Jane,
I've done something like that, except it uses a text-field instead of an
"is" field. This way, I can add information like
"ExtGate:XXX_BusinessUnit:YYY_Division:ZZZ_Application" etc.
Let's me slice & dice things up a little more. Guess you could also
append "isMaintenance" as a text-based maintenance id.
Regards,
Gary Boyles, Intel
-----Original Message-----
From: Jane Curry [mailto:jane.curry@skills-1st.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 1:30 PM
To: IBM NetView Discussion
Subject: Re: [NV-L] VLAN & Node Up Question
I've currently been working on an idea to create a new field called
isMaintenance from which I can then create a "Maintenance" smartset.
The next idea is to use rulesets to test whether a node is a member of
the Maintenance smartset - if it is then don't react; otherwise panic as
normal.
I am thinking of providing a registration file to let you pick nodes off
the map to say they are going into/out of Maintenance mode. The ARF
will then run a wee script that does an nvdbimport to set/unset the
isMaintenance field, which automatically makes it part of the
Maintenance SmartSet.
You can obviously expand on this idea for all sorts of other things.....
I haven't quite finished this yet so if anyone has input, I'd much
appreciate it.
Cheers, Jane
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