RE: snmp setup

["James Shanks" <SHANKS@us.tivoli.com>]

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Kevin -

Please clarify your question again, and this time use a new subject more 
explict than the last one. 
I cannot tell just what you are asking, and the old subject doesn't seem 
appropriate.

Are you asking how to configure a Cisco agent to send you a particular 
trap when a certain threshold is exceeded? 
Then clarify what Cisco agent (what box is it?) and what MIB variable from 
what MIB?  If this is what you want, then you have to be specific enough 
so that some Cisco-savvy person can assist you.  Put Cisco in your subject 
to catch his or her attention.

If it is not Cisco, who do you have in mind to do the monitoring, MLM or 
snmpCollect on the NetView box itself?  Both are capable.

Are you asking how to get snmpCollect to collect on a particular Cisco MIB 
variable and send you trap when it is exceeded?  He can do that himself 
and there is no need to involve MLM.  And the documentation is in the 
NetView Admin Guide under MIB Data Collection, but generally you would 
load the MIB first, if it is in SNMP V1 format.    Otherwise you would 
edit snmpCol.conf manually, using some other entry as a guide.  So  again, 
let's be more specific and talk about what MIB variable from what MIB.  Is 
it an SNMP V2 MIB?  Have you used snmpCollect before?

Or are you asking how to set up MLM to collect on a MIB variable and send 
you a trap?  He also can do that, too, just as snmpCollect can.  Then you 
would use the MLM doc to find out how to configure the appropriate table 
using smconfig.  Have you used smconfig before?

So what are you trying to do?  If you ask the right question, I am sure 
someone can help.


James Shanks
Level 3 Support 
Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software
IBM Software Group
Please note that my new id is jshanks@us.ibm.com






Kevin Smith <c-kevin.smith1@wcom.com>
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10/08/2001 02:41 PM
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If I  may piggyback on this issue,
                                                  I am running Netview 
6.01 on Aix 4.3 I too am interesting in generating a trap  from a mib 
vairiable.  The mib is a cisco mib that monitor cpu activity on  a 
router.  My wish is to create a threshold using this mib and when the 
threshold is met generate a trap to the MLM wich then will forward the 
events to  my Netview servers.  My experience is similar to the author of 
this  note.  Is there documentation that explains step by step how to load 
and  then get trap-events for mibs that arent defined to your  platform?
 
Warm  Regards
Kevin  Smith
System  Administrator
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nv-l@tkg.com  [mailto:owner-nv-l@tkg.com]On Behalf Of James Shanks
Sent:  Friday, October 05, 2001 3:36 PM
To: IBM NetView  Discussion
Subject: Re: [NV-L] snmp  setup


First, loading the  MIB does not add trap settings, period.  Never has in 
Netview .  You  can only add trap settings from a MIB by running mib2trap 
on the MIB.   This creates, in NT, a .bat file, (a script in UNIX), which 
contains a  series of addtrap commands built from the TRAP-TYPE or 
NOTIFICATION-TYPE  statements in the MIB.  If the .bat file is empty, then 
there were no  such statements in the MIB, which means that it does not 
define any traps.   If you are in doubt about that, then browse the MIB 
with Notepad or  Wordpad an take a look.  If the .bat file is not empty, 
then you must  execute that file to add the traps.  Adding the Enterprise 
Id manually is  not necessary.  Addtrap will do that and add the specific 
traps as  well. 


James Shanks
Level 3  Support  
Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software
IBM  Software Group
Please note that my new id is  jshanks@us.ibm.com






Daniel Lehman  <dlehman@hurricanetechgroup.com> 
Sent by: owner-nv-l@tkg.com 

10/05/2001 02:10 PM 
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        Subject:         [NV-L] snmp setup 

        


Hello  All,

I am having a  little issue, i  loaded the required mib in to Netview 6.02 
on NT.  I am able to use the  MIB Browser and walk through the tree 
succesfully.  When i go into the  view the trap settings there is nothing 
visible under the Enterprise for this  MIB, so i created a new entry for 
the Enterprise.  Still no traps are  visible.  I attempted to use mib2trap 
with no success, any and all advice  for be greatly appreciated. 
 Thanks..........
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Kevin -

Please clarify your question again, and this time use a new subject more explict than the last one.  
I cannot tell just what you are asking, and the old subject doesn't seem appropriate.

