Chris,
This is correct, NetView will not actively try to discover devices in a range
or wildcard entry in the seedfile. It will passively discover them when it
finds them in the ARP cache of another device. What I generally suggest is
that if you have a subnet that you would like to enter a range for, also
enter the specific IP of the/a router on that subnet. That should make the
discovery happen as you wish.
Paul
On Thursday 04 December 2003 13:35, you wrote:
> According to the actual text found int he netmon.seed file for UNIX ver
> 7.1.3 It shows the following
>
> Seed entries are single entries (no wildcards or ranges).
> # IP addresses or hostnames can be specified for netmon to use as
> starting
>
> # points for discovery when netmon is started. Netmon will always
> attempt
>
> # to discover these nodes.
> #
> # Seed nodes must be reachable and should support SNMP. Routers
> # make good candidates. If the node's name cannot be resolved by the
> # name server, then the seed node is considered invalid and will be
> # ignored. If an IP address cannot be resolved by the name server, a
> # seed hint is still added and a warning is logged in the
> # \usr\OV\log\nv.log file.
>
>
> Is this actually true. We cannot use WIldcards in Discovery Process?
>
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