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Re: IBM Director integration

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Subject: Re: IBM Director integration
From: Eric Pobst <epobst00@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:45:18 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks James..

FYI for anyone who ever needs to find the MIB's
concerning UMS Services for IBM servers, install IBM
director and they will show up in the Install Dir.

Eric
--- James Shanks <jshanks@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Eric -
> 
> I don't know how to tell you to get what you want
> outside of what they 
> ship to you.
> According to a quick search I did, they supply a MIB
> called, umsevent.mib, 
> which defines a few traps, and an addtrap script
> which will define them to 
> NetView NT.   So you should be able to modify the
> script to run on UNIX or 
> run mib2trap against the MIB.    They also ship an
> nvsniffer config file 
> which will cause nvsniffer on NT to discover their
> WEBM-based servers.  I 
> don't think that will port too well to UNIX because
> nvsniffer there does 
> not have the same capabilities, though this was
> improved for NetView 7.1 
> 
> James Shanks
> Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
> Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Eric Pobst <epobst00@yahoo.com>
> Sent by: owner-nv-l@tkg.com
> 10/24/2001 10:55 AM
> Please respond to IBM NetView Discussion
> 
>  
>         To:     IBM NetView Discussion
> <nv-l@tkg.com>
>         cc: 
>         Subject:        Re: [NV-L] IBM Director
> 
>  
> 
> James,
> 
> That is actually what I am trying to track down
> (Mibs/Trap definitions).  If at the very least the
> mibs to run mib2trap against.  I cannot find the
> mibs
> anywhere and the only reference to them is running
> an
> upward integration from the IBM Director Application
> to NT NetView.  Looks pretty straight forward except
> we are currently not using NT NetView. There may be
> way to extract them from the IBM Director setup
> files,
> but would rather avoid this.  My ideal setup would
> be
> to just run the UMS services on each of the IBM
> X-Series servers and have them forward traps to
> NetView (very similiar to Compaq Insight Manger). 
> 
> Trying to keep it simple.
> 
> Eric
> --- James Shanks <jshanks@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > Integrate how?  As far as I know this is just a
> > matter of MIBs and traps, 
> > nothing fancy.  Have they changed the agent to do
> > something new?
> > No one on my team is aware of anything you put
> into
> > menus or launch like 
> > Ciscoworks, but then, we are not in the forefront
> of
> > product development 
> > for other units.
> > 
> > James Shanks
> > Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and
> NT
> > Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Eric Pobst <epobst00@yahoo.com>
> > Sent by: owner-nv-l@tkg.com
> > 10/23/2001 04:44 PM
> > Please respond to IBM NetView Discussion
> > 
> > 
> >         To:     IBM NetView Discussion
> > <nv-l@tkg.com>
> >         cc: 
> >         Subject:        [NV-L] IBM Director
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Good Afternoon! Morning! Evening!
> > 
> > 
> > I was wondering if anyone had any insight on IBM
> > Director and its integration with NetView.  Just
> got
> > word a boat load of X-Series IBM servers were
> > heading
> > my way and thought IBM UMS Service Agent would fit
> > rather nicely...Anyone have any experience with
> > these
> > and any integration tips with NetView (Unix). 
> Looks
> > like they have the Upward integration with NT
> > NetView
> > well documented, but not much on UNIX.
> > 
> > thanks in advance.
> > Eric
> > 
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