The easy request to your network supplier would be for read-Only access
to all MIB-2 variables. That should at least get the routers discovered
automatically. You can almost certainly restrict it further than that
though I have never seen a comprehensive list and have not traced netmon
to the extent of checking all the variables asked for in a discovery
poll. My guess is that Mib-2 system, interface, arp and ip tables would
probably suffice. The Cisco CDP Cache table is polled for unnumbered
serial devices but the default route table will be used if there is no
access to CDP cache.
Here is an entry from the Tivoli Support site:
page 152 of the Version 7 Administrator's Guide:
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Information Retrieved When a new node is discovered, it is added to the
topology database and also to the list of nodes that is being monitored.
If the newly discovered node supports an SNMP agent, information about
its system configuration is retrieved and stored in the database. Table
13 on page 152 shows the information that is retrieved:
Table 13. Configuration Information Retrieved From Nodes During Discovery
Information MIB Variable Description
System description sysDescr Includes the full name and version of the
system’s hardware type, software operating system, and networking software.
System object ID sysObjectID Identifies the network object’s place in
the MIB hierarchy.
Forwarding status ipForwarding Indicates whether this entity is acting
as an IP gateway to forward datagrams received by, but not addressed to,
this entity
IP address table ipAddrTable Lists addressing information relevant to
this entity’s IP addresses.
Interface table ifTable, ifNumber, ifSpeed Lists interface entries by
number.
System location sysLocation Indicates the physical location
of this network object.
System contact sysContact Lists the person to contact for this network
object and tells how to contact that person.
Cheers,
Jane
R.Veenstra@Unive.nl wrote:
Hi list members
Our company has a WAN to connect four main offices and over 150 regional
sales offices. Our WAN is managed by an independend Network Carrier. In
Netview we now have a WAN composed of over 150 isolated LANs since Netview
can't see any router. We are struggeling with our WAN provider to get at
least minimal access to their routers to be able to automatically build a
decent network overview in NetView. We are trying to get rid of manually
maintained IP maps with over 150 manually configured routers (and a netmon
deamon that keeps complaining that it can see lots of remote networks but
can't figure out why it can see them).
We are trying to define what part of the MIB we need to access to have
Netview recognize the routers as routers and discover our own networks
behind it. In the end this means that our carrier requires us to fully
specify an SNMP view ourselves ;-(
The routers are all of the Cisco 2900 and 3600 series and connect LANs in
the 10.0.0.0 network over MPLS. Our carrier does not allow us to find any
information over the MPLS cloud.
So my question is:
What is the best way of finding out what parts of the MIB are accessed
during a configuration and/or discovery poll?
With Kind regards
Rick Veenstra
ICT Specialist Midrange
Univé Verzekeringen
Beheer & Exploitatie
team Infrastructuur Ontwikkeling en Beheer
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Telefoon: (038) 427 8943
Email: r DOT veenstra AT unive.nl
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