It is not a simple way to start but you will find that your SNMP data
collections are actually held in /usr/OV/conf/snmpCol.conf. From
memory, I think you will find that although you cannot specify more than
one entry per MIB in the GUI, you will be able to have several lines per
MIB ( one for each instance) if you edit this file directly. BACK UP
THIS FILE FIRST BEFORE YOU TRY HACKING AROUND IN IT!!! It's a long time
since I did this so if James comes back and says you can't do this -
believe him!
Cheers,
Jane
Sean Lawrence wrote:
> Yes to put it simply I need to have the equivalent of a warn, critical,
> fatal threshold for the same collected piece of data on the same
> machine.
>
> We are running 7.1.5 on AIX 5.3, no DB2
>
> We are using snmpCollect
>
> As far as starting simple I do not have that option. My customer's first
> requests are always the most complex thing I can be required to do in a
> tool. This is Murphy's law I guess.
>
> I had this fully developed using the ITM UA agent but the customer
> didn't want to spend the money for a license. So it's off to Netview
> just because it's paid for and can hopefully do it.
>
> Sean
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nv-l-bounces@lists.ca.ibm.com
> [mailto:nv-l-bounces@lists.ca.ibm.com] On Behalf Of James Shanks
> Sent: February 7, 2008 5:16 PM
> To: Tivoli NetView Discussions
> Subject: RE: [NV-L] Thresholding on a mixed table of data?
>
> Hello Sean,
>
> Sorry, but you'll have to help me understand your environment before I
> can
> advise you. My assumption was that you had been doing simple data
> collection before and now wanted to do something unusual. It's
> customary
> to walk before you can run.
>
> More specifics please, from the top.
> What platform (UNIX/Windows) and Version (7.1.4/ 7.1.5) and Fixpack
> level
> of NetView?.
> Are you running with DB2?
> Do ovstatus. Are you using snmpCollect, or nvcollectord and nvpollerd,
> to
> do the collection?
>
> I was talking about good old snmpCollect, not the newer 7.1.5-only,
> db2-dependent nvcollectord. They have different GUIs and different
> requirements.
>
> But the same strategy still might work in either case It's true that
> you
> cannot define a simple MIB variable collection more than once, but
> beside
> simple variables, you can define MIB expressions, like Bandwidth
> Utilization, which collect MIB variable data and massage it
> mathematically.
> I was explaining how to build a MIB expression for snmpCollect which
> would
> allow you to do just what you said, set different thresholds on the same
> MIB variable, for different instances. It's not easy because that was
> not
> part of the original design. Most vendors do not mix data types in the
> same table. They have one table identified by its own OID for
> temperature,
> another one for UPS status, and a third for something else, if you
> follow
> me.
>
> If this is truly your first time doing data collection, then you should
> probably start collecting some simple stuff you really don't care about
> in
> order to get the practice you'll need to do something out of the
> ordinary.
> Pick a couple of machines and start collecting Bandwidth Utilization.
> Then
> you can go examine the file which defines what Bandwidth Utilization
> means.
>
> HTH,
>
>
> 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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> mixed
> PM table of data?
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> Ok that went completely over my head. I am using the gui for this as
> this is the first time I have used netview to collect and threshold a
> mib.
>
> I need different thresholds for a different instance of a mib variable
> for the same IP.
>
> The vendor is using a single set of mib variables to dynamically track
> things. The mib contains two variables a description variable and a
> value variable.
>
> Netview is allowing me to use the Instances field to define which
> instance I want to threshold against. The problem is I want to duplicate
> this with different instance threshold parings.
>
> I cannot add another dataIntRegister to the collection list as I get
> this error:
> "Cannot add duplicate object this object is already collected as
> dataIntRegister"
>
> If I try to add the same ip to the object collection summary I get the
> message "A collection is already defined."
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nv-l-bounces@lists.ca.ibm.com
> [mailto:nv-l-bounces@lists.ca.ibm.com] On Behalf Of James Shanks
> Sent: February 7, 2008 1:28 PM
> To: Tivoli NetView Discussions
> Subject: Re: [NV-L] Thresholding on a mixed table of data?
>
> I am not certain that I understand exactly what you want to do. Are the
> thresholds independent of one another? Then you might be able to do it
> using expressions.
>
> For example, suppose you were already collecting ifInDiscards
>
> MIB .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.13 ifInDiscards units COUNTER R
> C jshanks1.raleigh.ibm.com 180 0.000000 0.000000 xA s 58720263 ALL -
>
> And you wanted to have a different threshold for some other machines.
> You
> could go to mibExpr.conf and create and expression for that MIB variable
> times 1, for example
>
> myifnDiscards1 \
> "ifnDiscards * 1" \
> .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.13. 1 *
>
>
> myifnDiscards2 \.
> "ifnDiscards * 1" \
> .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.13. 1 *
>
> Since these are expressions, which can use the same MIB variables as
> other
> expressions, and they have different labels, snmpCollect regards them
> as
> unique collections, and you can add both to your snmpCol.conf, even
> through
> the xnmcollect GUI.
>
> MIB myifnDiscards1 myifnDiscards1 units EXPRESSION R
> C jshanks1.raleigh.ibm.com 3600 0.000000 0.000000 A d 58720263 ALL -
> MIB myifnDiscards2 myifnDiscards2 units EXPRESSION R
> C jhanks1.raleigh.ibm.com 3600 0.000000 0.000000 A d 58720263 ALL -
>
>
> HTH
>
> 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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