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Conference azur::mcc

Title:	DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT.
Notice:	Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187
Moderator:	TAEC::BEROUD

Created:	Mon Aug 21 1989
Last Modified:	Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	6497
Total number of notes:	27359

4192.0. "Getting events from DECmcc on VMS to DECmcc on ULTRIX/" by SOLVIT::SILVA (Carl Silva - TNM/PNM Business Development Manager) Thu Dec 03 1992 15:51

	I have a customer that would like to put DECmcc on their VMS systems
and develop an access module to access their equipment.  They then want to use
DECmcc on ULTRIX to monitor their network.  Has anyone done somehting like this
before or does anyone know how this might be done?  I was thinking of telling
them to do something with the data collector but their event messages have to
be in a very specific, OSI compliant format.

	Carl

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
4192.1	Not yet	TOOK::MINTZ	Erik Mintz	`Thu Dec 03 1992 15:55`	9
	It sounds like they want the ability to use an AM running on one system from a PM or FM running on another system. That is not supported by the current products. It is one flavor of distribution (although not necesarilly the first one might implement). -- Erik
4192.2	Yah but...	SOLVIT::SILVA	Carl Silva - TNM/PNM Business Development Manager	`Fri Dec 04 1992 09:15`	23
	RE: .1, Thanks for the reply. >It sounds like they want the ability to use an AM running on >one system from a PM or FM running on another system. >That is not supported by the current products. They would like to run DECmcc on their VMS system to act as a mediation device. So it needs to do alarm rules, local presentation functions, etc. This covers a sub-network area or region of the network. Then, we need to be able to ship some alarm events back to the ULTRIX system to display the overall network status on the projection screens. Is it possible to do this with DECmcc or does anyone have any ideas or suggestions on this? >It is one flavor of distribution (although not necesarilly the >first one might implement). I am most interested in figuring out how to support a hierarchical management structure (national, regional, local network mgt systems) using DECmcc as the base and whatever else must be added to it. Carl
4192.3	We've done it for ULTRIX !	BAHTAT::LZOPCB::bond		`Mon Dec 14 1992 09:01`	17
	Hi Carl, I have been involved in the specification and development of some code that forwards alarms and events from DECmcc on Ultrix to another DECmcc system using the data collector. (I know you want to go the other way but at least you know that it is possible!) The code uses fairly generic alarm rules to capture events (such as adjacency up/down, node reachability change (and differentiates between reachable and unreachable!), etc, performs some level of event matching and targetting and finally uses mcc_evc_send to send the event to a target entity via the data collector. The code would not be directly moveable to VMS because it uses an awk script to match the events and Ultrix shell scripts but I am sure in TBG land that you are surrounded by people that could have this up and running with VMS DCL in no time!
4192.4	Good info!	SOLVIT::SILVA	Carl Silva - TNM/PNM Business Development Manager	`Tue Dec 15 1992 17:16`	12
	RE: .3, >I have been involved in the specification and development of some code that >forwards alarms and events from DECmcc on Ultrix to another DECmcc system >using the data collector. (I know you want to go the other way but at >least you know that it is possible!) Thanks for the info! How much effort did this take? Carl