Re: [nv-l] Multiple map and events windows question

1. I know of no way to have the NetView GUI start with multiple map windows open. You can choose a different default submap as the one that opens first however.

2. You can have multiple event windows open by creating a Workspaces File. To do this, pull down Options from the man Events Window and select "Save Environment". Then open all the additional event windows you want and apply the filters. Then close the main one, so that they all close together.
This should create a NVenvironment subdirectory in the users $HOME directory, and in that a Workspaces file. To have it active the next time you open the GUI you have to edit /usr/OV/app-defaults/Nvevents or copy that file into the user's $HOME directory and edit the local copy. Change the entry which says nvevents.loadEnvOnInit : False to say True. Then restart the GUI for that user. If the multiple windows don't open, close the GUI again and do "xrdb -merge Nvevents" and then try it, to log completely out of the machine and come back in. You should get multiple windows opened with the correct filters and rulesets applied.

3. There is no automatic refresh. How would you like to be a user, drilling down into your map to solve a problem, and have it suddenly go away because the administrator made a trivial change? Each user decides for himself when to refresh, since literally means closing his old read-only map and opening a completely new one. Every user controls his own GUI. The best thing to do is to send your users a note, popup, or trap when you want then to refresh, or establish a policy that they do so on a regular basis, say every 2 hours.

4. You can change the Node down delete interval in xnmsnmpconf

James Shanks
Level 3 Support for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group

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Hi, During lonmg time i was subscribing nv-l as digest, unfortunately reading it rarely. Now time has come to participate in list more actively, so I decided to resubscribe to normal mode. I would like to start with some questions. Before I ask my questions let me present my NetView configuration: NetView under my administration works as network (and partially infrastructure) monitoring tool in Data Center, with operators on duty 24h, 7 days a week. NetView 7.1.3 is running on AIX 4.3.3. There is only one map defined. There exists two Windows 2000 PCs for viewing NetView maps windows, events viewer windows and pop-up alarms for operators. Each of these PCs contain 1 graphic controller (on board) and one quad-monitor controller additionally. That gives 10 screens in total. Both PCs runs X-windows server (WRQ Reflection X). Generally, on each screen there is shown one NetView map window and one Events viewer window. All maps windows works in read-only mode and are shows different submaps of singe map. Event viewers contents are controlled by compound filters.In example - one screen contain map window showing storage servers LAN, event window below shows specific traps incoming from these storage servers, or netmon traps refering to this servers. Separate mechanisms (scripts, rulesets) control when to raise alarm (ovxbeep, ovxecho). To open NetView maps and event viewers I use one AIX user (lets name it "xoper1") on second one on second PC ("xoper 2"). As admin I use another PC with X-windows server to manage map (read-write), filters, rulsets, etc. My problems: 1. To have multiple map windows open I have to perform following "trick": while having single Netview map open (root submap) i choose Locate->Objects->By Selection Name. I specify name of submap I'm intrested in, then press [Apply] buton, then I choose suitable line in 'Located and Highlited" and press [Open] button. After such a sequence I have two map windows running under single AIX user. Of course, to have multiple windows I have to repeat that sequence many times. To have multiple event viewers windows open I have to perform following action - while having single event viewer map open I choose Create-> Dynamic Workspace. Then I specify suitable name, ruleset and filter. Of course I have to repeat above action many times. Is there any way to start many Netview maps windows (showing particulars submaps of single map) under single UNIX user, using UNIX command line only? Is there any way to start many NetView event viewer windows (with different rulesets and filters) under single UNIX user? I need/want to automate proces of opening these windows. 2. As admin I often modify content of map (using my workstation, opening map in read-write mode). Unfortunately, these changes are not automatically reflected on operators windows. The only method I know is to use choose (in operators GUI) File -> Refresh map. This is very unconvinient, additionally, It causes closure of all windows opened before (by method described above), and only one map window (refreshed) is opened. Is there any method to force automatic map refreshment? 3. can I change default Node Down Delete Interval? Thanks in advance for ANY help,hints,sugges Regards Bartlomiej Grenda _____________________________________ Strategic Outsourcing I/T Specialist SSO TE, Network Services Delivery IBM Polska Sp. z o.o. Ziebicka 35, 60-164 Poznan internet: Bartlomiej.Grenda AT pl.ibm DOT com phone: +48 61 8649470 fax: +48 61 8649488 mobile.: +48 603 886 496 http://www.ibm.com/pl