I have dealt with maps of this sort before, and you are right, the
piecemeal
discovery is tedious. It is not possible in the current version of the
product,
although it is a well-understood requirement.
In the meantime, I have a suggestion. If your naming convention is as tidy
as your note suggests, this is what I would do:
1) Create a Collection of isLocation=TRUE
2) Create all of your locations icons. They will be too small to see on the
IP Internet submap, but will be easy to get at in the Collection submap.
3) Use Locate..Object..By Selection Name to highlight the networks at the
branches, and hopefully the routers, too, for a region.
4) Use View...Highlights...Select Highlights to change highlighted things
to
selected things.
5) From the IP Internet submap (this is important), do Cut..From THIS
submap.
From the correct Location Icon, do the paste.
This way you don't need to bother zooming, and don't need to be able to
actually get a grip on tiny nodes.
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit
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Hi,
My problem:
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We have over 1100 branches (as a bank branch) which we will
be polling using Netview servers (typical branch = cisco router+ hub+ NT
server etc) .
I want to poll only routers and hubs.
If I create a seed file with only a part of
our branch network devices - "IP Internet" view becomes very "crowded"
with
subnet symbols. I am looking for some way of automating a process
of manually moving the IP subnet symbols + devices into appropriate
containers/location symbols. Ideally I would prefer not to use GUI but
to use a comand line which would move let's, say: all devices 10.200.*.* to
Queensland
location symbol.
Is it possible?
Is it possible to modify object properties in Netview database so the
object
gets moved to another view/location?
I know I can run discovery in stages, eg. add some extra nodes to seed file
and re-run "netmon -y". It just desn't seem right ;-)
Regards,
Jack
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Jack Szewczyk | email: jszewczyk@westpac.com.au
Network Systems Administrator |
Westpac Banking Corporation +---------------------------------
Level 2, 72 Christie Street | phone: +61 2 9902 6497
St Leonards NSW 2065/AUSTRALIA | fax: +61 2 9902 5111
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