If you are on 6.01, there is a very slick way to handle this. Now
you can automatically acknowledge things. It is covered in the
Release Notes. What you need is a ruleset that issues the
Ack event for the Down Interface event from nodes in a certain
SmartSet. When you want to put something in maintenance mode,
change the smartset definition to include that node. In the ruleset,
use the Trap Settings to catch Interface Down, use the Query
Database to check the node, and use an Action to issue the
Ack event. The event needs to know the object id of the interface to
be Acknowledged, and fortunately that object id is in the trap.
It is the 4th word in the 4th variable binding (the 3rd word is the
object id of the node). Run the rule in background automation.
This covers the operators. You will also have to consider
any automated notification you are doing.
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit
"Paul Maine Jr." <paulm@msicc.com>@tkg.com on 02/21/2001 05:47:17 PM
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Subject: [NV-L] Netview Maintenance Mode?
Occasionally, when we are troubleshooting a network device, the network
device repeatedly goes up and down. Is it possible to put a monitored
device
in a maintenance mode for a specified time window. During this time window
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netview would ignore the device. If Netview does not have a direct way of
doing this - is there a means to script it?
Thank You
Paul
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