Re: [nv-l] NetView Filter Files and NetView 7.1.3

[Milton.W.Bridges@kp.org]

FYI:  IP Address ranges (ie, 10.10.10.1-2) do NOT work with filters.  Implied wildcard and specific IP Addresses do work!

-Milt

Milton W. Bridges III
Network Automation Systems Programmer
Kaiser Permanente IT National Operations
Enterprise Automation Services, Design and Engineering
(909)739-5339
8-395-5339

Milton W Bridges/CA/KAIPERM@Kaiperm Sent by: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com 11/24/2003 09:54 AM Please respond to nv-l

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All I can do is try :-)  I'll keep you posted. 

Thanks for the advice. 

-Milt

Milton W. Bridges III
Network Automation Systems Programmer
Kaiser Permanente IT National Operations
Enterprise Automation Services, Design and Engineering
(909)739-5339
8-395-5339

James Shanks <jshanks@us.ibm.com> Sent by: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com 11/24/2003 09:26 AM Please respond to nv-l

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Why not just try it? 
Or did you already? 

As you noted before, this is not supported by the GUI, but then neither are wildcards. 

I'm afraid I don't have time to do it myself, nor spend the afternoon looking thru the code trying to determine whether it is fully supported or not, but I can tell you that I have seen customer filter files with entries in them like this: 

RuleContent=!((CLASS=1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.3 && ((SNMP_SPECIFIC=1001) || (SNMP_SPECIFIC=1002) || (SNMP_SPECIFIC=1003) 
|| (SNMP_SPECIFIC=1004) || (SNMP_SPECIFIC=58916871)))) && !((IP_ADDR=22.[0-9].15[0-2].*) 
|| (IP_ADDR=22.[0-9][0-9].15[0-2].*) || (IP_ADDR=22.[0-9][0-9][0-9].15[0-2].*) || 
(IP_ADDR=22.[0-9].5[0-4].*) || (IP_ADDR=22.[0-9][0-9].5[0-4].*) || (IP_ADDR=22.[0-9][0-9][0-9].5[0-4].*) 
|| (IP_ADDR=22.[0-9].5[6-9].*) || (IP_ADDR=22.[0-9][0-9].5[6-9].*) || (IP_ADDR=22.[0-9][0-9][0-9].5[6-9].*))   

Whether this works well or not, that I cannot tell you.   But you ought to be able to come up with a simpler test case.

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

Milton.W.Bridges@kp.org Sent by: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com 11/24/2003 11:53 AM Please respond to nv-l

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I'm trying to filter by specific ranges, and not wildcard networks.  This is due to our networks being split by location, and I would like to create filter accordingly.  Is that possible? 

Thanks 

-Milt

Milton W. Bridges III
Network Automation Systems Programmer
Kaiser Permanente IT National Operations
Enterprise Automation Services, Design and Engineering
(909)739-5339
8-395-5339