Re: [nv-l] Map color and trap severity.

[alejandro.gabay@reuters.com]

James,

Thank you very much for your explanation. I guess that I should have been more 
elaborated on my idea.

The objects that I need to manually update are GTM object (created by an 
external application). This application will keep the icon status color on the 
Netview map. The idea was to create several trap customizations is order to 
reflect the event severity in both, the map status color and the event history.

When creating my own trap definitions with its own severity, the problem I face 
is how shall I create the trap definition for a GTM object in a way that 
Netview knows to which object relate the trap received.

B. Regards
Alejandro Gabay
Operation Supervisor, Argentin Uruguay & Paraguay
Reuters Ltd.



                                                                                
                                                       
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I think you need to elaborate on this idea more than you have.

Just exactly what are you trying to accomplish and why?  It is generally a very 
bad idea to try to override netmon status, since netmon, ovwdb, ovtopmd, and 
ipmap have all been designed to work closely together to keep status accurate.  
You cannot easily fool them.

 For objects you create yourself, that is a different matter.

NetView does offer the status trap, 58916871, which will change the color of a 
map object, provided that ovw (the NetView GUI) has started the events 
application (nvevents) and the map is open read-write.  But this change is not 
reflected in the object nor topology databases and will not persist across GUI 
start-ups unless the change is for a user-created objects, not those which 
netmon monitors.  But even given that these are user-objects, there still is no 
way to get out of issuing this trap, if that's what you mean by "duplicating 
all events".  This is the only universal trap which will alter map status.

However, if the trap you want to use as a trigger for this change is external, 
and not from NetView, you can define the trap as a Status Event in trapd.conf  
and also specify the status you want to be associated with the receipt of this 
trap, and then nvevents will alter the map status in exactly the same way as it 
does for the NetView status trap, so you don't have to issue one of those

Does this help?

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

                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
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Hi All:
Is there any way to create a new trap definition that's affect an object status 
in the NV map?. The idea is to have one specific trap associated to an specific 
map color. I know it can be done trough rulesets but this will duplicate all 
events. One for the trap severity and another for the map status.
I am running NV 7.1.4 FP 1 on Solaris 8.


B. Regards
Alejandro Gabay





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