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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: Jeff Fitzwater <jfitz@Princeton.EDU>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:35:37 -0400
Leventidis Dimitris wrote:

> 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

Netview comes with many tools that allow the user to add unix shell, awk or perl
scripts to them.   I can give you ideas but it can be very complex to understand
your problem and give you an absolute solution that works just for you.

Make sure you understand the problem you want to solve first.


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