Just a point to add to that, 

You do have to setup the mailer subsystem of your box, if that isn't correct
mailx won't know where to send the mails. 

Cliff Dabbs
Senior Network Analyst
IS Support - Networks.
Ex: 4708

> ----------
> From:         James_Shanks AT tivoli DOT com[SMTP:James_Shanks AT tivoli DOT 
> com]
> Reply To:     IBM NetView Discussion
> Sent:         14 February 2001 12:23
> To:   IBM NetView Discussion
> Subject:      Re: [NV-L] Mail Delivery configuration on NetView Ver 6.0 on
> AIX 4.3.3
> 
> Mail alert?  There is no such built-in function.
> Are you asking how to configure it so that when you get a particular trap,
> the mail command sends mail to someone?
> In that case you would use xnmtrap to configure the trap settings and put
> something like this in the command for automatic action:
> 
> 
> echo $A $3 | mailx -s "mailsubject" username AT xxx DOT com
> 
> mailsubject = whatever you want the subject of the message to be
> the hostname is $A and text message from a NetView trap is $3
> See the man page for trapd.conf for more details.
> Of course you cold use a script to make this as elaborate as you care to
> And this only works if the user has an internet id that you can
> send the message to.
> 
> 
> James Shanks
> Team Leader, Level 3 Support
>  Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
> 
> 
> 
> z_esm_karekars <z_esm_karekars AT bharatpetroleum DOT com>@tkg.com on 
> 02/14/2001
> 12:46:33 AM
> 
> Please respond to IBM NetView Discussion <nv-l AT tkg DOT com>
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> To:   "'nv-l AT tkg DOT com'" <nv-l AT tkg DOT com>
> cc:
> Subject:  [NV-L] Mail Delivery configuration on NetView Ver 6.0 on AIX
>       4.3.3
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I had installed Netview Ver. 6.0 on AIX ver. 4.3.3 box and trying to
> configure the mail alert. Which files need to looked in to for configuring
> the mail delivery, and what changes are required to do on this.
> 
> Regards,
> Santosh Karekar
> 
> 
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