Thanks for the reply.  I did have this set correctly, but it continued
to go after an alt interface.  Before I received your msg, I deleted
both firewalls, bounced netview and rediscovered after coming back up -
worked perfectly.  "Something" was going wrong, but what it was I'll
probably never know.

Thanks very much for you reply though! 


Glen Warn
PEMCO Corporation Computer Services (PCCS)
glen.warn AT pemcocorp DOT com
206-628-5770

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Subject: Re: [nv-l] ? about NV doing SNMP queries to PIX firewalls using
"wrong" interface

Look for the ">" flag in the netmon seed file. The ">" includes the
properties of "=" which has the effect of fixing the interface used for
snmp polling.

Salutations, / Regards,

Francois Le Hir
Network Projects & Consulting Services
IBM Global Services
Phone: (514) 964 2145


 

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NV 7.1.4 on RH Linux AS 2.1 w/ FP3

Hi,

I am discovering many new networks @ a new datacenter.  I have a handful
of Cisco PIX 515 firewalls running 7.0.x code.  I'm able to config SNMP
on the FWs and discover them - but a few seconds after discovery they
turn red.
When I run a demand poll, it fails.  I've trace the problem down to NV
trying to use a different interface (more hops away) on the firewall for
queries.  If I browse map and query with nearest interface (as
configured in PIX) it works great.  I've tried modifying the object
properties/general attributes/SNMP ipaddress and setting it to the
interface IP I want it to use, but still same results.  I only have 1
entry in /etc/hosts for this device and though I use DNS there are no
entries for this firewall.

Any ideas on how I can force Netview to use a specific IP or interface?
I do want to monitor all the interfaces - but thru the "inside"
interface so I don't want to set the others to unmanaged.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated,

Glen Warn
PEMCO Corporation Computer Services (PCCS) glen.warn AT pemcocorp DOT com
206-628-5770

PS.  This is a failover pair, so I have modified the netmon.seed file
with
2 entries preceeded by > too.