Not many. NetView gets status by ping, period. If you cannot ping it, then you
not only cannot discover it, but you cannot keep its status current using the
product as is. There is a feature coming in 6.0 (which has been mentioned here
before) that will allow you to say that for certain nodes to get status by snmp
request rather than ping, but it is not available yet.
What else could you do? Well, you could add your own icon to the map, and set
up scripts which would issue snmpgets to see how the thing is doing, and then
issue snmptrap commands with the 58916871 status trap to change the color of the
icon you created. That sort of thing all I can think of.
Perhaps other users have other ideas or scripts/code they might share.
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
"Hill, Channing" <CHill@BBANDT.COM> on 12/02/99 11:47:53 AM
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Subject: Monitoring a device on the other side of a fire wall
Hello
Our network support group has requested that Netview (Netview 5.1.1 w/
Optivity 8.1on AIX 4.2.1) monitor a router that resides on the other side of
a fire wall. Our Information Security Group has configured the fire wall to
allow our NMS station to see the router via snmp requests, telnet, and ftp.
The only problem is that I can't ping the router in order for Netview to
discover it. I beleive they have a problem with allowing ICMP packets pass
through the fire wall.
My question is, what other options do we have to monitor this router using
Netview with the fire wall being in the way
Channing Hill
BB&T
Enterprise Management
chill@bbandt.com
2501 Wooten Blvd
Wilson, NC 27893
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