In our shop we dupe detect at the TEC level on the hostname and
interface within a given alert.  

If you wanted to still pursue your approach, you would have to abandon
the internal TEC adapter and process that $A in script context as an
Action  and send an appropriate postemsg. 

Given the frequency with which such issues arise, we have abandoned
the internal TEC adapter entirely and using scripts for everything we
send to TEC to afford additional control over the alerts. 

-- 
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/



"Treptow, Craig" <Treptow.Craig AT principal DOT com> writes:
> Hi.  We are running Netview 6.0.2 on AIX 4.3.3 and send events to TEC to page.
> 
> Currently, the TEC is setup with a "duplicate detector", so multiple
> events from the same host only page on the first event, and just
> increment a counter for the others.  This causes us issues because
> routers, for instance, can send a lot of events about differently
> things (different interfaces, Frame-Relay DLCI status changes for
> different sites, etc.). 
> 
> So, I raised this as an issue with our internal TEC support team,
> and they would like me to pursue concatenating onto the hostname,
> some other string to make the hostname in TEC unique". 
> 
> For example:
> 
> Instead of:
> 
> hostname=[router1] interface=[eth0]
> hostname=[router1] interface=[eth1]
> 
> We would send:
> 
> hostname=[router1-eth0] interface=[eth0]
> hostname=[router1-eth1] interface=[eth1]
> 
> It appears to me that "$A", in Netview is fixed and I cannot modify it in 
> this way.
> 
> Can anybody confirm this, or otherwise help me?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Craig
> 
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