RE: [nv-l] Ping is falling behind

[Leslie Clark <lclark@us.ibm.com>]

It's been my experience that putting
name wildcards in the seedfile will slow things down a lot. Things get
discovered and discarded repeatedly. If you exclude by address range, you
keep them from coming in at all. I never ever use name wildcard excludes.


Cordially,

Leslie A. Clark
IT Services Specialist, Network Mgmt
Information Technology Services Americas
IBM Global Services
(248) 552-4968 Voicemail, Fax, Pager

"Bursik, Scott {PBSG}" <Scott.Bursik@pbsg.com>
Sent by: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com

03/15/2006 02:05 PM

Please respond to
nv-l

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Subject	RE: [nv-l] Ping is falling behind

Was my assumption correct that
if I put this in my seed file I will prevent the addition of workstations
with the hostnames of:
 
 
***********hostnames***************
pepwul01102.corp.pep.pvt
 
or
 
PBGWUD02143.corp.pep.pvt
 
 
*******seedfile entry***************
!???wu??????*
!???WU?????*
 
 
Scott Bursik
Enterprise Systems Management
PepsiCo Business Solutions Group
(972) 963-1400
scott.bursik@pbsg.com

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From: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
[mailto:owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com] On Behalf Of Bursik, Scott
{PBSG}
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 12:12 PM
To: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
Subject: RE: [nv-l] Ping is falling behind
 
GREAT information! Thank you
very much. That gives me something to shoot for. Unfortunately we are saying
goodbye to NetView by the end of the year so I just need to get things
running better for now until we sunset. Sure has been a good run though.
Overall I would say that NetView has been a great toolset.
 
Thanks again for your input
and advice!
 
 
Scott Bursik

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From: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
[mailto:owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Hochstetler
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 11:40 AM
To: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
Subject: RE: [nv-l] Ping is falling behind

Scott,

Time flies, it has been a full 10 years since I have 'optimized' a big NetView box. The underlying technology probably has not changed that much. There are a couple of key ways to lower your CPU usage.

1) Instead of using a golden /etc/hosts file with an entry for each 'management interface', put a DNS on your NetView server and get those 1300 interfaces in there for both name and reverse lookup. You will see a difference. For every function NetView is reading that file, one line at a time, over and over, 1000s of times per 5 minutes.

2) Build a reverse lookup table for your 38K interfaces. Best way to do that is to write a script that does an ovtopodump and generates these files for local DNS. You will see hugh difference

When I did those two things about 10 years ago I saw a large 4-way AIX box go from 70% CPU usage to 6% CPU usage, your milage may vary.

Once I had the server humming along then the user's noticed a lag about once a minute in responses to their maps. After investigation I found that it was how ovwdb and AIX interacts. You have a large cache size for ovwdb right? This means that the whole ovwdb database is in memory. AIX wants to make sure what is in memory also matches what is on the hard disks, so he has a routine that dumps the application caches to hard disk every 60 seconds. (at least AIX 4.2 and 5.1 did). While AIX does that he halts the ovwdb daemon to ensure integrity with what is being written, which halts any other daemon including maps or netmon while that data dumps. This was due to my /ovw filesystem being stored on just 1 disk, I was seeing a delay due to 150MB being written once a minute onto one spindle. The fix was to simply create a file system that was stripped across 3 hard drives and mount it so that the ovwdb database was stored there.

Stephen Hochstetler shochste@us.ibm.com
International Technical Support Organization at IBM
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