zNetView plug-in

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Use this information to understand plug-in prerequisites as well as configuration details associated with the plug-in.

Required fields

This plug-in expects events supplied by the Event Gateway to be with populated with the following fields:
  • Acknowledged
The plug-in requires the following custom fields to exist in the alerts.status table.
Table 1. Optional configuration of the adaptive polling plug-in
Field name Type Description

NmosClassName

64-character string

Class of the device the event was raised against. This value is retrieved from the NCIM topology database chassis table.

NmosEntityType

32-bit integer

Type of entity the event is raised against. This value is specified in the NmosEntityId field.

Event map subscriptions

The zNetView plug-in subscribes to the following event maps:
  1. ChassisFailure
  2. EntityIfDescr
  3. EntityFailure
  4. EntityMibTrap
  5. genericip-event
  6. ItnmLinkDownIfIndex
  7. ItnmMonitorEventNoRca
  8. LinkDownIfIndex
  9. LinkDownIfDescr
  10. LinkDownIfName
  11. NbrFailIfDescr
  12. NbrFail
  13. OspfIfState
  14. OSPFIfStateChange
  15. OSPFIfStateChangeIP
  16. PollFailure
  17. PrecisionMonitorEvent
  18. Reconfiguration
The zNetView plug-in subscribes to the following event states:
  1. Information
  2. Occurred
  3. ReAwakened
  4. ReOccurred
  5. Resolution
  6. ReSync
  7. Updated

Configuration of the plug-in

The following plug-in configuration parameters can optionally be set using the ncp_gwplugins.pl script.

Table 2. Optional configuration of the adaptive polling plug-in
Parameter name Value Purpose Default

SchemaFile

Name of a schema file in $NCHOME/etc/precision/ to be parsed at initialization.

If a schema file name is supplied then this file will be parsed at startup, upon SIGHUP, or upon failover or failback, before any startup stitcher is run.

None

StartupStitcher

Name of a stitcher in the subdirectory within $NCHOME/precision/eventGateway/stitchers/, to be run at initialization.

If a startup stitcher name is supplied then this stitcher will be run without arguments at startup, upon SIGHUP, or upon failover or failback.

CheckAdditionalFields

StitcherSubDir

Name of the subdirectory within the $NCHOME/precision/eventGateway/stitchers/ directory containing the stitchers for this plug-in.

Specifying the name of this directory allows only the zNetView plug-in to parse its stitchers.

zNetView