Re: [nv-l] incorrect symbol type

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

Are you looking at them in a Smartset?
Often when a node is discovered, it is snapped right up and added to a
smartset before it was finished being made and it might not have the final
bitmap on it. If you look at it in the IP topology and it is fine, but
in a Smartset it is blank, then that's what happened. You can clear it
up by doing this:
Go to the smartset topology, where all
of the smartsets are lined up.
Select the oval icon for the smartset
in question.
On the top menu, Edit..Delete Object..From
this submap (don't worry)
The oval will disappear and immediately
reappear blue.
Open the smartset and it will be re-evaluated
with current symbols on all members.

Cordially,

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

James Shanks/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS
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Symbols are determined by the /usr/OV/conf/C/oid_to_sym file.  If
all the devices return the same system Object Id, then they should all
have the same symbol.  If they don't respond when queried, they may
get a default.   You can add entries to oid_to_sym if some are returning
a different oid, but you would have to delete and re-discover them.  Symbols
are set at discovery time only. 

James Shanks
Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group

"Christopher J Petrina" <cjp8@meadwestvaco.com>
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Q1:   I have 10 Cisco Routers all almost identical to one another
I have them placed in the seed file these are new devices,   when
I start netmon with the seedfile (-s)  it finds all the Cisco devices,
HOWEVER it only marks about half of them with the proper symbol.  
Even though when I look at them in the objects database they all show the
same attributes as far as connector =TRUE Router = TRUE ,etc.   is
there a reason it is only placing the symbol and about half of them?  
Or is this more of a PMR thing.  One little note (which I hate to
put here) is that  these are EVPN routers.   They have an ACL
that allows me to get to the loopback address of them, I have the Read
Only Community string.  I can read all the information I want about
them through the mib browser. 

Chris Petrina