RE: [NV-L] Seed File discovery

["Evans, Bill" <Bill.Evans@hq.doe.gov>]

Sudha, you really need to do what Jane suggested when she said to read the comments in the file /usr/OV/conf/netmon.seed.  They are quite important; use a text editor to read them and probably to enter the seeds.  The launch_seededit is good for small tasks but to add 500 nodes with that Java based editor would be a disaster.  I avoid using it. 

 

As to the speed of discovery, it depends on the network.  Discovering 500 local nodes would be trivial, 500 remote nodes on slow links might take a little while but not a really long time.   Clear the databases, put "@limit_discovery" at the start of the file and a dummy entry for a non-existent network at the end to stop discovery (I use 3.3.3.*).  Once you manually build your maps get the tool from the NetView User's Group tools area and snapshot your location.conf file and netmon.seed file.   

 

You should also take the advice to go to that class; it will save you a great amount of time.  As Jane said, you're at chapter five of the current class material, chapter two of the 1998 version, and there are at least eleven chapters.  Go to the class before you wear out your helpers on this mailing list. 

 

Bill Evans

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From: nv-l-bounces@lists.ca.ibm.com [mailto:nv-l-bounces@lists.ca.ibm.com] On Behalf Of sudha g
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 2:50 AM
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Subject: Re: [NV-L] Seed File discovery

Dear Jane,

 

Ok. Thanks for your prompt reply. Since im in remote location i cannot take the course right now. I'm also going through netview documents and i can see you guyz are doing great work here answering most of the questions. Can you please guide me for this seedfile discovery?

 

1. Do i need to clear the databases before implementing the new seed file?

    smit nv6000

    Maintain-->clear databases

 

2. When launching the see editor via launch_seededit, can we give the list of hostnames we need to discover in Set initial Discovery

 

3. Do we need to give anything in Limit Discovery--Limit by IP address?

 

4. How long it will take (say example 500 nodes) to discover approxiamtely?

 

Also, let me know if you anyone knows a mailing-list/Forums for TEC and ITM like the one you are having for Netview.

I need it for some event correaltion exercises.

 

- Sudha

 

 

 

 

On 6/21/07, Jane Curry <jane.curry@skills-1st.co.uk> wrote:

Hi Sudha,
You know - you are now covering the NetView for Unix for Administrators
class - unit 5 topics.  I know this course is offered in India and I
really would recommend that you try and attend it as it will answer so
many of your questions, as well as giving you lots of practical
exercises where you can make mistakes on someone else's kit!!

Failing that, you need to read up on the netmon seedfile and about
location.conf - by default you will find examples in /usr/OV/conf and
they both have lots of commented lines at the top that document their
functionality.

Cheers,
Jane

sudha g wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Currently the auto-discover feature of Netview discovers some unwanted
> list of IP's and Hostnames. I have a list of IP's and need to discover
> only those. I know this can be done via seed file, but having few doubts,
>
> 1. Do i need to clear the databases before implementing the new seed file?
>     smit nv6000
>     Maintain-->clear databases
>
> 2. When launching the see editor via launch_seededit, can we give the
> list of hostnames we need to discover in Set initial Discovery
>
> 3. Do we need to give anything in Limit Discovery--Limit by IP address?
>
> 4. How long it will take (say example 500 nodes) to discover
> approxiamtely?
>
> 5. After discovering, i need to classify the network elements for 4
> locations via mapping.
>     say, i have 4 locations A,B,C,D and i need to put corresponding
> network elements in their locations.
>     If i click location A, it should show only the network elements of
> location A, like that for each locations
>
> 6. Then anyone have India map for netview. I tried to import few maps,
> but itz not recognising.
>     How to import India Map in netview?. Do you have any image to
> import the same?.
>
> Thanks in advance for any valuable inputs.
>
>
> - sudhakar gandhi
>
>
>
>
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