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Subject: RE: Netview changing snmp config by itself
From: "Leslie Clark/Southfield/IBM" <lclark@us.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 21:41:08 -0500
And it DID keep the other settings, right? It only overrode the
read community. Nothing else was filled in, as your example shows.

hostname1:xyz::::::::::::

It looks to me like the daily configuration poll probably
did what it was supposed to, and added entries for you.


Cordially,

Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit


pETERanderson@westpac.com.au@tkg.com on 11/08/2000 08:59:45 PM

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Further investigation found that yes, we did have names in
communityNames.conf.

There is conflicting information in the doco.  Some doco says these names
are only used during the initial discovery, other doco says that there are
other situations:

1.   After a SNMP timeout.
2.   When a demand poll fails

Surely Netview would only attempt to use the alternates if:

1.   The device was unreachable by SNMP but reachable by ping, OR
2.   The device was unreachable by SNMP and it was configured to do SNMP
status polling.

Neither of those scenarios occurred here.

Also, once netmon had used an alternate it would only modify the snmp conf
if "public" failed and the alternate worked.  Then and only then it should
modify the config by adding a new entry BUT IT SHOULD KEEP ANY OTHER
EXISTING SETTINGS.  For example, timeouts or no. of routing entries.

Regards,

Peter Anderson
Senior Communications Analyst
Data Communications Support
Ph:  9902(5)5938


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Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 9:41 AM
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-----Original Message-----
From:               Patel, Shaileshbhai B
Sent:               Wednesday, 8 November 2000 22:37
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-----Original Message-----
From:               Patel, Shaileshbhai B
Sent:               Wednesday, 8 November 2000 22:37
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Leslie,

     Looks like this is a bug. Here is the scenario. I have a network
device (Cisco Router)
     which has a "public" read community set on it (This is a lab
environment). I setup
     different community string in ovsnmp.conf using xnmsnmpconf
application. Just for an      example say it was set to "notusepublic".
There is no community string
     defined in /usr/OV/conf/communityNames.conf. That file is blank. If
I use demandpoll    or configuration polling on that device, it is
modifying community string from    "notusepublic" to public. I have
tested this for at least 5 times. If the community
     string is set to something else then "public" on that device,
demandpoll/configuration      polling fails. That is the way it is
supposed to work. My global default is set to      "public". If demandpoll
defaults to Global default that is fine but it should not    modified
entry in ovsnmp.conf file.

     Any comments?

Shailesh Patel
EDS

-----Original Message-----
From: Leslie Clark/Southfield/IBM [mailto:lclark@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 8:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [NV-L] Netview changing snmp config by itself


Spooky, eh? Well, there only 2 possible explanations. Either someone has
added a specific entry unbeknownst to you, or someone has added an entry to
/usr/OV/conf/communityNames.conf, which Netview will try when nothing in
ovsnmp.conf works.  If something in there works, it adds entries to
ovsnmp.conf.

The Sherlock Holmes approach to problem determination works for me:
When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable,
must be the truth.

Cordially,

Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit


"Peter Anderson" <pETERanderson@westpac.com.au>@tkg.com on 11/02/2000
08:20:01 PM

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Hi,

We have Netview Unix 6.0.1 on Solaris 2.7.

I've had a problem occur a couple of times where Netview in its infinite
wisdom creates new entries in the ovsnmp.conf_db database for individual
nodes, using Netview defaults but with community names not found anywhere
except in the managed device itself.

For example, we use public for all our read-only monitoring but use say
"xyz" as our read-write community name.

I setup the ovsnmp.conf_db with only static entries for our two Netview
boxes, and either the default or a smartset entry for every other managed
node.

Our default is:

*.*.*.*:public:*:100:2:7200:::604800:604800:86400:10:1:0:1

Our smartset entries are similar but with slightly different timeout
settings, depending on the set.

branch_swch:public:*:200:2:7200:::604800:2419200:86400:1:0:0:0

I've found two occasions where entries are created like:

hostname1:xyz::::::::::::

It's only happened twice, and it has happened when nobody has been using
Netview, just the daemons in the background doing polling.  Entries haven't
been created for EVERY managed node - just some.

Unfortunately, the above settings cause high CPU usage on our smaller Cisco
routers, which I think is due to netmon wanting to get the entire routing
table and with a small timeout, retries occur.

I Netview designed like this and if so why?

Regards,

Peter Anderson
Senior Communications Analyst
Westpac Banking Corporation
Ph:  0011 61 2 99025938
<Remove ETER from my address to reply>

Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not
necessarily represent those of Westpac Banking Corporation.




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