RE: [nv-l] Seed file entries can't be seen via Network Monitor Se ed File Editor

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

In earlier versions I did not like to use the seedfile editor for the reason Alan mentioned - it sorts the records, making your comments useless. I have recently begun to appreciate it, however, as it makes it clearer to customers what the different directives are for. If your existing file has comments ON T THE SAME LINE as a proper entry, it will leave those alone. You can edit that record in the seedfile editor, and it will still have your comment when it is done. A comment is something preceded by a # sign. So I usually start customers out using it, especially if they have trouble with vi, and then they move on to manually editing it. 

Cordially,

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

"Evans, Bill" <Bill.Evans@hq.doe.gov> Sent by: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com 12/04/2003 02:23 PM Please respond to nv-l

To:        "'nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com'" <nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com>         cc:                 Subject:        RE: [nv-l] Seed file entries can't be seen via Network Monitor Se ed File Editor

I don't believe the format used for the HOSTS file (as you stated you used) will work for the SEED file.  I may be restating the obvious but the syntax is different.

Quoting from the Netmon.seed prolog:

#    Seed Entries to Initiate Discovery

#

#      Enter a single node per line as either an IP address or a hostname.

#

#      For example,

#

#        16.21.144.20

#        router1.eng.com

#

#      Seed entries are single entries (no wildcards or ranges).

This is NOT the format of a HOSTS file which has TWO values on each line.

The fact it works is probably accidental.  To expect the Seed File Editor to handle the lines is probably too much.  I don't use the seed file editor since it hides my comments although it accepts them.  (At least the current level accepts them and that wasn't always true.)  I would expect the IP address and name on the same line as a comment would be a syntax error and as James said "if any of them have an invalid syntax, those will be excluded without explanation."  

Bill Evans

-----Original Message-----
From: Georg Gangl [mailto:Georg.Gangl@brz.gv.at]
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 9:29 AM
To: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
Subject: [nv-l] Seed file entries can't be seen via Network Monitor Seed File Editor

Hi  Group members,

We are running the UNIX version of NetView 7.1.3 with FixLevels

NVS(C)7130 and use a seed file called "host.seed" in "/etc" for network

discovery. The file was/is always edited according to the rules

described in /etc/hosts using the vi editor.

If I now try to open the file using the Network Monitor Seed File

Editor out of Server Setup I cannot see any of the thousands of entries

in the file. As a test I added some devices via the Editor which are

displayed afterwards.

Does that mean that I cannot use the Network Monitor Seed File Editor

for editing an existing seedfile or is there a chance to use it for

future changes ?

Thank you very much for any help.

Cordially,

Georg Gangl

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