Thanks. Fields it is!
Les
>From: "Leslie Clark" <lclark@us.ibm.com>
>Reply-To: IBM NetView Discussion <nv-l@tkg.com>
>To: IBM NetView Discussion <nv-l@tkg.com>
>Subject: Re: [NV-L] Production Server Events
>Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 02:18:04 -0500
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>That is exactly what I would do. Fields are fun! It is especially
>helpful if you have a little spreadsheet somewhere where one
>of the columns is an exact match with the Selection Name of
>your nodes, and then whatever data you might care to associate
>with them. Batch load it regularly with nvdbimport.
>
>Cordially,
>
>Leslie A. Clark
>IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
>Detroit
>
>
>lesdickert@nsimail.com@tkg.com on 02/20/2001 05:07:29 PM
>
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>Running NetView 6.0.1 under AIX 4.3.3.
>
>Need some advice please.
>
>We are monitoring a network that includes
>about 150 NT servers. Of these, about 125
>or so are production servers, the rest are
>in various stages of testing, integration,
>or nonproduction use, but are connected to
>the production network. Of course they all
>look the same to NetView.
>
>Most of these servers have at least two active
>monitoring agents on them, and they generate
>a fair number of agent initiated events to NetView.
>I want to set up an event workspace that shows
>only events from the production servers and not
>from the others.
>
>I started to set up a SmartSet for the production
>servers with nvUtil using a rule that had
>
> Selection Name = server
>
>for each server, but nvUtil complained that the rule
>was too long, so I broke up the servers into about
>6 groups and got the SmartSets built, and then made
>a Ruleset to include only events from those SmartSets.
>
>This works fine, but I am wondering if I should create
>a field in the database (say, isProduction), populate
>and maintain it with nvdbimport, and create a Ruleset that
>checks that field rather than the SmartSets. I might
>even could create different fields for different types
>of servers (eg FileServers, PrintServers, IISs, SQL Servers,
>etc).
>
>I would imagine that lots of people have addressed this
>situation and I would appreciate any advice on how you
>dealt with it.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Les
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