What version of the ADSM server are you running, please?

We have been unable to get this to work on the 3.1.2.20 server for AIX.

We are 3.1.2.20 on AIX 4.2.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Herfried Abel [SMTP:HA7 AT DAIMLERCHRYSLER DOT COM]
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 5:21 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: SNMP on AIX with SNMP subagent of ADSM
>
> A piece of text out of the ADSM Admin Guide, I installed it for about 1
> week ago
>  and it works fine.
>
> 1.Modify server options file, dsmserv.opt, to specify the SNMP
> communication
> method.
>
> e.g:
> commmethod                  snmp
>
>          snmpheartbeatinterval    5
>          snmpmessagecategory      severity
>
> 2.Install, configure, and start the SNMP agent as described in the
> documentation
>  for that agent. The SNMP agent must support the DPI Version 2.0 standard.
> For
>      example, the AIX SystemView agent is configured by customizing the
> file
> /etc/snmpd.conf. A default configuration might look like this:
>
>      logging    file=/var/snmp/snmpd.log  enabled
>      logging    size=0  level=0
>      community  public
>      community  private 127.0.0.1   255.255.255.255 readWrite
>      community  system  127.0.0.1   255.255.255.255 readWrite  1.17.2
>      view       1.17.2 system enterprises view
>      trap       public  * snmp_manager_ip_adr *   1.2.3 fe
>      snmpd      maxpacket=16000 smuxtimeout=60
>
>
>      where * snmp_manager_ip_adr * is the IP address of the system running
> the
> SNMP management application.
>
> 3.Start ADSM SNMP subagent through the dsmsnmp executable.
>
> 4.Start the ADSM server to begin communication through the configured
> TCP/IP
> port with the subagent.
>
> 5.Begin event logging for the SNMP receiver and enable individual events
> or
> event severities to be reported to SNMP. For example, issue the following
> commands:
>
>      begin eventlogging snmp
>      enable event snmp all
>
> 6.Define the ADSM SNMP MIB values for the SNMP manager to help format and
> display the ADSM SNMP MIB variables and messages. The
>    ADSMSERV.MIB file ships with the ADSM server and must be loaded by the
> SNMP
> manager. For example, when you run NetView for OS/2 as an SNMP
>    manager, the ADSMSERV.MIB file is copied to the \ netview_path\SNMP_MIB
> directory and then loaded through the following command:
>
>      [C:\] loadmib -load adsmserv.mib
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> And now some hints  from our TME10 Netview implementation:
>
> ad 6) you will use the "Load Mib"  from your OpenView Mgmt. Station
> ad 5) enable evant snmp all is not realy good, but fine for testing
>
> There is a mib2trap script that creates a shell script out of the mib
> definition
>  file. If you run this script it adds the traps to trapd.conf, but in our
> case
> we had to change the enterprise in this genarated script, cause it was
> wrong.
> We always got "trap with unknown format" in the Netviews event log. ( You
> see
> the right enterprise there ). And the traps also were set up to LOG only,
> so if
> the traps where ok then, we saw no errors and also no traps in the
> event log. You have to change theire attitude in Openview Trap Custom.
>
> herfried
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Tiong Lee Lan <tiongll AT CYBERWAY.COM DOT SG> on 02.09.99 10:43:20
>
> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
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>  Subject: SNMP on AIX with SNMP subagent of ADSM
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> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use SNMP on AIX together with the SNMP subagent of ADSM to
> send
> traps to my SNMP Manager (HP Openview) whenever there is an error with
> ADSM.  I
> am not sure how to set it up properly.  First I tried to get some values
> like
> ibmAdsm with snmpinfo but I also get unknown variable.  The mibs are
> defined
> into the /etc/mib.defs when ADSM was installed.  Anybody can help?
>
> Regards,
> Lee Lan
>
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