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From: Uwe Richter <Uwe.Richter@synthesis.de>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 10:17:00 +0200
Hi,

we use a script on IFDWN_EV with ovactiond.
This Script make a ping to the IP-address of the Interface.
You can reduce the hold time in ruleset and the retries in snmpd.conf for   
better performance.

best regards
Uwe

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Antw: [NV-L] Ruleset using RESOLVE and FORWARD


Hi Ray,

I use another approach for this issue: if you can wait fro three minutes
before getting the IF_DOWN - event then you can modify the polling   
paramters
so that "down" will only occure after netmon was pinging for three   
minutes
without success. Go to
"Options -> SNMP Configuration" and change the "Timeout"-Value and "Retry
Count". Remember that the timeout-period is doubled for every retry:

by example: Timeout 2, number of retry's sets total time until IF_DOWN -   
event


initial ping       wait 2 seconds         total time 2 seconds till   
IF_DOWN -
event
retry  1            wait 4 seconds         total time 6 seconds  till   
IF_DOWN
 - event
retry  2            wait 8 seconds         total time 14 seconds till   
IF_DOWN
 - event
retry  3            wait 16 seconds       total time 30 seconds till   
IF_DOWN
 - event
retry  4            wait 32 seconds       total time 62 seconds till   
IF_DOWN
 - event
retry  5            wait 64 seconds       total time 126 seconds till   
IF_DOWN
 - event
retry  6            wait 128 seconds     total time 254 seconds till   
IF_DOWN
 - event

Let's look at the probable reasons for those fake downs. One possibility   
is
that the timeout/retry combination specified in netview is not   
appropriate.
If the log of those devices shows interface down/up for short times, then
there is a real problem and it's better to solve this rather to tell   
netview
to ignore it.
If you look at the log of the devices with fake downs and they show no
interface down, then they were too busy to answer the netmon ping request   
or
there was a network problem between your netview and the device.

My experience is that with timeout 1.8 and retry 5 in a local network and   
a
frame-relay network with a maximum of 3 hops those reoccuring "fake"
interface downs are showing those devices which will become critical   
within
the next few weeks because
they are permanently overloaded (speaking of cisco devices). You may not   
see
this looking at the CPU-load of these devices or the load on single
interfaces, but that's my experience. Another cause for those "fake"
interface downs are
routing-problems, by example updates of large routing tables reoccuring   
very
fast due to a flippy interface. So I would play with the timeout and   
retry
parameters a bit and then look for the reasons if those fake downs still
exist.


Hope this helps

Michael Seibold



>>> Ray.Foss@motorola.com 01.09. 2.03 Uhr >>>
Forgive me if this is a FAQ, my ears are still wet when it comes to NV6K.

I'm running NetView 6.0 and forwarding OV_IF_Down and OV_IF_Up events to   
a
3.6.2 TEC based on a NetView ruleset.  My question is:

Can I use the RESOLVE template, as in the sample (sampcorrIuId.rs)   
ruleset,
to suppress quick down/up indications that are not real outages?  Here is
the pseudo-code for my desired results:

if you get a OV_IF_Down
 Hold it for a while (3 minutes)

if you get a OV_IF_Up
 if you have a OV_IF_Down in hold from the same IP
  resolve this event

if the Hold timeout expires
 forward the OV_IF_Down event

I also don't know if I can cascade rule sets.   Any help if greatly
appreciated.  Thanks.

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