In order to answer this question you have to answer several prior ones.
(1) Why does it take you 15 minutes to know a node is down if netmon is polling
every node at 5 minute intervals (the default)? If you changed the polling
interval, why did you do it?
(2) How big is your network? Do ovobjprint -S to find out how many objects
NetView knows about.
(3) People usually put MLMs where it makes sense to put them -- i.e on remote
subnets grouped by location. How is your network configured. Many subnets? A
few large ones?
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
"Dearman, Richard" <rdearm1@UIC.EDU> on 08/10/99 07:21:33 PM
Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
<NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
cc: (bcc: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
Subject: Node status
Currently it takes me 15 minutes before I know a node is down. I want to
decrease this time to less than 5 minutes. I plan on deploying MLM's to
reduce the load on my Netview server but I don't know how many to deploy to
get the status level I desire of less than 5 minutes notice. Is there any
document, chart or rule I can use to esitmate how many MLM's to deploy to
get a desired response time.
Thanks
Brian
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