1) Can the location.conf be created from an existing map? I was
wondering if I can then use the location.conf file on a new NetView
system to get the same map recreated.
Location.conf is an ascii file and you build it. There is no automatic build.
Once built, it will populate a new map or the
default map at discovery time. So the answer is "yes". If you have two boxes
running V6 on the same network, then the
location.conf you create on one can be migrated to the other and a new map will
use it.
2) Anybody running V6 with 20,000+ objects? Any problems?
Verification routinely tests this. 20K objects is not a particularly large
installation.
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX and NT) L3 Support
Peter Cho <chop@tdbank.ca> on 04/28/2000 11:44:31 AM
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Subject: Re: [NV-L] Nice stuff in V6
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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