I am running netview 5.0 on Solaris on a very small network with 4 subnets
and about 200 nodes. The user runs a read-only map. We have noticed the
following problem with the updating of the icons.
7 multihomed hosts were powered off. On the root map (IP Internet) they
turned red. Clinking on the icon for any of them showed all interfaces to be
red. When the user drills down to the subnet level, the nodes are green.
Even refreshing the map does not change them to red.
I brought up a read-write map, and they were green everywhere for a few
seconds. Very quickly they turned red on my read-write map and all subnet
maps. The user's read-only map still showed them green in the subnet maps.
The user then refreshed the read-only map again, and everything was updated.
This is unacceptable. The "users" are not network engineers. They are
accelerator operators who use the netview displays to validate the
connectivity of the network. It is critical that the netview display be up
to date and accurate so that they can quickly ascertain that something has
gone down. We do not want them to run a read-write map.
How do we solve this problem? Are there daemon options that we can use? Does
netview only update map icons when a read-write map is opened? The up/down
events are in the logs, so I know that it saw them.
Thanks, Connie
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Connie Logg CAL@SLAC.Stanford.Edu ph: 650-926-2879
Network Management and Performance Analyst
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