If it is of any help, the clear function is not permanent. If you start an new
workspace, and the event is still part of the current priming load, it will be
re-displayed. I believe that the last 100 events in nvserverd's cache are what
are used to prime a new workspace. Also, it will still show up in Events
History and in trapd.log. The "clear" is just a command to nvserverd to drop
his pointers to that event in memory.
My "no" is based on the fact that all the menu options in nvevents are internal
and you cannot alter nor hide any of them. And a non-root userid can run the
"clear" function as well as a root user. But I have not investigated whether
there are any restrictions which could be invoked using NetView security. I
don't think so, but security is not an area I am well-versed in. But I think
that even then, all you would find is a "yes-or-no" for nvevents as an
application and all users would have access to all functions once inside.
Basically, I would have to say that, historically, in NetView. very little
effort has been expended to try to keep operators from doing things they
shouldn't. Internal security was introduced for the first time in V4, and has
not been expanded. And NT has none.
When it comes to your operators, either you trust them or you don't, and if you
don't, they shouldn't be employed. Perhaps that is naive, but as a former
customer I'll tell you that we made it very clear to ours that when they were
given the authority to run our network, anyone who got cute and abused his or
her authority was subject to instant dismissal and possible criminal
prosecution.
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX and NT) L3 Support
Thomas.Hans@citicorp.com on 06/05/2000 09:34:31 AM
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Subject: AW: [NV-L] Start NVevents read-only
Hi Josef,
Thanks for your help, but this idea is from my point of view even worse. When I
use this buttom "FreezeRes" and do "Clear selected ... from all users", yes,
the event is still on this event monitor, but is deleted from all other running
Event Monitors!
I urgently need to find a way for example that operators cannot remove DBA
alerts. The clear "No" from James makes me really pessimistic.
Rgds,
Thomas
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If you activate the FreezeRes button at the bottom of a nvevents window then
it won't be possible for anybody to clear selected events at the window by
means of "Clear Selected From All Users".
I hope it will help.
Best regards
Josef
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From: Thomas.Hans@citicorp.com [mailto:Thomas.Hans@citicorp.com]
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 1:42 PM
To: NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
Subject: [NV-L] Start NVevents read-only
Running nvevents I saw that every user can start the work menu with the
right
mouse bottom and "clear selected events " "from all users".
Is there a way to start nvevents "read-only" or to hide this option in the
menu?
Thanks in advance,
Thomas
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