Ben,

If you upgrade to the latest NetView version, you may have an easy way to
do that.   If I am not mistaken, the latest version has a command line way
of managing / unmanaging objects.   If that is true, then you could do
this.

Down event --> calls your perl script  ---> timer wait ---> unmanage object
---> manage object.

You can test it, but I think if you unmanage something that is down, then
go ahead and manage it, this generates a down event at that time.    If it
is up, then no event gets generated (or maybe an up gets generated, not
sure).   So this logic should generate a down event...which would continue
to repeat until the device was up.


Kind regards,
Stephen Hochstetler              shochste AT us.ibm DOT com
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