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Subject: Re: [nv-l] NetView trap databases
From: James Shanks <jshanks@us.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 07:33:22 -0400
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Yes, the NetView installation includes a password which is used to access
the RDBMS.

I 'm sorry but I don't deal with Windows installation -- not my area of
expertise.   If you wanted to use SQL Server and NetView didn't find it on
installation, then you'll have to open a call to Support for assistance,
and probably re-install after they determine what was missing.

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


                                                                           
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Hello James,

  Thank you very much for your reply.
     I need to know one more thing, on Windows it does not use RIM at all.
How does the authentication/security to database handled?. Does the
password info fed in when NetView is installed?
     When I installed NetView(latest) on Windows 2000 terminal I had
SQL_SERVER 2000  already installed, but still it went ahead created Jet (MS
Access) RDBMS. Is there any other configuration/requirements  I need to do
before NetView can use SQL_Server on Windows.

Thanks
Swapna

James Shanks <jshanks@us.ibm.com> wrote:

 NetView for Windows and NetView for UNIX are similar but different
 products. This is one of the areas where the differences are major.
 Frankly, you will have to develop one way to deal with the UNIX product
 and
 another way to deal with the Windows product. Writing a single
 cross-platform application is a difficult task, sometimes nearly
 impossible
 given the differences.

 NetView for UNIX has no RDBMS support by default. Events are transitory
 and not kept permanently except in trapd.log To get them in an RDBMS, you
 must install Tivoli RIM, which requires the Tivoli Framework, and then the
 NetView Databases component. That means NetView must be installed under
 the Framework as well. You run traptosql to transfer the trap data from
 trapd.log to your RDBMS at regular intervals you define.

 In NetView for Windows trapd writes events di! rectly to an event database
 using ODBC, which is why logging is optional. trapd on Windows uses the
 either the Jet (MS Access) RDBMS by default, but it can also use SQL
 Server, if that is installed before NetView. Nothing else is supported.

 Events stored in the ODBC database are queried by the Event Browser for
 display to the user. This whole business is known internally as "the event
 subsystem" or "tess". You can get an idea of the schema used by SQL Server
 by examining the file \usr\ov\databases\odbc\tess_db.sql which is used to
 create the tables. The same schema is used by the Jet database, which you
 can examine with MS Access, either the stored events themselves in
 tess_db.mdb, or the file tess_db.mdb_empty which we use to create the
 running version.


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



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 Hi All,


 I am developing an application to access the event db used by
 NetView across platform and databases(MS_SQL,DB2,Access...to name a few
 supported by NetView).

 Is there a document which gives me an idea of the tables, and details of
 the columns etc of event db(Trap Db). The tables of trap in MS_ACCESS db
 is not same as the trapdlog table mentioned in the NetView -database guide
 for Unix

 Is there APIs provided to access Event db(Trap db).

 In the NetView -database guide for Unix doc it is mentioned about NetView
 using RIM in which case I can use RIM commands, not sure whether it could
 be true for Windows also.

 Does NetView always access RDBMS using RIM.


 If you have info can you please let me know. ! Thank you in advance.

 Swapna


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