Re: WinNT MLM Alias Table Updates

["Joel A. Gerber" <joel.gerber@USAA.COM>]

I have no experience with the NT versions of NetView/MLM, but I have
experienced the exact same problem on NetView 5.0 for UNIX.  There was a bug
in netmon that was causing it to not send the updates to the MLM for the
alias tables.  This was fixed in 5.1, and I have verified the fix.

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Dave Taylor [SMTP:dtaylo@DWP.CI.LA.CA.US]
        Sent:   Thursday, September 03, 1998 09:55
        To:     NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
        Subject:        WinNT MLM Alias Table Updates

        Hi:

        I'm having a "good" time trying to get alias table updates to my NT
MLMs.
        In one case I created a collection of all Cisco routers that I then
        assigned to the mlmdomain_mlm_host_name in the MLM's collection.  In
        another case I assigned certain subnets to mlmdomain_mlm_host_name
via the
        Collection Editor.  In both cases, I cannot get netmon to update the
MLM
        Alias Tables.

        I have placed an entry netmon's SMNP configuration for both MLMs,
giving
        the read/write community names as "public."  I have modified the NT
MLM
        ovsnmp.conf to assign "public" as read/write.  Additionally, I
assigned the
        community name "public" to the WinNT SNMP daemon.  Tivoli Support
suggested
        that I delete all entries in the MLM Trap Destination Tables, then
recycle
        netmon.  They said that netmon would re-discover the MLMs and then
download
        the Alias Tables within a few netmon scan cycles.  When I do this,
the only
        thing I can see happening is a new entry for netmon appears in the
Trap
        Destination Table.  Then sometime later, I will find alias
definitions for
        all the hosts on the physical subnet the MLM is plugged into.

        Needless to say, I'm probably doing this all wrong.  Anyone have any
ideas?

        Thanks in advance,

        Dave Taylor