That would be great. In the CA NSM Event Console, traps are simple sent to the console in the raw format, then when you want to create logic, input into another event, parse the event trap for keywords or character positions you simple created a logic routine to do all of that. I think the way Spectrum handles traps and events is good out of the box, but when you want to go beyond it takes too much in my opinion to customize events into something meaningful to you.
From: Karen Kedda [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 11:23 AM To: spectrum Cc: spectrum Subject: Re: [spectrum] Tracking Event Management - Spectrum 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 * --To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] the body: unsubscribe spectrum [email protected] * ************* CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and the transmitted documents contain private, privileged and confidential information belonging to the sender. The information therein is solely for the use of the addressee. If your receipt of this transmission has occurred as the result of an error, please immediately notify us so we can arrange for the return of the documents. In such circumstances, you are advised that you may not disclose, copy, distribute or take any other action in reliance on the information transmitted. * --To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe spectrum [email protected] ----------------------------------------------------------------- This message may contain DynCorp International Privileged/Proprietary information. If this email is not intended for you, and you are not responsible for the delivery of this email message to the addressee, do not keep, copy or deliver this email message to anyone. Please destroy this email in its entirety and notify the sender by reply email. Your cooperation is appreciated. ----------------------------------------------------------------- --- To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe spectrum [email protected]
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