Mark,
Check /usr/OV/conf/oid_to_type if the router being displayed as not-being a
router has a valid entry
with the G flag in that file or if the system.sysObjectID is correct.
Best regards,
Vladimir.
Mark van Kerkwyk wrote:
> Hi Jon,
> thanks a lot for the info on creating a new property/field.
> Anyone else out there know how to work out how Netview allocates Symbols
> to
> devices, I have two Cisco routers, both routing between multiple
> interfaces
> and Netview only sees one of them as a router.
>
> Mark
>
> Jon Needes <jon.needes@ATS.UK.EDS.COM> on 15/12/98 20:12:41
>
> Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on
> NetView <NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu>
>
> To: NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
>
> cc:
>
> Subject: Re: New Objects types, how do I register new device
> type
>
> Mark van Kerkwyk wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I may have missing something obvious in the docuemntation , but I
> need
> > to do a couple of things.
> >
> > 1. Netview does not recognise some of our routers as routers, they are
> all
> > Cisco but some are different models to others, the symbol type is
> blank
> in
> > some cases.
> > How do I tell Netview that a particular device is a router or switch
> etc
> ?
> >
> > 2. I would like to add an "isSwitch" property, how do I add a property
> and
> > how do I setup the criteria for a new property such as a switch ? Is
> there
> > a particular SNMP variable which detotes that a device is a switch ??
> How
> > is a Hub defined to be a hub etc ?
> >
> > Mark :-)
>
> To add your own property you need to add your own field definition.
> You
> can
> create your own file (or change an existing one) in the field/C
> directory
> with
> lines like:
>
> Field "isSwitch" {
> Type Boolean;
> Flags capability;
> }
>
> When you have finished run "netview -fields" as root.
>
> You then need to add the capability to the appropriate symbol definition
> is
> symbols/C. (You can, of course create a new symbol if you want). Ther
> are
> plenty of examples. Note that you can add a capability to an entire
> symbol
> class as well as individual symbols.
>
> Capabilities {
> isSwitch = 1;
> }
>
> When you have finished run "netview -config" as root.
>
> This is where the problems start. When you add an object to a map for
> the
> first time it inherits the properties of the symbol you allocate to it,
> and
> I
> think you can amend the capabilities if you wish. If an object already
> exists
> and you use the right mouse button menu Edit -> Modify/Describe ->
> Object
> you
> can select the Capabilities and view them, but it is Read Only. The
> only
> way
> I have found to change the capabilities is the delete the object from
> all
> maps
> and re-create it. I have described this problem before but no-one
> offered
> a
> better solution.
>
> Your problem, as I understand it, is that NetView is discovering your
> routers,
> but is not allocating the symbol you think is appropriate. I do not know
> how
> NetView selects the symbol to use, but I do not think it can be expected
> to
> recognise particular makes and models. If there is an SNMP agent on the
> device it may be able to describe the device to NetView, otherwise
> NetView
> simply makes an educated guess based upon the interfaces it detects. You
> can
> change the symbol type easliy enough under Edit on the object menu, but
> I
> do
> not think this will change the underlying capabilities.
>
> You may be able to delete the objects and re-create them before NetView
> re-discovers them, but this may give you other problems.
>
> I hope that this is of some help, and that someone else can give better
> advice, which I will be interested to read myself.
>
> Jon Needes
> EDS, Hook, UK
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Vladimir Petr
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