Jason,
you mentioned having serial interfaces you could not poll/ping which is why
you were adding them manually. Is this just un-numbered serial interfaces
on routers? Other interfaces has IP addresses? If this is the case,
the current NetView release handles those much better than before. It
recognizes this fact and changes the status poll to the node to be only an
snmp poll since snmp will return the status of that interface. NetView
will not try and ping those interfaces but will still put them on the map
properly. You would need to loadhost with an interface that has an IP
address. This is handled in 6.02.
If you are managing totally non-IP devices, I suggest you do it with an
SNMP proxy or at the least, don't place your items within the IPMAP.
Instead, at the root map, create a new object (beside IPMAP) and put all
your non-IP network devices inside that submap. You can script this with
the sample of wteuiap6 from an older NetView redbook.
Thanks,
Stephen Hochstetler shochste@us.ibm.com
ITSO Tivoli Coordinator - Austin
Office - 512-436-8564 FAX - 512-436-1991
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