Hello,
A customer has 3 sites, each of them has a Netview 5.1 server installed.
We want to leave a Netview server in site A, and remove the Netview
servers from site B and C, replacing them with MLM agents.
Problem is : site B and C have each multiple subnets. As far as I
know, a MLM will execute a status and discovery polling for systems
that are in his own subnet per default (and if, of course, netmon has
been configured to delegate this polling activity). It is possible to
add additionnal systems to be polled by our MLM using the Status
Monitoring table, but this is limited to a list of specific nodes
or aliases that one has to enter manually.
What we would like to achieve is that each MLM in each remote site
would poll all the subnets of these remote sites. With the actual
features and as we understand them, this mean that we should create
an alias containing all the systems, from all the remote subnets,
that we want the MLM to poll. This is completely unachievable.
If we look at the object collection editor in Netview, we see that we
can create collections based on subnet definitions. Ideally, we would
like to create such a collection for the remote subnets, convert this
collection to an alias and distribute the alias definition to the remote
MLMs. Is this possible ? Is it possible to maintain a relation between
a collection definition and an alias definition.
I agree that putting simply a MLM in each subnet would be far easier,
but for different reasons to long to explain here this is the last
possiblity we will look for.
Any help or comments highly appreciated
Frederic Mottiat
Frederic Mottiat - IBM Global Services (PSS-SMNS)
Tivoli Implementation & Services
Email : frederic_mottiat@be.ibm.com
Tel : 02/225 34 08 Gsm : +32 (0)75 388 773
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