We decided to take the same approach, Leslie, and basically for the same
reasons you indicated.
Some other considerations we have though is that our NetView system is set
up to manage only network devices, i.e. we keep all the servers,
workstations, etc. from being discovered. We have very few "non-network"
SNMP agents that could send traps to NetView. Most of them are NT servers
that send traps to Compaq Insight Manager.
Our preferred method of monitoring servers is with a logfile adapter rather
than SNMP traps, if there are no other intelligent agents available.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leslie Clark [mailto:lclark@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 14:36
> To: NV-L@tkg.com
> Subject: [NV-L] SNMP traps from hosts: to NetView, or to T/EC?
>
>
> I'm soliciting opinions here. Say you are using Tivoli Distributed
> Monitoring for your various hosts. And you are using NetView for your
> network stuff. And you have some SNMP agents on many of your
> hosts, and they send traps. Would you be more inclined to send
> those traps to NetView for filtering and forwarding to T/EC, or would
> you install the SNMP Adapter on the hosts and have them send
> their traps to the T/EC?
>
> My initial reaction of course is to send all SNMP traps to NetView,
> rather than configure all the oids in the .cds and .oid files
> and manage
> all of those SNMP adapters. But maybe that just shows my comfort
> level with NetView. Any real-life experiences with one approach over
> the other? Thanks..
>
> Cordially,
>
> Leslie A. Clark
> IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
> Detroit
>
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