MLMs are not booted at the same time.
The problem with MLM is that it sends interface up traps for everything
it has in it's collection the first time it comes up. This is the part I was
asking about. I wanted a way to suppress the flood of traps, just for
the MLM startup.
James_Shanks@tivoli.com wrote:
> As far as I know, what you are describing is normal behavior. When an MLM is
> rebooted, it starts from ground zero and sends status traps on all the nodes
> it
> monitors to NetView. That's what it is supposed to do. It doesn't have a
> topology database like netmon does to store this information in, so it sends a
> level-set to netmon. It has no idea what happened to the nodes it monitor
> when
> it is down, whether netmon was able to take over the polling successfully or
> not, so it has to start somewhere. Are you rebooting all your MLMs at once or
> something? If not, then the question becomes, why have MLMs monitor status in
> the first place if you don't want them to send the traps?
>
> James Shanks
> Tivoli (NetView for UNIX and NT) L3 Support
>
> Peter Cho <chop@tdbank.ca> on 05/05/2000 02:03:12 PM
>
> Please respond to IBM NetView Discussion <nv-l@tkg.com>
>
> To: IBM NetView Discussion <nv-l@tkg.com>
> cc: (bcc: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
> Subject: [NV-L] MLM floods NetView with interface up traps
>
> Hello,
>
> Using NT MLMs with AIX NetView 5.12. When our MLM's are
> rebooted, it floods NetView with hundreds of interface up traps.
>
> Don't want to filter the trap as our network people want to see it.
> Does anyone have a work around? Is there a ruleset to handle this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
>
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