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James,
I am
not using Netview for Windows. I just want to make sure I am performing all the
steps necessary for enabling Netview to receive traps from other applications
for forwarding to TEC.
Allow
me to reinterate the steps I have taken:
- Integrated the traps and built the barocs from the vendor supplied
MIB
- Integrated the barocs into TEC (we will write the rules for the
correlation we desire)
I am
confused on how to configure Netview to receive traps on a community string
other than public. The next thing I would like to be able to do is test Netview
to make sure it is indeed processing traps received.
I hope
made my interrogative with a bit more clarity.
Again
thanks in advance! :-)
J.T. Edwards
Sr. Systems
Programmer
Enterprise Systems
Management
Waste Management Incorporated
"Proud Sponsor of NASCAR"
Office: (713)265-1294
Mobile: (832)457-5239
I find your confusion even more puzzling than you do.
(1) Your NetView for Windows (from
your description I assume that's what you are on) does not care what community
string is in the trap. It will receive log and display them all.
You can filter them out of your event browser view if you want, but
that's all.
(2) A
proxy is not usually needed. If the device is SNMP-capable and can send
it's own traps, you just configure them to send them to the address of your
NetView box. If these things are not SNMP-capable, then how would you
even get their proprietary traps to the proxy? Perhaps you should
explain in some more detail just what kinds of devices you are talking
about.
(3) By default the
NetView for Windows TEC adapter will only send NetView traps to TEC. To
change that you have to modify the config files which control it. They
are in \usr\ov\conf and are named tecad_nv6k.xxx. You have to modify the
OID file to tell the adapter what to collect, the CDS file to map what is
collected into a TEC event, and the CONF file to tell the adapter which
entries in the CDS you want to use at this particular time. My advice is
to obtain the Event Adapters Guide that ships with your version of TEC and
read about adapters in general and how t configure these files. The
NetView for Windows adapter is a port of the OpenView adapter for UNIX which
ships with TEC, so read about how it works and you'll have an understanding of
how the Windows adapter works.
The
only way you can filter which devices can send you events to send to TEC would
be to create a smartset which contains them. The Windows adapter allows
filtering by smartset after all the other selection is done. This is
described in the NetView documentation.
Hope this helps
James Shanks
Level 3 Support for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and
Windows
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
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Greetings all,
My knowledge of
setting up Netview for SNMP traps is quite fuzzy and I need some
clarification.
I want to setup Netview to receive SNMP
traps from several vendors' MIBs and forward them on to TEC.
I have:
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