We had a problem like this due to a device that NETMON was having trouble
during discovery. You said discovery isn't on, but if you are using a seed
file, then discovery is always running for things in your seed file.
The problem was a device on the network that had 4 async (re:ppp)
interfaces. When NETVIEW successfully queries the device, it defines a range
of addresses to perform discovery. In our case, the address was 1.0.0.0 with
a mask of 255.255.255.0 (or similar, can't remember exactly). As a result,
many, many, many objects were added to the object database with a selection
name of "004325" or similar. I had to obtain an e-fix for this problem.
Basically netmon is creating "hints" for the objects he's going to discover
(but can't). When my object count got too high, OVw went nuts, smartsets
wouldn't keep current etc. Maybe this is your problem. I went back and could
not find the PMR number but it might be 66843.
-----Original Message-----
From: Duble, Ethan [mailto:Ethan.Duble@coopertools.com]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 1:11 PM
To: 'IBM NetView Discussion'
Subject: [NV-L] ovwdb filling up with objects
Does anyone have a way to monitor what objects are getting put into ovwdb ?
for the longest time my object count sat around 1600 now its almost hit the
5000 mark, 500 objects over the weekend , 1000 over the last week, 3600 new
objects
we have discovery off , use a seedfile and nothing new is being added to the
maps
due to the amount of customization we would like not to rebuild the database
but i have convinced mgt that its gotta be done since this database is 2
years old covering all versions of netview from 5 + patch + ver 6 upgrade
and patches and aix upgrade from 4.32 to 4.3.3
currently we are running
aix 4.3.3 , neview 6.02
TIA
Ethan Duble
Coopertools
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