This script was donated by Ray Mahon who has done a fantastic job - but usual rules apply. It is a donated sample and no responsibilites or liabilities will be accepted.
The purpose is to provide availability statistics on
NetView-monitored nodes, on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
Data files are generated using the standard facility (at least with later versions of
NetView - 7.1.4 FP02 and later) of setting the NMAVAILABILITY environment variable to 1. Data files are then generated in /usr/OV/databases with filenames of:
availData_<yyyymmdd>
Put the following lines in /usr/OV/bin/netnmrc.pre (which may not exist in your environment yet), and restart all
NetView daemons. The data file will be created as soon as an "availability" event takes place.
NMAVAILABILITY=1
export NMAVAILABILITY
The Perl script, NV_Avail.pl takes a number of parameters - use NV_Avail.pl -? to get a usage. The default is a detailed report but you can also get a summary report and include a report on newly-discovered nodes, on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. I use:
NV_Avail.pl -d -n -s -v
to get a detailed and summary report, inluding new node reporting and a report on unmatched up/down traps. Output files NV_Availability.log and NV_Summary.log will be generated in the current directory. If you don't specify any parameters, no processing occurs.
The script creates a file called wrk_fle in /usr/OV/databases. You either need to run the script as root, or you need to create this file first and make it writable by any users you wish to run the script.
I have tested the script on AIX 5.1, Solaris 2.8,
RedHat? 7.2 and
SuSE? 9.1 Professional. Ray has also run it on a Windows platform. The only thing you may have to change is the first line with the path to your Perl binary.
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JaneCurry - 08 Apr 2005
NV_Avail.pl 
nmavail_sample_report.output.txt