1)
your "nvmaputil.bat --mapname test --unmanage-node" command should work and
unmanage the node .... IF the map "test" is presently opened in read write
mode.
2)
in /usr/OV/fields/C/ovw_fields I see:
Field "Service Status" {
Type Enumeration;
Flags locate;
Enumeration "Unset",
"Unknown",
"Normal",
"Marginal",
"Critical",
"Unmanaged";
}
3)
If you can have a list that everything you want to see managed you can
easily automate to unmanage anything not in the list (I myself use a
relational database and depending on a sla value, manage and unmanage
objects in the map)
One of the characteristics of PCs is that they usually do not support snmp
so you can easily script for everything that doesn't respond to snmp to be
unmanaged. This can also be used in the seed file to limit the discovery to
only the snmp capable objects even if it is not efficient (the node need to
be discovered first for netview to detect if it doesn't respond to snmp).
The best is to limit the discovery by using ranges of ips (maybe all the
devices you want to monitor are all in the first 10 addresses of your
subnets ? or the DHCP ranges defined for the PCs are the same for every
subnet ?) All this is done in the seed file.
Salutations, / Regards,
Francois Le Hir
Network Projects & Consulting Services
IBM Global Services
Phone: (514) 964 2145
Michael D Schleif
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11/03/2005 03:02 Re: [nv-l] Howto list only managed
PM nodes ???
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* Paul Stroud <nvladmin@gmail.com> [2005:11:03:14:09:50-0500] scribed:
> Are the nodes actually unmanaged or only the interfaces?
> It does not sound to me like the actual device is unmanaged.
> You can run "ovobjprint -s <hostname>" to see the IP Status
> of the device...
OK, what am I missing?
C:\>nvmaputil.bat --mapname test --unmanage-node
p47w7u00.wau.hcscint.net
C:\>ovobjprint -s p47w7u00.wau.hcscint.net
OBJECTID SELECTION NAME
OBJECT: 2370
FIELD ID FIELD NAME FIELD VALUE
10 Selection Name
"p47w7u00.wau.hcscint.net"
11 IP Hostname
"p47w7u00.wau.hcscint.net"
14 OVW Maps Exists 1
15 OVW Maps Managed 1
75 IP Status Normal(2)
78 isIPRouter FALSE
101 IP Name
"p47w7u00.wau.hcscint.net"
105 vendor Unset(0)
117 isNode TRUE
119 isComputer TRUE
120 isConnector FALSE
122 isBridge FALSE
123 isRouter FALSE
124 isHub FALSE
145 isDHCPClient FALSE
146 hasBadOID FALSE
147 hasInconsistentSubnetMask FALSE
149 isMLM FALSE
151 isIP TRUE
174 isSNMPSupported FALSE
180 SNMPAgent Unset(0)
186 SNMP ipAddress "10.129.49.100"
219 TopM Interface Count 1
225 TopM Interface List "10.129.49.100 Up
10.129.49.100 255.255.252.0 0x000D6020D284 other "
248 XXMAP Protocol List "IP"
How many contexts for un-managed node does NV have? I assume that
`Normal(2)' above indicates that the node itself remains managed? Where
is an exhaustive list of values that IP Status can have?
Here's the rub: My client has a new NV installation; and they have a
very large network. Currently, we have 21,000 nodes; but, this weekend,
it will double. There is no documentation about these networks; and
very little standardization. Most of these nodes are PC's; and we have
no mandate to manage them. I have not yet found seed file entries to
avoid these PC's; so I need to automate un-managing them.
Yes, James makes interesting points about using the GUI; but, I
challenge any of you to select 10,000 nodes and un-manage them via GUI
;>
What do you think?
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