Ok that went completely over my head. I am using the gui for this as
this is the first time I have used netview to collect and threshold a
mib.

I need different thresholds for a different instance of a mib variable
for the same IP.

The vendor is using a single set of mib variables to dynamically track
things. The mib contains two variables a description variable and a
value variable.

Netview is allowing me to use the Instances field to define which
instance I want to threshold against. The problem is I want to duplicate
this with different instance threshold parings. 

I cannot add another dataIntRegister to the collection list as I get
this error:
"Cannot add duplicate object this object is already collected as
dataIntRegister"

If I try to add the same ip to the object collection summary I get the
message "A collection is already defined."


-----Original Message-----
From: nv-l-bounces AT lists.ca.ibm DOT com
[mailto:nv-l-bounces AT lists.ca.ibm DOT com] On Behalf Of James Shanks
Sent: February 7, 2008 1:28 PM
To: Tivoli NetView Discussions
Subject: Re: [NV-L] Thresholding on a mixed table of data?

I am not certain that I understand exactly what you want to do.  Are the
thresholds independent of one another?  Then you might be able to do it
using expressions.

For example, suppose you were already collecting ifInDiscards

MIB .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.13 ifInDiscards units COUNTER R
C jshanks1.raleigh.ibm.com 180 0.000000 0.000000 xA s 58720263 ALL -

And you wanted to have a different threshold for some other machines.
You
could go to mibExpr.conf and create and expression for that MIB variable
times 1,  for example

myifnDiscards1 \
"ifnDiscards * 1" \
        .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.13. 1 *


myifnDiscards2 \.
"ifnDiscards * 1" \
        .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.13. 1 *

Since these are expressions, which can use the same MIB variables as
other
expressions, and they have different  labels, snmpCollect regards them
as
unique collections, and you can add both to your snmpCol.conf, even
through
the xnmcollect GUI.

MIB myifnDiscards1 myifnDiscards1 units EXPRESSION R
C jshanks1.raleigh.ibm.com 3600 0.000000 0.000000 A d 58720263 ALL -
MIB myifnDiscards2 myifnDiscards2 units EXPRESSION R
C jhanks1.raleigh.ibm.com 3600 0.000000 0.000000 A d 58720263 ALL -


HTH

James Shanks
Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
Network Availability Management
Network Management - Development
Tivoli Software, IBM Corp

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