PMR13988
ESR appears to be down this morning.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nv-l-digest@lists.us.ibm.com
[mailto:owner-nv-l-digest@lists.us.ibm.com]On Behalf Of Jane Curry
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 11:32 AM
To: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [nv-l] nvsniffer / servmon
Scott,
Could you send your PMR number and I will try and attach my call to it?
Cheers,
jane
Barr, Scott wrote:
>I do not get service icons on the node.
>
>I have opened a PMR. We waited for this feature and now that it's here, it's
>not usable and there is nothing in the docs to indicate it shouldn't work.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-nv-l-digest@lists.us.ibm.com
>[mailto:owner-nv-l-digest@lists.us.ibm.com]On Behalf Of Jane Curry
>Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 3:01 AM
>To: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
>Subject: Re: [nv-l] nvsniffer / servmon
>
>
>Hi Scott,
>We were having this debate only last week. I don't know the answers but
>I've inserted my guesses below. Anyone else know?
>
>BTW - do you get the service objects for your servmon services showing
>at the interface level of a node? I can't make this work on my AIX 5.1
>system. From reading the docs, I thought this was now supposed to work
>on Unix platforms as well as Win.
>
>Cheers,
>Jane
>
>Barr, Scott wrote:
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>>NetView v7.1.4 / Solaris 2.8
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>>Greetings. There is a new enhancement / replacement for nvsniffer
>>that I am having trouble getting to work. The concept is to detect
>>whether a particular TCP port is accepting connections and report an
>>event if it is not. It looks to me like servmon will now do this.
>>nvsniffer as I recall will discover but not monitor port level
>>applications.
>>
>>The problem is this:
>>
>>The servmon configuration requires that you specify what port the
>>application runs on and what smartset contains the nodes that are
>>considered "targets" for the servmon application.
>>I have a smartset created that has 3 Unix servers.
>>Each of the Unix servers has multiple instances of the software
>>running on multiple different ports.
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>You can put multiple ports in the servmon port field if you wanted a
>collection of everything running app XYZ
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>>Each of the Unix servers is multi-homed (4 physical and 12 virtual
>>addresses).
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>My guess here is that it uses the Selection Name of the devices and
>tests against whatever the DNS gives him as it's IP address - be
>interesting to know the real answer to this one...
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>>Each instance of the software is tied to a virtual address.
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>What does your DNS do with these virtual addresses????
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>>Each instance of the software uses one or more ports.
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>I doubt that servmon can tell you how many instances of the software are
>running - just whether there IS an instance running. Only way I can
>think of tackling this is to use discovery and status custom plugin
>modules to run scripts that do what you want. The issue is how you
>"talk" to each system as the scripts actually run on the NetView
>server. I've wondered about using rsh/ssh/rexec to do this but not
>actually tried yet....
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>>In my configuraiton, I specify I am interested on port 26001 (for
>>instance).
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>>Since the boxes are multi-homed, I don't think servmon can tell which
>>interface/IP address to probe for port 26001 activitiy
>>The creation of the smarset means that the nodes listed are the right
>>boxes, but not the right interfaces for activity on those ports.
>>
>>SO my question is - is servmon smart enough to figure out the traffic
>>is NOT on the interface that is resolved in DNS and thus located in my
>>smartset? Since servmon actually adds a field in ovwdb (field name
>>drivin by servmon.conf) I cannot specify an interface in the servmon
>>config or the smartset - only a node name since it doesn't appear to
>>add a field to an interface object, only to a node object.
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>>/Scott Barr/
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>>/Distributed Network Engineer/
>>
>>/CSG Systems Inc./
>>
>>/scott_barr@csgsystems.com/
>>
>>/Voice: 402-431-7939/
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>>/Fax: 402-431-7413/
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