RE: [nv-l] Looking for advice

I agree with James.

HP OpenView Network Node Manager (NNM) uses pmd-to-pmd communications over TCP in order to forward events from one system to another. ovtrapd doesn't forward traps, but you can configure ovactiond to use e.g. snmpnotify to forward the trap using SNMP/UDP. Forwarding traps (in both directions) is probably the best you can do.

As James says the databases are no longer compatible and this is also the case for a number of the API's.

What other integration did you have in mind? The GUI's could be integrated using the registration files with e.g. URL's for the web interfaces.

NNM uses either an embedded SQL database from Solid Technologies or MS SQL-Server or Oracle for a data repository for report generation. I'm not sure about NetView, but he NNM schemas are described in the documentation and this could be a way to integrate report or inventory data.

Let me know if you need more info and we can take it offline.

Best regards,

Michael.

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-----Original Message-----
From: James Shanks [mailto:jshanks AT us.ibm DOT com]
Sent: 12. februar 2002 15:13
To: nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com
Subject: Re: [nv-l] Looking for advice

Good luck. In my opinion, HP has spent no small amount of time and effort to stop using the APIs they initially wrote when NetView was cloned from OpenView (back in the Version 1 days, almost ten years ago) to prevent exactly this. They no longer even support the direct forwarding of traps from our trapd to theirs, though you could configure NetView's trapd to forward all his traps to OpenView using udp. But what OpenView will do with them, other than display them, is anyone's guess. Ditto for the reverse flow.

I know for a fact that the databases are not transferable.

You could have a NetView and an OpenView monitoring the same devices, but other than having two separate management systems polling the same devices, I don't know what this would accomplish.

James Shanks
Level 3 Support for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group

"Allison, Jason (JALLISON)" <JALLISON AT arinc DOT com>

02/11/2002 05:09 PM

To: "'nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com'" <nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com>
cc: "Allison, Jason (JALLISON)" <JALLISON AT arinc DOT com>
Subject: [nv-l] Looking for advice

I know this may not be the best question, but it is an initiative I will be
working on in the near future.

Has anyone gotten Tivoli Netview and HP Openview to 'communicate' by any
means?

I know this is a very broad question, but my company uses both Netview and
Openview. I have been asked to look into how to get them to talk to each
other if at all possible. If they cannot communicate on the surface, I will
be looking to write an application at the socket level for communication
with respect to traps and status delivery.

All input is appreciated,

Jason Allison
Principal Engineer
ARINC Incorporated
Office: (410) 266-2006
FAX: (410) 573-3026

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