Jason,

You have me puzzled when you talk about a "subnet wildcard".     Also the
setting of 8y,    is that in NetView or the MIB?    I am not familiar with
8y.   What command gives you that output?

Do you have autodiscovery turned off?    Is there a valid reason for this?
Many customers that I worked with and had it off actually reduced greatly
some of NetView's benefits.   If you want to manage a network, having
NetView discover the network as engineers install things is a great
strength of NEtView.    If you don't want to manage PCs, build a smartset
of them and unmanage any PC that gets discovered.    Having operators ping
interfaces to manage them is only as good as your documentation and the
operators themselves.     98% of the time customers learned quite a bit
about their network when NetView autodiscovered it.

Thanks,
Stephen Hochstetler            shochste AT us.ibm DOT com
ITSO Tivoli Coordinator - Austin
Office - 512-436-8564       FAX - 512-436-1991