You assumptions are getting you down. Or is it that you are trying to
make NetView work like OpenView? They are different.
Perhaps it would be better if elaborated more about your problem. What
solution are you talking about?
To state the basics: In NetView
trapd reads two files on start-up, one is the SNMP V1 MIB binary file,
/usr/OV/conf/snmpmib.bin, and the other is the trap definition file,
trapd.conf.
So there is no connection to the MIB Browser. The V1 MIB browser
(xnmbrowser) reads the same file, as well as the text file of the loaded
MIBs, /usr/OV/conf/snmpmib. Get it? All that trapd and the browser have
in common is that they both load the same file (they also load different
ones, too) to carry out their specific functions.
Unless the formatting defined for a trap in trapd.conf requires that the
MIB be read in order to provide a label for the OID in the format, there
is no reference made to the MIB binary file at all. When $* is specified,
all the varbinds given in the trap are displayed in name-type: value
stings (as trapd.conf will tell you). This means that they will be
displayed in order, numbered, and with as much of the MIB OID decoded as
possible preceding the actual value of that varbind.
I don't know what you mean by "ideal". If there are a lot of varbinds, as
there are in some agent traps, then yes, you have a very busy and hard to
read event card. I only recommend $* as a default, until you figure out
what variables you really want to display.
James Shanks
Level 3 Support for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
D T <dtmitre@yahoo.com>
08/08/2002 10:19 AM
To: nv-l@lists.tivoli.com
cc:
Subject: Re: [nv-l] Does NetView read enumerated variables?
Thanks James. Unfortunately I don't have access to IBM's internal forums.
So how does trapd.conf talk to the MIB browser. I am assuming that
trapd.conf receives a trap and with the oid it receives, sends it to the
MIB browser, in turn the MIB browser sends back the name-type, which can
be displayed by using the $*, but I haven't read anything on how
trapd.conf connects to the MIB browser. Is this correct? The solution
below would work, but would not be ideal when there could be 10 or more
items. Thanks.
David Todd
Tivoli Developer
Mitre Corporation
703.883.7291
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