Re: [NV-L] NetView 7.1.4 - Nvdbformat Question

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

nvdbformat selects objects from the database based on an exact match for far as I know. I think you would have to post-process your resulting report to get what you want, either by manual edit or script to extract from it what you want.

But you might be able to get what you want instead by creating smartsets based on the the Selection name, using like (~) and that unique four-character string. Then "nvUtil l <smartset_name>" will list the members and you can echo that into a report.
e.g. Smartset "JFK" has rule: ('Selection name' ~ 'jfk')
nvUtil l JFK > jfk.out
wc -l jfk.out = number of devices in that smartset, which that start with "jfk"

Good luck,

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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All,
I'm using nvdbformat to create an inventory all devices being managed by NetView.
 
Our devices are located all over the world and and the first 4 characters of their host name tells you where they're physically located.
 
I'd like to use nvdbformat to count the number of devices per site but I can't figure out how to get it to key off of the first 4 characters of the Selection Name.
 
Example:
 
jfk1-01-rtr-01 ---> Syntrax = <JFK Airport>  <Area Number>  <Function>  <Number>
jfk1-01-rtr-02 ---> Syntrax = <JFK Airport>  <Area Number>  <Function>  <Number>
jfk1-01-rtr-03 ---> Syntrax = <JFK Airport>  <Area Number>  <Function>  <Number>
jfk1-01-rtr-04 ---> Syntrax = <JFK Airport>  <Area Number>  <Function>  <Number>
Total Number at JFK = 4
 
dfw1-10-rtr-01 ---> Syntrax = <Dallas Airport>  <Area Number>  <Function>  <Number>
dfw1-10-rtr-02 ---> Syntrax = <Dallas Airport>  <Area Number>  <Function>  <Number>
Total Number at DFW = 2

Is there a way to get nvdbformat to group and count devices based on the first 4 characters of the Selection Name?
Thanks for you help.
Stephanie

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