Integrating SolarWinds with Netcool

I am not sure what modules you have in your Solarwinds environment, by saying that there are a couple of options

1. Forward Alerts from Solarwinds as an SNMP Trap to Netcool - (provide Solarwinds MIB.cfg to netcool team - ask them to convert it into rules - MTtrapd (snmp) probe)

Integrate Solarwinds events with IBM Tivoli Netcool OMNIbus | Orb Data

2. Forward Alerts from Solarwinds as posteifmsg and these messages can be received by Netcool EIF Probe

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Hope it helps

Hi vinay.by​, thanks for the reply. We'll check on this one. Thank you very much.

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Later on if you apply any of these in your project please post the details and mark it as correct on the same thread

We send traps to Netcool from our solarwinds servers.  Netcool parses the trap and the Alert Message from the Trigger Action.

The alert message sends the severity and either a SET or CLEAR.

CRITICAL&SET&Node Down&${IP_Address}&Node ${NodeName} is ${Status}

This is our node down trap.  We created the traps and the rules to match for node down, interface down, interface errors, hardware sensor, application, component, volume, custom poller, and a generic trap.

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Hi, how can we send traps to Netcool from our solarwinds servers? Is it by editing the alert? For instance, I want to send an alert to IBM that the node is down. How can we execute that alert?

See the NPM administrator guide on how to configure sending a trap as an alert action: NPM alert action: send an SNMP trap - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support

Hi tdanner​, thanks for providing the link. What is the purpose of trap template?

The trap template specifies what OIDs should be in the trap Orion sends and what their values should be. Generally most of the values will actually be macro references that are resolved in context when the trap is actually sent.

What is a Trap Template?

Is it okay to use one template for different alerts (ex: ForwardSyslog Template) ? Our main objective is to send an SNMP Trap to IBM Netcool when an alert is triggered. For example, if the node is down, then SNMP trap should be sent to IBM Netcool. How can we do that? Thank in advance.

I would forward it as a syslog instead, that way you can format it in Solarwinds to look exactly like you want before it reaches Netcool. That way there is no need need to edit a second time in Netcool for every alert.

Then you can build a few rules in Netcool once and forget about it.