Well, you have confirmed my view of this, Jane. nvserverd has no code to
prohibit any particular hostname. It should just be using whatever it
found. My suspicion is that it is having difficulty with the resolution,
though why I don't know.
As a test, I'd suggest using an snmptrap of a NetView event , with a
failing "dashed" hostname in varbind 2. I'll bet it gets formatted
correctly and sent to TEC.
Then an snmptrap of the arcServetrapHigh with that same hostname as the origin.
James Shanks
Level 3 Support for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
Jane Curry <jane.curry@skills-1st.co.uk>
Sent by: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
12/22/2003 11:53 AM
Please respond to nv-l
To: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
cc:
Subject: Re: [nv-l] Sending events to TEC - hostname missing
(sometimes)
That's strange. I have NV 7.1.4 and TEC 3.8 FP1 on AIX 5.1 ML03 and I am
getting hostname fields OK. I have events from
group-100-win.skills-1st.co.uk - hyphens in both the node part of the
name and in the domain name......
My NetView and TEC are on the same box so definitely using the same
DNS..... TEC looks like the thing we have at very differnet versions???
Cheers,
Jane
Bernard Disselborg wrote:
>Did some additional digging. The problem seems to be related to hostname
>syntax. Hostnames containing only letters andigits are shown OK.
>Hostnames containing underscores are shown OK. Hostname containing
>dashes are not shown.
>
>host1.abc.nl OK
>host_1.abc.nl OK
>host-1.abc.nl not shown
>
>According to standards (RFC1912) letters, digits and '-' are the only
>allowed characters, where the underscore is not.
>
>I will call support on this.
>
>Bernard
>
>
>
>
>
>>>>BDisselborg@triple-p.nl 19-12-2003 17:41:08 >>>
>>>>
>>>>
>Hello,
>
>Environment:
>NetView 7.1.4 on AIX 433, TEC 3.7.1 on AIX 433.
>
>NetView is configured to forward specific traps to TEC.
>
>I have the following problem:
>A trap coming from node A in the network is forwarded to TEC with the
>hostname field empty.
>The same trap coming from node B in the network is forwarded to TEC
>with the hostname field filled as expected.
>
>The output of wtdumprl on the TEC server shows the following:
>
>hostname field empty:
>arcServetrapHigh;source=nvserverd;sub_source=A;origin=100.237.2.21;
>adapter_host=netview.abc.nl;hostname= ;category=1;date="12/19/03
>15:08:14";
>status=OPEN;msg="pc-bernard ARCserve: just testing "
>
>hostname field ok:
>arcServetrapHigh;source=nvserverd;sub_source=A;origin=100.240.1.2;
>adapter_host=netview.abc.nl;hostname=server.location.abc.nl;category=1;date="12/19/03
>15:05:53";
>status=OPEN;msg="pc-bernard ARCserve: just testing "
>
>Sniffer output shows that the NetView TEC adapter leaves the hostname
>field empty for the problem systems.
>
>The behaviour is consistent: there is a group of systems showing the
>problem and some other not.
>
>Name resolution is OK on NetView (configured as secondary server) and
>TEC system.
>
>On NetView hostnames are always shown correctly (event viewer and in
>trapd.log).
>
>Any thoughts on this ?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Bernard
>
>
>
>
>
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