I have tested this in the lab and got it working but I certainly
wouldn't say I had stress-tested it in production.
DB2 RIMs are tricky. Here's the way I have it.
Create an Op Sys user, db2inst1, password ibmdb2. Make sure you can
login with it. Ditto a user db2as. Make /home/db2 the home directory
of db2inst1. Install DB2 as this user which creates a db2 instance
called dbinst1. Add the db2inst1 userid as a login to a
well-privileged Tivoli Administrator.
You need to manually create the RIM for NetView - I do this as
db2inst1. In the example, my rim host is poppet.skills-1st.co.uk. The
-d is the database - this should be netview. The -u is the user with
which you installed db2 - that's my db2inst1. The -H says where is the
base directory of your DB2 installation. -S TCPIP seems to be standard.
-I is the home directory of the user that installed db2. I believe in
db2-speak (which I speak badly!) this is the instance home ie. the
home base directory in which your instance and databases sit. The final
netview is the name of your rim object.
wcrtrim -v DB2 -h poppet.skills-1st.co.uk -d netview -u db2inst1 -H
/usr/lpp/db2_07_01 -s TCPIP -I /home/db2 netview
You will be asked for a password - that's the password for your -u user
so I use ibmdb2.
Check with wrimtest -l netview
Once you have installed the NetView Database code, change to
/usr/OV/scripts and run serversetup to configure relational databases,
this creates the file /usr/OV/conf/dbconf.dat. If you edit this file,
it has a line specifying the RIM - in my example it will originally say
netview@poppet.skills-1st.co.uk. I always edit this line to remove the
hostname - the RIM line should be exactly the same as your rim object,
ie netview.
In summary, very tricky but it is possible to make it work. Feel free
to come back to me if you want.
Cheers,
Jane
Scott Hammons wrote:
Hi listers,
Has anyone experienced any issues with using DB2 to store the IP
Topology, trapdlog and snmp collect data?
Also, according to the database guide the user id should be changed
to the name of the machine where NetView is installed. Is this
correct? Additionally, the example of the RIM object shows a user of
NetView. This would lead me to believe the userid should be NetView
not the name of the machine.
Experiences (good or bad) are appreciated.
Thanks,
Scott
Scott Hammons
Senior Consultant
Advanced Integrated Solutions, Inc.
www.ais-nms.com <http://www.ais-nms.com>
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