> 6.0 and v7 NetView have the same number of interfaces
discovered
v7x has 6,578 while v6x has 6,532
> SNMP status poll of the device or using ICMP
I think ICMP
> Does it really have an IP address
Yes
> Could it be that this box is low on CPU power
I'm watching the CPU usage on both machines using
top and they run consistently at over 90% idle. These are pretty nice
servers, the 6x box is a Sun Enterprise E3500 with 2GB of memory
w/2x400MHz CPUs and the other is a Sun Sunblade 1000 w/4GB of memory
and 2x900MHz CPUs.
For this device, does your 6.0 and v7 NetView have the same number of
interfaces discovered? I just wonder if 6.x did not discover the interface and
thus will never say it is down.
Is NetView 7.x doing a SNMP status poll
of the device or using ICMP? Does it really have an IP address ... or are you
actually pinging an address on the other side of the link when you are doing a
'ping' while it is reported down. Could it be that this box is low on CPU power
and thus responds with a timeout on the SNMP status polls (SNMP has lowest
priority) when NetView is reporting it down?
Stephen Hochstetler
shochste AT us.ibm DOT com International Technical Support Organization at
IBM Office - 512-838-6198 (t/l 678) FAX - 512-838-6931 http://www.redbooks.ibm.com
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