Hi Larry,
I'm in the middle of writing a script that will be responsible for
testing "basic functionality" of all our production Windows and Unix
boxes. The systems will be tested using a combination of Samba and
sshquery.pl. Our thinking is that when a basic function check fails
it would send a trap to the Netview management server causing another
product we are using to do network correlation. The function checks
run in parallel with the normal SNMP and ICMP checks that Netview
does. It would be easy enough to do something similar in your
situation, you could group all your "HTTP" servers in a smartset and
then use a script to list the items in the smartset and run "checks"
against them (A quick shell script doing a wget would be easy
enough). If this check fails then you could send a trap to Netview.
In my case I'm using Coordinator from Magnum Technologies to handle
the correlation of network related problems, but someone on this list
might know of a way to integrate the TRAP into an event that Netview
could do something with. In my cause I only need to notify
Coordinator, but I would love to also manipulate the color of the
symbol if the function check fails.... this is a future goal :)
Hope this gives you some ideas.
Jason
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ping or snmp ?
That is unfortunate, we are trying to replace "What's UP Gold"
network monitor which does this type of monitoring and fold this
function it into Netview, (UNIX). I would like to hear from
anyone who has implemented HTTP node up/down using Netview in a
UNIX environment.
Regards
Larry Pytlik
Clorox
Network Engineering
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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
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Subject [nv-l] The use of HTTP for node up/down instead of ping
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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