Are you asking how to configure a Cisco agent to send you a particular trap when a certain threshold is exceeded?  
Then clarify what Cisco agent (what box is it?) and what MIB variable from what MIB?  If this is what you want, then you have to be specific enough so that some Cisco-savvy person can assist you.  Put Cisco in your subject to catch his or her attention.

If it is not Cisco, who do you have in mind to do the monitoring, MLM or snmpCollect on the NetView box itself?  Both are capable.

Are you asking how to get snmpCollect to collect on a particular Cisco MIB variable and send you trap when it is exceeded?  He can do that himself and there is no need to involve MLM.  And the documentation is in the NetView Admin Guide under MIB Data Collection, but generally you would load the MIB first, if it is in SNMP V1 format.    Otherwise you would edit snmpCol.conf manually, using some other entry as a guide.  So  again, let's be more specific and talk about what MIB variable from what MIB.  Is it an SNMP V2 MIB?  Have you used snmpCollect before?

Or are you asking how to set up MLM to collect on a MIB variable and send you a trap?  He also can do that, too, just as snmpCollect can.  Then you would use the MLM doc to find out how to configure the appropriate table using smconfig.  Have you used smconfig before?

So what are you trying to do?  If you ask the right question, I am sure someone can help.


James Shanks
Level 3 Support  
Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software
IBM Software Group
Please note that my new id is jshanks@us.ibm.com

Kevin Smith <c-kevin.smith1@wcom.com> Sent by: owner-nv-l@tkg.com 10/08/2001 02:41 PM Please respond to IBM NetView Discussion

To:        IBM NetView Discussion <nv-l@tkg.com>         cc:                 Subject:        RE: [NV-L] snmp setup

If I  may piggyback on this issue,
                                                  I am running Netview 6.01 on Aix 4.3 I too am interesting in generating a trap  from a mib vairiable.  The mib is a cisco mib that monitor cpu activity on  a router.  My wish is to create a threshold using this mib and when the  threshold is met generate a trap to the MLM wich then will forward the events to  my Netview servers.  My experience is similar to the author of this  note.  Is there documentation that explains step by step how to load and  then get trap-events for mibs that arent defined to your  platform?
 
Warm  Regards
Kevin  Smith
System  Administrator
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nv-l@tkg.com  [mailto:owner-nv-l@tkg.com]On Behalf Of James Shanks
Sent:  Friday, October 05, 2001 3:36 PM
To: IBM NetView  Discussion
Subject: Re: [NV-L] snmp  setup


First, loading the  MIB does not add trap settings, period.  Never has in Netview .  You  can only add trap settings from a MIB by running mib2trap on the MIB.   This creates, in NT, a .bat file, (a script in UNIX), which contains a  series of addtrap commands built from the TRAP-TYPE or NOTIFICATION-TYPE  statements in the MIB.  If the .bat file is empty, then there were no  such statements in the MIB, which means that it does not define any traps.   If you are in doubt about that, then browse the MIB with Notepad or  Wordpad an take a look.  If the .bat file is not empty, then you must  execute that file to add the traps.  Adding the Enterprise Id manually is  not necessary.  Addtrap will do that and add the specific traps as  well. 


James Shanks
Level 3  Support  
Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software
IBM  Software Group
Please note that my new id is  jshanks@us.ibm.com

Daniel Lehman  <dlehman@hurricanetechgroup.com> Sent by: owner-nv-l@tkg.com   10/05/2001 02:10 PM Please respond to IBM NetView Discussion

To:         nv-l@tkg.com          cc:                 Subject:         [NV-L] snmp setup

Hello  All,

I am having a  little issue, i  loaded the required mib in to Netview 6.02 on NT.  I am able to use the  MIB Browser and walk through the tree succesfully.  When i go into the  view the trap settings there is nothing visible under the Enterprise for this  MIB, so i created a new entry for the Enterprise.  Still no traps are  visible.  I attempted to use mib2trap with no success, any and all advice  for be greatly appreciated.   Thanks..........
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