>>"Or even better...if I could somehow
capture what was in that field, I could pass it to the the syslog for
capture from the TEC syslog adapter."
Well, I am still unclear about all this, but if you add a field thru
nvdbimport, then you can view it though ovobjprint -s <selection_name> and
then you could use the errlogger command to send it in a message to the AIX
syslog, but I don't see how you could get AIX to write it to the records he
already keeps.
James Shanks
Team Leader, Level 3 Support
Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
"Scott ." <pepsiasg@hotmail.com>@tkg.com on 07/19/2001 10:24:38 PM
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Actually, I didn't do a very good job of describing my situation. I will
use
the field that I create and customize, to match in a rule set and then run
a
script that logs events to syslog. We then have a TEC AIX syslog adapter
that matches the format of the message and processes the events from there.
The issue is we have so many sub-groupings, that we need more granularity
in
our descriptions. For example, we have several different types of Dell
servers running Winnt 4.0 server. The servers have many different
functions,
and different groups that are responsible for them. If I can build or
customize a new field, I can get more descriptive and therefore create
different smartsets for processing. Or even better...if I could somehow
capture what was in that field, I could pass it to the the syslog for
capture from the TEC syslog adapter.
Scott
>From: "Davis, Donald" <donald.davis@firstcitizens.com>
>Reply-To: IBM NetView Discussion <nv-l@tkg.com>
>To: "'IBM NetView Discussion'" <nv-l@tkg.com>
>Subject: RE: [NV-L] Manipulate the SNMP sysLocation field?
>Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:32:45 -0400
>
>Scott,
>James, of course is right :)
>
>You can add a field to the database and make a pass/fail decision in a
>ruleset for forwarding to TEC.
>But, you cannot forwarding that field information to TEC, nor can you
>modify
>any of the existing trap variables.
>If you want to send something special to TEC based upon what node sourced
>the trap, read on.
>You will need to setup custom traps in trapd configuration based on "Event
>Sources".
>Then, have some custom variable (slot mapping) sent to TEC when a trap is
>received from the specific node(s).
>You can use files as lists of nodes for each special grouping (Routers,
>Hubs, Servers, etc...)
>I have used this to send a custom event variable to TEC to identify if the
>trap was received from a router, hub or server.
>The event then receives special(1) processing at TEC if it was from a
>router,
>special(2) processing if it was from a hub, special(3) processing if it
was
>from a server or normal processing if it fell through.
>
>Let me know if you need more details.
>Hope this helps,
>Don Davis
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Scott . [mailto:pepsiasg@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 2:36 PM
>To: nv-l@tkg.com
>Subject: [NV-L] Manipulate the SNMP sysLocation field?
>
>
>AIX 4.3 NetView 6.0.2
>
>Is there a way to add/change the value in the sysLocation field ID in the
>NetView database, or does it HAVE to be changed in the nodes SNMP
settings?
>I am looking for a free form field that I can assign a decimal delimited
>line to for sorting messages sent to TEC. Is there another field that can
>be
>
>manipulated by using nvdbimport? Or is there a way to add another field id
>that I could use for this? I was looking throught the docs for anything
>that
>
>would tell me if that was possible. Thanks for your time!
>
>Scott Bursik
>Pepsico
>
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