In that case I’d probably do the sorting in a script (in fact that’s exactly what I do).  In my case I use the lookup for notifications among different departments.  The file is a two column table:

 

Hostname1  E_MAIL_GROUP AT hq.corp DOT org

Hostname2  E_MAIL_GROUP AT hq.dept DOT gov

Etc.

 

The code for a lookup is simple:

Argument=${1}

Result=`grep –i ${Argument} ListOfHostsAndGroups | awk `{ print $2 }’`

if [ “${Result}” –ne “” ]

     then

           echo “Message text” | mail –s “Notification from NV”  ${Result}  

                 fI

 

It’s also easier to maintain than a Smartset although not as automatic.  If you do want to do the SmartSet stuff for automatic name classification you can create your mailing file with a paragraph like this for each Smartset:

for Item in `nvUtil l SmartSetName1 `

do

      echo  ${Item}    E_MAIL_GROUP AT hq.corp DOT org  >>ListOfHostsAndGroups

done

for Item in `nvUtil l SmartSetName2 `

do

      echo  ${Item}    E_MAIL_GROUP AT hq DOT dept.gov  >>ListOfHostsAndGroups

done

 

You can even run it in a cron job if you delete the file first. (By the way that’s a lower case “ell” after nvUtil.  Warning: this code has not been tested in this exact form.  Bugs may be present.    

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT com [mailto:owner-nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT com] On Behalf Of Glen Warn
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 2:43 PM
To: nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT com
Subject: RE: [nv-l] Ruleset problem with Netview 7.1.4 running RedHat Linu x AS 2.1

 

Hi Bill,

 

Thanks for your reply.  I was hoping to use the smartset because we manage networks for several companies and I was looking forward to highlighting the nodes I wanted to apply these rules to from a handful of submaps and adding them to the smartset.  Since the only criteria (I think) that I want to distiniquish on is the hostname - should I stay the course of the smartset?

Glen Warn

PEMCO Corporation Computer Services (PCCS)

glen.warn AT pemcocorp DOT com

206-628-5770