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RE: ISDN port colour problem through Netview

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Subject: RE: ISDN port colour problem through Netview
From: "Leslie Clark" <lclark@us.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:50:58 -0500
Anupam, I don't require any data but the support center might. I think
this has gone on long enough that you should call them.  There has
been at least one suggestion that there might be a problem with this
on NT; I have seen it work just fine on your platform, AIX. I cannot tell
from your data whether you are looking at the correct index, but
the demandpoll seems to show some confusion. I would contact
Tivoli Support and have them help you investigate this.

Cordially,

Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit



                                                                                
           
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Hi,

I am herewith attaching 4 files and hope this may through some light.

The ip address of pink interface is 192.168.168.40 on SEWREE router with
instance no 3.
The IP address of color interface is 192.168.168.34 on BPTCRT with
interface no. 3

Please write back, if you require some other data.

Regds...............Anupam

-----Original Message-----
From: Leslie Clark [mailto:lclark@US.IBM.COM]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 6:03 PM
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Subject: RE: [NV-L] ISDN port colour problem through Netview

Anupam, can you report here exactly what the values for both Oper and Admin
are for the two interfaces that are shown differently? Use the mib browser
to
get them numerically.

Cordially,

Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit


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Hi Bill / Leslie,

I have put $ before some of the routers having ISDN port in seed file as
suggested by you but is of no help. I am skeptical that this is going to
help in our case because what I believe  this $ is to force a node to use
SNMP for its Admin/Oper status update instead of ICMP ping if it is not
having serial interfaces.

One more thing I wanted to share that in our case  ISDN call can be
initiated from router side only and it can not be initiated from the
central place  where our NetView is sitting. But, again this is the case
for all routers having isdn port as fall up arrangement and NetView
treating them differently.

When I do snmp poll for these pink/red color interface, the output comes
differently. Also, I do not understand why TNV marks it red/Critical when
it is actually in stand by mode?




Regards.....Anupam

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Evans [mailto:wvevans@attglobal.net]
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 11:42 PM
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Subject: Re: [NV-L] ISDN port colour problem through Netview




I'd like to believe that the system automatically handles admin down but
we've just put in a number of 6.0.2 NT systems where the admin down were
discovered as critical.  We added the "$" entry to the seed file and
they turned pink when we restarted netmon and the GUI and looked.

The reason I'm tentative about the topic is that I didn't follow up on
the situation and find out why they weren't automatically polled with
SNMP -- I expected the SNMP poll due to the presence of serial
interfaces on the box.  It might also be a Unix vs. NT difference.  One
of these days I'm going to figure out how ATM, Frame Relay and
Point-to-Point interfaces interact with SNMP polling and if there are
differences not documented.

It's moot now with 7.1 available but there might be something support
should have addressed in the area which is bypassed with the forced use
of SNMP.

Bill

Leslie Clark wrote:

> There might be something to that, but I don't think it should be
> permanent. Even when status-polled with ping, an admin-down
> interface should show as user1. If it were admin-up when first
> discovered, then went admin-down later, it would be red, true. But
> it should switch on the next configuration poll, or demandpoll,
> I think, to user1. If it does not, it might be a case for Support.
>
> Oh - perhaps it is the Oper status that is the problem. If it is
> Dormant, then regardless of what the Admin status is, it will
> show as down. That is one of the things enhanced in V7.1.
>
> Cordially,
>
> Leslie A. Clark
> IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
> Detroit
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> Check whether both routers are being polled by SNMP.  If one is polled
> by ICMP and the other by SNMP it could explain the difference.  The
> archives and product manuals explain the details but there are a couple
> ways to force SNMP polling; a "$" entry in the seed file or a "P" in the
> oid_to_type file entry.
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> anand anupam wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>
>>As you rightly said that backup isdn line with  a status of AdminDown
>>will also be USER1 ( it should not be critical ).
>>
>>But, the problem in our case is  NetView assigns USER1(7) with pink
>>color and Critical(4) with red color for the same situation on different
>>routers.
>>
>>Any idea what could be possible reason and where to look into?
>>
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Anupam
>>
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Oliver Bruchhaeuser [mailto:oliver.bruchhaeuser@de.ibm.com]
>>Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 7:13 PM
>>To: IBM NetView Discussion
>>Subject: Re: [NV-L] ISDN port colour problem through Netview
>>
>>
>>Tim,
>>
>>update to NetView 7.1 !
>>In this version the dormant status of ISDN interfaces is managed
>>
> correctly.
>
>> From the release notes 7.1:
>>
>>Monitor ISDN Backup Interfaces
>>By default, interfaces with an SNMP ifOperStatus of DORMANT are handled
>>as if the status is NORMAL and the icon status color will be NORMAL.
>>However, in the special case of ISDN backup lines, when the status is
>>NORMAL, it usually means the primary line has a problem, and when
>>DORMANT, the primary line is usually okay. In this case the status
>>transitions to UP, and DORMANT might indicate the need for operator
>>intervention.
>>The following features are intended to help operators handle ISDN backup
>>lines:
>>* The status of a backup line in DORMANT state is USER1, otherwise the
>>status is as usual (NORMAL, DOWN). Note that the backup line with a
>>status of AdminDown will also be USER1.
>>* When the status changes to UP (from any state) the event Backup Line is
>>ACTIVE is sent.
>>* When the status transitions to DORMANT (from any state, including
>>AdminDown) the event Backup Line is DORMANT is sent.
>>
>>
>>Kind regards
>>
>>Oliver Bruchhaeuser
>>Tivoli NetView EMEA L2 Support
>>
>>IBM Deutschland GmbH - ITS Tivoli - Dept. 7977 - Hechtsheimer Str. 2 -
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>>Hi,
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>>so far as I know, all ISDN Interfaces are treated as down when inactive.
>>Pink only shows up when the Port is manually shut down (administratively
>>shutdown)
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>>We use a solution, where we catch the ISDN traps to operate a "backup
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>>which turns red when ISDN becomes active.
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>>Gruesse - Best regards
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>>Hi All,
>>
>>I am having NetView 6.0.2 on AIX 4.3.3.
>>
>>We are monitoring ISDN ports configured on different cisco routers. ISDN
>>port has been configures mainly as fall back arrangement.
>>
>>When these ports are not in use, it goes into inactive stage.
>>
>>The problem is Netview detects these inactive interface differently on
>>different routers. In some cases, it shows pink color ( IP status -
>>User1(7) and in some cases it gives red color ( IP status - Critical(4).
>>Because of these different behaves, other different related actions are
>>initiated.
>>
>>We have checked the configuration for these interfaces on routers and it
>>appears to be the same.
>>
>>Has anybody experienced the same problem? What could be the possible
>>reasons and where to look into?
>>
>>How NetView treats ISDN/port when in inactive stage ?
>>
>>Please reply ASAP.
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Anupam
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