Well, it will use snmp to monitor unnumbered, but you have to get it to
discover
them first. And it still won't draw an unnumbered interface if it can't
find the other
end of the connection. In Niko's case, the other end is not
snmp-accessible. And
if it were, it also suffers from mismatching name resolution between the
router
and the management station, something the CDP method requires. There are
also
some sublties that I have not gotten clear on yet, like, will it draw the
card if the
other end is absent but name resolution for CDP is OK, and will it draw the
card
if you put the loopback of the near router in the seedfile as $ for forced
snmp
polling. Questions for the edges of the map...
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit
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Leslie,
I thought version 6 of NetView (NT anyway) can use ifOper status to
monitor devices (in fact, I thought it was the default for serial
interfaces).
Is there some reason this won't work in this instance, or is this another
difference between AIX and NT versions?
Just curious!
Gary Boyles, Intel
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Subject: [NV-L] Monitoring unnumbered serial interfaces when the remote
device is not managed
Niko, I ran across your case at a customer site today. Their internet
router
connects via unnumbered serial interfaces to the ISP, where we have no
snmp access. But they want to monitor the status of those interfaces at
least on their internet router. I would suggest using MLM on the local box
with APM to monitor the ifOperStatus of the serial interfaces. This will
create
an icon under the router that changes color, as a standin for the
interfaces.
I have done the same thing to monitor channel interfaces on 2216s.
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit
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