Thanks James,
Prior to receiving your reply, I did try it...and it works! It seems
that the Threshold GUI's reliance on the SNMP v1 database in the GUI
articificially limits its collection capabilities.
It appears that if you edit snmpCollect.conf directly, you can
threshold on any variable that you can poll by snmpget. :-)
I can post something more complete later.
As for the 0 readings, it appears that the Nokia ip600 runs very cool
unless you hit it hard--so I was able to get that CPU off 0 with
throwing...oh, 15 or so snmpwalks at it. :-)
"James Shanks" <SHANKS AT us.tivoli DOT com> writes:
> I am not sure what snmpCollect will do with this, but it might work if you
> just manually edit the snmpCol.conf file to do the collection. Why not try
> it and see? What have you got to lose? If snmpCollect doesn't like it, he
> will tell you.
>
> But if all you get from snmpget is a zero, then that is all that
> snmpCollect will get as well. That's an agent issue.
>
>
> James Shanks
> Level 3 Support
> Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
>
>
>
> netview AT toddh DOT net (Todd H.)@tkg.com on 08/23/2001 12:29:35 AM
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> cc:
> Subject: [NV-L] can Netview threshold monitor a Gauge32 element?
>
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>
>
> Greetings!
>
> The short question:
>
> Is there any way for Netview 6.02 (AIX) to monitor thresholds on a
> Gauge32 element?
>
> The device does respond to a /usr/OV/bin/snmpget query of the
> numeric OID of the element, but the value is always 0 (not sure if
> this is a v2/v1 issue or yet another bug in the vendor's agent
> code!).
>
> If this is not possible, can someone suggest a tool or script that can
> handle this?
>
> If this is possible with Netview, here are the details:
> ................
> For a Nokia device, certain MIB elements of interest are described in
> SMIv2 (aka SNMPv2) format MIB files. In particular, from
> NOKIA-IPSO-SYSTEM-MIB.txt I'd like to monitor:
>
> ipsoProcessorUtilization OBJECT-TYPE
> SYNTAX Gauge32
> MAX-ACCESS read-only
> STATUS current
> DESCRIPTION
> "The current percentage of CPU utilization. "
> ::= { ipsoProcessGroup 1 }
>
> I can successfully load the MIB file using the SNMPv1/v2 Load MIB
> function in Netview 6.02. Furthermore I can use the SNMPv1/v2 MIB
> browser to find this MIB element, and even query it on the target
> device. I can recreate this polling using /usr/OV/bin/snmpget on the
> commandline as well.
>
> However, the Data Collection and Thresholds tool seems to be cognizant
> of only the SNMP (v1) MIB database and note the SNMPv1/v2
> database--which obviously doesn't include MIB elements that I loaded
> from the SMIv2 file. Furthermore, the MIB Data Collection/MIB Object
> Selection dialog where you can add monitors doesn't appear to allow
> you to input the OID by typing it. Grrrr.
>
> So...it seems I need to do some workaround--but what's the easiest?
>
> Gauge32 I've discovered is an snmpv2 type, but according to STallings'
> book, it's simply a refinement of SMIv1's Gauge type? Get an SMIv1
> file from the vendor? Convert (using what?) the SMIv2 file to SMIv1?
> Create an Expression using mibExpr.conf specifying OIDs numerically,
> and threshold on it? Use some other (??) tool?
>
> TIA for any help for a threshold newbie!
>
> Best Regards,
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