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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

6183.0. "Monitoring Exporting" by SNOTTY::BARRY (Ploppy Sir, Son of Ploppy) Thu Nov 24 1994 11:43

Hi All,

Another question for you all (I hope this hasn't been mentioned
before !!) :

I currently have the exporter exporting data for 9 intersite
links on a customer network. These links are interfaces on
CISCO routers.

We use this data to produce monthly reports for the customer,
these reports are VERY important !!

Recently we have had individual exports dying and not being
noticed until when we come to produce the reports and the
data is not there.

I have been trying to create an MCC alarm rule that checks
the value of one of the exports attributes (Exporting State)
and then fires an alarm if it is anything but ACTIVE. The
problem I have is that the only command I can issue to check 
the exports will only allow you to see all the attributes
which is useless for an MCC alarm.

Does anyone know how to create this alarm that interrogates
just one export attribute ??

(BTW - I could write a DCL script to dump the exports to a file
and then parse that file.....but a proper MCC alarm would
be much better/reliable)

Thanks in advance for any help

Barry Howard
(P.s. I would appreciate any suggestions as this is a customer
MCC platform)

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
6183.1	Exports stops	AZUR::DURIF		`Fri Nov 25 1994 04:27`	14
	Hi Barry, Could you please post more information on the configuration. - What are the exporting request - How many entities - What is the polling period - Does the state change from ACTIVE to another state or does it stay ACTIVE and no more polling takes place. - How many time does it takes after exporting is started to see the problem - Are you running VMS or ULTRIX. - In case of VMS are you using UCX. Benoit DURIF
6183.2	Sorry...........I need alarming not problem diagnosis	SNOTTY::BARRY	Ploppy Sir, Son of Ploppy	`Fri Nov 25 1994 07:18`	15
	Hi, Maybe I was slightly mis-leading with my request for help. I dont actually need to know why the exporting is dying as I am able to sort that out once it happens. What I actually need is a way of detecting (hopefully though an MCC alarm) that exporting has died and action needs to be taken. I am running VMS V5.5-2 and MCC V1.3. I am using UCX V2.0 to provide the TCPIP services. Thanks in advance Barry
6183.3	exporting requests dying	AZUR::DURIF		`Tue Nov 29 1994 07:29`	18
	Hi, .2 I dont actually need to know why the exporting is dying. I understand the way you want to get rid of this problem. We experienced the problem on another site exporting the same entities but with a MULTINET TCP/IP stack. As we cannot reproduce this problem at Valbonne i am interested in any configuration using UCX which as the problem. Could you tell me how many entities are exported. Thank you, Benoit
6183.4	Actually, I do need to know why this is failing	SNOTTY::BARRY	Ploppy Sir, Son of Ploppy	`Wed Nov 30 1994 06:36`	31
	Hi Benoit, I have managed to write a DCL script to detect when an export is "not there" and fire an alarm to an MCC notification window. Now I have the problem that I cannot get two out of the six exports we do to actually work. When I issue the export command I am given a response of "Exporting Started" but then when I try to interrogate the export I get a "No exporting present for the specified entity". I am using VMS V5.5-2 with UCX V2.0. The background exporting process is fine and the other exports seem to be working fine. The export command I am issueing is : "export snmp uk-gfd-war interface 6 export target dka200:[mcc]mcc_export.rdb, - export period 00:30:00" All the exports we do are for interfaces from Cisco AGC 7000. I never get to see a state change for the two problem exports because by the time I have issued the "show export" command the export has disappeared. Thanks in advance Barry (BTW - This is a customer network and we need to get it working otherwise when it comes to the monthly reports we're in REAL trouble !!)