Hi Karl,
Welcome to the "we want full support for MLM from Windows and Linux" club!
The only formal doc for MLM is the MLM manual that I don't believe has
been updated for many years and says virtually nothing about MLM on
Windows (though generally the MLM functionality on Windows and Unix is
very similar - the readme with the Windows MLM gives a section on
differences and I believe discovery algorithms is one of those).
The big difference is how you manage an MLM from NetView, and NetView on
Windows or Linux is not a good answer! The good news is that, provided
you have the MLM SNMP agent setup to permit read/write access from a
NetView (any NetView - in fact anything that can send SNMP SETs), you
can configure the MLM with SNMP SETs. It's a bit like doing assembler
programming, but it is possible.
Your other option, if you have coommand line access to your MLM, is to
manually edit the MLM config file and bounce the MLM - also not nice but
we are probably up to "programming in Algol" level.
You should certainly be able to get a Windows MLM to do data collecting
and thresholding - I've got one (albeit configured with the APM facility
of NV on AIX) - that's the main MLM table I tend to use.
I'm pretty certain the last MLM drop was with NV 7.1.3 - certainly there
weas no MLM with NV 7.1.3 FP1.
I don't think a W2K NetView would buy you anything by way of
functionality to help with MLM - same issues as Linux - no smconfig and
no APM.
There is the concept of an attended MLM which is NV for Windows and MLM
on the same box. The idea is that you have a local NetView that users
can run up the GUI on and that NetView also forwards stuff to a higher
level NetView. I certainly don't know many people using this.....
IBM / Tivoli - we seem to have had a bit of a run recently on bringing
the NV on Linux up to the full NV on Unix spec...........!!!!!!!!!
Cheers,
Jane
Karl Prinelle wrote:
Hi list,
I'm having a poke around with MLM's in a lab & need a few pointers -
alternatively it could just be Friday brain fade...
Environment: My lab has a Linux Netview 7.1.3+fp1 and w2k MLM.
Netview reports that the MLM is up so I've obviously done something
right (!)
Questions:
1. Can anyone point me to any docs on mlm for NT? I'm using the MLM
Users guide, but it only mentions installing it & using a supported
unix to manage it through smconfig. When I browsed the MLM mib
initially I noticed comments about "Netview for NT not installed,
discovery and thresholding not available" which doesn't sound great.
From the docs it seems I can delegate all this stuff?
2. I know there is no MLM support for Linux, but I'm not clear about
the detail of that statement. Does this mean I can't use snmpset
(since there is no smconfig) from a Linux netview to configure an NT
MLM & have that NT MLM take on management functions in the same way it
would if I had an AIX Netview? If I can't then that would make my lab
a well flogged dead horse ;-)
3. I've noticed comments in the MLM mib tables about discovery sensor
is not supported on NT, but any kind of restricted functionality
doesn't seem to be mentioned in the docs - have I been reading with my
eyes closed again or are there restrictions?
4. Is there a fp1 for the mlm? Maybe a magic switch on the fp1
installer to extract that bit??
5. Would I get more out of my NT MLM if I had a full w2k Netview on
the MLM machine - sounds a little odd to me but nonetheless possible..
Any help appreciated....
K
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