Alejandro,
I would suggest you spend some time with MLM Manual:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/NetView7.1.html
Look for the UNIX Mid-Level Managers User guide. I think this
will answer a number of the questions you have asked recently.
On to the questions at hand. NetView must discover the devices BEFORE
they can be polled via MLM. So you may need to use loadhosts to get the
devices onto the map so that they can be polled via the MLM. MLM's to
not do discovery, they only flag the node and tell netmon to discover it.
There should be no performance penalties for using MLM, they were
designed to help distribute the load off of netmon.
Paul
alejandro.gabay@reuters.com wrote:
Hi;
We are planning to install a MLM box running on Windows to feed a Netview 7.1.4
FP2 running on Solaris.
The network segment where this MLM/Windows will monitor can not be reached from
Netview (although netview can reach the MLM).
My question shoul we configure netmon to use MLM for status polling and
discovery?. Will it affect other devices not being included in any MLM?.Will it
change the performance of devices already included in on MLM Solaris box but
being polled directly from Netview?.
B. Regards
Alejandro Gabay
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