Dave,
You can tell the name of the seed file by issuing:
ps -ef | grep ovwdb
Try issuing a ping to the ip address.
Netmon only sees the device if there is activity to the address on the
network. Let a ping run for a while. That usually works for me.
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: netview@toddh.net (Todd H.)
To: nv-l@lists.tivoli.com
Date: 20 Feb 2002 18:05:32 -0600
Subject: Re: [nv-l] Objects Not Being Discovered
> reamd@Nationwide.com writes:
> > Hi All,
> > I'm having problems with netview discovering an object. I
> have an
> > IP and host name in etc/hosts and the IP address is in the seed
> file. I
> > stop and start netmon and it does not discover it. I can ping it
> and
> > snmpwalk it. I do a ovtopodump -l on the IP address and the host
> name and
> > it does not find it. I do a locate from netview and it does not
> find it. I
> > did a ovmapcount -a and ovtopofix -A and also ovtopofix -r IP and
> cycled
> > netmon and it does not discover it... What can I do to find out why
> this is
> > not being discovered..
> >
> >
> > AIX 4.3.3 ML6 6.02
>
> I've been there...and it's frustrating isn't it? :-(
>
> Netmon does the discovery, so I found the netmon man page very
> enlightening on how it thinks.
>
> Some things to try: is the community string what netview assumes for
> that class of device? /usr/OV/bin/xnmsnmpconf will tell you or you
> can peek in /usr/OV/conf/ovsnmp.conf
>
> Make sure you're adding the ip address to the actual seedfile, and
> not
> what you assume the seedfile is. I've been duped before into
> thinking
> /usr/OV/conf/netmon.seed was the seedfile only to later visit the
> "smitty nv6000">configur>topology>netmon panel and discover that
> netmon was using /usr/OV/conf/C/netmon.seed instead. I'd wrongly
> assumed there was a system default location for this file when in
> fact
> its fully configurable. :-)
>
> /usr/OV/log/trapd.log and /usr/OV/log/netmon.trace can be helpful if
> you have netmon logging enabled. see the netmon man page and
> investigate -L and -T flags.
>
>
> HTH,
> --
> Todd H.
> http://www.toddh.net/
>
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