This is very interesting and this is what I have been trying to do with
nvsniffer for a long time without success (I am using Netview on AIX and
the part about showing the services in the GUI is missing)
I just tried to install the MLM on my server and I see in the readme file:
" - Support for following operating system platforms: AIX
4.3.3.10 and greater but not AIX V5"
is there no MLM for AIX 5 ? is it something that will be available in the
futur ?
Thanks,
Salutations, / Regards,
Francois Le Hir
Network Projects & Consulting Services
IBM Global Services
Phone: (514) 205 6695
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 18:33:44 +0100
To: "Barr, Scott" <Scott_Barr@csgsystems.com>,
NetView mailing list <nv-l@lists.tivoli.com>
From: Jane Curry <jane.curry@skills-1st.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [nv-l] Content Swtich Monitoring
Message-ID: <3EA6CE78.4070001@skills-1st.co.uk>
If you have NetView, you have MLM, though I appreciate that doesn't mean
to say that you use it! I often install an MLM on NetView explicitly
to give me the functionality that you want.
The Agent Policy Manager (APM) is an app off the Tools menu and gives
you a way to customise something very similar to the Data Collection and
Thresholds app. So, you will need to specify a name (the bit that will
go after the hostname: in the new TRAP that you so rightly surmise will
be created with snmptrap - I think Leslie added an append with this).
You also specify to APM the MIB variable to collect - we don't care
about this as what we really want is the icon that we can control via a
different TRAP. I use .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3 which is sysUpTime which I poll
once every 42 days (why not?), with a threshold >1 and a rearm < 1 - as
I say, you don't care about this but it has to be a legal OID.
The good bit is that you get to specify a SmartSet as the target for
this Policy - otherwise you would have to hand-create all the icons
individually. When you distribute, APM (which is implemented as the c5d)
works out which MLMs to send this policy to to include all the
destinations in your SmartSet. If you only have 1 MLM co-located with
your NetView, that's the guy that will do your nominal data collection
polling.
Don't forget to start your APM c5d daemon from serversetup Configure
menu - it's not started by default. After you have restarted your NV
GUI you should see 2 new top-level icons, 1 for APM and 1 for MLMs. You
don't really care about either but it is a good confirmation that c5d is
configured.
When you distribute your policy, every node in the SmartSet you
specified should have a new icon with the policy name you gave -
obviously you can have lots of different ones if you want to monitor
lots of services. Once you've got the icons, you really don't care
about MLM and APM again.
I attach my little gen_user2_trap.sh which I use from Tivoli DM to do
exactly the same sort of thing you want. In my script, I assume that
the APM you created was called Tivoli_DM. Although the description of
the change status trap doesn't say so, you can pass all sorts of stuff
on the trap varbind3 as you can see.
Cheers,
Jane
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