Yeah, looks like a bug to me too. Check my
previous posting about the workaround. Looking
forward to getting 6.0.1 and seeing if it does
the same thing.
Thanks to all for your suggestions,
Les
>From: Stephen Elliott <selliott@epicrealm.com>
>Reply-To: IBM NetView Discussion <nv-l@tkg.com>
>To: "'IBM NetView Discussion'" <nv-l@tkg.com>
>Subject: RE: [NV-L] NetView 6.0 Discovery Problem
>Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 09:21:32 -0500
>
>Hello, All,
>
>Picking up on this DNS 'issue', shouldn't NetView add the node even if it
>doesn't resolve the name? I would expect NV to add it under the IP address
>in this case. Sounds like a bug to me.
>
>Regards,
>
>Steve Elliott
>Sr. Network Mgmt. Engineer
>epicRealm, Inc.
>214-570-4560
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: lclark@US.IBM.COM [mailto:lclark@US.IBM.COM]
>Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 8:45 PM
>To: IBM NetView Discussion
>Subject: RE: [NV-L] NetView 6.0 Discovery Problem
>
>
>
>
>The turbo business is covered in Appendix G of the Inst & Config
>manual for Netview for Unix.
>
>Guillermo may be on to something. Poor or incomplete name
>resolution can cause discovery problems.
>
>Cordially,
>
>Leslie A. Clark
>IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
>Detroit
>
>
>Salinas Sangines Guillermo <gsalinas@scanda.com.mx>@tkg.com on 09/18/2000
>06:04:26 PM
>
>Please respond to IBM NetView Discussion <nv-l@tkg.com>
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>To: "'IBM NetView Discussion'" <nv-l@tkg.com>
>cc:
>Subject: RE: [NV-L] NetView 6.0 Discovery Problem
>
>
>
>We had the same error, and we correct it after various tests.
>Just disable the DNS resolve method at the AIX server, and use /etc/hosts
>file.
>Be shure to DISABLE DNS.
>
>Regards
>
> > -----Mensaje original-----
> > De: lesdickert@nsimail.com [SMTP:lesdickert@nsimail.com]
> > Enviado el: Monday, September 18, 2000 4:13 PM
> > Para: nv-l@tkg.com
> > Asunto: [NV-L] NetView 6.0 Discovery Problem
> >
> > Running NetView 6.0 under AIX 4.3:
> >
> > I have 3 main Cisco routers that are not being
> > discovered, which is new since converting to
> > NetView 6.0 from NetView 5.1.1. Some things that
> > I know are:
> >
> > 1. The routers are not in the object database
> > (according to ovobjprint) after discovery
> > settles down.
> >
> > 2. For a brief few seconds, one of the routers
> > (and maybe the others) is in the object database,
> > but not after that.
> >
> > 3. The router addresses are in the seedfile.
> >
> > 4. I can snmpget and snmpwalk the routers using the
> > addresses from the seedfile, verifying (I think)
> > that the entries in ovsnmp.conf are correct.
> >
> > 5. I can ping the routers.
> >
> > 6. I have been doing nv6000_smit automapgen and ovtopofix -a
> > many times to diagnose this problem.
> >
> > 7. I turned on netmon -M 12 tracing, and it looks like the
> > routers are returning SNMP data according to entries in
> > netmon.trace.
> >
> > 8. Another nearby router that is similar in function gets
> > discovered fine.
> >
> > I saw a comment (by Leslie) on a previous posting about using the
> > Turbo form of the databases if routers have more than 20 interface,
> > however I can't find any reference to 'Turbo' databases in the NetView
> > for UNIX Installation and Configuration Version 6.0 manual.
> >
> > Thanks for any help/suggestions, other than going back to Version 5.1.1!
> >
> > Les Dickert
> > Network Solutions
> >
> >
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