Just a question on why you would want to do this.
Since the overhead involved to get status via SNMP rather than by ping is
so much greater, why would you want to make that the default? Getting
status via SNMP is a very new feature in NetView and it should be used
sparingly, which probably accounts more than anything else for why you
cannot simply set things up as you suggest. I think product management
would want to see a full-blown performance analysis before they'd let such
a feature out the door. But that is just my opinion here.
If you think this should be a feature, then my suggestion is that you call
Support and open an enhancement request.
James Shanks
Team Leader, Level 3 Support
Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
danny@UK.IBM.COM@tkg.com on 03/20/2001 08:09:26 AM
Please respond to IBM NetView Discussion <nv-l@tkg.com>
Sent by: owner-nv-l@tkg.com
To: nv-l@tkg.com
cc:
Subject: [NV-L] OIDs Seedfiles and SNMP status polling
Hi All
I am attempting to have my cake and eat it, so please don't flame me for
presenting an unreasonable request:
I have a seedfile that contains IP addresses and IP address. What I would
like to do is status poll most of the devices using SNMP. However, if I
understand correctly, one must first discover the object and then add the
"$" before the IP address or hostname in the seedfile.
So I had an idea: how about using OIDs - maybe I can put the following line
in my seedfile and run "netmon -y" (it's the OID of a printer)
$@oid 1.3.6.1.4.1.2001.1.2.683.6
No such luck.
Therefore, the only solution that I can think of is to work through the
database to see which objects have been discovered and support SNMP and
have the appropriate OID and update the seedfile accordingly (not
forgetting the netmon -y afterwards).
I'm sure that someone out there has had to deal with the same issue.
Wouldn't it be great if there was a flag you could set somewhere that says
"If the object supports SNMP, use SNMP to status poll it"?
Any ideas anyone?
Cheers.
Danny
Danny Williams
Tivoli & AIX Specialist
IBM Global Services - Integrated Technology Services
mailto:danny@uk.ibm.com
Tel: 665520 (01926-465520) -- MOBX: 275520 (07967-275520)
_________________________________________________________________________
NV-L List information and Archives: http://www.tkg.com/nv-l
|