RE: [NV-L] How big can a seedfile be

["Kain, Becki \(B.\)" <bkain1@ford.com>]

thanks Leslie.  I did a massive ping for all of the devices, which will take a very long time.  thanks on the link, I didn't actually think that was the problem but I didn't know

 

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From: nv-l-bounces@lists.ca.ibm.com [mailto:nv-l-bounces@lists.ca.ibm.com] On Behalf Of Leslie Clark
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 4:16 PM
To: Tivoli NetView Discussions
Subject: Re: [NV-L] How big can a seedfile be

Ford had a PMR opened in 2003 to ask 
that question and the answer was pretty big, as I recall. However I think it is 
possible that the problem is that when you specify every address, then at 
startup netmon is going to check on every address whether it exists or not. I 
think I would enable tracing on netmon, then watch netmon.trace when you do a 
netmon -y. It posts a message when it is done loading that includes the word 
"sucessfully".  Try putting a misspelled node name at the end and see if 
the reload calls it out. If you ping the address you are looking for (from the 
commandline) and grep it in netmon.trace, you will see if netmon is getting 
around to trying to add it or is trying but giving up for some other reason. 
 It's just not how it was intended to be used, so it is not optimized for 
it. 

As for the link business, I just 
tried it and it worked fine. Moved a seedfile to somewhere else, and added a 
link where it was, and did a netmon -y. The resulting message in netmon.trace 
says it was loaded successfully. 

Cordially,

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

"Kain, Becki \(B.\)" <bkain1@ford.com>
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Subject	[NV-L] How big can a seedfile be

What is the limit, if there is one, on the size of a seedfile? 
 Right now, mine is huge:

-rw-rw----  1 bkain1 bkain1 16783342 May 23 19:07 seedfile (this is on suse linux 9)

And it seems like the addresses that were added at the end are not getting discovered, yet I can snmp walk them.  And can the seedfile a link, as specified in netmon.lrf, or does that have to be the actual file listed?  Thanks_______________________________________________
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