Re: Facilitating discovery of IP Objects

["James Shanks" <SHANKS@us.tivoli.com>]

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I don't know why you are having discovery problems and without a netmon 
trace, it is likely that no one can diagnose them either.

But I would not attempt to write a program to create your own objects if 
you intend to have netmon and ipmap manage them.  That way is dangerous.
An easier way to add objects to the database/map yourself is thru the 
loadhosts command.  There is also an option on netmon which you should 
check to have netmon mange all objects added with loadhosts.

James Shanks
Level 3 Support 
Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software
IBM Software Group
Please note that my new id is jshanks@us.ibm.com






"Allison, Jason (JALLISON)" <JALLISON@arinc.com>
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What would be my best approach for facilitating the discovery of objects.
Our current approach is 'pinging the serial address' (in this case a
router).  I did not implement this approach, but as it turns out, lately 
the
NOC has not been able to discover objects this way.

First, is there an easy way to do this that I am missing?  I want this
design to be usable on the fly, ie not adding an entry to the seed file 
and
restarting.  Second, if there is not an easy way, where should I begin
looking?

I am versed with Netview API, what are the downsides of creating my own
object (Create the Object, Add to Submap, etc) since I know its 
information
and where it is to be placed?

Thanks,
Jason
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I don't know why you are having discovery problems and without a netmon trace, it is likely that no one can diagnose them either.

But I would not attempt to write a program to create your own objects if you intend to have netmon and ipmap manage them.  That way is dangerous.
An easier way to add objects to the database/map yourself is thru the loadhosts command.  There is also an option on netmon which you should check to have netmon mange all objects added with loadhosts.

James Shanks
Level 3 Support  
Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software
IBM Software Group
Please note that my new id is jshanks@us.ibm.com

"Allison, Jason (JALLISON)" <JALLISON@arinc.com> Sent by: owner-nv-l@tkg.com 10/09/2001 11:27 AM Please respond to IBM NetView Discussion

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What would be my best approach for facilitating the discovery of objects.
Our current approach is 'pinging the serial address' (in this case a
router).  I did not implement this approach, but as it turns out, lately the
NOC has not been able to discover objects this way.

First, is there an easy way to do this that I am missing?  I want this
design to be usable on the fly, ie not adding an entry to the seed file and
restarting.  Second, if there is not an easy way, where should I begin
looking?

I am versed with Netview API, what are the downsides of creating my own
object (Create the Object, Add to Submap, etc) since I know its information
and where it is to be placed?

Thanks,
Jason
_________________________________________________________________________
NV-L List information and Archives: http://www.tkg.com/nv-l