[nv-l] Re: collected data with hostnames or IPs?

["Alaa Farrag" <alaahelmy1@hotmail.com>]

Dear All

 

I find where is the problem

Netview stores its collected data and topology data in to an Access databases: \usr\ov\databases\odbc\Snmpcollect_db.mdb, tess_db.mdb, topo2sql_db.mdb

when u clear all netview databases and SNMP collected data from server setup, netview - for some reasons which i don't know - does not clear the access databases.  you will find an empty version from these databases included in the same folder with names like snmpcollect_db.mdb_empty. when i used the empty databases my problem is solved.

thanks for all who help

 

Alaa Farrag

----- Original Message -----

 

Subject:	Re: [nv-l] collected data with hostnames or IPs?
From:	James Shanks <jshanks@us.ibm.com>
To:	nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
Date:	Wed, 2 Jun 2004 17:15:54 -0400

I don't have an answer for you.  snmpcollect is not something I work on.  But I spoke with the snmpcollect guy over lunch and he was unable to suggest a reason for your difficulty.  He said that snmpcollect, like the rest of NetView, should attempt to resolve an IP address into a hostname, and you should only see IP addresses when it cannot do that.   He had no ideas about why name resolution should be failing for you and suggested that you should open a problem to Support in order to get some personal help.

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

 

From: Alaa Farrag

To: The nv-l mailing list

Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 9:53 AM

Subject: collected data with hostnames or IPs?

Hi all

 

Sorry I resend this problem because I did not receive any reply

 

We are using netview 7.1.3 with windows 2000 server

 

I have a problem with data collection

when I issue snmpodump (snmpcoldump) some nodes appear with their IP addresses and the others appear with their host names taking in consideration that all the nodes are resolved correctly to their host names in the netview console and in the objects database.

also when I changed some of the host names in the etc\hosts file some of the collected data appeared with the old host name of the nodes.  

I tried making the following but did not work

- stopping the netmon and the snmpcollect daemons

- clearing all netview databases

- clearing snmpcollect database (usr\ov\database\snmpcollect is now empty )

- starting the netmon daemon

- making sure that netview discovered all the needed nodes with correct host name

- starting the the snmpcollect daemon

 

but the problem stills

any one can help?

 

thanks

 

Alaa Farrag