Re: [nv-l] NetView Reporting Capabilities

If you have Tivoli Configuration Manager (TCM) then you can use the NetView Integration Module for Configuration Manager (NIMCM, formerly TIPN, with event forwarding to TEC eliminated) that is packaged with TCM. It allows you to pull NetView information into the TCM database. The fields associated with interfaces, networks, nodes and segments you can specify are:

Bridge Flag
Bus Segment Flag
Card Flag
Computer Flag
Connector Flag
FDDI Ring Segment Flag
IP Address
IP Flag
IP Hostname
IP Network Name
IP Router Flag
IP Status
IP Subnet Mask
Interface Flag
Internet Flag
Location Flag
NetView Mid Level Manager Flag
NetView Object Name
Network Flag
PC Flag
Printer Flag
Router Flag
SNMP Agent
SNMP Interface Description
SNMP Interface Type
SNMP MAC Address
SNMP Supported Flag
SNMP System Contact
SNMP System Description
SNMP System Location
SNMP System Object ID
SNMP Vendor
Segment Flag
Serial Segment Flag
Star Segment Flag
Tivoli Interp Type
Tivoli Managed Node Flag
Tivoli PC Managed Node Flag
Tivoli TMA Endpoint Flag
Tivoli TMA Flag
Tivoli TMA Gateway Flag
Tivoli TME Flag
TokenRing Segment Flag

There is also a library of out-of-the-box queries provided that target the NetView data collected:
NV_INVENTORY
NV_INVENTORY_BY_NETWORK
SEGMENTS
NETWORKS
INTERFACES
NODES_VERBOSE
CRITICAL_NODES_VERBOSE
NODES_SUMMARY
NODES_BY_VENDOR
NODES_BY_SNMPAGENT
NODES_BY_MACADDRESS
NODES_BY_IP_STATUS
NODES_BY_NETWORK
CRITICAL_NODES
CRITICAL_NODES_BY_NETWORK
MARGINAL_NODES
TIVOLI_TMA_NODES
TIVOLI_NON_TMA_NODES
TIVOLI_MANAGED_NODES
TIVOLI_NON_MANAGED_NODES
TIVOLI_PC_MANAGED_NODES
TIVOLI_NON_PC_MANAGED_NODES
NON_TIVOLI_NODES
SUSPICIOUS_NETWORK_MASKS
PRINTERS
BRIDGES
BRIDGES_BY_SEGMENT
ROUTERS
IP_ROUTERS
MID_LEVEL_MANAGERS
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James Shanks/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS
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10/14/2004 11:33 AM

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What you see is what you get.
IBM Tivoli sells an inventory product, so inventory and asset management is not a primary NetView function.
Try
ovobjprint > ovobjprint.out
and browse the result. If there's information in there you can use, great. If not, then you are out of luck.

You can use nvdbformat to format a report of what's in the object database (which is what you just printed out above) or
you can write your own script to extract what you want from that outfile. See the man page on nvdbformat for examples of what to do.

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

"Ardino Iii, Frank J CPC43" <Frank.Ardino AT CIGNA DOT COM>
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10/14/2004 11:58 AM

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Does anyone know if Netview is able to provide any reporting? Meaning I would like to produce a report for Inventory & Asset Management on all of the devices in the network.

Thanks,

Frank J. Ardino III
Sr. Technical Consultant
CIGNA Corp.
IIS-EIS-Enterprise Systems Management
856.346.5844 or x-45844
frank.ardino AT cigna DOT com

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