Well, it is a bit complicated. I doubt that anything I could put in a note
would cover it better than the manual covers it. There is a very long
section on it in the Admin guide. Perhaps if you ask a specific question?
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit
dil@acn.gr (Leventidis Dimitris)@tkg.com on 05/11/2001 02:31:01 AM
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Thank you for your answer
i had finally concude that the only solution is this.
Can you provide any kind of help on how can i use APM? because every time
i'm
trying to build an APM application i'm getting confused...:(
Dimitris
Leslie Clark wrote:
> I'm just about positive that you cannot. The support for unnumbered is
> designed for serial, but generally works with any type of interfaces, as
> long as the thing on the other end can be discovered. If the far device
> has no addressable interfaces, it won't be discovered. So neither
> unnumbered interface will be drawn. You could tell the netmon to
> use SNMP polling for the Paradyne, but it won't draw the unnumbered
> interface so it won't report status on it. All you could do would be to
> manually add an object to stand in for those interfaces and run a
> program of your own to manage them. Or... you could use the
> APM/MLM function to monitor the Oper status of that particular
> instance in the interface table. APM will create an object to represent
> it, and its status will propogate to the parent node, the Paradyne.
>
> Cordially,
>
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> Hello,
>
> i'm running netview 6.0.1 on AIX 4.3.3 and i have some specific devices
> in my network (Paradyne DSL) that i want to check the status of their
> interfaces.
>
> These devices have only Ethernet IP Address (an Ethernet Interface) but
> they also have interfaces that they are not being discovered by netview
> because they don't have an ip address.
>
> What do i have to do to check these interfaces? (at the other end of the
> interfaces i have my customers vpns, in other words these devices are
> bridg devices and they aren't pingable). The only way to get the status
> is to check ifAdmin & ifOper status....
> How can i configure this within Netview?
>
> Thank you in advance.
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> Dimitris Leventidis
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