Okay Jeff, I am still confused. The devices in the database cease to exist
when the students leave - meaning the IP addresses are no longer in use.
NetView will delete these objects after they have passed the node down
interval (default 7 days?) OR if the address is re-assigned then the
day-to-day config polls will pick the changes up no? I am just being the
devils advocate here - obviously what you are doing works. I guess you would
choose to delete them only because NetView itself is the tool you use to
determine which addresses to hand out.
Thanks for satisfying my curiosity anyway.
-Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Fitzwater [mailto:jfitz@Princeton.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 2:45 PM
To: IBM NetView Discussion
Subject: Re: [NV-L] "RE: command line interface" - my 2 cents
"Barr, Scott" wrote:
> Okay, I am struggling to understand why you would need to do a CLI delete
of
> an object? I almost never delete any objects from the database.... what
> day-to-day type function do you folks use that requires deleting objects
> frequently or in large numbers?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jane Curry [mailto:jane.curry@skills-1st.co.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 1:38 PM
> To: IBM NetView Discussion
> Subject: Re: [NV-L] "RE: command line interface" - my 2 cents
>
> Donald Mahler wrote:
>
> > So, if I had my wish list:
> >
> > 1) ability to manage and unmanage interfaces from the CLI
> > 2) ability to add a device and have it discovered via the CLI, even
> picking
> > what map to put it on
> > 3) ability to delete a device and all its interfaces via the cli
> > 4) cli method of dumping and viewing topology
> >
>
> It may not be a great advance, Don, but you can use the loadhosts command
as
> a
> CLI to add devices into the topology / object database. I know you don't
> have
> access into the map database, but it's a start.
>
> Hear, hear!! on a CLI to delete an object from all submaps from all maps.
> I've
> just been beaten up AGAIN by a NetView class who can't believe there is no
> CLI
> to do this.
>
> Cheers,
> Jane
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Here is a very typical one for me , now that someone has asked and needs 2
more
cents.
We have aprox 5000 student machines and others hosts that we add using
the
LOADHOSTS command. That works great but now that they are in the database
and
the students leave in mass droves and end of year, we need to incorporate a
CLI in a program that knows who left automatically so that those IP can be
reassigned. NO can do.
So now NETVIEW must know about these changes in order to keep everything
in
sync. In order to add any new host and not have it fail due to an existing
entry, we have to delete them manually via the GUI. What a pain.
Currently I have only one MAP to keep it as simple as possible.
Jeff Fitzwater
CIT Systems & Networking
Princeton University
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