If you can ping it from the NetView server command line and NetView can't,
adjust your timeouts. Look at the trip times indicated in your ping replies
and make sure you have a larger value set for your timeouts.
Bill
Bill Stringfellow
EDS - Bank of America Account Team
Network Management Support
CA4-704-02-03
2000 Clayton Road, Building D
Concord, CA 94520
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com [mailto:owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com]On
Behalf Of Paul
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 9:56 AM
To: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [nv-l] Interface showing as down
When you ping it from the command line does it come up?
Paul
Klingensmith, Debra L. wrote:
>No it does not come up when I try to ping it. It just times out. It is polled
>by ICMP.
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>Debra L. Klingensmith
>Network Specialist
>Allegheny Energy
>phone: (724) 830-5881
>email: dkling2@alleghenyenergy.com
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> -----Original Message-----
>From: Paul [mailto:pstroud@bellsouth.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 12:33 PM
>To: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
>Subject: Re: [nv-l] Interface showing as down
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>Does it come up when you ping it and then go back down? Is this
>device polled via SNMP or ICMP? Something is screwy if you cannot
>ping it from NetView, but can from the command line.
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>Paul
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>>OK. Here is a weird one for you. I have an interface on a device that
>>is showing down. The interface is actually up. I am unable to ping it
>>from the Netview GUI, and when I do a quicktest on the device the
>>interface shows as down. I can however ping it from the command prompt
>>on the Netview server, so it is not a firewall issue. I am running
>>Netview 7.1.3 for Unix.
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>>Debra L. Klingensmith
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>>Network Specialist
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>>Allegheny Energy
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>>phone: (724) 830-5881
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>>email: dkling2@alleghenyenergy.com
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