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

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

Thank you Leslie..

 

Yes, I do have the need to do a regen.

 

Is my worry about any excessive traffic bringing a device down unwarranted ? The reason why I ask, and am a bit afraid is that my predecessor attempted to do a full discovery and brought down a core switch in one of the buildings. Hence I am more careful with my discovery needs, and setting them up accordingly.

 

We have an off site drp server, but it uses is strictly as trap acceptor and sending alerts. We will not support mapping and db functions in drp.

 

Hence my fear...

 

Thanks again,

John

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com [mailto:owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com]On Behalf Of Leslie Clark
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 2:52 PM
To: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [nv-l] Newbie Question - Auto Map re-gen and Net MON

Otherwise, if you want to do a new discovery, the re-gen will stop netmon and everything else, and go out and rediscover everything, depending on your discovery settings.

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