Thanks James,
     will there be any improvements in the next release of Netview, I
understood that the severity level would be avaliable in the shell and was
also hoping that the message would also.
<<<<
For example if the
Event Log Message is "Device $4 has lost power to port $5"  then you will
have to substitute $NVATTR_4 for $4 and $NVATTR_5 for $5 and pass the
entire string yourself as "Device $NVATTR_4 has lost power to port
$NVATTR_5".
>>>>>
I have thousands of traps defined , how do I code this that many times.

Can I put in an enhancement request for this ??

Mark :-)





James Shanks <James_Shanks AT TIVOLI DOT COM> on 12/01/99 03:02:28

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The Event Log Message as defined in trapd.conf is a construction and not
necessarily part of the incoming trap.  In some cases, all that Event Log
Message contains is the contents of a variable, $3 for example.  Then you
can reference that value in a ruleset as NVATTR_3.  But where a combination
of things is involved you will have to reconstruct it.  For example if the
Event Log Message is "Device $4 has lost power to port $5"  then you will
have to substitute $NVATTR_4 for $4 and $NVATTR_5 for $5 and pass the
entire string yourself as "Device $NVATTR_4 has lost power to port
$NVATTR_5".

James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support



Mark van Kerkwyk <kerkwyk AT COMTECH.COM DOT AU> on 01/11/99 12:31:06 AM

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Hi , I know that the severity value isn't available as an environment
variable when executing an action or sending the trap to a pager, anyone
know of a way to access the Event Log Message as a variable ??

How else are we supposed to be able to page someone and supply a text
message describing what occurred ?

The only other way I can think of is use a script like the one someone sent
last week which extracted the severity level details out of trapd.conf on
the fly.

Mark