A couple of questions regarding NetView v6 on AIX.
1) Can the location.conf be created from an existing map? I was
wondering if I can then use the locaiton.conf file on a new NetView
system to get the same map recreated.
2) Anybody running V6 with 20,000+ objects? Any problems?
Thanks
lclark@us.ibm.com wrote:
> 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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