No, you are on the right track. All you have to do is get the devices to
send events
to Netview. Netview will already have most of them formatted. For any that
are not
formatted, eg some of the newer devices or those recently rebranded by
Cisco,
then you use mib2trap.
It is worth taking some time to decide which events the devices should
send.
Different devices have different capabilites. Some things you will want in
the
syslog, but not as traps. Cisco has a web page for the configuration of
each
device and that includes configuring the traps. You can come up with a
standard
for each type that gives you useful stuff but not the noise.
For example, for routers and route-switches, it is really useful to get the
Link Up/Down traps, because Netview will react to those and update the
status immediately. For edge devices, that information is not useful.
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit
"O'Connor, Sean"
<Sean.O'Connor@b-a To: Leslie
Clark/Southfield/IBM@IBMUS
nd-q.co.uk> cc:
Subject: RE: [nv-l] Netview
713 fp1 and events from Cisco Works
01/20/2003 10:02
AM
Hi Leslie,
Thanks for the mail. The main reason for getting the events through to
NetView were so that we can use NetView to forward the Events into our
Tivoli TEC. We have the TEC monitored by our 24/7 operations teams. I
guess my best bet is to get each of the Cisco devices to forward their
events direct to NetView and use mib2trap to format the events.
Does that sound like I'm on the right track?, or am I beyond help?
Thanks in advance
Sean O'Connor
Tel: (02380) 25 x7228
Mob: (07887) 521169
-----Original Message-----
From: Leslie Clark [mailto:lclark AT us.ibm DOT com]
Sent: 18 January 2003 00:52
To: O'Connor, Sean
Subject: Re: [nv-l] Netview 713 fp1 and events from Cisco Works
Is your CiscoWorks box getting traps? Or is it just getting syslog events?
Most
places I go, the devices are sending traps nowhere, or to Netview, and
logging
to the CW box. You can configure logging and trapping independantly on
most Cisco devices.
CW2k does not do trap reception as far as I know, unless you put on the
Device
Fault Manager component. It then is a trap receptor, and you configure the
network
devices to send their traps to the address of the CW box. You probably
don't need
to send them to Netview as well, if you are going to do something with them
at CW.
The DFM component can be configured to forward traps to Netview, but it
only has about
three. They are kind of generic, like 'Oh, I got a trap from that thing
over there'.
If you do configure your devices to send their traps to Netview, keep in
mind
that running the integration utility did not format any traps. Netview came
with
most Cisco traps already formatted. It did load some V2 mibs for you. You
might
want to load some V1 mibs, which were also delivered with Netview.
So take a look at the configuration on a router or a big switch and see
where
it has its trap destination set to, if it does, and which traps are
enabled. Cisco
provides a detailed document for each model on their website telling you
what
trap configuration options that devices supports and how to turn them on.
Then be careful what you turn on.
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit
"O'Connor, Sean"
<Sean.O'Connor@b-a To:
nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com
nd-q.co.uk> cc:
Subject: [nv-l] Netview
713
fp1 and events from Cisco Works
01/17/2003 12:08
PM
Hello All,
A Strange question I know. How do I get events from my Cisco Works Machine
into Netview??
I have installed the cisco Works integration and all installed ok. I have
all the icons and mibs loaded. I just do not get any messages.
Any Pointer would be great
Regards
Sean O'Connor
Tel: (02380) 25 x7228
Mob: (07887) 521169
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