RE: Ruleset Configuration for Mail Alert

[James_Shanks@tivoli.com]

There may be no simple way to do exactly what you want to do.   The ruleset
facility is a user programming tool and like any programming tool is
limited by your ingenuity.

You can control both the LINK UP and LINK DOWN traps by using a Threshold
node, one for each kind.
For example, you could write
 event stream (block) --> Trap setting (LINK UP)  --> Threshold (1 after 5
in 10 minutes) --> Action --> Forward
and again
event stream (block) --> Trap setting (LINK DOWN)  --> Threshold (1 after 5
in 10 minutes) --> Action --> Forward
and if this is all that you want, then give it a try.
To put both in the same ruleset, you would hang the two trap settings
blocks off the same event stream node.  There would be only one of those.

If you have difficulties with this, I suggest you use nvcdebug as a
debugging tool.  Issue the command "nvcdebug -d all" while you are testing
and look at the trace in the nvcorrd.alog.  Perhaps then you can see what
is going on.

James Shanks
Team Leader, Level 3 Support
 Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT



z_esm_karekars <z_esm_karekars@bharatpetroleum.com>@tkg.com on 04/17/2001
09:13:28 AM

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Thanks for the response. I like to know where i am doing mistake in
rulesets. My query is as follows.
1. I need to control on "Down" and "UP" trap msgs. Like agent is sending
"Down" trap and "up" trap every minute and correspondingly i am getting
mail also. instead of that for 5 "Down" and "up" msgs in 10 mts time i
should get one "Down" msg and coreesponding "Up" msg. So how do i do it?

I am not sure where i am making mistake on this rule.? could you pls help?

Thanks,
Santosh

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   <<File: mail.rs>>

   You are using "echo" here which will not work because the daemon,
   actionsvr, who executed your action does not have a display.  If you
   look
   at the nvaction.alog and blog where such errors would be written then
   you
   will undoubtedly some error messages there.  You need to use a utility
   such
   as ovxecho, which will pop a window up on a display, that is not owned
   by
   the process running the command.
   There is documentation on using ovxecho, including a man page and
   examples
   in the book.  You need to specify the display you want the window to be
   put
   up on, either by setting the DISPLAY environment variable in a script
   which
   calls ovxecho or by using the -d operand
        /usr/OV/bin/ovxecho -d  mybox.mydomain:0.0    <message text>

   James Shanks
   Team Leader, Level 3 Support
    Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT


   z_esm_karekars <z_esm_karekars@bharatpetroleum.com>@tkg.com on
   04/17/2001
   06:45:58 AM

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   Hi Helen,

   I am trying following rulesets for generating mail for 5 Cisco UP & Down
   Link traps in 10 min. I could not get it work properly. Can U pls check
   it
   and reply me back.

    <<mail.rs>>
   Regards,
   Santosh

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      From:   Helen Cloostermans[SMTP:Helen.Cloostermans@dexia.be]
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      Subject:        [NV-L] Ruleset COnfiguration for Mail Alert

      Santosh,

      $A,, $2 and $4 in traps are  $NVA, $NVATTR_2 and $NVATTR_4 in
   rulesets.

      Regards,
      Helen

      ---------------------- Forwarded by Helen Cloostermans/GKBCCB on
      17/04/2001 10:49 ---------------------------

      z_esm_karekars%bharatpetroleum.com@Internet
      17/04/2001 10:25
      To:     nv-l%tkg.com@Internet
      cc:      (bcc: Helen Cloostermans/GKBCCB)

      Subject:        [NV-L] Ruleset COnfiguration for Mail Alert

      Hi,

      Having NV 6.0.1 on AIX 4.3.3
      We are trying to configure ruleset to generate the mail alert for
   Cisco
      traps.
      What type of NV Attributes I should use to get the Node Name,
   Interface
      Description, & Event Occured. I can get the same through
      trapcustomization
      if I use $A for Node name, $2 for Interface Description, & $4 for the
      event
      type.
      Can U pls update me on this

      Regards,
      Santosh

   (See attached file: mail.rs)