RE: [nv-l] Creating custom fields in the ovwdb

["Pritesh Jewan" <Pritesh@aptronics.co.za>]

Oliver,

I should have been more clear on what I meant by interface description.
The info that the customer wants is custom interfaces information that
they enter for each interface. The info is available from the mib in:

.iso.org.dod.internet.private.enterprises.cisco.local.linterfaces.lifTab
le.lifEntry

on my particular test router, this will bring back

test interface serial1
128k link to internet solutions serial 2

The customer wants Netview to insert this info into the object database
upon discovery of a new router.

Is this possible?

Thanks and regards
Pritesh

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com [mailto:owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com]
On Behalf Of Oliver Bruchhaeuser
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 1:14 PM
To: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [nv-l] Creating custom fields in the ovwdb


Pritesh,

what MIB var do you refer to?

There are already by default "interface description's" in  the database:

-- iso(1). org(3). dod(6). internet(1). mgmt(2). mib-2(1).
interfaces(2).
ifTable(2). ifEntry(1). ifDescr(2)

-> Part of "Selection Name"

and

-- iso(1). org(3). dod(6). internet(1). mgmt(2). mib-2(1). ifMIB(31).
ifMIBObjects(1). ifXTable(1). ifXEntry(1). ifAlias(18)
=
-- iso(1). org(3). dod(6). internet(1). private(4). enterprises(1).
cisco(9). local(2). linterfaces(2). lifTable(1). lifEntry(1).
locIfDescr(28)
on Cisco Devices

-> "SNMP ifAlias"

Kind regards

Oliver Bruchhaeuser
Tivoli NetView EMEA L2 Support



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Hi List,


Environment: Netview for Linux V7.1.4


I have a requirement for a customer to create a field in the object
database for every interface in a router and populate this field with
the
Interface description from the router for each interface( this info is
available from the mib). This question has been asked before on the
forum.
The response was that you could either write a script to retrieve and
then
do a bulk import in the ovwdb using nvdbimport or create the field upon
discovering a new device and then insert the values for each interface.
I
would like to go the second route however I cannot seem to (after
reading
the Netview for unix programmers guide) understand the high level steps
that need to be carried out to achieve this. This is quite important as
the
customer is trying to replace another "network management product" since
they want to go the Tivoli route for network and systems monitoring and
I
would appreciate if someone can share their ideas on how to achieve
this.


Thanks and regards


Pritesh


Pritesh Jewan
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