Aha!
The default gateway was trashed.
You get so tied up with stuff you don't know,
that sometimes you forget to check the simple,
obvious things.
Thanks to Anthony and James.
Steve Olson
-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Roberts [mailto:anthony.roberts@ANIX.CO.UK]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 2:42 PM
To: 'IBM NetView Discussion'
Subject: RE: [NV-L] Problem with netmon
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
Phone: 01454 329 555
Fax : 01454 329 666
> -----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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