I have the same problem and may have a fix. I am running Netview for NT 5.1.1
and
have a seed file that only discovers the "core" routers and switches at my site
that I am concerned with. For issues that I won't get into, I needed to have an
important server in my map so I added it's IP to the seed file. When netmon
does
its discovery, it not only checks the machines (routhers and switches) in the
seed
file but it also checks the machines that it has contacted or serves and adds
them
as hints. Because this server is served by one of the routers I mentioned above
and a hint was added, the code for netmon, when it sees this machine and its
associated hint, basically ignores it and does not populate the map with it. I
asked a Netview developer about it and he said to issue the ovtopofix -a
command.
That will delete the hint. Then stop netmon and restart it. At this point,
netmon
will discover the box and because you have deleted the hint, it will add the
machine to your map.
I did this today but I have had a chance to go back and see if it actually
worked.
Philip Guerra
Senior TME & Netview Deployment Engineer
IT-Austin
Tivoli Systems, Inc.
Lucy Premus wrote:
> I think I may have asked this question before, in some fashion, but I don't
> recall if I ever received a helpful answer or any at all
> I have several servers I need to monitor on NetView. I specifically defined
> them to the seed file by their address. There are no other definitions in the
> seed file excluding their discovery and all network devices (ie. routers and
> switches) are discovered and being monitored by NetView. The problem is,
> NetView seems to have found them and added them to its database, but only as a
> hint. They've been this way, well over a week now, if not longer, but I can't
> seem to get NetView to poll them and add them to its topology. Has anyone
> seen
> this before? Is there any way to force NetView to config check them and add
> them to the database?
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