Hi Alan, i posted this question here last week and i will paste here the
historical of the discussion.
Demis,
That sounds like you need to spend some time training the operators.
You can setup NetView so that everything is discovered unmanaged
and then you can manage what you like. That might help....
Paul
Demis Gonçalves wrote:
Hi Paul, exactly but i would like to leave all interfaces unmanaged
when running the discovery because there are hundreds of routers and
thousands of interfaces to change their status by hand. On the
oid_to_type file there is a flag U that creates objects as unmanaged,
but if someone manages the network that contains the interface it
becomes managed, but the operators will manage these networks in this
case the flag won´t work.
thanks,
Demis
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul" <pstroud@bellsouth.net>
To: <nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com>
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: [nv-l] Discovering only the Router Status
Demis,
I think I understand the question, but I am not sure.
If you discover a router, you MUST discover all interfaces on that
router. You can unmanage and hide the interfaces you are not
interested in and NetView will not bother to poll them or use them
for the compound status of the object.
Does that help?
Paul
Demis Gonçalves wrote:
Hi list, im looking for this information on the Users Guide but i
didn´t find. How can i discovery only if the router is UP and not
it´s interfaces? Im using the netmon.seed and everything is working
fine, but i want to monitor if the Router is Up or Down and not it´s
internal interfaces. Would be hard set all interfaces as unmanaged?
There are any option to use with netmon for discovery only the
router wan interface? If i remove the -u option of netmon.lrf it
will discovery only the Router interface?
Netview 7.1.4 FP2 - W2K SP4
Thanks in advance,
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Demis Gonçalves
Sr. Support Analyst
NetControl Network Management
São Paulo - Brazil
Mobile: 55 11 9904-9684
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----- Original Message -----
From: <awatthey@mmm.com>
To: <nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 7:35 AM
Subject: [nv-l] Netview Polling
Hi,
I'm on Windows 2000 with Netview 7.1.4 FP2.
I've been doing some traces of what Netview is doing and I've seen quite a
lot of activity. I was wondering how I could stop it. I have 'discover
all networks' with @limit_discovery in my netmon.seed along with a list of
the ranges it should work with.
Basically we have various parts of the network outsourced. I have
negotiated SNMP read access to all these routers. Netview discovers these
routers quite happily but also discovers that they have lots of other
interfaces with strange IP addresses. There is no routing in our network
to these addresses. Even though I have limited the range of IP addresses
that Netview should discover via the NETMON.SEED file, it still insists on
PINGing and doing NBNS name lookups on these addresses. Of course these
packets flow out of our default route and try to get to the Internet.
This
not only wastes bandwidth but gets our IDS people after me as they think a
box has a virus trying to get to all sorts of strange addresses which have
nothing to do with our organisation.
Is there an automatic method (forget manually unmanaging things) of
stopping netview from refering to anything not specified in the seed file.
Regards,
Alan.
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