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NV down traps from unmanaged interfaces

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Subject: NV down traps from unmanaged interfaces
From: "Peter Anderson" <pETERanderson@westpac.com.au>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 11:07:39 +1100
Hi,

I'm using NV 6.0.1 on Solaris 7.

I've got this "problem" which I haven't decided whether to raise a new PMR.

We have a lot of SNMP managed Cisco routers.  From time to time, an
interface may be operationally down when a subnet has been decommissioned,
but the Admin status of the router is still up.

To stop NV creating alerts, I have unmanaged the interface.

I've noticed just recently that the unmanaged "status" (I'm using that word
here) is kept in the map, but at what I assume is the next status check
cycle, the status in the object and topology DBs are changed by NV to
Critical/Down.  Of course traps are then issued and events start showing up.

I think this is a bug.  I didn't see this as a fix in 6.0.2, but maybe I
missed something (James?).

Here's the one in question:

(nvb)[/usr/OV/log] root# ovobjprint -s
"140phil-u2-lo.rtr.net.westpac.com.au:Ethernet0"
                OBJECTID                SELECTION NAME


OBJECT: 18390

        FIELD ID        FIELD NAME                      FIELD VALUE
        10              Selection Name
"140phil-u2-lo.rtr.net.westpac.com.au:Ethernet0"
        14              OVW Maps Exists                 1
        15              OVW Maps Managed                0
        72              IP Address                      "10.215.114.1"
        73              IP Subnet Mask                  "255.255.255.0"
        74              IP Status                       Critical(4)
        131             isCard                          TRUE
        132             isInterface                     TRUE
        137             isHSRP                          FALSE
        142             isIP                            TRUE
        165             SNMP ifType                     Ethernet CSMACD(6)
        166             SNMP ifPhysAddr                 "0x00000C75D9A3"
        167             SNMP ifDescr                    "Ethernet0"
        168             SNMP ifSpeed                    10000000
        209             TopM Network ID                 18389
        210             TopM Segment ID                 18656
        211             TopM Node ID                    1158
        224             XXMAP Protocol List             "IP"
        225             XXMAP SAPs Used List            0

Note fields 15 and 74.

Here's a bit of an extract from trapd.log (interesting cycle!) ...

981469684  7  Wed Feb 07 01:28:04 2001 140phil-u2-lo.rtr.net.westpac.com.au
N Interface Ethernet0 Unreachable.
981504158  3  Wed Feb 07 11:02:38 2001 140phil-u2-lo.rtr.net.westpac.com.au
N Interface Ethernet0 down.
981504158  3  Wed Feb 07 11:02:38 2001 <none>                    N Segment
10.215.114.Segment1 Down.
981504158  3  Wed Feb 07 11:02:38 2001 <none>                    N Network
10.215.114 Down.
981504159  3  Wed Feb 07 11:02:39 2001 140phil-u2-lo.rtr.net.westpac.com.au
N Router marginal.
981519917  7  Wed Feb 07 15:25:17 2001 <none>                    N Network
10.215.114 is Unreachable, mask(255.255.255.0)
981549785  3  Wed Feb 07 23:43:05 2001 140phil-u2-lo.rtr.net.westpac.com.au
N Router Up.
981549791  7  Wed Feb 07 23:43:11 2001 <none>                    N Segment
10.215.114.Segment1 Managed.
981549791  7  Wed Feb 07 23:43:11 2001 <none>                    N Network
10.215.114 Managed.
981550619  7  Wed Feb 07 23:56:59 2001 140phil-u2-lo.rtr.net.westpac.com.au
N Interface Ethernet0 Unreachable.
981557820  3  Thu Feb 08 01:57:00 2001 140phil-u2-lo.rtr.net.westpac.com.au
N Interface Ethernet0 down.
981557820  3  Thu Feb 08 01:57:00 2001 <none>                    N Segment
10.215.114.Segment1 Down.
981557820  3  Thu Feb 08 01:57:00 2001 <none>                    N Network
10.215.114 Down.
981557821  3  Thu Feb 08 01:57:01 2001 140phil-u2-lo.rtr.net.westpac.com.au
N Router marginal.
981587381  7  Thu Feb 08 10:09:41 2001 140phil-u2-lo.rtr.net.westpac.com.au
n Demand polling on node 140phil-u2-lo.rtr.net.westpac.com.au.

Searching through NV-L I have found a couple of similar instances and
comments.

In one James Shanks says:

"And "unmanaged" is not a status (normal, marginal, critical) but a kind of
state which tells ipmap to ignore anything
else about this node, segment, interface, and so on."

I'm confused.  If unmanaged is not a status, and it's only ipmap that uses
it, why does the notes on netmon say that it won't poll unmanaged devices?
Also, why does the topology and object databases (in other devices) have
"Unmanaged" as a status.

A "good" Example ...

from ovobjprint -s:

OBJECT: 87982

        FIELD ID        FIELD NAME                      FIELD VALUE
        10              Selection Name                  "wtc-test2"
        11              IP Hostname                     "wtc-test2"
        14              OVW Maps Exists                 1
        15              OVW Maps Managed                0
        74              IP Status                       Unmanaged(5)
        77              isIPRouter                      FALSE
        104             vendor                          Sun(39)
        115             isNode                          TRUE
        117             isComputer                      TRUE
        118             isConnector                     FALSE
        119             isBridge                        FALSE
        120             isRouter                        FALSE
        121             isHub                           FALSE
        125             isWorkstation                   TRUE
        142             isIP                            TRUE
        158             isSNMPSupported                 TRUE
        160             SNMP sysDescr                   "Sun SNMP Agent,
SUNW,SPARCstation-5"
        161             SNMP sysLocation                "System
administrators office"
        162             SNMP sysContact                 "System
administrator"
        163             SNMP sysObjectID
"1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.1.1"
        164             SNMPAgent                       Sun Microsystems
SunOS(350)
        169             isMLM                           FALSE
        170             isSYSMON                        FALSE
        171             isSIA                           FALSE
        172             isManager                       FALSE
        174             isSLM                           FALSE
        175             isSIAOS2                        FALSE
        207             TopM Interface Count            2
        213             TopM Interface List             "le0
Unmanaged  10.208.21.31    255.255.255.0   0x0800207AC890  ethernet csmacd
"
        224             XXMAP Protocol List             "IP"
        962             IPIP Name                       "wtc-test2"


and from ovtopodump -l:

        INTERFACE:  le0
        INTERFACE ID:  87983
        CREATE TIME: Wed 07 Feb 2001 11:42:32 PM E
        MODIFIED TIME: Wed 07 Feb 2001 11:42:32 PM E
        SYMBOL CHANGE TIME: Wed 07 Feb 2001 11:42:32 PM E
        SEGMENT CHANGE TIME: Wed 07 Feb 2001 11:42:32 PM E
        STATUS:  Unmanaged
        IF FLAGS:  CONNECTED
        IP ADDR:  10.208.21.31
        IP MASK:  255.255.255.0


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