Re: [nv-l] Cisco Link Down Events

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

That's up to you.  I don't know how the TEC rules you have in place work.
Once you determine what is needed over in TEC, whether a new class or
something else,  then you can decide what to change the CDS file.  You can
give the event a new class and change the conf file to match if that's
what's needed.

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


                                                                           
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Thanks for the speedy response James! Yes we have configured netview to
forward Cisco_Link_Down class events to TEC but there was no Cisco Link up
class listed in the "Configure Event Forwarding to TEC" utility. I think
thats the problem why both link up and down events are showing for the same
class and thats what keeping these events Open in TEC as well. Now do i
need to configure tecad_nv6k.conf file to change that or do i need to write
a rule in netview for that?

I respect the knowledge you have for Netview!


Regards,

Usman

                                                                           
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NetView on Windows does not send Cisco_Link_Up nor Cisco_Link_Down traps by
default, so if yours is, then someone in your organization customized it
that way.

You have complete control of what is sent to TEC via the tecad_nv6k.cds
file, which determines the formatting, and the tecad_nv6k.conf which
determines what traps are sent.  The NetView event severity is not
available to the tecad adapter, but is hard-coded in the CDS entry.  If you
aren't happy with it, you can change it.  As for the event remaining open
in TEC, that is a TEC rules problem, which must be solved on the TEC
server.  So far as I know, the NetView rules provided by TEC only close
NetView events.

HTH

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



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Hi,

Netview 7.1.4 FP03 Windows 2000 Server SP4

We have a Cisco 3745 Router configured to forward traps to the Netview
server. When ever a link goes down it sends a Trap to Netview server as
Cisco_Link_Down Trap with severity Intermediate, at TEC this trap is shown
as FATAL without any message and hostname. When Cisco_Link_Up trap is
received from the same router Netview works fine but on TEC it is again
shown as Cisco_Link_Down with severity HARMLESS and the event also remains
open even there is a link_up event. I think there is something wrong with
Netview it is not sending those traps as properly formatted TEC events? Has
any one faced this problem before how can i fix it?

Thanks in advance


~Usman
Si3.