James,

I really appreciate your help.

What did you change in 
> xnmsnmpconf?: just the timeout value to 10 seconds
concerning the equipment we have problem on.

>How are you determining that it is not working?
well, good question. In Event display, every 15
minutes, I receive a node down for this equipment. I
then ping it, and it flips back to up.
After calling the network people, I am sure the
equipment (a switch) is OK.
We know that currently ping response is very slow to
this equipment, several seconds but always below 10
sec in all the tests we performed. I am sure we are
checking its status by ping and not by snmp.
So why I am so focused on ping timeout in netmon.
And changing the timeout to 10 s, did not have any
impact on the occurence of the node down events.



thanks


 --- James Shanks <jshanks AT us.ibm DOT com> a écrit : > Am
I sure?  Yes.  It has always been so and it is
> documented as such in 
> the books we ship.
> 
> xnmsnmpconf controls how often netmon status polls,
> which is by ping, as 
> well as how it does SNMP requests, for config
> checks. 
> We are talking about netmon's pings are we not? 
> What did you change in 
> xnmsnmpconf?
> 
> The only thing I can think of is that is it may take
> a ping cycle to get 
> the values re-set.  If netmon already has a ping
> cycle for this object 
> going, then that will have to expire first. 
> 
> How are you determining that it is not working?
> 
> 
> James Shanks
> Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
> Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Can Huynh <can_huynh AT yahoo DOT com>
> 03/19/2002 01:28 PM
> 
>  
>         To:     James Shanks/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS
>         cc:     nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com
>         Subject:        Re: [nv-l] ping timeout in
> NV
> 
>  
> 
> that's what I tried before sending the question. But
> it did not have any effect. Are you sure the timeout
> we specify in snmpconf is not just for snmp requests
> and does not apply to the ping command?
> Thanks
>  
> --- James Shanks <jshanks AT us.ibm DOT com> a écrit : >
> This
> is basic SNMP configuration.  As I recall you
> > are on UNIX.  Use 
> > xnmsnmpconf  from the command line.
> > 
> > James Shanks
> > Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and
> NT
> > Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > "can huynh" <can.huynh AT sympatico DOT ca>
> > 03/19/2002 04:07 PM
> > 
> > 
> >         To:     <nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com>
> >         cc: 
> >         Subject:        [nv-l] ping timeout in NV
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > I am wondering if there is a way to set the timout
> > for the ping command 
> > used by netmon to check the status of network
> > equipments.
> > 
> > We have the following problem. 
> > Our network is relatively slow these days and
> reply
> > to ping can take 
> > several seconds.
> > 
> > Netmon sometimes interpret that as an interface
> > down. I just want to 
> > increase ping timout to say 5 seconds to prevent
> > that.
> > 
> > Is there a way?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >
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