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Hi
Larry,
I'm in
the middle of writing a script that will be responsible for testing "basic
functionality" of all our production Windows and Unix boxes. The systems
will be tested using a combination of Samba and sshquery.pl. Our thinking
is that when a basic function check fails it would send a trap to the Netview
management server causing another product we are using to do network
correlation. The function checks run in parallel with the normal SNMP and
ICMP checks that Netview does. It would be easy enough to do something
similar in your situation, you could group all your "HTTP" servers in a smartset
and then use a script to list the items in the smartset and run "checks" against
them (A quick shell script doing a wget would be easy enough). If this
check fails then you could send a trap to Netview.
In my
case I'm using Coordinator from Magnum Technologies to handle the correlation of
network related problems, but someone on this list might know of a way to
integrate the TRAP into an event that Netview could do something with. In
my cause I only need to notify Coordinator, but I would love to also manipulate
the color of the symbol if the function check fails.... this is a future goal
:)
Hope
this gives you some ideas.
Jason
That is unfortunate, we
are trying to replace "What's UP Gold" network monitor which does this type of
monitoring and fold this function it into Netview, (UNIX). I would like to
hear from anyone who has implemented HTTP node up/down using Netview in
a UNIX environment.
Regards
Larry Pytlik
Clorox
Network
Engineering
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NetView is an SNMP manager first and
foremost.
The short answer is that there is no such option,
so you would have to build something of your own to monitor these boxes, as
netmon will not discover them.
How you might do that will depend
greatly on whether you are on Windows or UNIX, and on the capabilities of the
boxes themselves.
On UNIX, NetView offers a complete programming
toolkit for non-ip topology and manuals on how to utilize it. That would
give you a full-blown solution. But it requires C/C++ programming on
your part. Otherwise you might be able to rig something with servmon
and scripts.
James Shanks
Level 3 Support for
Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
Tivoli Software / IBM Software
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How do I configure Netview to use HTTP for node up/down for a
few "special" network nodes? The particular nodes do not have SNMP and Ping is
blocked but http is allowed.
Our Netview version is
7.1.3FP02.
Regards
Larry Pytlik
Clorox
Network Engineering
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