Tom,
Fisrt upgrade to NV 6.x. You will have to add the devices manually that are
ouside the firewall. NV will not discover them through a firewall with ICMP
blocked. Next add an entry into your seed file with $devicename so NV will
use SNMP to monitor the device not ping.
>From: "Gebhart, Tom (CC-MIS Tech Systems)" <Tom.Gebhart@conagrafoods.com>
>Reply-To: IBM NetView Discussion <nv-l@tkg.com>
>To: "'nv-l@tkg.com'" <nv-l@tkg.com>
>Subject: [NV-L] Beyond the firewall
>Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 16:48:49 -0600
>
>Hello all,
>
> I have gotten help from this board before, both directly and
>indirectly, so let me give it a try again. First let me say thanks to all
>those who respond so professionally with both problems and solutions.
>Sometimes a problem known is a problem solved.
>
> We are currently running NetView 5.1.3 on AIX 4.3.2. We want to
>manage some network devices (Cisco routers) that are outside our Cisco PIX
>firewall. Our security folks are willing to allow SNMP through the
>firewall
>but are reluctant to allow PING. Has anyone crossed this bridge (so to
>speak) and if so how did you get to the other side?
>
> I guess what I'm asking is whether NetView can provide availability
>status via SNMP rather than PING. If not, is there any other way to
>manage/monitor availability status of devices beyond a firewall. Thanks
>again, Tom G.
>
> Tom Gebhart
> <<...OLE_Obj...>>
> ConAgra Foods
>Senior Network Administrator
> (402) 577-3677
>
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