Andy,

Some time ago, internally at Aprisma, there was a TrapInventoryTool.pl 
script that you could run from the $SPECROOT/SS/CsVendor directory.  When 
running the script, you put in the OID string you were interested in 
reporting on and it would find the OID string in the AlertMap and list the 
EventID associated and the EvFormat file and PCause File.  When Event 
Rules were added to Spectrum event handling, the script recognized an 
Event Rule, but didn't display any information about the rule.  The 
reports generated were in .html and .csv format.  Below is a screenshot of 
an html report on OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.9. 

I would love to see CA update the TrapInventoryTool to handle EventRules, 
EventProcedures, and report on information from the 
$SPECROOT/custom/Events directory too.  It would be extremely helpful to 
be able to run a report and document event handling, especially the 
changes/customizations made.




Karen Kedda
Enterprise Monitoring Solutions
Berkley Technology Services LLC
405 Silverside Rd., Suite 205
Wilmington, DE 19809
302.746.2113
[email protected]



From:
Andrew Stein <[email protected]>
To:
"spectrum" <[email protected]>
Date:
03/11/2010 11:52 AM
Subject:
[spectrum] Tracking Event Management - Spectrum




Something that has alway's given me a problem with any version of Spectrum 
is overall event/alarm management. It's bad enough that everything is 
controlled by a series of different text files (which is even more 
difficult then using a opensource NMS platform) but there is really 
nothing that comes with the product to really track/display all of these 
related configurations. The new "ECE editor" for me (which support has 
told me is not to be trusted) on good day was nothing but fluff it only 
shows you the logic for one event at a time and does not reference the 
related alertmap files involved. 

For instance... 

You see an new alarm in Spectrum pop up for the first time. There is no 
GUI or any kind of interface that traces all the logic behind what 
Spectrum did behind the scenes to activate that alarm. You have to 
manually figure out what event(s) are coupled to the alarm. What (if any 
event rules were in place tied to any number of alarms and/or downstream 
events) and then go search for the alermap file to figure out what trap 
the device sent to kick the whole thing off to begin with. 

Has anyone out there come up with better way to address this (perhaps some 
kind of perl script, VB event management front end...etc) 


Thanks for any feedback or suggestions in advance. 

Andy Stein

Duke Medicine
Network and System Management Technologies
[email protected]
Office (919) 681-2739
Mobile (919) 402-7627 
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