David,

Thanks for your reply.. Most of these PCs do not have an SNMP agent
on them and tehy aren't in a seed file..  Any ideas why Netview is
re-managing these devices each time I unmanage them??



Happy Holidays
Kiran




>Kiran,
>
>Either do one of two things:
>
>1.  Exclude these PCs in the nvseedfile for discovery.
>2.  If they have SNMP agents on the PCs, change the community string to
>something other than public.
>
>Dave
>
>P.S.  I would recommend step 1 as the one to go with.
>
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From:   KG KG [SMTP:kkg001 AT HOTMAIL DOT COM]
>         Sent:   Wednesday, December 22, 1999 12:03 PM
>         To:     NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU
>         Subject:        Unmanaged PCs turn up Managed every day???
>
>         NV/OV Gurus,
>
>         We have a situation  where we do not want to manage a bunch of
>PCs.
>We have
>         them unmanaged.
>
>         Netview is changing the status of these PCs back to "Managed" and
>is
>         starting to generate Node Down events for these nodes.  I have
>been
>         unmanaging these PC's regularly, and Netview seems to be flipping
>the status
>         and I am getting tons of node down events for these PCs
>
>         Did anyone encounter a situation like this?? How did you keep
>Netview from
>         managing certain devices?
>
>         Wonder why Netview insists on managing certain devices.
>
>         Happy Holidays,
>         Kiran Goparaju
>
>
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