RE: [nv-l] Seedfile entries not being discovered

["Christopher J Petrina" <cjp8@meadwestvaco.com>]

To my knowledge there is no NAT'ing that should be causing any issues.  The few sites we have that are being NAT'd I have made special considerations for.  I have labeled those so I know how to deal with them.  The only thing I know that is quarky about the network, is that the WAN is ATM/Frame other then that I cannot think of anything else that owuld cause the troubles.   Nothing in OSPF I can think of would prevent the devices from being discovered

Thanks
Chris Petrina

"Barr, Scott" <Scott_Barr@csgsystems.com> Sent by: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com 03/02/2004 01:57 PM Please respond to nv-l

To:        <nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com>         cc:                 Subject:        RE: [nv-l] Seedfile entries not being discovered

I ran across this recently. It was due to NAT. I had a stub object in the database. What was happening is I had a valid path to the box and could snmpwalk the device. But when NetView attempted to add it to discovery, it was unable to because the interface table did not contain the address that I traversed to get to the box with SNMP.
 
Is NAT involved in any of these objects?
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com [mailto:owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com]On Behalf Of Christopher J Petrina
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 12:08 PM
To: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
Subject: [nv-l] Seedfile entries not being discovered


I have seen this now for awhile.   I have ip addresses in the seed file that are not being discovered.  Theya re valid and pingable IP addresses. I reviewed the netmon.trace log and it shows both a sending and a receiving of a ping from 10.213.1.6 but nothing else.  When I do an ovtopodump | grep 10.213.1.6 returns no value either.   I ahve seen this in many of the IP addresses.  All of which have basically the same entries in netmon.trace they are sent a ping they return the answer and then nothing more comes of these devices.  These are by the way L3 switches/Router ip addresses.   I never thought anything of it since finding devices via a seedfile is a very core level of Netview and never have I heard of Netview not finding a device in the seedfile when it was alive.   So Ithought it could be the way in whcih I was discovering them.  But this just does not seem to make sense to me.  Any h! elp?   it is a fairly big se!
 edfile as we are not doing auto discovery.  We only want to discover what is in the seedfile. 

Chris Petrina 

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