[nv-l] was aixmib.my -- more about enterprises.ibm.4...

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

enterprises.ibm.4...
 is the major part of the OID for the NetView subagent for AIX, otherwise
known as trapgend.  If you see this when you snmpwalk the AIX box
then trapgend is installed and active on that box.

You have an ibm-nv6ksubagent.mib in
\usr\ov\snmp_mibs.  If you want to query elements on the subagent
MIB, I'd load that.

I found the aixmib.my on an AIX 5.2
box in  /usr/samples/snmpd.

You can load it, along with all the
all the other MIBs there, in NetView for Windows using either loadmibv2
or  mibloader.bat.
But to extract the trap definitions
out of it correctly you have to do some editing.  The MIBs in that
directory do not include the one that defines the ibmProd  tree structure.
 But  the   ibm-nv6ksubagent.mib  does.  So either
you have to make a big new MIB file, in which you concatenate aixmib.my
to the  ibm-nv6ksubagent.mib, and run mib2trap on the combination,
or you have to edit aixmib.my and add what's missing. Right after the 
the MODULE-IDENTITY statement , which
ends with 
         ::=
{ ibmProd 191 }

insert these two statements:

         ibm
                  OBJECT IDENTIFIER
::= { enterprises 2 }
         ibmProd
             OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {
ibm 6 }

Then run mib2trap against the file,
specifying the name of a bat you want to be created for the addtrap commands
to go.  Then when you execute that file, the traps will be added.

But whether you can get AIX to send
them to you, and in SNMP V1 format is another matter.
To receive SNMP V2 trapd, you would
have to be using NetView for UNIX.   Why not find a nice AIX box to
put it on?   


James Shanks
Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
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James Shanks/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS
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03/08/2004 09:16 AM

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nv-l

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Subject	Re: [nv-l] aixmib.my

Where did you get aixmib.my?  If the rest us knew what the source
was, perhaps someone else could try it. 

The rest of your questions betray some kind of misunderstanding about MIBs
and traps. 

First, there are three mibloaders and browsers in NetView for Windows.
 Only two of those will support SNMP V2 MIBs, and usually, a MIB file
name of ".my" is for SNMP V2.  You can probably load such
a MIB with loadmibv2 or the java loader for the web client, mibloader.bat.
 Once loaded you can browser it with browserv2 or the java browser
for the web client, mibbrowser,bat. 

Second, loading MIBs has little to do with traps.  In order for the
contents of the MIB to be used to format a trap, you must first run mib2trap
on the MIB file, and then run the output bat file it creates to add the
trap to NetView.  This  does not happen automatically.

Finally, the agent on your AIX box must send his traps in SNMP V1 format.
You can receive any SNMP V1 trap using the NetView for Windows product,
but NetView for Windows does not support  SNMP V2 traps at all.  They
will be discarded and never show up in the Event Browser.  If you
don't know which the agent will send, you could direct it to send to NetView
anyway.  If you see something in the Event Browser from that agent,
then you can use mib2trap to format it, if you like.



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

lucian.vanghele@bisnet.ro
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03/08/2004 06:03 AM

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nv-l

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Subject	[nv-l] aixmib.my

hi there list!
does anyone succesufully imported aixmib.my in netview (7.1.3 on windows)?
can I use it to receive some traps? also do you know what is
enterprises.ibm.4... ? I can't see this branch in web console mib browser
but if I walk on ibm branch I have lots of oids starting with this.
thanks..
Lucian