My psychiatrist says I can't learn any more new programming languages
Sorry, a quick little script is not something I can write, they are a struggle
for me. Fortunately, Paul is slightly MORE depraved. Thanks muchly Paul.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Stroud [mailto:pstroud AT bellsouth DOT net]
> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 5:39 PM
> To: Barr, Scott; nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com
> Subject: Re: [nv-l] ovsnmp.conf
>
>
> All,
> Heres a quick ugly hack to do just that. Copy the ovsnmp.conf file
> from one machine to the other(just not into the /usr/OV/conf dir as
> xnmsnmpconf will overwrite that file as you add new nodes). Anyhow,
> it will complain about the nodes it cannot and will not add them, but
> it should add everything else, including wildcards and ranges.
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> # passed the full path to the ovsnmp.conf(ie /tmp/ovsnmp.conf) it will
> # parse the file and build the new entries.
>
> # check for command line arg and die if none
> if (!$ARGV[0]) {
> print "Usage: $0 /path/to/ovsnmp.conf\n";
> exit;
> }
> # open the file
> open (SNMPDATA, $ARGV[0]) || die "Unable to open $ARGV[0]!\n";
> while(<SNMPDATA>) {
> chomp;
> # don't try to add the default or comments
> if ($_ !~ /^\*\.\*\.\*\.\*/ && $_ !~ /^#.*/) {
> `/usr/OV/bin/xnmsnmpconf -create $_`;
> }
> }
> # close the file
> close(SNMPDATA);
>
> Paul
>
>
> On Monday 30 September 2002 17:07, Barr, Scott wrote:
> > Hello forum.....
> >
> > I am trying to find a way to keep ovsnmp.conf sync'd
> between two similar,
> > but not identical systems. (one is v7.1.1 and the other is
> 7.1.2) The
> > discovery on the two boxes uses the same seed files
> however, there are a
> > few nodes not reachable from one of the boxes. When I used
> the xnmsnmpconf
> > -export <filename> and then move <filename> to the other
> server and do
> > xnmsnmpconf -import <filename> it dies with a node not in discovery.
> > (invalid destination in hosts database)
> >
> > At issue here is this: We use the alternate community names
> table. As a
> > result, when we do discovery, we pound on the unix servers
> with several
> > different community names (results are the mib2 sub agent
> on the solaris
> > box dies as documented on several occasions here) In addition, the
> > community strings used in communityNames.conf get placed into the
> > /var/adm/messages log on each of the Sun boxes, thus giving
> our sysAdmins
> > in clear text ALL of the community strings we are using.
> So, I manually
> > updated ovsnmp.conf using xnmsnmpconf but I am trying to
> avoid having to
> > manually add 225 servers to the other two NetView servers I
> have running
> > and I am looking for a way to keep them in sync.
> >
> > I am tempted to whack /usr/OV/conf/ovsnmp.conf_db and copy
> it from the
> > other system, but I know Leslie will scold me if I do.
> >
> >
> >
> > Scott Barr
> > Network Systems Engineer
> > CSG Systems
> > Phone: 402-431-7939
> > Fax: 402-431-7413
> > Email: <mailto:Scott_Barr AT csgsystems DOT com> Scott_Barr AT csgsystems
> > DOT com
>
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