RE: [nv-l] snmpcollect problems

[CMazon@commercebankfl.com]

Does the utility SNMPODUMP query only
the flat files? Or does it also query the SQL DB.  I am storing everything
in the SQL2000 server.  I ran the command but I notice that there
is not a lot of historical in it.  Only about 2 days worth.

I also heard that Tivoli Decision Support
has been replaced by another product?  Anyone know what that product
is?

NV 713-FP1/Win2k/SQL2000

Carlos

James Shanks <jshanks@us.ibm.com> Sent by: owner-nv-l-digest@lists.us.ibm.com 10/30/2003 01:40 PM Please respond to nv-l

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snmpcdmp is a port of the UNIX snmpColDump.  I have no experience
with it, but you will get the synatx displayed by just typing "snmpcdmp"
in a command window.

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

CMazon@commercebankfl.com Sent by: owner-nv-l-digest@lists.us.ibm.com 10/30/2003 01:35 PM Please respond to nv-l

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In windows there is a utility called snmpcdmp but i cannot find any documentation
on it as far as syntax or usage of it.  Does anyone know / have used
this utility?  I'm looking at the syntax for snmpodump but I do not
see anything any options to specify a specific node or to specify dates?
 Is there any way of doing this?

(Netview 7.1.3/FP1/Win2k) 

Carlos

"Erdey, Raymond M" <Raymond.M.Erdey@erac.com> Sent by: owner-nv-l-digest@lists.us.ibm.com 10/30/2003 11:20 AM Please respond to nv-l

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Are you able to export the data to a text file?  On AIX we use "snmpColDump".
 The exported data could then be pulled into a spreadsheet program,
like MS Excel, which could then graph the data.
 
Raymond Erdey 
System Administrator 
Network Management System Administration 
Email: raymond.m.erdey@erac.com
Web: http://www.geocities.com/rerdey/
-----Original Message-----
From: CMazon@commercebankfl.com [mailto:CMazon@commercebankfl.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 9:43 AM
To: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [nv-l] snmpcollect problems


Its funny you wrote this... I am not sure about #1 but I just spoke to
a Tivoli support  (5 mins ago) about #2 and he told me that the grapher
will only display data that has no breaks in the data collection and that
this is by design. I have the same environment as your customer.  I
am looking for an alternative to graph data for myself.  If anyone
out there as an alternative please post.

Thanks. 

Carlos

"Pritesh Jewan" <Pritesh@aptronics.co.za> Sent by: owner-nv-l-digest@lists.us.ibm.com 10/30/2003 03:17 AM Please respond to nv-l

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Hi List,

I have a customer who is managing about 50 Cisco routers. The one router is a Cisco 3600 series router and the rest of the routers are all small routers with +-4 interfaces. They are running Netview V7.1.3+FP1 on Windows 2000 Server. The server is a 2 way processor machine with 2 GIGs of RAM. I have set the box up to collect bandwidth utilization(BandwidthUtilHdx) on all routers serial interfaces and avgBusy on all routers.

There are two problems that I am having:

1)       I turned on tracing and I keep getting a large number of interfaces been deferred( Deferring snmp collection of BandwidthUtilHdx.1.17 on switch1) messages in the snmpcollect trace file. I opened a pmr and was asked to email support the trace file. They came back saying that if netview does not get a response from the device the collections would be deferred. However, the customer also has a test Netview box installed on Linux redhat 7.2 and is not seeing the same problem. Support said that the next step would be to sniff the network and see what was happening in the network. Has anyone else had this problem on Netview NT and managed to find a solution to prevent a high number of deferrals? SNMPCollect has been setup to write to flat files and sql. Collection intervals are set to 10mins and I have set the defer collections on down nodes to 10 min.

2)       When the customer does try to view data for a specific router through the graph data option in Netview the grapher only displays data from whenever it was last successfully collected. So if a deferral happened at 10:00am and all collections after that point are successful then the grapher would only display data from 10:00 am onwards. Even if the data before 10:00am was successfully collected it would not be displayed. Is this working as designed or am I missing something that can be configured?

Thank you

Pritesh

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