Re: [nv-l] itsl2_reports output format?

[Michael Webb <mlwebb@us.ibm.com>]

I will ask a few questions of my own to help get this thread moving along.  I will try to answer some of your questions first.  In general, however, it looks like there are discovery issues with the switch 192.168.1.254 (HP Procurve 2524).

192.168.1.254/192.168.1.254
This is the output of the switch hostname name followed by the IP address of the management IP.  However, it looks as if DNS did not resolve the IP address to a hostname, so the IP address was used in place of the hostname.  That is why you see the IP address twice.

[2/2/0.0.0.0]
This output is usually the port description followed by the ifindex (or port) followed by the IP address of the port.  The first 2 is the description provided by the switch (via some SNMP query).  The second 2 is the ifindex (or port).  The 0.0.0.0 is the IP address of the port.  In the case of a switch port, it does not have an IP address, so 0’s are used by default.

[5/5/0.0.0.0]
In most case there is something you can do to help the ITSA discovery process provide better results and remove the * from the discovery report.  First you should remember that NetView will need to correctly discover the devices attached to each of the switch ports.  So answering these questions may help.

Is router 192.168.1.1 correctly discovered by NetView to be a router (router icon in map)?  Does NetView have the community string for this router?

Is the Linux router discovered as a router on the NetView map?  Does NetView have the community string of this Linux router?

Is PC 192.168.1.14 discovered by NetView to be a workstation?  Does NetView know the community string of the PC?

When you manually query the HP Procurve for the Bridge MIB, do you see the correct (expected) information for the forwarding tables?

Hope this helps.

Michael Webb, IBM Tivoli
Q1CA Distributed NetView / ITSA SVT
Email: mlwebb@us.ibm.com
Ext: (919) 224-1410, T/L: 687-1410
"Karl Prinelle" <Karl.Prinelle@elyzium.co.uk>

"Karl Prinelle" <Karl.Prinelle@elyzium.co.uk> Sent by: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com 06/10/2004 12:15 PM Please respond to nv-l

To: <nv-l@lists.tivoli.com> cc: Subject: [nv-l] itsl2_reports output format?

Hi list,

nv 7.1.4+fp1, sa 1.2.1, linux rh es 2.1, HP Procurve 2524 with single vlan called VLAN1.

I'm doing a little testing with switch analyser & although the brain maybe clogged by hayfever I can't find a document that describes the output from "ITSL2_reports -r layer2 -d". If anyone can point me to doc's on this that would be great. Just in case below is the output I'm getting;

192.168.1.254/192.168.1.254
[2/2/0.0.0.0] ===>
[jaws-w2k/192.168.1.11 - /0/192.168.1.11]

[5/5/0.0.0.0] ===>
[172.16.1.1/172.16.1.1 - eth1/3/192.168.1.59]
[192.168.1.1/192.168.1.1 - /0/192.168.1.1] *
[tiree-w2k3/192.168.1.10 - /0/192.168.1.10]
[ws01/192.168.1.14 - /0/192.168.1.14] *


* This interface has been placed on the layer 2 segment by "default" and
is not necessarily connected to the specified port.
192.168.1.1 is a router which is connect to an HP Procurve 2524 (192.168.1.254 mgmt ip) on port 24 of the switch
192.168.1.14 is a pc attached to port 13 of the switch
172.16.1.1 & 192.168.1.59 are interfaces on a linux router
172.16.1.202 is the netview server
The Linux router and netview server are both vmware images running on the host 192.168.1.10

A few questions to get me going....;
192.168.1.254/192.168.1.254 => what is this telling me? My switch ipaddr is 192.168.1.254 - but why print it twice?
[2/2/0.0.0.0] => Just plain confused. This device is in port 2 of my switch, but why print that twice? What's the 0.0.0.0?
[5/5/0.0.0.0] => is there anything I can do to remove the * from 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.14 which are both real machines plugged into different ports on the switch & get them reporting the correct port numbers?

Any help much appreciated

K