I was under the impression the new Tivoli pricing structure classified
routers by Tier according to their port capacity. In other words, how many
potential interfaces a particular router may have, not how many are
currently being used.  The term the Tivoli rep used in our discussions was
"Port Density".  The methods described to poll Netview's database seem like
they would only detect interfaces with IP addresses, as opposed to
"potentially used" router interfaces, which is how I thought the pricing
was structured. Perhaps I misunderstood my Tivoli rep.

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Bill Evans <wvevans AT nc.rr DOT com>@tkg.com on 05/11/2001 10:19:51 PM

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The TopM  item in the following nvdbformat requests will show the
interfaces with IP addresses known to NetView.  Itr won't identify the
ports on hubs and switches since they don't have addresses but you can
find that info by browsing the MIB for the switch or writing SNMPWALK
CLI commands with the right OID information.

    ###########################################################
    #        nvdbformat -f   if-routers.format
    ###########################################################
    SELECTRULE:isRouter=TRUE
    SELECTFIELD:1:Selection Name
    SELECTFIELD:2:routerSysName
    SELECTFIELD:3:vendor
    SELECTFIELD:4:SNMP sysLocation
    SELECTFIELD:5:TopM Interface List
    #
    HEADER:# Interfaces for routers
    OUTPUT:#
    OUTPUT:Name: ${1}
    OUTPUT:SysName: ${2}
    OUTPUT:Vendor:  ${3}
    OUTPUT:Location: ${4}
    OUTPUT:${5}
    #
    FOOTER:#  Objects/MatchingObjects: ${TOTAL_OBJECTS}/${NUMMATCH}

    ###########################################################
    #        nvdbformat -f    if-switches.format
    ###########################################################
    SELECTRULE:SmartSet=Switches
    SELECTFIELD:1:TopM Interface List
    SELECTFIELD:2:IP Hostname
    #
    HEADER:# Switches
    OUTPUT:${2}
    OUTPUT:${1}
    #
    FOOTER:# Objects/Matching Objects : ${TOTAL_OBJECTS}/${NUMMATCH}



Scott Bursik wrote:

> AIX 4.3.3 NetView 6.0.2
>
> With the recent pricing change in NetView (point system) I was
> wondering if anyone had a method to pull the routers by interface
> count out of the db so we can check our numbers against what we are
> licensed for? We have about 1200 routers, and I haven't even started
> looking at switches yet! Thanks.
>
> Scott Bursik
> Pepsico Business Solutions Group
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