Thanks.  My routers are listed in the SNMP conf
by IP address.  Will contact support for the
fix.

Les Dickert



>From: "Boyce, Robert L" <robert.l.boyce AT lmco DOT com>
>Reply-To: IBM NetView Discussion <nv-l AT tkg DOT com>
>To: "'IBM NetView Discussion'" <nv-l AT tkg DOT com>
>Subject: RE: [NV-L] Demand Poll SNMP Timeouts
>Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 08:38:34 -0400
>
>If the router is configured in your SNMP conf using the IP address for the
>device, then this is a known problem in NV6.0.1.  I had the same problem
>(PMR 56166,BRE00) and support finally sent me a new version of the
>libnvsnmp.a library.  You should probably contact support to get this fix.
>
>Robert Boyce
>Integrated Systems Management
>Lockheed Martin
>Enterprise Information Systems
>Email: robert.l.boyce AT lmco DOT com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: lesdickert AT nsimail DOT com [mailto:lesdickert AT nsimail DOT com]
>Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 8:17 AM
>To: NV-L AT tkg DOT com
>Subject: [NV-L] Demand Poll SNMP Timeouts
>
>
>Running NetView 6.0.1 under AIX 4.3.2:
>
>Whenever I do a Demand Poll of routers that
>NetView has discovered and found to be routers,
>the SNMP portion of the Demand Poll times out.
>I can do SNMP queries of those routers from the
>command line just fine.  I didn't think the timeout
>value in the SNMP configuration was an SNMP timeout,
>but as a try I changed one of the timeout values on
>a router to 60 seconds, but still got Demand Poll
>SNMP timeouts.
>
>Main reason for my doing Demand Polls is to prod
>NetView into realizing that a node it has discovered
>is really a router.
>
>Two questions:
>
>1.  Why am I getting these Demand Poll SNMP timeouts
>     and is there anything I can do about it?
>
>2.  What SNMP queries is the Demand Poll doing?  If I
>     knew I could simulate them at the command line and
>     be sure the router responds correctly.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Les Dickert
>
>
>
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