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Re: [nv-l] Discovery of Windows Server!

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Subject: Re: [nv-l] Discovery of Windows Server!
From: Larry Fagan <larrytechie@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:30:29 -0700 (PDT)
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James,
Thank you very much. Now i'm very clear about the
issue. I think i'll add some backbone routers and try
discovering them again..
Many Thanks,
Larry


--- James Shanks <jshanks@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Are all your Windows servers in the same subnet?  I
> doubt it.
> 
> Automatic discovery requires that the boxes you want
> to discover have
> entries in the ARP cache of those you have already
> discovered.  So the
> reason that you aren't seeing all of the ones you
> expect is because those
> you have found already have no reason to talk to the
> others, so they won't
> have entries from them in their ARP cache.
> 
> When you restricted discovery to just Windows
> servers, you forced netmon to
> use only them as a means of finding them all.  But
> that means that they all
> have to talk to one another frequently.  You'll need
> to put some positive
> seeds in your seed file, the hostnames or IP
> addresses of remote Windows
> servers, which are not being discovered, so netmon
> will know to go find
> them.  Otherwise you'll need to change this test to
> include finding some
> backbone routers.
> 
> James Shanks
> Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and
> Windows
> Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
> 
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> Hi all,
> I'm trying to discover ONLY Windows servers in my
> Test
> netview 7.1.3 box. Criteria is that i have turned on
> auto -discovery. In oid_to_type file, i have as
> below:
> 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.1.3.1
> 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.1.3.1.1
> 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.1.3.1.2
> 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.1.3.1.3
> 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.1.3.1.4
> 
> In Seed file, i have given as below:
> @oid 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.1.3.1.2
> @oid 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.1.3.3
> @oid 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.1.3.1.3
> @oid 1.3.6.1.4.1.232.*
> @oid 1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.3.2.3
> @oid 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.*
> 
> Also i have set communitynames.conf with "123456".
> So
> what i'm trying achieve is discover only windows
> server with "123456" as comm. string. But what i'm
> seeing is not all are being discovered. Only about
> 400
> are discovered and i know i have more than 1500 in
> prod.
> Could someone help me here, that am i in right
> direction and am missing something?
> Many Thanks,
> Larry
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