What is an "alert trap"?   Is it something special?

If you want to configure a trap to cause a mail message to be sent then you
could do that using the UNIX mail command as an automatic action in the trap.
You use xnmtrap to configure the trap with the correct mail command.  This one
will work:

echo "text you wish to put plus $variables" | mail [Email Address]


James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support



Theo Odendaal <theoo AT IFUSION.CO DOT ZA> on 10/04/99 02:20:23 AM

Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
      <NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU>

To:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU
cc:    (bcc: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
Subject:  Enable traps for mailing.




Hi all

Can somebody please inform me how can I set-up alert traps in NetView 5.1
that in the event of a alert that I can mail I to the system administrator
of AIX 4.3.2.

Many thanks

Theo