I am having another go at these new NV 7.1.4 features and I am really
struggling. Before I start raising calls with support, I would
appreciate any input or clarification from anyone else working with them....
servmon can be used a s a straight replacement for nvsniffer and, as a
port sniffer, I have no issues on a Windows platform. SmartSets get
created and populated; object fields get created and set; service icons
are created at the interface level for each node that supports the
service - business as usual. On Unix NetView (tested AIX and Linux so
far), everything works other than service icons at the interface level.
From the documentation, I believe that this
service-icons-at-interface-level stuff should also work on Unix, but it
doesn't. I believe Scott Barr has already opened PMR13988 to cover this
- anyone else have comments?
It is where servmon and itmquery are used together that things seem very
strange. I can cope with the itm_servers.conf file, though I feel more
documentation is required as to what exactly the userid and password are
used for? I am guessing that this is for authentication as a Tivoli
Administrator???
The itm_attributes.conf file has 2 fields - the first is a user
specified product name; the second is a pattern matching field. My
understanding is that either servmon or the itmquery command then talks
to the Managed Nodes that are running ITM, that you have configured in
itm_servers.conf, using the userid and password configured, and
presumably does something like a wdmlseng to find out what ITM Resource
Models (RMs) are distributed to what Endpoints (not sure that these RMs
actually have to be active or anything....). I have added a line in
itm_attributes.conf with:
Standard_ITM| ^DMX.*$
This picks up any standard Unix resource models and itmquery shows that
the appropriate endpoints are indeed running the appropriate RMs.
The last part of the comments in itm_attributes.conf is where I really
lose it! It says that if you want to take the next step and have
servmon automatically set a capability...... set up a line like
this..... I have added a line in servmon.conf to match my
itm_attributes.conf:
isStandard_ITM|Standard_ITM|Standard_ITM|Standard_ITM_Label|/usr/OV/jars/nv_itm.jar@com.tivoli.netview.itm.servmon.DiscoveryMonitor||*|0
This sample line in itm_attributes.conf, which is pretty well a
duplicate of the lines provided for WAS, DB2 and MQ in servmon.conf,
ONLY creates an attribute field and runs a discovery Java script. No
SmartSet is created; no status checking is done. The comments in
itm_attributes.conf rather coyly say that servmon does NOT automatically
create a smartset for service attributes. My experience having tried an
entry that DOES specify a Smartset and SmartSet label is that creation
of such a smartset is actively prevented!! If you do manually create a
SmartSet using the SmartSet editor in Unix, based on
isStandard_ITM=TRUE, then you get a SmartSet but you certainly don't get
a service icon at the interface level. So far, I have totally failed to
manually create such a SmartSet with my NetView on Windows!
What is the point of this thing if you cannot create SmartSets and you
cannot do periodic status monitoring??????
There is no documantation (that I have found) for these Java scripts
that servmon uses for discovery - I hate "black box" stuff with no
information!
Anyone else got more information????
Cheers,
Jane
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