It's more often that every five years, Steve, I'm sure of that!   And my 
face is red!
Been a long time since  read the MLM User's Guide since I don't really 
work on it.
Thanks for keeping me honest and for enlightening us all.   You put it all 
together in a way I hadn't seen.
Good job!


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




Stephen Hochstetler/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
06/03/2003 02:57 PM

 
        To:     nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com
        cc: 
        Subject:        Re: [nv-l] Can MLM Receive, Reformat, and Send Traps?







I guess it is once about every 5 years that I can disagree with James
Shanks.   The question was: can MLM run a script due to a received trap.
The answer is actually yes.   :-)

You would need to define the received trap in the MLM Filter Throttle
table.  You then have three potential times to run a command.   You have a
"matched command" when a trap matches a filter.     You have an "armed
command" that can kick off any time that the throttle boundary is crossed.
You also have a "disarmed command"  which will run when the defined
throttle is disarmed.    You have a ton of environment variables that put
all the trap information available to you in the script.   All of this is
nicely documented in the User's Guide.

To read more about it, open the Mid-Level Manager User's Guide.
Go to Chapter 9 MLM Tables -------->Filters--------->Matched, Armed, and
Disarmed Command Environment Variables

Yes, you can regenerate new traps since MLM does install a "snmptrap"
command.

Kind regards,
Stephen Hochstetler              shochste AT us.ibm DOT com
International Technical Support Organization at IBM
11400 Burnet Road   Austin, TX  78758
Office - 512-838-6198 (t/l 678)       FAX - 512-838-6931
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