Define 'module status'.  What type of application status are you looking
for?

I am assuming you only have one device/port?

I do not use nvsniffer.  I either use the Netview API or the snmp commands
provided in /usr/OV/bin to write these types of specialized apps.

Maybe you can touch a little more on exactly what you are looking for, I can
try and head you in the right direction.

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


-----Original Message-----
From: Jorge A. Jiles [mailto:Jorge.Jiles AT ualberta DOT ca]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 4:10 PM
To: nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com
Subject: [nv-l] nvsniffer


Netview 7.1 Solaris 8

A while ago I posted the following message with no reply, se here it goes
again:

My understanding is that nvsniffer performs a raw port checking on tcp
ports. Sometimes this is not enough to determine if an application is
actually behaving properly. Does nvsniffer provide any modules to check at
the application level? For example for port 53: first do a raw check on the
port and if the answer is good, do an nslookup on some address or so. Do I
have to write my own module to do this? 

When nvsniffer finds a service down, does update a netview database to
reflect this change? if so, where in the databases?

How are you guys out there checking for applications status?

Unfortunatelly the online help for nvsniffer is not very detail to say the
least.


We have big brother performing applications level checks, but would like to
move this function to Netview somehow as it is easy for out under-staff
operation personnel to look a one single system.


Thanks for any information.


Jorge A Jiles
Network Analyst
Computing & Network Services
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada




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