RE: Antwort: RE: Demand Poll SNMP Timeouts

[Stephen Elliott <selliott@epicrealm.com>]

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All,
 
Aren't patches like this made available to all NetView users? I didn't see
libnvsnmp.a listed among the patches and APARs, but I may have botched up
the search. 
 
Regards, 

Steve Elliott 
Sr. Network Mgmt. Engineer 
epicRealm, Inc. 
214-570-4560 

-----Original Message-----
From: Uwe.Richter@synthesis.de [mailto:Uwe.Richter@synthesis.de]
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:37 PM
To: IBM NetView Discussion
Subject: Antwort: RE: [NV-L] Demand Poll SNMP Timeouts



Hi all, 

The SNMP-Problem in 6.0.1 is a problem with other communities as global
(most public). If you use alternate communities in the ovsnmp.conf with
IP-Adress or IP-Adress with wildcards then you get a timeout by
nmdemandpoll. You don't get a timeout, if you use a hostname or smartset in
ovsnmp.conf. 
I have tested the E-Fix (new libnvsnmp.a). The fix corrected the problem for
alle nodes with IP-Adress in ovsnmp.conf. In the IP-Adress region with
wildcards is always a bug. 

best regards 
Uwe 
  



E-Mail: Uwe.Richter@synthesis.de

Tel.:      0711/90680-27
Fax:      0711/90680-66
Handy: 0172/9531201 



        "Boyce, Robert L" <robert.l.boyce@lmco.com> 
Gesendet von: owner-nv-l@tkg.com 


12.10.2000 14:38 
Bitte antworten an IBM NetView Discussion 


        
        An:        "'IBM NetView Discussion'" <nv-l@tkg.com> 
        Kopie:        (Blindkopie: Uwe Richter/Synthesis) 
        Thema:        RE: [NV-L] Demand Poll SNMP Timeouts


If the router is configured in your SNMP conf using the IP address for the
device, then this is a known problem in NV6.0.1.  I had the same problem
(PMR 56166,BRE00) and support finally sent me a new version of the
libnvsnmp.a library.  You should probably contact support to get this fix. 

Robert Boyce
Integrated Systems Management
Lockheed Martin
Enterprise Information Systems
Email: robert.l.boyce@lmco.com 


-----Original Message-----
From: lesdickert@nsimail.com [mailto:lesdickert@nsimail.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 8:17 AM
To: NV-L@tkg.com
Subject: [NV-L] Demand Poll SNMP Timeouts


Running NetView 6.0.1 under AIX 4.3.2:

Whenever I do a Demand Poll of routers that
NetView has discovered and found to be routers,
the SNMP portion of the Demand Poll times out.
I can do SNMP queries of those routers from the
command line just fine.  I didn't think the timeout
value in the SNMP configuration was an SNMP timeout,
but as a try I changed one of the timeout values on
a router to 60 seconds, but still got Demand Poll
SNMP timeouts.  

Main reason for my doing Demand Polls is to prod
NetView into realizing that a node it has discovered
is really a router.  

Two questions:

1.  Why am I getting these Demand Poll SNMP timeouts
   and is there anything I can do about it?

2.  What SNMP queries is the Demand Poll doing?  If I
   knew I could simulate them at the command line and
   be sure the router responds correctly.

Thanks,

Les Dickert


  
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All,

 

Aren't patches like this made available to all NetView users? I didn't see libnvsnmp.a listed among the patches and APARs, but I may have botched up the search.

 

Regards,

Steve Elliott
Sr. Network Mgmt. Engineer
epicRealm, Inc.
214-570-4560

-----Original Message-----
From: Uwe.Richter@synthesis.de [mailto:Uwe.Richter@synthesis.de]
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:37 PM
To: IBM NetView Discussion
Subject: Antwort: RE: [NV-L] Demand Poll SNMP Timeouts

Hi all,

The SNMP-Problem in 6.0.1 is a problem with other communities as global (most public). If you use alternate communities in the ovsnmp.conf with IP-Adress or IP-Adress with wildcards then you get a timeout by nmdemandpoll. You don't get a timeout, if you use a hostname or smartset in ovsnmp.conf.
I have tested the E-Fix (new libnvsnmp.a). The fix corrected the problem for alle nodes with IP-Adress in ovsnmp.conf. In the IP-Adress region with wildcards is always a bug.

best regards
Uwe
 



E-Mail: Uwe.Richter@synthesis.de

Tel.:      0711/90680-27
Fax:      0711/90680-66
Handy: 0172/9531201

"Boyce, Robert L" <robert.l.boyce@lmco.com> Gesendet von: owner-nv-l@tkg.com 12.10.2000 14:38 Bitte antworten an IBM NetView Discussion

An:        "'IBM NetView Discussion'" <nv-l@tkg.com>         Kopie:        (Blindkopie: Uwe Richter/Synthesis)         Thema:        RE: [NV-L] Demand Poll SNMP Timeouts

If the router is configured in your SNMP conf using the IP address for the
device, then this is a known problem in NV6.0.1.  I had the same problem
(PMR 56166,BRE00) and support finally sent me a new version of the
libnvsnmp.a library.  You should probably contact support to get this fix.

Robert Boyce
Integrated Systems Management
Lockheed Martin
Enterprise Information Systems
Email: robert.l.boyce@lmco.com


-----Original Message-----
From: lesdickert@nsimail.com [mailto:lesdickert@nsimail.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 8:17 AM
To: NV-L@tkg.com
Subject: [NV-L] Demand Poll SNMP Timeouts


Running NetView 6.0.1 under AIX 4.3.2:

Whenever I do a Demand Poll of routers that
NetView has discovered and found to be routers,
the SNMP portion of the Demand Poll times out.
I can do SNMP queries of those routers from the
command line just fine.  I didn't think the timeout
value in the SNMP configuration was an SNMP timeout,
but as a try I changed one of the timeout values on
a router to 60 seconds, but still got Demand Poll
SNMP timeouts.  

Main reason for my doing Demand Polls is to prod
NetView into realizing that a node it has discovered
is really a router.  

Two questions:

1.  Why am I getting these Demand Poll SNMP timeouts
   and is there anything I can do about it?

2.  What SNMP queries is the Demand Poll doing?  If I
   knew I could simulate them at the command line and
   be sure the router responds correctly.

Thanks,

Les Dickert


 
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