Re: [nv-l] trapgend setup

["Westphal, Raymond" <RWestphal@erac.com>]

OK - I admit it; I don't get this trapgend thing. I'm confused about the
conversion of the "hex error ids". I wrote a little Perl script to convert
the AIX hex error ids to decimal. Here's the output. AIX error ID on the
left is converted to the hex on the right. (I attached the label for
reference.) The hex calculator on Windows agrees with results. However, the
xnmtrap screen shows an existing OPMSG entry with -1433750975. 

AA8AB241 = 2861216321 (OPMSG)
4EE9D892 = 1323948178 (PHXENT_DOWN)
54E423ED = 1424237549 (SCSI_ERR9)
56CDC3C8 = 1456325576 (MACHINE_CHECK_CHRP)
5DFED6F1 = 1576982257 (JFS_FS_FRAGMENTED)
627A4F55 = 1652182869 (BADISK_ERR3)
684A365B = 1749694043 (JFS_META_CORRUPTION)

Will my rulesets work with my decimal values?

Thanks.

Ray Westphal
Enterprise Rent-A-Car






-----Original Message-----
From: jshanks@us.ibm.com [mailto:jshanks@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 9:30 AM
To: nv-l@lists.tivoli.com
Subject: Re: [nv-l] trapgend setup


Ray -

Your procedure is basically correct.

For any AIX system, you can obtain the errpt identifiers in use by issuing
        errpt -t
which gives you the current list of error templates, as they are called.
Be careful to check that they are the same on each server.  When AIX wants
to add more information to a template they just create a new one and issue
that rather than alter the old one. The numbers for CORE_DUMP , for
example, have changed between AIX 3.2.5, AIX 4.1, and AIX 4.3.3.  Each
version of the OS add more information to the record, so each one issues a
different template , with a different number, for the same condition.

Once you have a list of templates you want trapgend to alert on , you must
make them alertable.  To see which ones are already, you would issue:
        errpt -tF alert=1
If you have more than what are there already, you must tell AIX to add the
ones you want.
For example, if you wanted to have OPMSG (the errlogger command result) be
alertable, then you would get its number AA8AB241 from errpt -t, and then
type in:
     errupdate       (press enter)
     = AA8AB241:     (press enter)
     Alert=TRUE      (press enter; then  either continue with " = <the
next number>:" or ctrl-d ctrl-d to quit.
Now AIX will notify trapgend when these errors are generated.  trapgend in
turn will send them as traps.

Finally, you would convert their hex error ids (e.g AA8AB241) to decimal
(2861216321)  and define those as specific trap ids under the NetView
subagent enterprise id (1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.4)  using xnmtrap on your NetView
box.


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






"Westphal, Raymond" <RWestphal@erac.com>
06/27/2002 04:17 PM


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        Subject:        [nv-l] trapgend setup



Hello Everyone.

NV 7.1.2 on AIX 4.3.3.

I'm trying to setup trapgend on my servers to notify me of hardware class
errors. Then I'd like to setup NetView rulesets to page me.

I know a few of the errors for which I'd like to see traps and page with
rulesets. For example:

IDENTIFIER               LABEL   SOFTWARE PROGRAM ERROR
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
5DFED6F1                 JFS_FS_FRAGMENTED               UNABLE TO
ALLOCATE SPACE IN FILE
SYSTEM
369D049B                 JFS_FS_FULL  UNABLE TO ALLOCATE SPACE IN
FILE SYSTEM
4865FA9B                 TAPE_ERR1  TAPE OPERATION ERROR
476B351D                 TAPE_ERR2  TAPE DRIVE FAILURE
499B30CC                 GXENT_LINK_DOWN ETHERNET DOWN

Does anybody have a list of the errpt identifiers that they can share?

Then I will need to convert the hex identifier to a decimal number and add
the trap and define ruleset. Correct?


Thanks.
Ray Westphal
Enterprise Rent-A-Car


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