RE: [nv-l] Iintegration of HECL DirecWAY with Tivoli Netview

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

You have a sniffer trace which shows traps arriving at the NetView box but not shown in trapd.trace?
The only way that can be is if trapd is not the primary trap receiver. Do you have an MLM installed on the box too?
Optivity? Some other vendor? Remember that MLM can only handle SNMP V1 traps and will toss everything else as invalid, and even if the traps are V1 he could be filtering them out.

This is not rocket science. Nothing needs to be configured for any traps to be shown if they arrive. Even if you have no definitions for them in trapd.conf, you will still see them in messages that say "NO FMT FOUND" and then give all the particulars of the trap. So if you aren't seeing that, nor anything in the trace, then I say again, that they are not arriving,
because trapd will pull off everything that arrives on his reception socket and try to format it, and I do mean everything.
Given that what you say about the sniffer is true, then something else is getting them.

If you do netstat, what port is trapd listening to?


James Shanks
Level 3 Support for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
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Hello James,
 
We are not seeing any event neither in trapd.log nor in trapd.trace. I have already enabled -x option ( it says.. UDP socket is already in use.)
 
Through -T option, toggling has been enabled and there is no event/message in trapd.trace file.
 
The snmp trap from the DirectWay NMS (ip address 192.168.10.180) is coming on our NetView server (ip address 10.72.15.196) on 162 port that we have seen using sniffer. Also, there is no firewall in between.
 
Can you suggest, what all are required to be configured at NetView level to get  the snmp trapds? Is any particular mibs to be loaded?
 
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Anupam
 
 
 
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If you are not seeing traps, in the trapd.log, nor any messages about invalid traps, then your DircetWay box is not sending them, period. 
There is no way that trapd can get a trap and not log it or issue an error message. 

You can get him to trace everything that he sees by first configuring trapd to run with the -x option, (hex dump all packets), using serversetup, and then toggling the trace off and on with "trapd -T" from the command line.  But to really prove that nothing is coming in on port 162 udp, you will need to get an iptrace.   

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



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Hello Everybody,

We are having Tivoli NetView(7.1.3) on AIX 4.3.3.

Recently we installed HECL DirecWAY to monitor our VSATs (DPUs). These VSATs(DPUs) are SNMP compliant but can not by pass HECL DirecWAY NMS. This NMS(DirecWAY ) has been installed on HP platform and is collected information about the status of VSATs(DPU). 

Now, we wanted to integrate DirecWAY with our Tivoli NetView.

This NMs(DirecWAY) is also configured to send traps to NetView server. But we are not getting these traps in trapd.log.

Ideally, we wanted these traps on TEC so that we can execute some TEC rules as per our requirement.

Any idea how to achieve this?

Regards,
Anupam