Re: [nv-l] How to populate hostname in TEC slot mapping

[Jane Curry <jane.curry@skills-1st.co.uk>]

Thanks James - $AGENT_ADDR does indeed get the IP address of the agent 
with problems.  We get the same value mapped to the TEC origin field (by 
default, it appears).  This is useful info but I'd still like a real 
hostname, resolved the way NetView resolves everything else.  Otherwise 
I can't look for duplicates in TEC if some events are for a hostname of 
poppet.skills-1st.co.uk and some have a hostname of 10.0.0.100!
Cheers,
Jane

James Shanks wrote:

> Jane -
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> I took a quick look in the code and I think the man page left out the 
> option you are looking for.
> Try $AGENT_ADDR in your slot map in trapd.conf and see whether that 
> gives you what you want.  I can see where we pull it, but I cannot 
> tell whether it gets resolved or not later on.
> James Shanks
> Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
> Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
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> I am using the xnmtrap GUI where everything gets configured.  The middle
> boxes specify the TEC class to map a TRAP to and the TEC slot mapping.  
> It is the TEC slot mapping where I want access to a hostname variable.  
> I know I can use $COMMUNITY, $ENTERPRISE, $SOURCE_TIME, $TYPE, $SPECIFIC
> and $V1 - 15 .  NetView enterprise TRAPs generally have the second TRAP
> varbind as the hostname so for that I could use $V2 but many TRAPs don't
> include the "host with the problem" as a TRAP varbind - it's part of the
> SNMP/UDP/IP header after all and NetView obviously knows where it came
> from because he always displays it in the event workspace and make it
> available as the $A variable if you want to configure an action in the
> bottom box of the xnmptrap application.
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> Does that make sense?
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> Cheers,
> Jane
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> > I'm confused Jane.
> > Where are you trying to specify the variable?  In trapd.conf?  In the
> > ruleset itself?  
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> > Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
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> > I want  be able to populate the hostname TEC slot for any generic TRAP
> > that NetView is configured to forward to TEC.    Default events in
> > TEC_ITS.rs seem to get hostname populated automatically.  If I wsa
> > configuring a NetView TRAP for automatic action, I'd use $A for the
> > machine that sent the TRAP.  Is there an equivalent environment variable
> > to use for slot mapping.  I've tried $HOSTNAME and $A to no avail.
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