I can think of a few ways to achieve what you want: 

1. use the IP range in seedfile and do not discover the non-servers at all,
if you don't need to know about them.

2. create a smartset for the servers, then use a ruleset to query smartset,
then forward to TEC. Netview comes with some baroc and rules files. 

3. can set a filter in Netview to see the events you want to see. 

4. In the your nodedown ruleset, you can have a script to check the
IP/hostname. 

Other Netview users might have smarter ways to do this. 
What is your platform? Note that you cannot do ruleset editing in Netview
for Windows. 

regards,

Jack Chan


-----Original Message-----
From: Fission CC Lin [mailto:flin AT tw.ibm DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 8:51 PM
To: nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com
Subject: [nv-l] interface up down and node up down event...


Dear all,
My customer got a lot of nodes include servers and non-servers (personal
computer) and all them discovered by Netview. My customer was happy about
this except that too many interface up down and node up down events. Could
I just receive such events from servers? (IP located in xx.xx.xx.1~31 are
servers). How could I set such filter that only events originated from ip
address located in xx.xx.xx.1~31 are received in Netview or TEC or any
workaround ? If it could be done in TEC, could you provide some rule sample
code? Thanks.......

Best Regards,
Fission Lin, 林倩全
I / T Specialist  , Tivoli Professional Services,
ITS/SMBU/NSM,  IBM Taiwan
206, Sec.1 Keelung Rd, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Tel:886-2-2725-8872, Mobile:0935-558622
E-Mail: flin AT tw.ibm DOT com