I've recently
moved from NetView 7.1.3 FP3 on a Solaris to NetView 7.1.4 FP3 on RH3. I've also moved from
ITSL 1.1 to ITSL 1.3.
I've noticed
some nice differences in the ITSL support. I like the L2Status icon; it's
less confusing when there's an icon to OR with the interface status to
produce the device status. The operational difference is the way the
device status is created. Mostly I'm doing this from the Web
Console.
- If the Layer2
status becomes marginal the device status will become
marginal.
- If the
interface submap is opened, the Layer2 status icon is acknowledged and the
submap is closed, the device status will remain marginal.
- If the device
status is acknowledged, the interface submap opened, the Layer2 status is
acknowledged and the interface submap closed the device status is now normal.
This
is not the way it worked on the old system, obviously, since there was no icon
for Layer2 status. A bad layer2 status did cause the device icon to take
on the abnormal state when the interface was up but Layer2 had problems.
It's also
not the way I understand other
interface states are rolled up into the device status. On the basis of the behavior of devices with
multiple interfaces I would expect that changing the state of the
Layer2Status to Acknowledged would cause the device icon to go normal with no
other action. I would also expect that a device icon which is in the
Acknowledged state would not revert to normal when the Layer2Status is
acknowledged.
Could
someone tell me what I'm missing in the situation?
Bill Evans Tivoli NetView Support for DOE 301-903-0057
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