User`s guide

Select
Suspend
and then
Resume
.
iii. Verify that data are being collected.
You can execute the following command periodically:
snmpColDump databases/snmpCollect/ifIndex.
n
where n is the number of the interface. For instance, if n is 1, this command dumps all the ifIndex raw data
that were collected until now for interface number l.
f. Allow the management software some time to collect data.
For best results at this stage, allow the management software to collect data for about two days. (At any point after the
above action, you can exit the SNMP management application without affecting data logging.) We recommend that you
collect two days’ worth of data so that you will have a better sense of what typical data are like, what a typical PDB is
like, and what typical reports are like as you explore your PDB in later tasks.
At the end of the two days, go on to Section 1, Task 3: Create a Test PDB and Process, Reduce, and Report on Your
Data. You do not need to stop data collection.
There is also an example of processing OpenView and/or NetView data in the IT Service Vision Showroom
.
PROBEX data may be logged directly and locally by PROBEX on each system that it is monitoring, or the data may be
transmitted to a system running SunNet Manager and logged there. In either case, the format of the logged data is the same (that
is, PROBEX logs data in the same format as SunNet Manager). Although in theory PROBEX (or SunNet Manager) will
continue to log data until your disk space is totally consumed, we recommend that the log file be moved out of the path of the
monitor, processed into your PDB, and then archived to tape fairly frequently (daily).
To start collecting data for IT Service Vision with SunNet Manager, set up SunNet Manager to log the data of interest to disk at
some regular interval (usually 15-60 minutes) by using one of the schema files supplied with IT Service Vision. Although in
theory SunNet Manager will continue to log data until your disk space is totally consumed, we recommend that the log file be
moved out of the path of SunNet Manager, processed into your PDB, and then archived to tape fairly frequently (daily).
If none of the schema files supplied with IT Service Vision will work for your network, you may use any valid SunNet Manager
schema file, but you will need to create IT Service Vision dictionary entries from this schema file before reading the data into
your PDB. Instructions for defining IT Service Vision tables from schema files appear in SunNet Manager and Enterprise
Manager Appendix 2: Defining Tables from Your Own Schema Files.