Re: Managing Netware servers via NetView

["James Shanks" <jshanks@us.ibm.com>]

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As far as I know, all the problems you personally reported to Support have 
been fixed, the last ones in 6.0.3.

The biggest cause of those problem seems to have been that Novell wrote 
their MIBs to format traps in a particular way on some version of 
OpenView, using facilities which NetView did not support.  If you want the 
latest mib2trap executable you can get that from Support.  That should 
provide the most readable versions of their traps you can get, given that 
NetView does not support such syntax as $%x  and $%n to cause substitution 
from other files. 

But I am not certain why you are still looking.  Once you get one 
trapd.conf which looks and acts the way you want it, you can just ftp it 
to another NetView and run nvaddtrapdconf to have it merged with the one 
on the target box.    So even if you got around problems in the past by 
formatting their traps one at a time, there is no reason to do it again. 

As for loading MIBs, I am not aware of any V1 Netware MIBs we don't load, 
and in 6.0.3, the V1/V2 loader will support all V2 MIB constructs except 
"Agent Capabilities".   But then I have only tried the ones people have 
sent me via Support calls.
 

James Shanks
Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
 





"Alec Himwich" <HIMWICH@qualexphoto.com>
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I have had very mixed success getting Novell MIBs to compile on NetView 
and slightly less success with formatting their traps.  Has any one 
discovered a good source of "clean" Novell MIBs and trap definitions.

Any suggestions/comments/thoughts are eagerly sought.

Thanks in advance,

Alec Himwich



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As far as I know, all the problems you personally reported to Support have been fixed, the last ones in 6.0.3.

The biggest cause of those problem seems to have been that Novell wrote their MIBs to format traps in a particular way on some version of OpenView, using facilities which NetView did not support.  If you want the latest mib2trap executable you can get that from Support.  That should provide the most readable versions of their traps you can get, given that NetView does not support such syntax as $%x  and $%n to cause substitution from other files.   

But I am not certain why you are still looking.  Once you get one trapd.conf which looks and acts the way you want it, you can just ftp it to another NetView and run nvaddtrapdconf to have it merged with the one on the target box.    So even if you got around problems in the past by formatting their traps one at a time, there is no reason to do it again. 

As for loading MIBs, I am not aware of any V1 Netware MIBs we don't load, and in 6.0.3, the V1/V2 loader will support all V2 MIB constructs except "Agent Capabilities".   But then I have only tried the ones people have sent me via Support calls.
 

James Shanks
Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group

"Alec Himwich" <HIMWICH@qualexphoto.com> Sent by: owner-nv-l@tkg.com 12/13/2001 04:41 PM Please respond to IBM NetView Discussion

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I have had very mixed success getting Novell MIBs to compile on NetView and slightly less success with formatting their traps.  Has any one discovered a good source of "clean" Novell MIBs and trap definitions.

Any suggestions/comments/thoughts are eagerly sought.

Thanks in advance,

Alec Himwich



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