If you changed the community strings on the devices and not in NetView, you should get authentication failures from the devices when NetView polls them. The authentication failure traps may show what device is polling them with the wrong community string(should be your NetView server).If the traps do not show the offending device you still should be able to tell if netmon is doing the polling by the interval that you receive the traps(They will be at the same interval that netmon is set to poll).

Hope this helps,
Mark LaFever
Network Analyst
Excel Corp.
(316)291-2926

-----Original Message-----
From: shaileshbhai.patel@eds.com [mailto:shaileshbhai.patel@eds.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 1:37 PM
To: nv-l@tkg.com
Subject: FW: [NV-L] Status By SNMP

Hello all,

	As per NetView version 6.0 release notes netmon can poll status by
sending SNMP queries for the ifAdminStatus and 	ifOperStatus values of
interfaces. One of the three ways you can do this is

	By using the P switch in the /usr/OV/conf/oid_to_type file against
classes of devices. 

	I have modified oid_to_type file. How can I find out that netmon is
polling these devices by SNMP and not by ping?

	I tried changing the read community string on those devices but it
does not give node down or any kind of status down 	events.

	Any idea?

Thanks in advance

Shailesh Patel
Enterprise Management Services
Electronic Data Systems
Troy MI 48098
(248) 265-7573

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