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Subject: Re: Events from unmanaged nodes
From: "Leslie Clark" <lclark@us.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 22:18:21 -0400
If you have two netviews running, and netmon is running on
both of them, then you will be double-pinging. Lots of people
do this, but, yes, you will be generating twice the traffic. And
at configuration polling time, there will be twice that, too.
What some people do is make their development box
poll less frequently, or not at all - unless you need it to take
over due to an outage.

Cordially,

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


"CATALINA MARTINEZ" <CATALINA.MARTINEZ@tlc.state.tx.us>@tkg.com on
05/14/2001 08:30:42 AM

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Thanks Leslie,

that puts me in the right direction. both my test and  production box are
in the same subnet.

Another Question: if I have two Netview's going, is there  anything
"different" i have to do? will I have an increase in traffic? will the
"real" netview be effected?


>>> lclark@us.ibm.com 05/13/01 11:38PM  >>>
Catalina, the other discussion was about Netview-generated  events, which
come only when the nodes are managed in at least one map. If  you are
really talking about events (traps) FROM unmanaged nodes, that is  another
story. Managed or unmanaged or not even in the map, unsolicited  traps
need to be turned off at the sending device. There is an options on  the
events display to suppress traps from unmanaged nodes, but that's on
per-user basis and you set it each time you open the map.

For  porting your map from test to production: This will work if your  two
machines
are reasonably close in address (eg same subnet). You will  need to take
the whole database  (/usr/OV/databases/openview) as well as  the seedfile
and location.conf and the snmp configuration (read up on  xnmsnmpconf
-exp).
And any other customization you have done. Read about the  backup and
restore of the database in the diag manual (I think). Use pax for  the
restore.
And... /usr/OV/service/reset_ci after restoring to handle the  change in
address
and name within the database.  You will also need  to run the mapadmin
command. Yes, practice would be a good  idea.

Cordially,

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

"CATALINA MARTINEZ"  <CATALINA.MARTINEZ@tlc.state.tx.us>@tkg.com on
05/09/2001 08:38:52  AM

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John

I am running Netview 6.0 on AIX 4.3.2, I am  getting events  from unmanaged
nodes. How do I change this? I am in the  process of installing  6.0.2  and
4.3.3 on a test box to move it to  production.

How do you I stop receiving events from unmanaged  nodes  without turning
off discovery?

Also,How do I import the IP maps from  the production  box to my test box?
Should I just bring in the  location.conf and  netmon.seed? The maps have
been customized and I  really don't want to have to  recreate them. We have
so many devices and  icons that the person before me cut,  pasted,
hide many
icons. The  location.conf and netmon.seed files do not  hide all the
objects. I am  still new at this so maybe I should  practice...

Any  Suggestions?



Catalina Martinez
System Programmer
Texas  Legislative  Council
(512) 936-1012 x1755
(512) 403-7711  pgr
catalina.martinez@tlc.state.tx.us

>>>   jnicholson@epo.org 05/09/01 05:05AM >>>
I see the same on  NetView  6.01 for NT; the only way I found to avoid
pinging
thousands  of unmanaged  workstations was to turn off discovery and  delete
them.
On AIX, unmanaging  nodes _does_ stop netmon pinging  them - surely it is
supposed
to work the  same way on  NT?

Regards,
John Nicholson

pweischer@mmm.com   wrote:

> Hello,
> in the event browser of NetView 6.02 for NT,  I  can see interface
up/down
and
> node up/down events of  unmanaged nodes. Is  that correct?
>
> Regards
>
>  Peter   Weischer
>
>
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