Thank you, then I probably will go for the script file or ask my TEC
friend to clear it there.
//Tom
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, James Shanks wrote:
> What you see is what you get, Tom.
>
> If you want to pass a Router Up event, then you have to do it explicitly.
> The logic you are saying you want here is much more complicated than just
> a simple reset-on-match. What you have just said is that you want the
> Router Down held for just five minutes and then passed to TEC if no Router
> Up. And then you want something to "remember" that you passed this Router
> Down, and pass a matching Router up for time period much later. Well, a
> simple ruleset cannot do that. So you have to design something else more
> sophisticated.
>
> When you design a custom ruleset for TEC, you and the TEC guy have to work
> together. He can code rules on his end, just as you can. I don't see
> why you cannot send all Router Up events to TEC as harmless and let a TEC
> rule over there match them to any open Router Downs, and if there are none
> them close them. Or let the operator close them. If he sees them, then
> clearly there was no match so they no longer matter, right?
>
> If you have to do this in NetView, then I think you'd have to do something
> like this. You have to keep a record somewhere of Router Down events you
> sent to TEC, and query that list when a Router Up comes in. One way them
> would be create a file, add the router name to it when you send the event
> TEC (use an action node for that), and then query it in an inline action
> script when the Router Up comes in, and if there is a match, then delete
> the name from the list and send the Router Up. An alternative would be to
> Set and Query Database fields on the router objects in the database . You
> can create your own field or use CorrState1 - 4. You set the field to
> indicate that you sent the trap, then you could query it when the Router
> Up came in and take action that way. Then clear the field. You get the
> idea, I'm sure
>
>
> James Shanks
> Level 3 Support for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
> Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
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> Tom Hallberg <gimli@hhcrew.tk>
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> 09/22/2004 03:41 AM
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> Hi
>
> I got some ruleset design problem. For the moment I got first a "Trap
> Settings" (for Router down events), then a "Inline Action" to check that
> its one of the routers I want to have status check on. After that I have a
> "Reset on Match" because I also take in Router up events so I can reset on
> match within 5 mins. But the problem is that if a router goes down, and if
> it have been down for more then 5 min then it will pass that down event to
> TEC. And let say now that the router when up again, so we got a Router up
> event. But that up event will not pass to our TEC. So are there any
> Templets that can handle the problem about sending onlye one up event when
> there have been a down event passed to TEC. Or do I have to make a new
> Inline Action to take care about that up event that comes after 5 min?
>
> The TEC guy dont want to have all up events. Because the net is quite big.
>
> Thank you
>
> //Tom
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