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I've
done a few and it's not hard; just a tedious job. To do it you
must understand your network topology. It isn't complicated and
there really isn't much more to say than is in the sources you named and the
mailing list archives. Here's my cookbook approach.
Bill Evans
Tivoli NetView Support for DOE
301-903-0057
My
approach:
Build
the map manually so it looks correct. At least do it on paper so you
understand the topology.
- Create a temporary Location Container (ICON) on your IP Internet
map. Cut everything from the master map and paste it in the
location container.
- Create location containers to represent your Home Site and other main
geographic or organizational divisions. Keep the number down about
twenty. For your ninety sites I'd expect about ten regions plus
home.
- Go to
the temporary Location container and use the Locate menu function to find the
routers at your Home Site. You may need the Shift-ClickAndDrag to
magnify the map to find what you're looking for.
- Select the highlighted items and any one-legged networks connected to
them and cut them FROM THIS SUBMAP.
- Go
to your Home Site submap and paste them.
- Go to
each of your regional locations and create individual Location Containers for
sites in those regions.
- Go to
the temporary Location Container, locate and cut the routers associated with
the site and any one-legged networks. Paste them in the appropriate
Location Container.
- REPEAT for the NINETY locations. There ain't no such thing as a
free lunch. If the routers and their one-legged networks make the
location too messy, create a Location just to hold the router and its networks
but prefix the router name with Rtr- to make the name unique.
- Place
the intra-region multi-leg networks on the Regional maps and they will connect
the Sites. Place Multi-Region connecting networks on the top
level.
Now
start on the Location.conf file. You have two choices, get the tool now on
the web and capture the map you built by hand or build the location.conf file by
hand. We don't worry about networks at this point.
Create entries for the IP Internet level. Using the address
255 as a place holder will create the container. It will look like:
HomeSite 255
Site
Region1 255
Site
Region2 255
Site
...
Create entries for each of the Regional sites and point them back to
their parent region.
Site1A 255 Site
Region1
Site1B 255
Site Region1
Site1C 255 Site
Region1
...
Create Containers for the Routers
and their networks and point them to the parent region. Make sure none
of the location entries have the same name as any router or any
other container.
Rtr-Router1A1 255
Room Site1A
...
Now create the entries for the
Routers using their unique LOOPBACK addresses or their hostname (which will
resolve to the loopback address). These entries all start with the
name of the containing location container. You don't need the type of
container or the parenting of the container; they were taken care of with the
previous definition. Omitting the type and parent here avoids problems
resulting from conflicting definitions.
Rtr-Router1A1
10.11.12.35
Rtr-Router1C4
Router1C4
Now that we have the file built,
clear the existing map (or make one to use for testing) and let the
location.conf file control its layout. The Networks will place themselves
in the containers associated with the routers; one-legged networks will be in
the same container as its router and multi-legged ones will show up in the
regions or the top level.
Hi
all,
Where I
can find detail information about location.conf (how exactly it
works).
I have
already looked at the documentation which comes with the product and web based
training.
The
information which is in location.conf is also not enough.
We
are
facing lot of problem to create a map using location.conf.
We have
more than 90 sites, 200 subnets and 500 devices. The map which is created by Netview is
impossible to read.
Right now
we are using smartsets to represent the map.
Thanks.
Mohammed Quayum
NOC
Administrator
Network and
Operation Section
Information
Technology Department
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