Re: [nv-l] Cisco CSS + netview

[James Shanks <jshanks@us.ibm.com>]

All the traps will arrive in NetView, whether you have configured them in trapd.conf or not, provided that the Cisco boxes have been configured to send them.  So you can still monitor them.

All we are talking about here is giving trapd some guidelines about how you want the traps displayed.  If he has none, then he will issue a "trap found with no fmt" message which contains all the information about the trap itself.  It has the enterprise id, the generic and specific ids, the MIB OIDs of all the variables and the contents of each variable.  This is exactly the same information that you get by default with mib2trap.  It is just presented differently.  With mib2trap, the default format  says  -F "$E $G $S $# args: $*" , which is exactly the same, only without the "trap found with no fmt" clause in it.

So even if mib2trap isn't working, you can still format each trap the way you would like when it comes in.  Most people don't care for the mib2trap default display and do this anyway even after running mib2trap.

But if you are having trouble with mib2trap, and want to use it, why not describe the problems you had encountered and see whether someone can help you with it?  What MIBs did you use it on?  Do they have TTRAP-TYPE or NOTIFICATION-TYPE statements in them?  These define traps so they must be there or mib2trap has nothing to go on.  Did you get some error message about the input MIB?

And please tell us what operating system and level of NetView you are using because these thing work differently on Windows versus UNIX, and perhaps differently with the maintenance level.

James Shanks
Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group

Tom Hallberg <gimli@hhcrew.tk> 09/15/2003 10:06 AM

To:        nv-l@lists.tivoli.com         cc:                 Subject:        [nv-l] Cisco CSS + netview

Hi

Im looking for some info about CSS + netview.

I have downloaded all mibs from our css boxes and tryed to run mib2trap on
them. But it didnt work as well I hoped :(

So does anyone got info on how to get the trap definition on CSS 11500 and
11056 so that I can monitor all traps that comes from them to netview.

Thank you

/Tom

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