RE: [nv-l] weird behavior with fw1 and stonebeat

["Ray Westphal" <westphal@accessus.net>]

The first thing I would do is apply the 6.0.3 patches. See Leslie's recommendations on this list server.

 

The "white (unreachable)" FW is a result of netmon running with Router Fault Isolation enabled. See the NetView 6.0 Release Notes on disabling it. I think it is "-K 0" (that's a zero". My users prefer that RFI is disabled.

 

How does a ping to the IP address work from the command line? If it is intermittent then maybe you want to use SNMP status polling or increase the status polling retry count via xnmsnmpconf.

 

Ray Westphal

Enterprise Rent-A-Car

-----Original Message-----
From: can huynh [mailto:can.huynh@sympatico.ca]
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 7:08 PM
To: nv-l@lists.tivoli.com
Subject: [nv-l] weird behavior with fw1 and stonebeat

I have 2 FW1 from Checkpoint on Solaris with Stone beat for availability.

 

In Netview, I observe that this devices become white (unreachable). I open in the GUI any of the device and test ping any interface. The ping works and the interface becomes green from white.

The FW now becomes green.

 

And then after a while, it is again white.

 

the previous test is repeatable and actually all interfaces are ok if I perform a test ping on them but they are seen as unreachable by Netview.

 

Have you seen this behavior before?

 

NB: I run NV 6.02 on Unix.