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Re: Is there a way to check on the health of netmon

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Subject: Re: Is there a way to check on the health of netmon
From: Muni Chatarpal <munic@LUCENT.COM>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 14:52:42 -0600
Well james, to clarify a little, a way of checking to see if netmon is 
contribution to any performance on the AIX box.  Is netmon falling behing 
on polling ?  Is the poll list too long for netmon ?  Is netmon polling too 
many nodes ?  how long is the snmp poll list ?  Should I increase/decrease 
my polling frequency because netmon is falling behind ?  Just a way of 
telling if netmon is performing optimally.

Thanks for any assistance.

At 02:49 PM 1/14/00 -0500, you wrote:
>What do you mean by graphical?  If netmon is not running and you attempt a
>demand poll from the GUI,  the deman poll window will tell you netmon is not
>running.   And periodically, ovw checks on the daemons and will send you a
>pop-up window which says that netmon is not running.  So if the GUI is already
>up, you have both those options.
>
>A quick way  to check on the health of netmon is to do "ovstatus netmon" 
>and see
>whether he has exited with a message, which is better than "ps" because ovspmd
>will even catch a core and tell you about it (e.g "netmon exited with signal
>11").  But the best way to check on the real health of netmon ("yeah, he's up
>but is he working?") is to start the netmon trace (netmon -M  -1 ) and tail -f
>/usr/OV/log/netmon.trace.  Do you want that to be graphical?  How about 
>writing
>a short script to do it and put up a pop-up window with ovxecho or  ovxbeep?
>
>
>I think you need to clarify what you are asking.
>
>
>James Shanks
>Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
>
>
>
>Muni Chatarpal <munic@LUCENT.COM> on 01/14/2000 12:43:49 PM
>
>Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
>       <NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
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>To:   NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
>cc:    (bcc: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
>Subject:  Is there a way to check on the health of netmon
>
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>
>
>I know there is a graphical method of checking on the health of netmon
>daemon in Network Node Mgr, How can you check on netmon with Netview ?
>Something more than just a ps-ef |grep netmon.
>
>Thanks
>
>Muni

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Muni Chatarpal
Senior Network Systems Consultant
NetCare® Professional Services
Lucent Technologies
Houston Office: (713) 781-0300 Ext 122
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