IBMMIB.TXT 8Nov95 IBM SystemView for AIX, Version 3 Platform: IBM, RISC System / 6000 Installing the NetWare Management Agent MIBs contained in this directory, on the SystemView console, will provide the ability to capture and display real-time server performance data and information about server alarms. The SystemView console provides the capability to manage network performance by providing several ways to track and collect performance information for objects on the network. To manage a server with SystemView; SNMP, IP, and ManageWise 2.0 or NetWare Management Agent 2.1 must be running on the server being managed, and one or more of the MIBs from this directory must be loaded on the OpenView console. This document contains 3 sections. A. Overview B. Installation Instructions C. Use Instructions A. OVERVIEW ----------- IBMs SystemView for AIX: - discovers and updates the topology of IP networks and translates the information into symbols that appear on the view you see of your network's map. - uses background processes, or daemons, that run continuously. These daemons provide services that must be available at all times. These daemons fall into the following categories: Topology discovery and database operation, Event and trap processing, and Host connection. A system of interconnected maps and submaps containing network manageable objects can be automatically discovered. - users can access network management functionality through pull-down menus and dialog boxes. - is a configuration, performance, and fault management application for multivendor TCP/IP networks. - executes network management operations which monitor and control agent systems (devices on the network) through SNMP. B. INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS ============================ Use the NMA 2.1 MIBS, from this directory, in order to be able to compile and load the MIBs on SystemView for AIX. To manage a device (or agent) using SystemView for AIX, SystemView for AIX must be running with SNMP and NetWare Management Agent on the server being managed and one or more of the NMA MIB(s), from this directory, must be loaded on the OpenView console. B1. Ensure that MIB-I and MIB-II are loaded. B2. Copy the "new" MIBs into the default directory: #host /usr/OV/snmp_mibs. B3. Select the Options... > Load/Unload MIBs: SNMP... menu item. The Load/Unload MIBs dialog will appear with a scrollable list of the loaded MIBs. B4. Click the "Load" button, a "Load MIB from File" dialog box will appear whith a scrollable list of the MIB files in the default MIB directory (/usr/OV/snmp_mibs). B5. Select the NMA MIB to load, these MIBs must be loaded one at a time in the order of their dependency. RFC1514.MIB must be loaded first and the nwserver.mib must be loaded second, then NWHOSTX.MIB, NWTREND.MIB and last, NWALARM.MIB. B6. Click the OK button. The operation will store the loaded MIBs in the /usr/OV/conf/snmpmib database. C. USE INSTRUCTIONS =================== C1. To gather NMA Data via SystemView Console Use the MIB Browser to query for NMA MIB values as follows: (a) Select the Novell NetWare Server with NMA loaded. (b) Select the Tools... > MIB Browser: SNMP... item from the main SystemView for AIX menu. (c) In the Browse MIB dialog box which appears, enter the community name of the agent, if left blank the default is "public". (d) Traverse the MIB tree until the leaf object you wish to browse, appears in the object listing. Select the object. Selecting the Describe button will produce the Describe MIB Variable dialogue box which includes the name of the MIB object, its object ID, its MIB object type, and a brief description of its meaning. (e) Select the Start Query button. The MIB object information will appear in the MIB Values section of the dialog box or if the SNMP Get Request could not be accomplished a message will appear in the Messages section of the dialog. C2. To Set NMA MIB Objects via Netview Console (a) Obtain MIB object information as described above in the Gathering NMA data via the SystemView Console. The data should appear in the MIB Values section of the Browse MIB dialog box. (b) Select the MIB object to be modified from the MIB Values section of the dialog box, the MIB object's instance will appear in the MIB Instance edit box. (c) Input the Set value in the SNMP Set Value edit box of the Browse MIB dialogue box. (d) The Set button will become enabled once these steps have been accomplished. Click the Set button and SNMP Set Request will be issued. Status regarding the Set request will be posted to the Messages listing of the dialog box. C3. Forwarding NMA Alarm Traps to SystemView Console The following configuration steps allow event notification messages and define actions that should be performed when NMA traps are received from a NetWare Server to the HP NNM Console: (a) TRAPTARG.CFG is in SYS:ETC\ on the NetWare Server. This file allows the user to define recipients to receive SNMP traps over IPX and UDP. Edit the Protocol UDP section of TRAPTARG.CFG by adding the SystemView Console's IP address. (b) Insure that the SNMP agent, and NMA agent NLMs are loaded on the Server. (b) Make sure the NMA MIB(s) are loaded on the SystemView Console, and that the version matches that of the NMA Agent MIB on the NetWare Server.. (c) Select a symbol on a submap, then select Monitor > Events > Current Events from the main menu. All uncleared events associated with the selected symbol will be displayed. OR, select a symbol on a submap, then select Monitor > Events > Event History from the main menu. 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