I'd like to see it Jane, no rush. I won't be able to work on it until New Years
anyway.
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From: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com [mailto:owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com]On
Behalf Of Jane Curry
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 1:25 AM
To: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
Cc: Mike Odom; Becky Anderson
Subject: Re: [nv-l] servmon and itmquery in NV 7.1.4
OK - I have something that uses servmon and provides interface-level
icons that change colour depending on the service that servmon is
monitoring!
As Leslie suggested, it uses the APM and it is not completely
automatic. I will try and write it up, perhaps as a Redpiece or a
Tivoli Field Guide? If anyone really wants the bones of it fast, let me
know.
Cheers,
Jane
Jane Curry wrote:
> 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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