RE: snmp setup

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

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Can you load this MIB with xnmloadmib2?  Check that first to make sure the 
problem is not syntactical.  Then proceed with your IMPORTS.

If you are missing anything, it is the missing constructs from the 
swmib-smiv1.  The two RFCs just define terminology and syntax which the 
MIB loaders already understand.  Try making a new MIB file by 
concatenating this MIB you are trying to use to  swmib-smiv1 and see if 
that works.  Since mib2trap works on files rather than on the database, it 
needs everything defined in one file.


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






"Stamper, Steve" <Steve_Stamper@foremost.com>
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10/09/2001 07:42 AM
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        Subject:        RE: [NV-L] snmp setup

 



Along  this same line, I am fighting another problem:  I run mib2trap 
against a  particular MIB and get:

========================================================
/usr/OV/snmp_mibs  # mib2trap CPQ_V2.0.1aTRP.mib  output.file
         Errors - no  script generated.
IMPORTS(is a reserved word): On or around line  16
/usr/OV/snmp_mibs # 

========================================================
 

Line  16- contains:
<snip>
   IMPORTS
     enterprises
        FROM  RFC1155-SMI
    swDiagResult,
     swSensorStatus, swSensorIndex, swSensorType,  swSensorValue,
    swSensorInfo,
     swFCPortOpStatus, swFCPortIndex,
    swEventIndex,  swEventTimeInfo, swEventLevel, swEventRepeatCount,
     swEventDescr
        FROM  swmib-smiv1
     TRAP-TYPE
        FROM  RFC1215;
</snip>
 
It  looks like it trying to import some stuff from RFC1155-SMI, 
swmib-smiv1, and  RFC1215.  Am I right?  If so, where can I get these RFCs 
in a  'loadable' format?  I know I have the swmib-smiv1 under a  different 
name and can fix.  If I'm all wet, can someone point me to the  right 
place?  
 


Thanks² 
Steve  Stamper 
Grand Rapids, MI 

-----Original Message-----
From: James Shanks  [mailto:SHANKS@us.tivoli.com]
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 5:44  PM
To: IBM NetView Discussion
Subject: RE: [NV-L] snmp  setup


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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         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> 
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10/05/2001 02:10 PM 
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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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Can you load this MIB with xnmloadmib2?  Check that first to make sure the problem is not syntactical.  Then proceed with your IMPORTS.

If you are missing anything, it is the missing constructs from the swmib-smiv1.  The two RFCs just define terminology and syntax which the MIB loaders already understand.  Try making a new MIB file by concatenating this MIB you are trying to use to  swmib-smiv1 and see if that works.  Since mib2trap works on files rather than on the database, it needs everything defined in one file.


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

"Stamper, Steve" <Steve_Stamper@foremost.com> Sent by: owner-nv-l@tkg.com 10/09/2001 07:42 AM Please respond to IBM NetView Discussion

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

Along  this same line, I am fighting another problem:  I run mib2trap against a  particular MIB and get:

========================================================
/usr/OV/snmp_mibs  # mib2trap CPQ_V2.0.1aTRP.mib  output.file
         Errors - no  script generated.
IMPORTS(is a reserved word): On or around line  16
/usr/OV/snmp_mibs # 

========================================================
 

Line  16- contains:
<snip>
   IMPORTS
     enterprises
        FROM  RFC1155-SMI
    swDiagResult,
     swSensorStatus, swSensorIndex, swSensorType,  swSensorValue,
    swSensorInfo,
     swFCPortOpStatus, swFCPortIndex,
    swEventIndex,  swEventTimeInfo, swEventLevel, swEventRepeatCount,
     swEventDescr
        FROM  swmib-smiv1
     TRAP-TYPE
        FROM  RFC1215;
</snip>
 
It  looks like it trying to import some stuff from RFC1155-SMI, swmib-smiv1, and  RFC1215.  Am I right?  If so, where can I get these RFCs in a  'loadable' format?  I know I have the swmib-smiv1 under a  different name and can fix.  If I'm all wet, can someone point me to the  right place?  
 


Thanks² 
Steve  Stamper 
Grand Rapids, MI  

-----Original Message-----
From: James Shanks  [mailto:SHANKS@us.tivoli.com]
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 5:44  PM
To: IBM NetView Discussion
Subject: RE: [NV-L] snmp  setup


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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