There is an SIA (System Infomation Agent) out on ftp.tivoli.com/support/SIA
for Solaris. I have not used it, but I have used the one for AIX. It used to be
part
of the Systems Monitor/6000 product set, the agent for MLM.  It is no longer
supported and is offered free on the web site. The one for AIX has some
really terrific capabilities. You can use MLM, or APM, or snmpCollect to
monitor the mib variables that the agent supports. For customers who are
not doing the whole Tivoli thing, this provides a nice way to extend your
network management station to do some systems management on the side.
Check the readmes to see what levels of operating systems are supported.

Cordially,

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



If I understand you correctly, you have devices on the map which are not shown
with the symbols you would like them to be.
If they are not shown at all, then you probably need to put them in the seed
file.  But if you just don't like the symbols, then that probably means that
they do not have entries in the /usr/OV/conf/C/oid_to_sym file.  You can read
about this file in its man page.  Basically it correlates the SNMP OID of the
device with the type of symbol to use.    If you go to the map, select the
device whose symbol you dislike, and right click it, you will get a context menu
which will allow you to display the object information, and that will show the
OID being returned.  Then you can edit oid_to_sym and add it with a type of
"Workstation".
Then you will have to go back to the map and delete the object from all subamps,
so that it will get re-discovered and the new symbol used.

James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support



Sean Aaron <sean.aaron AT UCOP DOT EDU> on 08/30/99 07:25:25 PM

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: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
Subject:  issues with Suns in netview not displaying as workstations...




I'm running the default snmpdx and my Ultra 60s, 450s, and 5000 all show
up as isWorkstation, but my SS5 and Ultra 2 do not....they are running
the same versions of snmpdx, have the same /etc/snmp/conf/snmp.conf
files and are all running Solaris 2.6....what gives?

Also, anyone know of any way to monitor things like processes, disk
usage and the like on a Sun machine with netview barring using a 3rd
party agent or Tivoli Distributed Monitoring, i.e., how to write your
own mibs?

Thx.
--
Sean Aaron
UNIX System Administrator
University of California
Office of the President