I've found a number of really nice things in this new release.
This customer is in the midst of changing over lots of routers in the
network.
They are leaving IP addresses configured but down on one device and
adding the same address to the new device. And Netview is handling it
very nicely. It posts an event about the duplicate, but it moves the
interface
from the device where it is 'down' to the device where it is 'up'. Before,
you
could never be sure where it would end up, because it drew it where it
found
it first. The customer's old NNM was not handling these very well, either.
The HSRP stuff is working well, even without adding them to the seedfile.
A grep of the trapd.log showed up lots and lots of HSRP interfaces that
the customer was not aware of. An when we checked them, Netview was
right.
The demandpoll of Cisco's via CDP is really fast. The discovery of
unnumbered
serial is extremely thorough, and I did not have to put anything in the
seedfile.
If figured it all out.
Using my usual !@oid.... entries, the object count seems to rise and fall
on
its own, so apparently it is tossing some things on its own. This has meant
that I have to be careful about the ovwdb cache setting, and must pick the
number when the count is high, rather than low.
Location.conf is terrific. I built one using a comma-separated extract from
a
document the customer had, and generated a state-by-state map in very
short order, with multiple levels of heirarchy at the headquarters site. A
real
time-saver.
All told, I am really pleased with the work that has gone into the
discovery and
mapping functions.
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
(248) 552-4968 Voicemail, Fax, Pager
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