You should be able to use the NetView Interface Down trap (Under the
netView6000 Enterprise, the event name is IBM_NVIDWN_EV Specific trap
58916867).  What I have implemented is similar to what you are doing.  I
correlate interface down to interface up messages.  We are doing it on a 10
minute basis (with NetView polling every 5 minutes).  This seems to work the
best for our network.

Patrick

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
[mailto:NV-L AT UCSBVM.ucsb DOT edu]  On Behalf Of Matt Ashfield
Sent:   Friday, January 07, 2000 8:37 AM
To:     NV-L AT UCSBVM.ucsb DOT edu
Subject:        stupid question

Hi all,

I have been trying to get a ruleset to work lately, and have been having
problems with it. I basically want it to work like this.

If something goes down and does not come back up within 2 minutes, perfrom
an action.

I have this working for certain nodes, like the ip's of switches and what
not, but I want to get it to work for my router interfaces. So if I have
like 10 interfaces on a router, and only one of htem goes down, then it'll
recognize that an Interface went down.

THe problem here is, I'm not sure which trap to look for. I've tried,
Interface Down trap and it doesn't seem to work. Node Down trap works for
nodes (such as our DNS server), but not for router interfaces. Obviously
it's a simple question, but what is the trap I should be looking for?

Thanks

Matt