Mr. Qureshi,
There was no malice intended in my answer. I had no idea how this other
product works and therefore no idea what you wanted the trap to look like,
and since you did not indicate that you had already played with trapd
formatting, how was I to know that? In any case, no harm, no foul. I
now know what you want.
And I have already answered your question. As I said, trapd will not
display all the MIB labels of your MIB because you loaded your MIB with
xnmloadmib2, which loads into /usr/OV/conf/snmpv2mib.bin, and trapd only
loads /usr/OV/conf/snmpmib.bin, which is the V1-only MIB database. He
does not know about he other and there is no way to make him be aware of
it. That functionality is simply not part of the current product. To get
trapd to do what you want, you would have to load a V1 equivalent of the
MIB in question.
But there are no tools provided in NetView to convert MIB formats. Sorry,
but there never have been. So if you don't have a V1 version of the MIB,
or the vendor does not supply one, then you may simply be out of luck with
what you want to see. On the other hand, presumably, the OIDs of the trap
don't change so perhaps you could hard code the labels into the trap
format itself. Or you could get a book such as Perkins and Ellis,
Understanding SNMP MIBs, and convert the MIB yourself, by following their
directions. If you
like, I will post directions here when I get the chance, but it is a
labor-intensive edit process. Or perhaps you might choose to obtain a MIB
compiler such as SMICng off the web and try that as a conversion tool. But
without a V1 copy of the MIB, which you must get somewhere outside of
NetView, you cannot get trapd to display all the labels for those OIDs.
Sorry but that is the bottom line so far as I can see.
Hope this helps
James Shanks
Level 3 Support for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
"Qureshi, Fawad" <Fawad.Qureshi@ssa.gov>
08/21/2002 04:25 PM
To: nv-l@lists.tivoli.com
cc:
Subject: Re: [nv-l] SNMPv2 MIB and Trap definition file issue
for VCS
Though I appreciate your reply Mr. Shanks, I thought I had made myself
very
clear. My question was in no way general, but right to the point. I
already
know all that you wrote in your response, but it does not answer my
question. I did play with the parameters available for trapd.conf file,
but
to no avail (e.g. using $E $G $# etc. arguments with -F format statement).
Let me rephrase my question: A trap is generated by the Veritas VCS
software
(e.g. resource group failover -> OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.1302.3.8.10.2.2), this
trap is received into trapd.log file and only shows part of the
information
(like OID only going to X.X.1302.3.8.10). Same trap received in the
MG-SOFT's trap catcher (which is a nothing but basic diluted SNMP console)
shows all the right attributes just the way Netview should. So how do I
make
Netview recognize the right format? do I somehow need to convert the v2
trap
definition into v1? if yes, how? I need to tag on the whole OID through
xnmfault or ruleset to automate a page or email notification when this
specific trap is received.
BTW, this is not meant to be a complain, just a polite harmless question.
Fawad Qureshi
-----Original Message-----
From: Colson, Donna
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 3:50 PM
To: Qureshi, Fawad
Subject: FW: [nv-l] SNMPv2 MIB and Trap definition file issue for VCS
-----Original Message-----
From: James Shanks [mailto:jshanks@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 3:36 PM
To: nv-l@lists.tivoli.com
Subject: Re: [nv-l] SNMPv2 MIB and Trap definition file issue for VCS
I don't know how anyone could answer so general a question, without seeing
the difference between the two, but remember this:
trapd displays traps according to what is in his trapd.conf file. And
while mib2trap provides some default specification for traps, that is not
always optimum,
so you may have to play with that. Th options are given in the man page
for trapd.conf.
Never having see "MG-SOFT Trap Ringer" I wouldn't know how it displays
things or what kind of configuration file it uses to do so.
Even so, there is no guarantee that what it shows you and what trapd shows
you will be the same.
If what you are complaining about is that the trap variables are shown
with numeric OIDs rather than MIB object labels, then yes, that is an SNMP
V1 versus V2 issue. As I have explained in several appends this week,
trapd does not load the snmpv2mib.bin file, only /usr/OV/conf/snmpmib.bin,
so he does not know about anything you loaded with xnmloadmib2. To get
the MIB labels to display you would need to load an equivalent SNMP V1
version of the MIB with xnmloadmib, the V1-only loader.
Hope this helps
James Shanks
Level 3 Support for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
"Qureshi, Fawad" <Fawad.Qureshi@ssa.gov>
08/21/2002 02:59 PM
To: nv-l@lists.tivoli.com
cc:
Subject: [nv-l] SNMPv2 MIB and Trap definition file issue
for
VCS
AIX 4.3.3 Netview 7.1.1
I have loaded SNMPv2 MIB from Veritas for the Veritas Cluster Server
product
using xnmloadmib2. I used the mib2trap utility to extract trap definition
out of the provided vcs.mib file, which I then merged with trapd.conf file
using addtrap command.
I do see traps come in from VCS, but they are not displaying all relevant
information in the trapd.log file. If I catch these traps using MG-SOFT
Trap
Ringer, I see everyting the way I should. Is this a SNMPv2 vs. SNMPv1
problem?? or something else?
Thanks.
Cheers,
Fawad Qureshi
RSIS - DNE
410-965-4413
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