get the status of each icon through a combination of methods
such as snmpcollections via trapgend for filesystems and HACMP clinfo commands
for the other resources and then call the script you supplied, passing it the
icon name and status.
Regards and thanx for the script,
ken
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