Re: [nv-l] Netview Not logging Novell/Netware traps

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

There is no magic button.  
What evidence do you have that there are Novell traps actually arriving at the NetView box?
Do you a snoop or iptrace to prove it?  Perhaps they are being stopped somewhere along the way.

You can trace the traps coming into trapd by following this procedure.  Use serversetup to set the trapd options  to "Hex dump all packets received/sent by trapd", which will cause trapd  to run with the -x option.  Then  you can toggle the trapd trace on and off as you please by issuing "trap -T" from the command line.  By default the data goes to /usr/OV/log/trapd.trace.  If trapd gets anything, even an invalid trap, will be shown in the trace.

Since you have not configured the traps, when they arrive the will be displayed with a message that says "NO FMT FOUND" in the trapd.log.  

Could you be using an MLM somewhere as a trap concentrator?  Then his trap destination table would have to be modified to send the additional traps.

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

"Nivaldo Moura" <MOURAN@stgeorge.com.au> Sent by: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com 11/19/2003 09:25 PM Please respond to nv-l

To:        <nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com>         cc:                 Subject:        Re: [nv-l] Netview Not logging Novell/Netware traps

Thanks for replying Laurie,
        No configuration at all.
         I've used MIB2TRAP and ADDTRAP utils. They both  worked OK. No categories or other 'particulars' have been changed.
         The thing is that I cannot see any Novell/Netware entries in the trapd.log
          The trapd daemon config allows me only to specify the log file name and YES/NO to the logging activity. In my understanding it would have to,  at least, log the incoming traps!.
cheers,
Nivaldo

>>> laurie.gellatly@netic.com 20/11/2003 12:18:23 pm >>>
Hello World! [With apologies to C and John Laws ;{) ].
Into which category have you configured these unseen traps?

...Laurie :{)

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> Hello World!
>        Could someone please help me on this?
>        My Netview 7.1.3 - Patch 1 - Solaris 8 - seems not to be 
logging
> any of the Novell/Netware traps although 
> I have loaded all available Novell/Netware/GroupWise MIBs and all 
their
> traps to Netview.
>        The NW file servers in question have been changed to send traps
> to the Netview machine and still we can not see 
> anything on the trapd.log ! (It is a plain Netview installation with no
> policies or filters). 
>        Has anybody out there bumped into this situation? Do I have to
> press any specific "button" to have those traps logged?
>        Thanks for any Help,
> Nivaldo
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