I dont see the problem. I think you could script something up in about
2 seconds to monitor this using wget or perl. Then simply generate a
trap if no repsonse.

One of the true strengths of NetView is its extensibility.

Paul



larry.pytlik AT clorox DOT com wrote:

That is unfortunate, we are trying to replace "What's UP Gold" network monitor which does this type of monitoring and fold this function it into Netview, (UNIX). I would like to hear from anyone who has implemented HTTP node up/down using Netview in a UNIX environment.

Regards
Larry Pytlik
Clorox
Network Engineering


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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