Re: [nv-l] netmon -a 16 snmpList question

[Leslie Clark <lclark@us.ibm.com>]

Yes, this tells you that netmon is a little behind for those nodes. If you check it from time to time, you should see the number of negative entries reduce until there are none. It is not unusual to see it be hundreds behind and then catch up in a couple of minutes. I use this behavior to tune the polling frequency and the number of concurrent polls ( big Q and little q in the netmon parameters). Worst case will be on netmon restart after an ovtopofix when everything is slated for a configuration poll.  The entries at the top of the list will be those the furthest behind, and I believe those are seconds.

Cordially,

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

"Alan E. Hennis" <Hennis_Alan_E@cat.com> Sent by: owner-nv-l-digest@lists.us.ibm.com 10/24/2003 10:50 AM Please respond to nv-l

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I have many entries in my snmpList with negative values. I do not recall
what the negative number means. Thee are about 200 devices. If I recall the
negative number means that netmon is behind in polling. Is this correct? I
am getting many false node down messages.

---------- snmpList [0x82401f8] ----------
** 1648 elements on the NODE list **
  -215: cls-indi.corp.cat.com (172.22.75.129) numif = 4 >
status at -215  config at 81002  at at 400
  -213: baldbp-1.corp.cat.com (137.230.254.145) numif = 4 >
0x82401f8 status at -213  config at 81059  at at 401
  -213: cls-reno.corp.cat.com (172.22.14.129) numif = 4 >
status at -213  config at 81057  at at 401
  -212: melrdx-1.corp.cat.com (172.29.0.101) numif = 2 >
status at -212  config at 81065  at at 401
  -211: sup-butl.corp.cat.com (137.230.254.237) numif = 3 >
0x82401f8 status at -211  config at 81126  at at 405
  -211: b52924btrain1.goss.cat.com (172.26.21.80) numif = 1 >
0x82401f8 config at 86069  at at 204
  -211: b52924btrain3.goss.cat.com (172.26.21.62) numif = 1 >
0x82401f8 config at 86069  at at 204
  -210: discovery.corp.cat.com (137.230.143.142) numif = 1 >
0x82401f8 config at 81223  at at 429
  -210: solalaf-1.solar.cat.com (206.203.171.53) numif = 3 >
0x82401f8 status at -210  config at 81142  at at 423
  -210: solamid-1.solar.cat.com (206.203.171.225) numif = 3 >
0x82401f8 status at -210  config at 27195  at at 204


Thanks
Alan E. Hennis
Caterpillar Inc.
Systems+Process Division
309.494.3308
hennis_alan_e@cat.com