Re: Unsolicited Generic Traps

["Leslie Clark" <lclark@us.ibm.com>]

It has been my experience that it does work, and to the
extent that I encourage people to turn off link up/down traps
for edge devices, where the traps refer to ports and polling
will not tell us anything useful.

A reason why this might not be working for you? One is
name resolution. The trap must come from an address
that resolves into a Selection Name, so Netview can make
the match. Try this: select the event in the events display
and do 'Options...Highlight Node on Map' on the Control
Desk menu. If it cannot get you there, it cannot check the
status.

Another reason: up/downs are coming in quickly, and
by the time netmon checks, it is back up again.

Other than that, I would suggest you give Support a call.

Cordially,

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



                                                                                
    
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Hello NetViewers,

>From the Release Notes of NV6.0.1/NV6.0.2, Section New features:
"Unsolicited Generic Traps:
The netmon daemon now dynamically verifies and sets the status for the
node or interface when it receives the following generic traps:
Warm Start, Cold Start, Link Down, and Link Up"

What does that exactely mean ?
Does this mean, that whenever one of these traps is received, netmon does
a "Ping Status Poll" to all agent's interfaces?
If _yes_, this does not work, at least for Link Down Traps.

Any suggestions about this ?

regards
Stefan Beck
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