To clarify James' point, you have to get things to go away and
come back. Not necessarily from the database, but at least from the
map. I'm not sure if this is possible on Netview for NT, but on Netview for
AIX the following method works. I made several passes at it this week.
You can just make a new map, as opposed to doing a rediscovery.
Say you cut and paste your map manually and get it the way you like
it. Then you visit each location icon and make a note of which networks
ended up where, and code the location.conf file to match. Then you can
use the File...New Map function, which creates a new map based on
existing stuff in the object (or is it topology?) database. If you had not
made the location.conf file, that new map would look like a new discovery,
that is, a black ball with fans. With the location.conf file, it will be
different.
It will have the location icons you specified, with the networks already
in them. The routers as well as any unspecified networks will still be on
the outside, but if you have done a good job, it will be clear where they
go because they will be connected to a location icon.
(Note: before doing any cutting and pasting on this new map, be sure
to close it and do an ovtopofix -a pending the correction of a problem)
Then finish up the cut/paste, and maybe do another round of updates
on the location.conf file. When you have it the way you want it, you can
delete the other maps, save your final one as the default, and delete
that last one, too. Now 1) any new networks that come along will
follow the rules you set up, and 2) if you want to rediscover for
any reason, you know you won't have too hard a job recreating the map.
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit.
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James_Shanks@tivoli.com@tkg.com on 04/21/2000 10:10:12 PM
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I can't quite visualize what you are asking here, Larry, so let's just step
back
and think about it. Things get put into a location defined in
location.conf
when they are first discovered. So if they aren't where you want them now,
then
you have to build the location.conf to reflect the way you want the map,
and
then you have to re-discover all the objects you want to be put into the
location automatically by netmon/ipmap. The only way and object can be
re-discovered is for it to be deleted from the databases first. You can do
that
from the GUI individually, but if there are major changes you want to make,
then
it may be easier to just clear the databases and start over. You will have
to
decide that. But fundamentally, things must somehow be deleted before they
can
be re-discoverd.
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX and NT) L3 Support
"Chance, Larry" <lchance@sfbcic.com> on 04/21/2000 09:43:53 AM
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Subject: [NV-L] location.conf
Netview for NT v6
Is there any way to add a new section to the location.conf file
and then have Netview include the newly added section to the IP Internet
map
without having to do 'Clear Databases'?
Thanks for any help.
Larry Chance
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