RE: Ruleset COnfiguration for Mail Alert


You are using "echo" here which will not work because the daemon,
actionsvr, who executed your action does not have a display.  If you look
at the nvaction.alog and blog where such errors would be written then you
will undoubtedly some error messages there.  You need to use a utility such
as ovxecho, which will pop a window up on a display, that is not owned by
the process running the command.
There is documentation on using ovxecho, including a man page and examples
in the book.  You need to specify the display you want the window to be put
up on, either by setting the DISPLAY environment variable in a script which
calls ovxecho or by using the -d operand
     /usr/OV/bin/ovxecho -d  mybox.mydomain:0.0    <message text>

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 04/17/2001
06:45:58 AM

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Subject:  RE: [NV-L] Ruleset COnfiguration for Mail Alert





Hi Helen,

I am trying following rulesets for generating mail for 5 Cisco UP & Down
Link traps in 10 min. I could not get it work properly. Can U pls check it
and reply me back.

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Regards,
Santosh

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   From:   Helen Cloostermans[SMTP:Helen.Cloostermans AT dexia DOT be]
   Reply To:       IBM NetView Discussion
   Sent:   Tuesday, April 17, 2001 2:20 PM
   To:     nv-l
   Subject:        [NV-L] Ruleset COnfiguration for Mail Alert

   Santosh,

   $A,, $2 and $4 in traps are  $NVA, $NVATTR_2 and $NVATTR_4 in rulesets.

   Regards,
   Helen

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   17/04/2001 10:49 ---------------------------

   z_esm_karekars%bharatpetroleum.com@Internet
   17/04/2001 10:25
   To:     nv-l%tkg.com@Internet
   cc:      (bcc: Helen Cloostermans/GKBCCB)

   Subject:        [NV-L] Ruleset COnfiguration for Mail Alert

   Hi,

   Having NV 6.0.1 on AIX 4.3.3
   We are trying to configure ruleset to generate the mail alert for Cisco
   traps.
   What type of NV Attributes I should use to get the Node Name, Interface
   Description, & Event Occured. I can get the same through
   trapcustomization
   if I use $A for Node name, $2 for Interface Description, & $4 for the
   event
   type.
   Can U pls update me on this

   Regards,
   Santosh


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