Leslie,
you understood correctly.About the bills to be generated the customer does not
care as is a PPT. They want to ping the ethernet interface of router2 for two
reasons:
1. know the status, so the have visibility of router on NetView interface
2. test the isdn line between.
I convinced the customer to set different polling intervals and I will let you
know.
Thanks.
Best Regards,
Niko Kaniadakis
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>from: Leslie Clark <lclark@US.IBM.COM>
>Subject: Re: staggered polling (was nothing)
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>Niko, do I understand you correctly, that when you ping the ethernet
>interfaces
>on the 30+ branch Router 2, those routers start ISDN connections back to a
>router 3 at the central site? Are you sure you want to do that? Doesn't it
>cause
>bills to be generated? Most of us are trying hard to avoid doing that.
>I may have misunderstood. Anyway, if you want to stagger the polling cycles
>of a lot of interfaces on a particular router, you could try making three
>or more
>groups of interfaces, and assigning them slightly different intervals, like
>5, 6, and
>7 minutes. You can configure the interfaces individually in Options..SNMP.
>I don't know that you could guarantee that they would not converge after
>some
>time.
>Cordially,
>Leslie A. Clark
>IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
>Detroit
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My customer have a lot of branches with the following configuration:
In each branch there are two routers, the Router 2 has two interface:
ethernet and isdn. In the POP there is a router who receive the isdn
calls
from a lot of branch routers but supports (at the same time) up to 30 isdn
calls.
The network is managing by NetView AIX 5.1.1. Router 2 has the isdn
interface
unmanaged and managed just the ethernet interface. Router 2 (according to
its
configuration) when receive a pachet in the ethernet interface route this
through the isdn interface . NetView ping for status information the
ethenet
interface of Router 2 in the branches (there are more than 30) but the
Router 3 cannot manage all these isdn calls so the Router 2 appears in the
NetView submap in critical status BUT if you ping it after a while the
NetView
will report the status correctly.
I am wondering if can "customize" the netmon ping (maintain the ping
interval)
in such way that won't ping "at the same time" all the ethernet interface
of
all Router 2.
Any idea or hint ?.
Thanks a lot.
Nikos Kaniadakis
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Niko Kaniadakis
IBM Global Services
PSS - SN&MS
Tel. 06.596.62234 Mobile: 0337/270422
E-mail: niko_kaniadakis@it.ibm.com
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