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RE: Problem with netmon

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Subject: RE: Problem with netmon
From: "Anthony Roberts" <anthony.roberts@ANIX.CO.UK>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:42:26 -0000
What does the output from ....

netstat -rn

... and ...

ifconfig -a

look like?

Anthony Roberts.
Certified AIX Consultant.
Check Point Certified Security Engineer (CP-2000)
AnIX Computers Ltd.
 
Email: anthony.roberts@anix.co.uk
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>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: owner-nv-l@tkg.com [mailto:owner-nv-l@tkg.com] On Behalf Of
Olson,
>  Stephen J
>  Sent: 29 October 2001 17:59
>  To: 'IBM NetView Discussion'
>  Subject: RE: [NV-L] Problem with netmon
>  
>  James,
>  
>  I have some good news and some bad news.
>  
>  Good news is the stopsrc/startsrc worked to get netmon up.
>  
>  Bad news is I cannot ping any device off the local subnet. The router
is
>  OK,
>  I can ping the devices from an NT desktop pc, but when I ping from my
>  Netview
>  box I get ..
>  __________________________________________________
>  PING 10.35.135.1: (10.35.135.1): 56 data bytes
>  0821-069 ping: sendto: Cannot reach the destination network.
>  ping: wrote 10.35.135.1 64 chars, ret=-1
>  0821-069 ping: sendto: Cannot reach the destination network.
>  ping: wrote 10.35.135.1 64 chars, ret=-1
>  0821-069 ping: sendto: Cannot reach the destination network.
>  ping: wrote 10.35.135.1 64 chars, ret=-1
>  _________________________________________________
>  
>  My netview maps indicate everything is down, but it's not.
>  Any ideas are greatly appreciated.
>  
>  Steve Olson
>  
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: James Shanks [mailto:jshanks@us.ibm.com]
>  Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 11:12 AM
>  To: IBM NetView Discussion
>  Subject: Re: [NV-L] Problem with netmon
>  
>  
>  
>  Have you tried just stopping and restarting snmpd?  The MIB message
is
>  usually NOT the problem unless you don't have the default set which
>  includes
>  rfc1213-MIB-II loaded.
>  
>  Do "stopsrc -s snmpd", wait a few seconds, then "startsrc -s snmpd"
and
>  see
>  if it restarts.  Count to ten and ovstart netmon.
>  
>  Doesn't help?  then check that your /etc/hosts has these two entries
>  first:
>  127.0.0.1   loopback localhost
>  <your_ip_address>   <your_hostname>
>  and that xnmsnmpconf has entries for BOTH of these if you are not
using
>  "public" as the default community name.
>  Try an snmpwalk of your own box and see if it works (don't specify
the
>  community --let it default).  If it does, then netmon should start.
>  If it doesn't then I don't know what to tell you.
>  
>  James Shanks
>  Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
>  Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
>       "Olson, Stephen J" <stolson@state.pa.us>
>  Sent by: owner-nv-l@tkg.com
>  
>  
>  10/29/2001 10:42 AM
>  Please respond to IBM NetView Discussion
>  
>  
>  
>          To:        "'IBM NetView Discussion'" <nv-l@tkg.com>
>          cc:
>          Subject:        [NV-L] Problem with netmon
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  Greetings to all,
>  
>  First, I may be a little cranky this morning since our Netview
>  box went down after an extended power outage, so I hope I wasn't
>  too harsh with David about his autoresponder.  :)
>  
>  AIX 4.3 and netview 5.2
>  
>  (I know, I know, upgrade!!!)
>  
>  Anyway, this has happened in the past and all I have ever done
>  is restore to solve the problem.
>  
>  If the machine has an abrupt shutdown, netmon will not start.
>  I get the following message ...
>  
>  ____________________________________________________________________-
>  Cannot communicate with SNMP Agent via loopback address (127.0.0.1);
it
>  is
>  either not running or has been configured with a community name
different
>  from that configured into TME 10 NetView for this system. If a
community
>  name ha
>  s
>  been configured into the SNMP Agent, that community name must be
>  configured
>  via xnmsnmpconf and /usr/OV/conf/ovsnmp.conf for address 127.0.0.1 as
>  well
>  as for the hostname or IP address of this system.
>  Or, the /usr/OV/conf/snmpmib and /usr/OV/conf/snmpmib.bin files are
>  corrupted
>  and need to be rebuilt using the
>  Maintain->Rebuild MIB binary file with installation MIB defaults
>  option in smit
>  _____________________________________________________________________
>  
>  
>  When I tried to rebuild the files, it *really* screwed things up.
>  
>  Any ideas?
>  
>  Thanks in advance,
>  
>  Steve Olson
>  PA State Police
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
>
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