Re: [nv-l] Wildcards in netmon.seed

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

You can, however, use name wildcards in the seedfile in the same way that you use IP address ranges. It does not force discovery, only allows it.
And as Chris figured out, this is different than the location.conf file, which places only nodes specified by name or address. 

Cordially,

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

Paul Stroud <pstroud@bellsouth.net> Sent by: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com 12/04/2003 01:40 PM Please respond to nv-l

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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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