Re: [NV-L] servmon status only

["Michael Brunelle" <michael.brunelle@gmail.com>]

The thing is that the host is pingable and has been already discovered by Netview, but I don't care about the ping status, I only want to know if my servmon custom script returns a good or a bad value.

If I unmanage the node, servmon do not perform its status check on the node...

If I modify the ruleset to avoid the node down/up events to be forwarded to the TEC, I still have the service down/up events who gets forwarded to the TEC when the node ping status goes down...

I have tried to manually add an object which is not having an ip address and I have been trying to have this node checked by servmon, but it didn't work so far.

 

 

Michael

2008/4/11 Leslie Clark <lclark@us.ibm.com>:

A couple of thoughts on this subject.
1) To discover the node to begin with, you either have to be able to ping it, or you have to add it manually, eg with the loadhosts command. You have probably figure that out. :)
2) I believe that the service status check, and probably the discovery check as well,  will skip any nodes that have an IP status of Critical. I'm not sure, but perhaps they will work on nodes that have a status of 'Unamanged'. Maybe, maybe not.
3) You only get a Down event for the IP status when the state changes. So you won't get that many of them if the thing is always unpingable, even if it is managed.
4) You can modify the ruleset that passes events to the TEC to exclude Node/Interface Down for certain nodes. As long as you are only checking attributes of the event, this is not expensive.
5) If you unmanage something that is down, and it one day gets managed, it will probably get deleted based on the Node Down Delete interval set in xnmxnmpconf, so be sure to set that value very high, like 12 months or something.

Cordially,

Leslie A. Clark
IT Services Specialist, Network Mgmt
Information Technology Services Americas
IBM Global Services
(248) 552-4968 Voicemail, Fax, Pager

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I am wondering if there is a way with Netview not to monitor the ping status of a node, but only the status given by servmon with a custom script. The reason is that I don't want alerts to be forwarded to the TEC when the node do not answer to a ping request. Is there a way to have that kind of setup with Netview?

I know that I can enable SNMP status polling for a node in the seed file, but the node is not configured SNMP....

Any other suggestions?
 
 
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