thanks, where on the cisco site can i get the paper?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Whitehead, Neil [SMTP:whitern AT RBOS.CO DOT UK]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 12:19 PM
> To:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.ucsb DOT edu
> Subject:      Re: Availability for Ciscos/Integration with NV automated
> actions
>
> Take a look at CiscoWorks 2000, it seems to do most of what you want to
> do.
>
> You will also want to get hold of a Cisco White Paper called "Cisco
> Network
> Monitoring and Event Correlation Guidelines" v1.5 Jan 1999.
> This is a really excellent document which gives a lot of help on what sort
> of MIB objects you want to monitor, what thresholds to set and how to
> configure the routers and switches to allow you to do this.
>
> There is also a very useful section towards the end on Event correlation.
>
> Hope this helps...
>
> Neil Whitehead (x22808)
> IT Services (Telecoms)
> The Royal Bank of Scotland
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> e-mail: whitern AT rbos.co DOT uk
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Prokott, Joe [SMTP:Joe.Prokott AT WESTGROUP DOT COM]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 2:18 PM
> > To:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.ucsb DOT edu
> > Subject:      Availability for Ciscos/Integration with NV automated
> > actions
> >
> >
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> >
> > Has anyone configured a system that would allow a Cisco router analyst
> the
> > ability to configure availability times, notification methods, etc...
> > directly on the router and then have these propagated back to the NV
> > database on a regular interval for automated actions done on the
> > management
> > system when certain conditions occur (interface down, interface link
> down
> > trap, etc...)?  Does Cisco have any specific config. commands that allow
> > such a configuration to be defined on the router?  Perhaps there are
> Cisco
> > integrated tools with NV that help do this (although I am not sure if
> > Cisco
> > IOS supports such config. statements to allow for this?)?
> >
> > We have a mechanism in place today that does the notification, but it
> does
> > not take into account any specific configuration defined by analysts on
> > the
> > router interfaces themselves.  Rather, it just uses the NV collections
> to
> > determine notification.  It has been requested by analysts configuring
> the
> > routers here to allow them the ability to configure some of these
> > parameters
> > on a per interface level and then send this info. back to the NV
> database
> > for storage and retrieval when particular condtions arise.
> >
> > In doing this, it would offload some of the management functions to the
> > analysts configuring the Ciscos and define a more robust process used
> for
> > the management of these devices.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > Joe Prokott - West Group
> > Network Architect
> > 610 Opperman Drive
> > St. Paul, MN  55123
> > Phone: 651-687-4536
> > Fax: 651-687-6946
> > E-mail: joe.prokott AT westgroup DOT com
>
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