User`s guide
OpenView and NetView Appendix 2: Alternate Data-Logging Method
This is an alternate version of the task in Section 1, Task 3: Create a Test PDB and Process, Reduce, and Report on Your Data
In this version of the task, you create your own snmpCol.conf file (the file of variables for which data are to be collected and
the nodes on which the data are to be collected). You also manually stop and start the snmpCollect daemon.
Note: The procedures and the examples presented here are provided as a convenience to IT Service Vision customers. The
methods outlined here are neither documented, suggested, nor supported by any Hewlett Packard documentation or IBM
documentation. Although these procedures and examples have been tested with HP Open View Release 3.0 and NetView for
AIX Release 4.0 and are used at SAS Institute, the Institute offers no official support for them.
Prerequisites
1. SAS is installed.
See Section 1, Task 1: Start the IT Service Vision Server Software
.
2. The IT Service Vision server is installed.
See Section 1, Task 1: Start the IT Service Vision Server Software
.
3. You know which nodes support at least Level 3 management and MIB-II.
See Section 1, Task 3: Create a Test PDB and Process, Reduce, and Report on Your Data
.
Actions
1. Make copies of three files from the !sasroot/misc/cpe directory.
For illustration purposes only, the examples in this action assume that!sasroot
is in /usr/local/sas and you are
using /tmp as a work area.
Execute the following commands:
cd /usr/local/sas/misc/cpe
cp csgmkcnf /tmp/csgmkcnf
cp csghosts /tmp/csghosts
cp csgvars /tmp/csgvars
Note: The csgmkcng file contains a shell script that builds the snmpCol.conf file. The csghosts file will contain
a list of host names of all the hosts from which you want to collect data. The csgvars file contains the recommended
MIB metrics/variables in the snmpCol.conf format.
2. Make the csgmkcnf file executable.
Issue this command:
chmod 755 /tmp/csgmkcnf
3. Edit the csghosts file so that it contains the host names of all the hosts from which you want to collect data.
Each fully qualified host name must be listed on a separate line, starting in column 1. For example, the lines for nodes
dimes
,
swimmer
,
and winter might look like this:
dimes.unx.sas.com
swimmer.unx.sas.com
winter.unx.sas.com