Are your IPX devices IP-enabled? If they are not also participating directly in
TCP/IP and have SNMP or SNMP-proxies then NetView will not know about them. The
alternative to that is to use Novell's Managewise and integrate that with
NetView, or so I am told. Here's an old append about that subject which you may
find helpful.
There is a redbood, SG24-2532 Integrating Netware Management with Netview.
It is from 11/95, and is still listed on the redbooks website
(www.redbooks.ibm.com - I think this is a pubic site). Anyway it is about
importing IPX topoplogy into Netview.
It was from the days before everyone's Netware clients were IP-enabled. It uses
that function under the Administration menu tab for openmon (is that what it is
called? Is it still there?). Anyway it takes a topology feed from the
Managewise console and I believe it did require an add-on at that end from
Novelle.
But lately I think most folks are letting Netview get the information it
wants via IP and SNMP.
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
Tehmina Khan <Tehmina_Khan@NORTHDOOR.CO.UK> on 07/30/99 04:18:18 AM
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Subject: Discovering IPX devices
Hello,
I have just installed Netview 5.1 on AIX 4.3.2. I have started up netview and
successfully found all the IP devices on the network. However I cannot get
Netview to discover the IPX devices. I have checked that IPX is is loaded and
running on AIX (sapd and npsd).
Can anyone tell me what I need to do in Netview to see all the IPX devices.
Thanks
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