James,
The reason why is quite simple - the managed network that my customer uses
loses pings very very often, and the network provider is not doing much to
address it. Our logic is that as SNMP is a higher priority than ICMP, there
is less chance of a false Node or Interface Down event.
Please tell me if our logic is flawed.
Cheers,
Danny
P.S. Thanks Sylvia for reminding me about the P flag in the oid_to_type
file - I saw it a few weeks ago and then promptly forgot it!
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 09:19:33 -0500
From: James_Shanks@tivoli.com
Subject: Re: OIDs Seedfiles and SNMP status polling
Just a question on why you would want to do this.
Since the overhead involved to get status via SNMP rather than by ping is
so much greater, why would you want to make that the default? Getting
status via SNMP is a very new feature in NetView and it should be used
sparingly, which probably accounts more than anything else for why you
cannot simply set things up as you suggest. I think product management
would want to see a full-blown performance analysis before they'd let such
a feature out the door. But that is just my opinion here.
If you think this should be a feature, then my suggestion is that you call
Support and open an enhancement request.
James Shanks
Team Leader, Level 3 Support
Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Danny Williams
Tivoli & AIX Specialist
IBM Global Services - Integrated Technology Services
mailto:danny@uk.ibm.com
Tel: 665520 (01926-465520) -- MOBX: 275520 (07967-275520)
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