RE: [NV-L] Override Severity in Tivoli Enterprise Console

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

As I said, you must create a TEC rule to do this. I'm sorry but rule creation in TEC is outside the scope of this forum and what I can advise you on. I did similar things in class many years ago but my expertise is not current. I suggest you start reading about TEC rules in the TEC documentation or call IBM Support and get some help from the TEC Level 2. There is a manual that may help, TEC Rule Developer's Guide, which you can examine here
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v3r1/index.jsp?toc=/com.ibm.itnetview.doc/toc.xml

There used to also be another forum where users talked about TEC, but I don't know whether it is still active. Perhaps someone else does.

James Shanks
Level 3 Support for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
Network Availability Management
Network Management - Development
Tivoli Software, IBM Corp
"Gupta, Narendra" <guptan@netscout.com>

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James,
 Thanks very much for quick reply.  You suspicion is correct that our SNMP trap severity do not match with the severity of TEC. How can I remap in the TEC server ?
Thanks,
Narendra
 
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Whether you can do this in the CDS or not depends on the complexity of what you are trying to do. The CDS basically just selects varbinds from the trap and substitutes them into slot mappings. It does not really allow for any conditional logic.

So for example, if the severities in the trap variable match TEC severities, then something like this might work. Say the varbind which contains the severity is number 6. So you'd select it, and then map it. Let's say it's your third selection. Then your CDS might look like this. But the numbers below are arbitrary; you need to match the map variable with the attribute number you selected. Consult the TEC adapters guide for information on how to code CDS entries.


CLASS <myclass>
SELECT

1.
2.
3: ATTR(=,"VB_6") ;
4.

MAP
...
severity = $V3 ;
...
END

But my suspicion is that this is not enough, because it is unlikely that the severities passed in the trap do not themselves map to the severities used in TEC. In that case you'd have to add TEC rules in the TEC server to modify the incoming events even further. And In fact, it might be simpler not to mess with the severities in the tecad CDS at all, and just do the re-mappings in the TEC server itself using TEC rules.

James Shanks
Level 3 Support for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
Network Availability Management
Network Management - Development
Tivoli Software, IBM Corp
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Hi,
We have our network application that forwards the SNMP alarms to TEC. One of the varbind contains the severity(1 or 2 or 3 etc). How we can map that severity to TEC severities in CDS files. Please advice.

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