"Leslie Clark" <lclark@us.ibm.com> writes:
> Now Todd, be nice....;)
Tryin to be..but frustrated. :-) Looks as though some of my
accusations against Netview were based on ignorance, and you're
helping with that! :-)
> I cannot comment on what is or is not 'in the works', but
> you have every right to assume that Netview will support what is
> in wide use. I have never seen a device that supports V3
Nokia firewalls are something I've been asked to support--and they do
v3 out of the box. :-\ They claim there's a way to hack em to do
v2 by turning off encryption, but I've yet to see it work.
> See: Header in file /usr/OV/conf/mib.coerce, man page for mib.coerce
Oh my! I think that's what I've been missing. The man page seems to
talk in terms of data collection, however...so I hope there's someway
to set a threshold based on rate of change.
> See: Header in file /usr/OV/conf/snmpCol.conf
> See: man page for snmpCollect
> See: online help for Tools..Data Collection & Thresholding dialog
> See: man page for snmpColDump
>
> The example you give is of a mib expression. I use them all the time.
> There is nothing useful in the file delivered with Netview for Unix,
> but a nice one comes with the NT version. I will post it here.
Excellent. Hopefully I can lop at least one thing off the list of
stuff that appears to require an external script!
Thanks for the pointers!
Todd
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