Re: Some questions on Scotty/tkined

Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@cs.utwente.nl)
Fri, 13 Dec 1996 04:49:42 +0100

sdm@saturn.rte.com (Scott D. MacKay) said:

Scott> I had a couple of questions, and forgive me if they are
Scott> simple...many are based on things I used in SunNet Manager
Scott> (which looks *alot* like this, but costs $$$ :) )

The interesting thing here is that I never used SunNet Manager and
people sometimes say it is similar. Some people also say that Tkined
is similar to Cisco Works, which I also don't know.

Scott> a. Is there good manual on this toolset anywhere? Would be
Scott> nice to have something which shows simple setups, very good
Scott> detail for customizing, etc...

The short answer is: no

Scott> b. How do you set up logs? In example, I would like to log
Scott> when hosts go up/down, based on 'reachability' rather than
Scott> SNMP traps

The Scotty package does not have its own loggin facility. However, it
is straight forward to modify e.g. ip_monitor.tcl to log to the system
logging facility via the syslog command (which also works on Windows
platforms).

Scott> c. Can you share monitorings between views? I would like to
Scott> set up a variety of views, but have monitorings added
Scott> to hosts be active no matter which view I am in.

No. This requires significant changes because scripts are bound to
views and views are pretty much independent from each other (with the
exception of the internal cut & paste clipboard).

Scott> d. Can you template what attributes are associated with each
Scott> icon, or is the icon just a fancy picture? In example,
Scott> I would always like the 'sun' icons to have an ethernet
Scott> address associated with it.

An icon is just a fancy picture. It might be useful to change this in
a future version so that you have a type attribute which determines
the default icon and some additional type specific attributes. I guess
this is a medium programming exercise.

Juergen

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