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Re: NetView cannot discover a node

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Subject: Re: NetView cannot discover a node
From: Charles Boyce <c.boyce@AIS-NMS.COM>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 12:24:38 -0800
Reply-to: Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView <NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
Sender: Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView <NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
Jens, My guess would be a name resolution problem.  See if you have forward
and reverse name resolution.  You may want to see if the device is in the
local host table or do a loadhosts command. You might also want to do a
traceroute to see if there is some kind of routing problem.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jens Hahn <hahnj@DE.IBM.COM>
To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU <NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
Date: Tuesday, November 17, 1998 11:43 AM
Subject: NetView cannot discover a node


>
> Hi all,
>
>I'am near to despair.
>I'am trying to help netmon to discover a node and display it in the map
since
>any hours. I've done all procedures listed in the Diagnosis Guide without
any
>success.
>The object is not in the IP Topology Database and not on any other map.
>I can ping the node using the Hostname or the IP address, all connectivity
>tests of NetView are OK (ICMP/TCP/SNMP).
>Also I can traceroute and telnet from the command line to the node.
>An snmpinfo or snmpwalk gives me the correct informations of this node,
very
>fine.
>The IP address is listed in the seedfile and there is no range defined,
which
>excluding some IP addresses.
>Also I can used the MIB browser to read out the MIB tables of this node.
>It's all OK up to this point and the netmon daemon is correct configured
and
>also restarted.
>But if I'd like to send an Test --> Demand Poll, I get the response "Node '
IP
>address....' not found".
>This is the only error message. But SNMP connectivity is OK, snmpget from
the
>command line and the MIB browser works very fine  and
>D E M A N D  P O L L  doesn't works. And I believe, that this the reason,
why
>the node cannot discovered. But what can be the reason, that this DEMAND
POLL
>doesn't works.
>If there are any useful hints, I'd like to be very happy.
>Thanks so much in advance !!!!
>
>
>
>MfG / Best Regards
>Jens Hahn
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