Re: [nv-l] Netview to tec communications

[Gareth Holl <gholl@us.ibm.com>]

All TEC Adapters (not just the one built
into NetView) will attempt to send events to the first Event Server in
the list (per the ServerLocation variable). It the Event Server does not
respond, it tries the next one in the list, and so on. Events are not sent
to all Event Servers defined by the ServerLocation variable. There is an
equivalent ServerPort variable for listing port numbers. If all Event Servers
are using the same port, then just code one port number. If all Event Servers
are UNIX based and portmapper is being used on these UNIX boxes, then just
code ServerPort=0, or don't even use the ServerPort variable at all (default
is port 0). ServerPort must be used if the Event Server is Windows based.

If you are using the non-TME based TEC
Adapter, then TCP/IP socket based communication is used. If you are using
TME based, then Tivoli Endpoint software must be running on the same box
as the NetView Server and this Endpoint must be configure to communicate
wtih a Tivoli Endpoint Gateway which in turn forwards the events to the
Event Server using oserv to oserv communication.

I do not know what the default timeout
value is. This would probably be defined in the TEC Adapters Guide. There
is probably also a tecint.conf variable that would allow you to control
the timeout value.

Gareth Holl
Advisory Software Engineer
Team Technical Lead

ITIL Foundations Certified
IBM Certified Deployment Professional 
 --Tivoli Data Warehouse v1.2
 --Tivoli Enterprise Console v3.8 Network Management

IBM Software Group - Tivoli Software
Research Triangle Park,  North Carolina, USA.

"Kain, Becki \(B.\)" <bkain1@ford.com>
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10/07/2005 04:54 PM

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Subject	[nv-l] Netview to tec communications

I'm a little confused on communications between
netview and tec.  Suppose I have the following tecint.conf file:

ServerLocation=serverA,serverB

How does Netview talk to either server (ie:  via what port and protocol) and does it wait for serverA to time out, then goto serverB?  How long is the timeout?  Does it try to speak to both simultaneously?

Thanks

Becki Kain