Owens, Blaine wrote:

> Marc, if you are doing this via Event Configuration/Command for
> Automatic Action pass variable $A (agent reporting the trap).
>
> Blaine Owens
> bowens AT eastman DOT com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Marc Russo [SMTP:mrusso AT AL.IISL DOT COM]
> > Sent: Monday, August 31, 1998 4:37 PM
> > To:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.ucsb DOT edu
> > Subject:      Interface Down Events
> >
> > Whenever an interface goes down on a router, it sends a trap to my
> > NetView
> > system.  I want to be emailed whenever this happens, and sometimes
> > paged,
> > depending on which interface is down.  The problem I am having is when
> > I
> > pass this to sendmail, I can only pass the interface that is down
> > (i.e. $2),
> > but I cannot pass which node is reporting this.  Does anyone know
> > which
> > variable I can pass to sendmail (and eventually the paging utility) to
> > let
> > me know which node is reporting an interface down?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Marc Russo (mrusso AT al.iisl DOT com)
> > International Integrated Solutions, LTD

  If this is a trap generated by Netview (via netmon) $A will return the
hostname of Netview.