I would suggest owning your own event ID just in case CA changes the events in another release or modifies the ones that you want.
I have done it both ways, though. I have also copied what was in the vendor area into the custom/Events/EventDisp in order to either use the existing event (because I didn't want to rewrite my own, which would have been a duplicate of the 'out-of-the-box' ones) and create my own unique probable cause or to use the existing probable cause and create my own unique event. Brad -----Original Message----- From: Sorrell, Al [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 10:38 AM To: spectrum Subject: [spectrum] Re-use vendor Event Codes or use new ones? All, This is really a question about 'best practices'. All of our custom-added device EventDisp, AlertMaps have been kept in $SPECROOT/custom/Events and we've manually tracked the Event Codes. We also manually edit the EventDisp - partially because that's the way we learned to do it, and partially because it allows us to richly comment the information. I need to update the MIB and events for the Riverbed Steelhead devices - the files that come with this version (9.2.1) of Spectrum are under $SPECROOT/SS/CsVendor/Riverbed and have Event Code starting from 0x05bf0000-002d. There are many more events in the new Steelhead MIB. Is it better for me to use my own event ID series (0xfffxxxxx) or re-use the Riverbed series to add the new MIB entries? MIB is added from MIB Tools utility, but mapping Trap Support is normally done by giving manual starting Event Codes and transferring the data files up to the Spectrum systems manually. It appears that the only entries under 0x05bf0000 are these relatively few Riverbed events. Thanks, Al _________________________ Almon (Al) Sorrell Global Business Solutions and Technology Services Corporate Network Services | Network Engineering Consultant T. Rowe Price 4515 Painters Mill Road, TE9008 Owings Mills, MD 21117 Phone: (410) 345-3042 Cell:(443) 527-2398 Fax:(410) 345-3135 Email: [email protected] T. Rowe Price (including T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. and its affiliates) and its associates do not provide legal or tax advice. Any tax-related discussion contained in this e-mail, including any attachments, is not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, for the purpose of (i) avoiding any tax penalties or (ii) promoting, marketing, or recommending to any other party any transaction or matter addressed herein. Please consult your independent legal counsel and/or professional tax advisor regarding any legal or tax issues raised in this e-mail. The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are intended solely for the use of the named addressee(s) and may contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any unauthorized use, copying, disclosure, or distribution of the contents of this e-mail is strictly prohibited by the sender and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail. --- To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe spectrum [email protected] --- To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe spectrum [email protected]
