Thanks, Bill.
I kinda suspect that was going to be the case, I was
hoping that Netview was going to be more distributed
and autonomous with Attended MLM.
Xu
--- Bill Evans <wvevans@attglobal.net> wrote:
> For the Attended MLM the answers are No and Yes.
>
> With Attended MLM the NetView component will
> discover its network beyond
> the local subnet but won't forward that information
> to the upper level
> NetView. The best I know can be done is to create a
> NetView seed file
> for the items discovered by the NetView NT part of
> the AMLM and forward
> it to the parent NetView to discover for itself.
> Then set up the MLM
> seed file to initiate MLM monitoring. This is where
> the master NetView
> needs SNMP and ICMP access to the managed nodes.
>
> This is usually a firewall associated question and I
> think the answer to
> that is to open the firewall until the nodes have
> been discovered and
> handed off to the AMLM. Then close the firewall
> except for the ports
> used by the MLM. Remember that once the FW is
> closed the parent can no
> longer back up the AMLM.
>
> Xu He wrote:
>
> > I am doing some testing with the MLM and Attended
> MLM
> > configuration on NT, and I have been looking on
> the
> > list archive for answers to a few questions, but
> have
> > not found them.
> >
> > 1. Basic MLM for NT only discovers nodes on its
> own
> > subnet and report it to the main Netview Server.
> Does
> > Attended MLM report the discovery of subnets other
> > than its own to the Main Netview Server?
> >
> > 2. I know with Standard MLM, Netview Server need
> > ICMP/ping access to the nodes, is that also the
> case
> > with Attended MLM.
> >
> > Thanks All
> > Xu He
> >
> >
> >
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