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Re: Object that has multiple community names on the same IP

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Subject: Re: Object that has multiple community names on the same IP
From: dil@acn.gr (Leventidis Dimitris)
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 16:42:21 +0300
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Thank you for your answer.
Scripting? ok but where? an example would be appriciated

Thanks

PS
My device does exactly this :)

Jeff Fitzwater wrote:

> James Shanks wrote:
>
> > I'm afraid not.  One community string per box is all you get.
> >
> > James Shanks
> > Level 3 Support
> > Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
> > Please note that my new id is jshanks@us.ibm.com
> >
> > dil@acn.gr (Leventidis Dimitris)@tkg.com on 09/10/2001 05:27:30 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] Object that has multiple community names on the same IP
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > i'have a problem with a netview 6.01 on an AIX 4.3.3 system. I have a
> > device on my network that has only 1 IP Address, but reports different
> > things every time you specify another community name. With the default
> > community e.g. public i'm getting the ethernet statistics. If i use e.g.
> > public@s1 i'm getting different things which are related with the first
> > slot's connected devices (e.g. some wan interfaces).
> >
> > How can i modify this object and assign to it 2 (or more) community
> > names?
> > I've seen Sunnet Manager to do this and i was impressed....can Netview
> > do this?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Dimitris Leventidis
> >
> > _________________________________________________________________________
> > NV-L List information and Archives: http://www.tkg.com/nv-l
>
> If you don't know already, this is called Community string Indexing and is
> used to access MIBS that have multiple instances for a single MIB value.
> Some switch  vendors use this to get stats for all the bridge interfaces on
> a switch by just adding the @ sign followed by the port or VLAN number to
> the single community name assigned to the entire device.  IE..     public@25
> would read the bridge mib for VLAN25 or it could be a single port on a board
> IE..  public@3/1      for board 3 port 1.    If the device does not have
> multiple instances of a MIB,  adding the @ does nothing and it will still
> access the single instance of that MIB.    Also note that a trap sent from a
> multiple instance MIB should have the source attached as the instance with
> the @ sign.
>
> This is a very powerful feature to use if your device supports it.
>
> So with a little scripting you could do what ever you want.
>
> Jeff Fitzwater
> OIT Systems & Networking
> Princeton University
>
> _________________________________________________________________________
> NV-L List information and Archives: http://www.tkg.com/nv-l

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