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

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

If you have another Netview server with
the same version, you can just back up the map database on it and restore
it on the neglected one, and no rediscovery is needed. The basics for this
are:

tar -cvf nvdb.tar /usr/OV/databases/openview
ftp the nvdb.tar to the other system
pax   -rp  e  -f  nvdb.tar

(use pax instead of tar to unpack it
because pax understands the sparse filesystem that Netview uses).
Then do these commands to resolve issues
of identity:
/usr/OV/service/reset_ci
/usr/OV/bin/mapadmin -u <hostname
of new box>

Cordially,

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

"John Sobrinho" <johnsobrinho@rogers.com>
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03/14/2004 02:23 PM

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

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