[nv-l] Newbie Question - Auto Map re-gen and Net MON

["John Sobrinho" <johnsobrinho@rogers.com>]

Hello All...

 

I have a newbie question.

 

I'm in a situation where one of the net view servers has been neglected for some time and the map and db is pretty much useless. I have cleaned up the seed file, and removed as many entries from the host file as I can as we would try to rely on DNS for resolution as well I have created a Location conf file based on our ospf areas.

 

What I'd like to accomplish is zero out the db's and create a new map and have fresh db's (start from scratch).

 

My question is , do I only need re-gen the map from the admin panel,  to ensure everything is discovered, or do I need to recycle netmon, then do a map regen ?

 

My concern is that we have well over 1000 entries in the seed file (loop back address of various L2 / L3 devices) and am concerned that the traffic may bring down the switch or router, we are 7/24 hr shop so no chance of doing this during maint. windows. Netview is configured to do only local discovery and seed file, no wild card ranges defined.

 

The box is NV 7.1. AIX 4.3.3 on multiple 100 MB nics.

 

Thanks in advance

 

John Sobrinho