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Re: [nv-l] The use of HTTP for node up/down instead of ping or snmp?

2004-02-20 09:11:28
Subject: Re: [nv-l] The use of HTTP for node up/down instead of ping or snmp?
From: James Shanks <jshanks AT us.ibm DOT com>
To: nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT com
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:01:10 -0500

NetView is an SNMP manager first and foremost.
The short answer is that there is no such option, so you would have to build something of your own to monitor these boxes, as netmon will not discover them.

How you might do that will depend greatly on whether you are on Windows or UNIX, and on the capabilities of the boxes themselves.

On UNIX, NetView offers a complete programming toolkit for non-ip topology and manuals on how to utilize it.  That would give you a full-blown solution.  But it requires C/C++ programming on your part.   Otherwise you might be able to rig something with servmon and scripts.  

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



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How do I configure Netview to use HTTP for node up/down for a few "special" network nodes? The particular nodes do not have SNMP and Ping is blocked but http is allowed.

Our Netview version is 7.1.3FP02.


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Larry Pytlik

Clorox

Network Engineering