On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 07:58:36AM -0400, Todd E. Lewis wrote:
> I've got a pmr open, and the tech tells me I should install it on TEC
> to be able to receive traps from our ups's which has a rule base compiled
> on TEC. I'm alittle confused because I've thought all along that the
> Netview server should act as the main snmp manager.

TEC SNMP adapter is targetted at customer that do not have SNMP manager
in place (ie no Netview, Openview, etc).  So for people with no Netview
installed, the UPS traps (as in your example) would have to be forwarded
to the box with the TEC SNMP Adapter.

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> >>> James Shanks <James_Shanks AT TIVOLI DOT COM> 06/25 6:50 PM >>>
> A TEC adapter is a piece of code which ships events to TEC in a language he
> undertands.  The TEC server is about the only place you probably would not
> install a TEC adapter.   You can run the TEC SNMP adapter in the same box as
> NetView, though few people do.  It was originally designed by TEC to install 
> on
> boxes which had no SNMP manager to report to.
>
> James Shanks
> Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
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> "Todd E. Lewis" <telewis AT PROVBANK DOT COM> on 06/25/99 02:21:01 PM
>
> Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
>       <NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU>
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> To:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU
> cc:    (bcc: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
> Subject:  Netview/SNMP
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> I'm alittle confused, Can the TEC SNMP adapter be installed on the netview
> server to forward snmp events to TEC or does it get installed on TEC?

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