Leslie,
Thanks for the explanation. I was not the one who requested the enhancement, but
in theory, it was a good idea on paper.
From: lclark@us.ibm.com on 09/19/2000 08:06 PM
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The problem with the adaptive polling is this: you, the customer, know that
certain circuits are often slow to respond and set a corresponding longer
timeout/retry. Netview manages to sneak a few pings by quickly and on
its own initiative shortens them. Then normal network traffic kicks in and
you get a false alarm. The map turns yellow and somebody gets paged,
and none of this was documented and you cannot figure out why your
change in the timeouts is not always effective. I for one am delighted
that this mysterious behavior is being changed. Personally, I suspect
nobody could remember why it was put in there. Probably some
customer asked for it. Hope it wasn't you....;)
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit
"Ken Karasek" <KGKARASE@hewitt.com>@tkg.com on 09/19/2000 06:30:20 PM
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James,
I am getting ready for a v5.1.2 to v6.0.1 NV upgrade. You mentioned the
adaptive
polling was dropped. Was there a problem with functionality?
From: James_Shanks@tivoli.com on 09/19/2000 03:23 PM
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A Down interface in NetView is one that does not respond to ping. You can
control how long netmon waits for a ping in xnmsnmpconf. The one thing you
haven't told us about is xnmsnmpconf. Do the settings from your V3
machine and
your V5.1.2 machine match? What are they?
There may also be an issue with adaptive polling -- something that was
added
between V3 and V5.1 and removed in 6.01 -- but there is no point going into
that
just yet.
James Shanks
Team Leader, Level 3 Support
Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
"Thomas Kunz" <t-kunz@admin.ndis.umn.edu> on 09/19/2000 12:34:41 PM
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Hello -
We have NetView 5.1.2, AIX 4.3.1 and Framework 3.6.1.
We have Solaris boxes and AIX boxes that are multihomed that have at least
one
public network interface and one private network interface. What I am
noticing
is that on the Solaris boxes only Netview is reporting that the private
interfaces are going down and then up at about 14-15 minute intervals. The
interface will change from green to red and the trapd.log says that it went
down, however it really does not. We can continue to use it even when
Netview
says that it's down?
Tue Sep 19 10:48:58 2000 kettle.oit.umn.edu N Interface qfe1 down.
Tue Sep 19 10:48:58 2000 kettle.oit.umn.edu N Node marginal.
Tue Sep 19 11:03:08 2000 kettle.oit.umn.edu N Interface qfe1 up.
Tue Sep 19 11:03:08 2000 kettle.oit.umn.edu N Node Up.
Another odd thing is that we still have a Netview/AIX box running Netview
Version 3 that also monitors these same Solaris boxes but does not see the
same
bounces. Has anyone seen this before?
Thanks in advance.
Thanks and have a great day! :-)
Tom Kunz
OIT/CCO Network & AIX Systems Support
University of Minnesota
1300 S. 2nd St.
Mpls., MN. 55454-1083
Suite 660
Phone: 612-624-8086
Fax: 612-626-1332
Email: t-kunz@cafe.tc.umn.edu
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