Re: Monitor Disk Status

I'm still reading the APM that you mentioned.  Thanks again for additional
information.

Phat



From: Leslie Clark <lclark AT US.IBM DOT COM> on 08/06/99 06:24 AM

Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on
      NetView <NV-L AT UCSBVM.ucsb DOT edu>


To:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.ucsb DOT edu
cc:    (bcc: Phat D Doan/BCBSO/TBG)
Subject:  Re: Monitor Disk Status




Compaq Insight Manager does have a purchasable component
that runs on Netview for AIX. If you put that on, it creates objects that
change color when those traps come in, but I think they mostly indicated
hardware problems, like soft disk errors, etc. There was not much
related to more systems-management function, like disk utilization,
although the agent does support mib variables for that, which you
can monitor via snmp. If you do not wish to purchase this application
you can still monitor the agent directly via snmp from Netview.

Cordially,

Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking


Never done this before, but I think the compaq insight
manager agents can fire off traps based on disk
utilization.  You may be able to use these traps to
change the status on the icons. This way it will only
generate traffic when there's an actual problem,
unless you want to collect the data for long-term
trending.


--- Phat D Doan <pddoan AT REGENCE DOT COM> wrote:
> I have NetView v5.1.1 on AIX and want to monitor
> disks space on Compaq
> servers.   For example in NetView,
>
>    I want to a create a submap that contains
> Computer/PC subclass icons of
>    all the Compaq servers running Windows NT.
>    Then in this submap, a child submap will  be
> created for each server
>    that contains its internal disks (i.e. C, D, or E
> drive).
>    After all these got created, I want to monitor
> each server disk space
>    utilization using MLM to check for thresholds.
>    If the disk space reached beyond a certain
> threshold, NetView would turn
>    the icon from green to  yellow or red and vice
> versa.
>
>
> Has anyone done this kind of monitoring in your
> environment?
>
> I know that Compaq Insight Manager could do this
> task but I want to
> monitoring it through Netview.  Thanks.
>
> Phat
>

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