RE: [nv-l] Pinging a device to add it to the map

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

He did not mean it. Yes, you can discover anything that is IP-capable by pinging it, as long as the seedfile allows that particular address to be discovered. 

Cordially,

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

"Federico Vidal" <fvidal@tecsystem.com.ar> Sent by: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com 12/04/2003 01:08 PM Please respond to nv-l

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James:
 
Are you sure about what you are saying? Aren't you missing something or am I wrong?? ... Are you saying that if a device doesn't respond to SNMP isn't going to be discovered? I've done this a lot of times, or is this because i haven't still read the 7.1.4 release notes?
Is there anything i missed from the conversation?

Federico Vidal
IBM Certified Deployment Professional
Tecsystem S.R.L.
e-mail: fvidal@tecsystem.com.ar
Tel: (5411)-4814-2770 ext. 120

 
-----Mensaje original-----
De: James Shanks [mailto:jshanks@us.ibm.com]
Enviado el: Miércoles, 03 de Diciembre de 2003 07:46 p.m.
Para: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
Asunto: Re: [nv-l] Pinging a device to add it to the map


Right.  netmon is a complex animal and I cannot explain how he works in detail but suffice it to say that netmon is listening for unexpected ping responses.  Those are ones that are going back to you, not ones that netmon is waiting for.
When he sees one of yours, he puts it on his list of nodes to check.  When he gets around to that, activity, if the node isn't in the database, netmon will try to contact it by SNMP as well as by ping (one he sends), and if he is successful, then he'll add the node and you see it pop up

James Shanks
Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group

"Christopher J Petrina" <cjp8@meadwestvaco.com> Sent by: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com 12/03/2003 05:35 PM Please respond to nv-l

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Thanks James,

oddly it seems though now that i have taken care of my timing issue on the ping timeouts,  It it picking up devices where it was not able to before.  Discovery is moving much quicker now.  
and it does seem though that right after I ping a device from the Netview box I can see in the event log that the deivce I just ping'd was added to netview.

-Chris