On Windows or UNIX?  These are different products and they have different 
requirements.  When you ask a question it always helps to tell the 
audience what platform, and what NetView release your are working with.  

On Windows there is the nvmail command, which is documented in the 
Programmer's Reference.    You need to have a mail server set up for this 
to work.

On UNIX you use the operating systems' built-in facilities, such as 
sendmail and mailx to get the job done.  See the man pages on them if you 
need to.

In either case, you configure the trap (Trap Settings in Windows, xnmtrap 
in UNIX) to run the command, or a script you have written which issues it, 
as a command an automatic action.
Here's a Window's example, for a NetView trap.  $2 contains the hostname, 
$3 the event log message for a NetView trap.
        nvmail -server ferrari.raleigh.tivoli.com -recipient 
jshanks AT us.ibm DOT com -subject "test node up" -message " $2 $3 "
Here's a UNIX example: 
       /myscripts/send_email  " $2 $3"

        send_email:
        #!/bin/ksh
        #
        # The purpose of this script is to 
        # send an e-mail after some processing
        # 
        # We use sed to remove the escape characters in the hostname
        # which is always in varbind 2 of a NetView trap
        # set -x
        host=`echo $2 | sed -n "s:\\\\\\::gp" `
        echo $host
        echo "Alert $host $3 " | /usr/bin/mailx -s "$host $3" 
shanks AT us.tivoli DOT com
        exit
        #

These illustrate the technique.  You will have to modify them to suit your 
environment.
Hope this helps


James Shanks
Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group




"Mithun Prakash Prabhu" <Mithun_Prabhu AT infosys DOT com>
01/28/2003 12:17 AM

 
        To:     <nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com>
        cc: 
        Subject:        [nv-l] NV 713: Any idea of Emailing through Netview??



Hi, 
 
Can anyone tell me whats the best way to send Emails auto generated via 
Netview. I mean whenever an event or trap is generated whats the best way 
to send it as a Email to the concerned Mail ids. Please let me know where 
can I find more information on the same. 
 
 Regards,
Mithun Prabhu 
System Engineer, ITO 
Infosys Technologies Limited 
Direct:080-4175689 
Fax : 852 0362 
Home: www.infosys.com 
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