Openview Trap Destinations

[NoBrakes]

I am in the middle of consolidating 4 Cisco Wan Manager workstations into one. I have installed CWM and openview on my new Solaris box and it is running fine.
The problem is that I need to consolidate the trapd.conf files from the original boxes into one big one on the new CWM workstation. I also need to keep formatting and forwarding traps to the right ITO management stations based on geographic location. I need to know how to direct traps to a number of different endpoints based on the origin of the trap?
The trapd.conf file will have 4 sections based on regionality, can I specify a forwarding location for each section of trapd.conf?
If anyone has had experience with this and could respond to my post, I would be forever in their debt. Just so you know, I have little to no experience with OpenWound so please be gentle.

 

[cgainey]

NoBrakes, some input to some of your inquiries.....

>>>I also need to keep formatting and forwarding traps to the right ITO management stations based on geographic location. I need to know how to direct traps to a number of different endpoints based on the origin of the trap?<<<

If you are working with multiple ITOs, you can configure message forwarding to send to any ITO you choose. Look at the example template in /etc/opt/OV/share/conf/OpC/mgmt_sv/templ_respmgrs/msgforw
on the ITO server for the syntax. Then once you get your template set the way you want copy it to ../respmgrs/msgforw and use this command to check your template 'opcmomchk -msgforw msgforw'. With message groups in place on ITO you can configure to say any message received from &quot;this place&quot; forward the message to &quot;this server&quot;. Check out the HP VantagePoint Operations for UNIX Administrators(VantagePoint Operations/ITO Operations, they are both synonomous)

>>>The trapd.conf file will have 4 sections based on regionality, can I specify a forwarding location for each section of trapd.conf?<<<

Maybe someone else may be able to better address this one, but I don't think you can specify forwarding from the trapd.conf file. You can use filtering ($OV_CONF/C/filters is an example file) to control what a particular station discovers and have that particular station's messages forwarded to an ITO of your choice. I think you can look in NNM Managing Your Network for filter discussions.

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(OpenWound...good one )

***cgainey