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Re: [nv-l] Var for severity?

2004-03-05 10:47:38
Subject: Re: [nv-l] Var for severity?
From: James Shanks <jshanks AT us.ibm DOT com>
To: nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT com
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 10:20:13 -0500

No, there is not, since severity is not a part of the trap itself but a constructed value, an add-on  you put in the trapd.conf.

And since NetView severities do not match TEC severities one-for-one (there is no HARMLESS in NetView for example) you would need to specify them exactly in any case.

I trust that Level 2 explained that the severities were removed because the new TEC rules derive the event severity and change it depending on circumstances.  You might want to follow that lead and use TEC rules to set the severities on incoming NetView events, unless you just want them to be static.

Hope this helps somewhat.  I am sorry that you were caught by this problem, Craig, but I am a bit surprised that you did not know about the severity issue before you migrated, since it has been a hot topic here since 7.1.4 hit the street.

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



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Hi.  We just upgraded to 7.1.4 and found out that the severity of the event is no longer forwarded to TEC when we forward the events to TEC.  After a long PMR yesterday, the result is that I need to define the severity in the TEC slot mappings.

Rather than define "severity=CRITICAL" or "severity=HARMLESS" I'd rather do something like "severity=$SEVERITY" to have the severity equal whatever we have set it to using the Netview GUI.

Does such a variable exist?


Thanks,

Craig


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