Sometimes this happens when there is a duplicate IP address out there
somewhere.
If you do an ovtopofix -a and restart netmon with that address right at the
top of the
seedfile, do you see an event about Duplicates? Anything in the nettl log?
If that is not the case, you could actually add the object to the map
manually and
netmon will take over. Be sure to put it on the right level of the map
(servers would
be inside a segment) in the right subnet. In the dialog, be sure to go into
the
ipmap dialog and accept the address and mask. Then a demandpoll will
finish it off.
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Thanks Phil for your response. However, we run database maintenance using
ovtopofix -a every Saturday evening so I don't think thats what our problem
is.
Are there any other suggestions/thoughts out there?
---------------------- Forwarded by Lucy Premus/Bsg/MetLife/US on 04/07/99
10:47
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Philip Guerra <pguerra@DEV.TIVOLI.COM> on 04/06/99 08:44:51 PM
Please respond to pguerra@dev.tivoli.com
To: NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
cc: (bcc: Lucy Premus/Bsg/MetLife/US)
Subject: Re: Forcing NetView to find a resource
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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