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From: Philip Guerra <pguerra@DEV.TIVOLI.COM>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 12:14:45 -0500
Organization: Tivoli Systems, Inc.
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Sender: Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView <NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
If I am not mistaken you can't have ranges of ip addresses, that you want to
discover, in the seed file.  You can have ranges for address you don't want to
discover or DHCP ranges but not ranges for machines you want to discover.


Philip Guerra
Senior TME Deployment Engineer
IT-Austin
Tivoli Systems, Inc.

Roger Campagnoni wrote:

> CAUTION: Newbie to the mailing list - question.
>
> I need clarification on the /usr/OV/conf/seed_file.
>
> Currently we have placed all of our Core Routers backbone
> IP Addresses in the seed_file in which NetView's discovery
> process properly detected these routers, and placed the appropriate
> logical links to their corresponding neighbors.
>
> We are attempting to detect devices with specific IP Ranges on
> already discovered networks.  However their are not being discovered
> even after several days.  I placed in the seed_file (10.70.1-254.245-254 ),
> hoping to discover the following devices (10.70.11.245, 10.70.12.245,
> 10.70.21.245).
> But alas none has been discovered.
>
> I did read the trick, to place the IP Address of a device you want to
> quickly
> discover at the bottom of the seed_file and then bounce netview through
> smit.  That does seem to work properly.
>
> So for the sake of sanity what am I doing wrong?
> Is the "10.70.1-254.245-254" statement in the seed_file not valid?
> Could I use "10.70.*.*" ?
> Or am I deemed to have to enter devices like "10.70.11.245" ,
> "10.70.12.245" etc, etc.  (Which I doubt).
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> ---------------------- Forwarded by Roger Campagnoni/IT/CF/CCI on 04/30/99
> 09:10 AM ---------------------------
>
> Gil Irizarry <IRIZARRG@LABS.WYETH.COM> on 04/30/99 05:51:00 AM
>
> To:   NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
> cc:    (bcc: Roger Campagnoni/IT/CF/CCI)
> Subject:  nv-list
>
> I had the same problem. I am told that we do not have an authoritative
> server for network 10 with out internal network. My solution was to include
> all router ip addresses in my /etc/hosts file.
> Gil Irizarry
>
> >>> Massimo Carnevali <Massimo.Carnevali@COMUNE.BOLOGNA.IT> 04/30 8:45 AM
> >>>
> I too noticed this problem. It seems that for a small perdiod of days
> trying to resolve
> internal addresses (like 10.*.*.*) on the external world gave that answer.
> Check your DNS inverse ip resolution, may be it is asking outside what it
> should
> keep inside.
> Hope this helps.
> Massimo Carnevali - IBM Global Services -Italy

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