I experience similar problem.
Up to recently I was running NetView 5.1 on F50 (AIX 4.2.1).
I had very many inconsistencies between object status in the ovwdb and
object color on the ip map,
especially for the network devices with multiple interfaces ( routers ).
I would loose connectivity to the router, and map changes the color ( event
is generated ).
When connectivity is restored Node Up is in the event log, but the router
object icon
would still be red. I can right click on the RED icon and select
Edit->Description
In IP status field I would have "Normal" status.
My operations guys are using map for the troubleshooting.
I told them, when they see the problem like this they can "Acknowledge" and
"Unacknowledged"
the object. This seems to work all the time.
I scheduled weekly "ovtopofix -A" for the map and it seems to help as well.
I upgraded to NV5.1.2 the problem still exists, however it not as bad as it
was before.
Thanks.
Alek Barsky
Network Management Analyst
Rogers Shared Services
Tel 905-513-5152
abarsky@rci.rogers.com
-----Original Message-----
From: James Shanks [mailto:James_Shanks@TIVOLI.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 12:53 PM
To: NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
Subject: Re: Weird map update problem
You got me. But there are three questions I would ask to try to determine
what
is going on.
(1) If you go to a submap where the router is red, and demand poll it, does
the
color change?
(2) If you unmanage it, it will turn wheat colored. When you then manage it
again, does it turn green again or go back to red?
(3) On a submap where the router is red, determine what inteface that is.
Can
you find a matching Interface Up trap in trapd.log?
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
Patrick McNeil <patrick_mcneil@YAHOO.COM> on 02/22/2000 09:43:45 AM
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: Weird map update problem
We have been having some problems with maps updating on our NetView system.
Our system has the following specifications:
4 processor F50
3 GB Ram
1 GB Paging Space
Lots of free disk space
Netview for AIX 5.1.1
We have a central hub site internationally that has six locations that
connect to the hub for corporate connectivity. When the hub site goes down,
all the sites behind it goes down. We get the appropriate messages from
Netview that everything is down. When the site comes back on-line, we get
all the messages from the system that everything is back up. The maps,
however, show an inconsistency. The router is green on the network layer
(the one that shows the router connected to the various segments), but is
red when you drill down to the individual networks. When I do an ovtopodump
<router name>, NetView reports the status for all the objects associated
with the router have a status of Up.
This is kind of a problem since the network support group use the colors to
determine if there is a problem when they are at their desk. Also, my
management is a little frustrated since it appears that there is a problem,
but everything is up and functioning correctly.
Has anyone seen this before?
Anyone have any suggestions for a way around this?
Thanks,
Patrick
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