Re: [nv-l] The use of HTTP for node up/down instead of ping or snmp?

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

NetView is an SNMP manager first and
foremost.
The short answer is that there is no
such option, so you would have to build something of your own to monitor
these boxes, as netmon will not discover them.

How you might do that will depend greatly
on whether you are on Windows or UNIX, and on the capabilities of the boxes
themselves.

On UNIX, NetView offers a complete programming
toolkit for non-ip topology and manuals on how to utilize it.  That
would give you a full-blown solution.  But it requires C/C++ programming
on your part.   Otherwise you might be able to rig something with
servmon and scripts.  

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

larry.pytlik@clorox.com
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02/19/2004 06:06 PM

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Subject	[nv-l] The use of HTTP for node up/down instead of ping or snmp?

How do I configure Netview to use HTTP for node up/down for a few "special"
network nodes? The particular nodes do not have SNMP and Ping is blocked
but http is allowed. 
 Our Netview version is 7.1.3FP02. 

Regards 
Larry Pytlik 
Clorox 
Network Engineering